Positive Future #684 (Feature photo – Volkswagen Electric Car – CCA SA 4.0 International, Alexander Migl) Inhabitat journalist Dawn Hammon brings us the story of car-charging robots in parking garages. This solves the problem of finding a charging station that may be miles away from your travel plans. You can read the story here: https://inhabitat.com/volkswagen-reveals-plans-for-mobile-electric-car-charging-robot/…
Positive Future #683 (Feature photo – Coal Ash Under A Microscope – By wabeggs – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18082033) EnergyCentral writer Nevelyn Black brings us the story of Duke Energy – a publicly traded company – that dumped 80 million tons of coal ash into unlined basins in North Carolina. The problem is…
Positive Future #682 (Feature photo – Small African Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Hp Baumeler) EnergyCentral contributor UZochukwu Mbamalu brings us insights about how the world of business and energy is evolving in Africa. The world really needs to re-invent itself without the baggage of pre-conceived limitations. You can read the full story…
Touch the Soil News #1547 (Feature photo – Food Delivery – By Franklin Heijnen – DSCF2049.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56726448) Phil lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of how food delivery is creating algorithms as they go along the clips the earnings of drivers small bits at a time, until drivers realize they’ve been had.…
Positive Future #680 (Feature photo – Rivian Truck – By Richard Truesdell – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74717988) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us stories of the new electric pick-up manufacturer – Rivian – is planning to lower prices when vehicles become available. Employing over 1,000 people, Rivian, like Tesla, is a force of…
Positive Future #681 (Feature photo – Zero Carbon Hemp House – Courtesy of Practice Architecture ) Inhabitat journalist Nicole Jewel brings us the story of an amazing hemp house built in the countryside in England. The house was built on a hemp farm that produces bio-plastics made of hemp and flax. You can read the…
Touch the Soil News #1546 (Feature photo – Groundwork Market Garden – Courtesy of Groundwork Market Garden) Buffalo Rising news portal brings us the story of how a local food enterprise is expanding the facilities and meaning of local and organic food. The company called Groundwork Market Garden is re-inventing the use of a 60,000…
Touch the Soil News #1545 (Feature photo – Green Iglu – Courtesy of Green Iglu) Towns in northern Canada – up in the Arctic Circle – face food insecurity. Having to fly food in is expensive and most children there lack access to fresh food. Non-profit Green Iglu is helping solve that problem by building…
Touch the Soil News #1544 (Feature photo – Abu Dhabi – CCA 3.0 Unported) The Khaleej Times brings us the story of the building of the world’s largest indoor vertical farm, all under artificial LED lights. The $40 million dollar facility will be located in Abu Dhabi – one of the world’s most famous metropolitan…
Touch the Soil News #1543 (Feature photo – Panera Bread Restaurant – CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain) News portal Investing.com created a slide show of almost 90 restaurants that are predicted to be closing branches in 2020. While it is not a precise report or complete, there are some concerning indications. Over 80 restaurant chains…
