Touch the Soil News #1470 (Feature photo – India on the Map – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Aquarius.geomar.de) The India Entrepreneur brings us the story of how young professionals are leaving their jobs to become urban farmers. This story features five (5) new start-ups in this new trend. You can read the full…
Touch the Soil News #1469 (Feature photo – Omnichannel – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, Daniel Iversen) Grocery retailers are all ganging up on Amazon as the ratchet up their on-line services backed up by immediate pickup at their brick and mortar locations. Phil Lempert https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us more of the story on this emerging…
Touch the Soil News #1468 (Feature photo – Mongolia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, ASDFGHJ) Just the title of this story signifies how technology, driven by population growth, is changing the way we approach food. Whoever thought that high-tech greenhouses would emerge in Mongolia, a remote nation with extreme winters? You can see…
Touch the Soil News #1467 (Feature photo – Amazon Shipping – Public Domain) The largest retailer in the U.S. is Walmart with over $500 billion a year in sales. Amazon, which has been growing by 30 percent a year, could be larger than Walmart in 3 years. If both companies exceed $500 billion a…
Positive Future #603 (Feature photo – Topaz Solar Park in California Cost $2.5 Billion – By Pacific Southwest Region from Sacramento, US – Solar Panels at Topaz Solar 7, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36895370) Global financing for sustainable projects to include green, social and energy related projects has surpassed $1 trillion. That would be equivalent to $3,000…
Positive Future #602 (Feature photo – Egyptian Coat of Arms – By Flag of Egypt (variant).svg: F l a n k e r from original Flag of Egypt.svgderivative work: Fry1989 (talk) – Flag of Egypt (variant).svg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11907624) Renewable Energy World brings us the story of how Benban, the world’s largest solar park, is…
Positive Future #600 (Feature photo – Wild Bee – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Beatriz Moisset) Inhabitat journalist Mariecor Agravante brings us the story of Girl Scouts from Denver, Colorado who took up a project to build wild bee hotels and be part of positive change. You can read the full story here: https://inhabitat.com/girl-scouts-build-bee-hotels-to-help-save-wild-bees/…
Positive Future #599 (Feature photo – Gasoline Pump – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International Anthony Inswasty) The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts is considering requiring climate warnings on gasoline pumps to increase awareness of the climate problem. While Cambridge is a small city of 110,000 people, it is part of the larger Boston metro area…
Touch the Soil News #1466 (Feature photo – Urban Congestion – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic, Koika) Global AgInvesting writers Dr. David Hughes and Miguel Flavian bring us the big picture on population and food trends. One must ask, can the financial world expand its activities to include all the population growth, or will…
Touch the Soil News #1465 (Feature photo – Millenials – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic, Paul Holloway) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) explores the arena of Millenial eating habits and preferences. One of the defining trends by Millenials is to buy food that is more health, more ecologically sustainable and more ethical. You can see the…
