Positive Future #577 (Feature photo – Solar-Powered Catamaran – Courtesy of Victor Frankowski via La Bella Verde) La Bella Verde, a group of ocean conscious advocates, have created a solar catamaran than can clean up plastic as it sails along the coast of Ibiza. Ibiza is a Spanish island with 145,000 people that want to…
Touch the Soil News #1444 (Feature photo – Canola Field – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – John O’Neil) The Financial Post of Canada reveals the dramatic financial collapse that has visited Canadian family farms – primarily from trade reversals with China. Net farm income has fallen in half from 2017 to 2018. How many of…
Touch the Soil News #1443 (Feature photo – Food Waste – By OpenIDUser2 – http://trashwiki.org/en/File:Luxembourg_dumpster.jpeg, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26747239) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us a report on the scope and impact of food waste. About 40 percent of all food in the U.S. goes to waste, which means all the inputs of land, water, pesticides, fertilizer and…
Touch the Soil News #1442 (Feature photo – Indoor Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Bryght Knyght) A newer company in Pittsburg called Fifth Season (https://www.fifthseasonfresh.com/#our-story) made news recently as it just got $35 million in funding to build a 60,000 square foot vertical farm. Being solar powered, the new facility will produce over…
Touch the Soil News #1441 (Feature photo – urban food – Manfred Sause CCA SA 3.0 Unported) AP News brings us the story of how local food and non-profits are working to bridge the gap between eating and food insecurity. The key is to get local food growing in food desert areas and then having…
Touch the Soil News #1440 (Feature photo – Robot – Courtesy of Toyota, CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) looks deeper into the trend to put robots into grocery stores. Some early evidence suggests that people are totally excited about them. You can see the full story here:
Positive Future #576 (Feature photo Rooftop Solar – Public Domain) Salt Lake Tribune journalist Brian Maffly brings us the latest story about a company in Utah that has lowered the barriers to using solar energy and batteries as a way to get off the grid. Called Humless, inventor and developer Glenn Jakins explains the benefits…
Positive Future #575 (Feature photo – Finland on the Globe – Courtesy of Rob984 CCA SA 4.0 International) Homelessness has become a global epidemic in first-world nations. Without a secure roof over your head, how do you solve all of your other problems, including reducing the problems of society as a whole? The solution to…
Positive Future #574 (Feature photo Canoo Electric Car – Courtesy of Canoo) CleanTechnica journalist Steve Hanley brings us news about an electric pod car which you cannot buy but must get a subscription. You can read the full story here: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/25/you-cant-buy-a-canoo-ev-but-you-can-get-a-subscription-for-one/
Touch the Soil News #1439 (Feature photo – Radical Living Garden – Mennonite Church) The Mennonite news portal brings us the story of how they are striving to get local people into growing food and local churches into providing the land and the kitchen. This has the seed for a large interdenominational effort and more…
