Positive Future #699 (Feature photo – Pope Francis – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) BrightVibes brings us the story of how Pope Francis – leader of 1.3 billion Catholics – orders the retrofit of an opulent palace into a homeless shelter. The four-story building can house 50 people and feed even more. You can read the…
Positive Future #698 (Feature photo – Electric Motor – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Zureks) InsideEVs journalist Mark Kane brings us the story of NIDEC. This company builds motors and just announced a $1.8 billion investment into three mega-factories that build electric motors for cars. These three factories will be able to produce 8.4 million motors.…
Positive Future #697 (Feature photo – The Odd.Bot, courtesy of Odd.Bot https://www.odd.bot/) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings us the story of the Odd.Bot, A relatively small contraption that is solar powered and can work for 12 hours straight. The Odd.Bot can even be engaged as a weed eliminating service. You can read the full story…
Positive Future #696 (Feature photo – Coal Fire Plant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, David Jolley) Energy Central brings us a story from Energy Mix on how emissions from electricity production reached a plateau. The hope is that future electricity emissions will now go the other way and start decreasing. The good news is that…
Touch the Soil News #1562 (Feature photo – Ash Tree – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the worlds largest and most comprehensive organization focused on food and health. Recently, they took up an initiative to encourage tree-planting in cities. You can watch their YouTube here:
Touch the Soil News #1563 (Feature photo – Pasture Raised Pigs – By Jeff Vanuga / Photo courtesy of GreenBiz journalist John Addison brings the issue of parking spaces to the forefront. There are 270 million cars in America that are parked 90 percent of the time. Estimates are that there are 2 billion parking spaces in…
Touch the Soil News #1561 (Feature photo – A nature strip between the sidewalk and road planted into food – courtesy of UNSW) The University of New South Wales in Australia brings us news of how planting food gardens on public nature strips has evolved from activism to mainstream. The rise in planted nature strips…
Positive Future #695 (Feature photo – Wind Generators – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Bloomberg New Energy Finance journalist Angus McCrone has put together a list of 10 major predictions for 2020. Bloomberg New Energy Finance is considered one of the top research and think tanks on sustainable energy. You can read the full story here:…
Positive Future #694 (Feature photo – Prototype UPS Electric Delivery Van from Arrival – courtesy of Arrival) Few of us have heard of the company called Arrival. The company is building electric delivery trucks. Based in the United Kingdom, Arrival has been supported by Hyundai and Kia to the tune of $110 million. The big…
Positive Future #693 (Feature photo – Rooftop Solar – By EY418 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79316869) The Solar Energy Industries Association keeps tabs on all ongoing new solar projects in America. It’s most recent report for 3rd quarter 2019 has some interesting statistics. A big statistic is that the U.S. pipeline (solar projects…
