Positive Future #548 (Feature photo – U.S. Made Proterra Electric Bus – CCA SA 2.0 Generic Sounder Bruce) EnergyCentral journalist Jason Mathers uncovers four (4) game-changing developments that are pushing electrification into the bus and truck sectors. A combination of public money and private-sector investment are clearly setting the path for the future. You can…
Positive Future #536 (Feature photo – Porsche Taycan Electric – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.) CleanTechnica journalist Zachary Shahan takes a look at luxury car sales of the top brands in the U.S. for the 2nd quarter of 2019. What is surprising is that fully battery-electric cars from Tesla took the top spot by…
Touch the Soil News #1393 (Feature photo – Location Map of Uzbekistan – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Nikki070) When 1.4 billion people line up at the dinner table and your country isn’t big enough to raise all the food, you have to go to other countries. But you can’t go to…
Touch the Soil News #1390 (Feature photo – Swarms of Locusts in Yemen – courtesy of the FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reports that swarms of locusts in bunches of up to 10 million can travel over 100 miles a day devouring everything in their path. The nations of Yemen,…
Positive Future #525 (Feature photo – Older version of the Tesla Powerwall – Public Domain) Tesla just announced its new energy storage solution called the Megapack. Tesla touts that they can now build battery storage facility for peak power needs capable of 1GWh of storage. Now that’s getting big. You can read more of the…
Touch the Soil News #1386 (Feature photo – Geoff Welding Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.) British supermarket retailer Waitrose is different. It is the largest employee-owned retailer in Great Britain. The company, in an effort to become more environmentally conscious, is experimenting with packaging-free grocery shopping. You can read the full story here:…
Touch the Soil News #1370 (Feature photo White Eggs Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license- M. Chambers) The USDA has strict guidelines on how eggs should be washed and dried to prevent external pathogens. The European Union has strict guidelines against washing eggs which destroys the egg’s outer “cuticle” increasing chances of pathogen getting…
Positive Future #500 (Feature photo – Plastic Water Bottles – By Ananyaalien – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18194989) Inhabitat journalist Lucienne Cross brings us the story of elevated levels of arsenic in bottled water. According to the California Center for Environmental Health, a couple of popular water brands were found to exceed the federal…
Positive Future #490 (Feature photo – Seawall – Public Domian) Most damaged by Hurricane Sandy is Staten Island in New York. Recently $615 million in funding has been approved to build a 5 mile seawall along the Staten Island shoreline. The seawall will be built the U.S. Corps of Engineer. Groundbreaking is set for 2020…
Positive Future #484 (Feature photo – Highway Traffic – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Floydian) CleanTechnica Journalist Dr. Maximillian Holland has put together the electric vehicle projections by three major automakers. The results are that by Toyota’s own projections, it will fall materially behind VW and Tesla in the fully-electric vehicle market…
