Touch the Soil News #1494 (Feature photo – Surface of Mars – Public Domain, NASA) IN Future news portal bring us the story of how the UAE (United Arab Emirates) is spending money today to fund scientists along the paths of closed environment living and farming. Their premise is that when we go into space,…
Positive Future #627 (Feature photo – Paper Straws to Replace Plastics – Sarah Stierch (CC BY 4.0)) Scientific American sizes up the top 10 emerging technologies of 2019. Interestingly, three of them are food and agriculture related. While technologies have a place in improving our future, the fact remains that our attitudes drive what technologies…
Positive Future #626 (Feature photo – Zero Emissions Tesla – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Jusdafax) EnerbyCentral journalist Lisa Prevost brings us the story of how Connecticut not only wants to populate its roads with more electric vehicles, but make it more equitable. Connecticut is one out of nine states that has signed on…
Positive Future #625 (Feature photo – The Camp Fire in California – NASA – public domain) News Network FireEngineering focuses on an AP story about the growing relationship between power lines and wildfires. California is estimated to have had more than 1,000 wildfires over the last decade from power lines. One must ask the questions…
Touch the Soil News #1493 (Feature photo – Seattle Urban Farm Rooftop Garden – courtesy of Seattle Urban Farm) The Seattle Times brings us the story of the Seattle Urban Farm Company. The company grows special-order crops on rooftops for restaurants. The company also provides growing information for households at their website: https://www.seattleurbanfarmco.com/ You can…
Touch the Soil News #1492 (Feature photo – One of the World’s Largest Feedlots – Public Domain) FoodMarket News brings us an interesting story about global food security. At the heart of the story is a new question: Would your country sell its food overseas at the risk of overpricing it at home? With China…
Touch the Soil News #1491 (Feature photo – Fresh Vegetables – Public Domain, Leon Brooks) CTV News of Montreal, Canada reports on the latest undertakings of Lufa Farms. The project is a rooftop farm that is almost the size of three football fields. The new rooftop farm will be in the middle of the Montreal…
Touch the Soil News #1490 (Feature photo – Grain Fire – courtesy of Benjamin Gisin) MarketWatch brings us news that as the stock market hits record highs, farm bankruptcies are at the highest level since 2011. When financial speculation is rewarded with wealth and growing food is rewarded with bankruptcy something big is going sideways. You…
Positive Future #624 (Feature photo – Hemp Seeds – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Austria, D-Kuru) The National Hemp Association journalist Avery Bullock explores the nutritional benefits of hemp seeds. Hemp seeds are complete proteins, have essential amino acids and contain health fats. You can read the full story here: https://nationalhempassociation.org/5-nutritional-applications-of-hemp/
Positive Future #623 (Feature photo – Tesla-Built Battery Storage Facility in Australia – photo courtesy of Tesla) The utility-mandated power shutoffs in California make it almost impossible to run a business this time of year. Down under in Australia, they are planning to increase a huge Tesla battery storage facility by 50 percent, a facility…
