Touch the Soil News #1508 (Feature photo – Hemp – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Austria, D-Kuru) Hemp News journalist A.J. Herrington looks into the future of hemp. The article reviews a survey sent to 10,000 hemp growers in 18 states. The survey suggests that supply chain issues must improve, but the long-term outlook is…
Positive Future #643 (Feature photo – Tesla Model 3 – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Vauxford) Only four (4) of the 20 best-selling cars in America (November 2019) are made in America. One of them is the Tesla Model 3 – coming in at number 10. For the fits 9 months of the year,…
Positive Future #642 (Feature photo – The Swiss National Parliament – courtesy of http://www.parlament.ch) EnergyMix news portal brings us the story of the Swiss Parliament which is on a course of action to arrest climate change. As part of its efforts, plans are to instruct the Swiss National Bank (Switzerland’s central bank) to divest itself…
Positive Future #641 (Feature photo – Harbour Air – Electric Airplane – courtesy Harbour Air ) Harbour Air announced the first successful flight of a commercial electric airplane – a six-seater seaplane. Harbour Air is North America’s largest seaplane airline with over 40 dedicated aircraft and serving 500,000 people a year. This marks the first…
Touch the Soil News #1507 (Feature photo – Keelham Farm Shop, courtesy of Keelham Farm Shop) The Keelham Farm Shop in the United Kingdom has been getting international attention. Being in the grocery business is tough and being a 1-store operation is even tougher. Yet, the Keelham Farm Shop is a resounding success. You can…
Positive Future #640 (Feature photo – California Wildfire – Public Domain ) The dramatic electricity blackouts in California are unprecedented for a first-world nation. If keeping the lights on for millions of people cannot be assured, what’s next? The state of California is making hundreds of millions of dollars available to build solar and battery…
Positive Future #639 (Feature photo – Solar Power Chicken Coop – courtesy of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano.) Inhabitat brings us the news of the solar powered mobile chicken coop. Being able to move the chicken coop around the farm for foraging and fertilizing is a great convenience. The protective sides and roof…
Positive Future #638 (Feature photo – Typhoon Haiyan Destruction – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Trocaire) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley uncovers a rather disconcerting study. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights did a study on those responsible for climate change and the devastation wrought on the country by Tyhpoon Haiyan. Typhoon Haiyan was the deadliest…
Touch the Soil News #1506 (Feature photo – Commercial Kitchen – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Raysonho) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of ghost kitchens and ghost supermarkets. Ghost kitchens are a remote-location food kitchen built solely for preparing food to be delivered – no customers here. You can see…
Touch the Soil News #1505 (Feature photo – Gotham Greens – courtesy of Gotham Greens) FoodBev media brings us the news of Gotham Greens’ expansion into urban agriculture and controlled environment farming. Gotham Greens just opened up its 7th indoor greenhouse (100,000 square feet) in Rhode Island. This brings the company’s operations to about 500,000…
