Positive Future #634 (Feature photo – The Squad Solar Car – courtesy of Squad Mobility) CleanTechnica journalist Kyle Field brings is the story of Squad Mobility. Squad Mobility is a company from Amsterdam – the capital of the Netherlands. For $6,300, the company is offering a fully operational solar car that on sunny days is…
Positive Future #633 (Feature photo – Fukushima Disaster – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. IAEA Imagebank) In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster 8 years ago, Japan is re-authorizing the re-opening of many of the impacted nuclear reactors. At the heart of the re-authorization is a reactor that was closest to tsunami…
Positive Future #632 (Feature photo – Bobby Rush – Official photo – public domain) U.S. Representative Bobby Rush with others introduced legislation that would increase the availability of land and capital in communities to encourage more local urban agricultural production. One of the underlying goals is to improve food security for people in areas that…
Touch the Soil News #1498 (Feature photo – Babylon Micro-Farm – Courtesy of Babylon Microfarms) Babylon Microfarms from Charlottesville, Virginia provides a venue for becoming more food independent. The provide a high-tech growing vertical hydroponic machine, heirloom seeds, supplies, growing directions and they monitor your hydroponic machine for you. Called “Guided Growing”, you can learn…
Touch the Soil News #1497 (Feature photo – Foodora Delivery Worker – By Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62513540) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us news about changes in the food delivery landscape. Food delivery workers in Norway and Japan have succeeded in organizing the first food-delivery unions. Are they going to come to the U.S.?…
Positive Future #631 (Feature photo – Amazon – Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication., 20px|link=User:Kcida10|Kcida10 Kcida10 (talk) (Uploads)) Curbed journalist Patrick Sisson brings us the story of how Amazon may soon capture 50 cents out of every dollar spent online. That equates to selling a massive 12.6 billion items online in 2020. Amazon’s…
Positive Future #630 (Feature photo – Off Grid Box, courtesy of Off Grid Box) Bloomberg New Energy Finance brings us the latest story on getting power to the last 1 billion people. In an interview with Cathryn Chelminski of Off Grid Box, we learn more about solutions to providing energy to all the world. Ironically,…
Positive Future #629 (Feature photo – Schematic of Artificial Sun – Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, S. Li, H. Jiang, Z. Ren, C. Xu) HindustanTimes brings us the story of how the Chinese are planning to have a nuclear fusion generator (an artificial sun) in operation sometime in 2020. The apparatus is predicted to…
Touch the Soil News #1496 (Feature photo – Swansea City – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, Numero007) BBC News brings us the story of Swansea city, in the nation of Wales (U.K.). Swansea is looking at a mixed-use building (commercial and residential) to incorporate food producing assets in every apartment and in the…
Touch the Soil News #1495 (Feature photo – Cuban Urban Agriculture – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license, Susanne Bollinger) Climate News Network explores the urban farming culture of Cuba. Cuba has been known for its resiliency when it came to create a food secure nation 30 years ago. You can read the full…
