Touch the Soil News #1504 (Feature photo – Solar Weeding Robot – courtesy of ecoRobotix https://www.ecorobotix.com/en/) Swiss tech company ecoRobotix has developed a weed-eating platform that discovers weeds and sprays only the weed. This can reduce herbicide use by 20-fold. You can read the full story here: https://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/science-education/swiss-start-ups-forefront-green-tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5u24A1j7I
Touch the Soil News #1503 (Feature photo – Lab-Grown Meat – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, The Meat Revolution Mark Post.webm ) Global AgInvesting brings us the story of how another start-up in the lab-grown meat sector has garnered $10 million in seed funding. The company called Meatable is from Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The…
Touch the Soil News #1502 (Feature photo – Satellite Picture of Bangkok, Thailand – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) Thomason Reuters Foundation News brings is the story of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. The university can now boast over how it has Asia’s largest rooftop garden – 75,000 square feet. Established in 1934, the university has…
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…
Positive Future #637 (Feature photo – Iowa School Students Helping with Landscaping Needs – photo courtesy of The Dove TV. Have you ever thought about doing exercise repetitions and at the end you had nothing to show for it? Now, students from the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque, Iowa get physical education credits for helping…
Positive Future #636 (Feature photo – Inside a BYD Electric Bus – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Spielvogel) InsideEVs journalist Mark Kane brings us the story of the largest-ever electric bus order for Europe. Chinese electric bus manufacturer BYD recently announced it sold 259 electric buses in a single order destined for…
Positive Future #635 (Feature photo – Kansas City, Missouri Public Bus – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Ansacosf2010) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us the story of how Kansas City, Missouri has decided to offer free public transportation. Free public transportation not only leaves more dollars for other necessities. It also offers a better…
Touch the Soil News #1501 (Feature photo – 1928 FFA Stamp – Public Domain) The National FFA organization was organize in 1928 under a congressional charter. The roots of FFA come from the family farms that proliferated in the United States almost 100 years ago and crested in 1954 with some 7 million farms nationwide.…
Touch the Soil News #1500 (Feature photo – MIT Simmons Hall Showing the greenspaces students are eyeing for change – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Daderot) Students at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are wanting to help create a greener and more sustainable world by creating gardens on the campus grounds. The most recent…
Touch the Soil News #1499 (Feature photo – Vertical Farming – By Valcenteu – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9387472) GreenBiz journalist Jean Haggerty brings us news about the growth and acceptance of vertical farming. Vertical farming is often synonymous with hydroponics and controlled indoor environment agriculture. Vertical farming is also closely associated with urban…
