Touch the Soil News #1884 (Feature Photo – Pine Tree Seedling – Public Domain USDA) While growing vegetables is the primary focus of many urban and home market gardeners, that’s not all the sells. Some of these ideas take less effort than the intensive efforts at growing, cleaning and selling vegetables. Watch the videos below…
Positive Future #839 (Feature photo – Rolling trees in portable wood containers to city locations – courtesy of Wanderbaumallee) Stuttgart, a German city of 640,000 people is at the heart of a much larger urban area of 2.8 million people. Like many cities, the absence of trees is one of the first signs of an…
Positive Future #737 (Feature photo – Coffee Trees – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Jmhullot) Inhabitat News portal brings us the story of planting trees. Trees help with air quality. While it is not mainstream yet, questions are being asked about the link between air pollution and respiratory diseases. Th obvious question people are looking for…
Touch the Soil News #1521 (Feature photo – Sir Jonathan Paul Ive – By Marcus Daweshttp://[email protected] – Contact us/Photo submission, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19277958 Sir Jonathan Paul Ive is a wealthy man. Experienced in business and technology, his net worth is estimated at $400 million. Unlike the common mindset when it comes to money –…
Positive Future #504 (Feature photo – Rainforest – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Adam Jones, Ph.D. CleanTechnica Journalist Steve Hanely explores how planting trees turns out to be the most effective way to mitigate climate change. However, the number off trees needed is over 1 trillion – about 133 trees per person…
