Positive Future #830 (Feature photo – Solar Farm – CCA SA 4.0 International, Leanne Davis) The Guardian News portal brings the story of a mega solar farm in the works. The project will cover an area of almost 50 square miles and employ 10,000 people to build. Expecting to generate 10 gigawatts of energy, some…
Touch the Soil News #1695 (Feature Photo – potato that looks like dog – courtesy of Joanne Gudger who dug up the potato) WDRB News brings us the story a woman from England who had a community garden plot. She raised some potatoes in the plot. When she harvested her potatoes, she dug up a…
Touch the Soil News #1685 (Feature Photo – Avocado and Pit – USDA Public Domain) Phil Lempert ( https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us an insightful story about Chipotle and their disposal of avocado pits – literally millions of them. Seems the story is more complicated than meets the eye. You can watch the story here:
Positive Future #810 (Feature photo – Finance – CCA SA 2.0 Generic Katrina Tuliao) BrightVibes journalist Fino Menezes brings us the story of how one CEO decided to reduce his $1 million paycheck to boost the salaries of his employees. What happened is that the company flourished. You can read the full story here: https://brightvibes.com/1941/en/boss-who-took-1m-pay-cut-to-raise-staff-salaries-says-business-has-tripled
Positive Future #797 (Feature photo – Boys create and allotment garden in 1942 in London – Public Domain) City Farmer News brings us the story of allotment gardening in England. Allotment gardening came into popularity in England in the 1800s as the government began providing lots to poor people so they could raise their own…
Touch the Soil News #1662 (Feature Photo – The World – By Augiasstallputzer~commonswiki – Own work, based on shoreline data from GSHHS (“crude” level), a public-domain source., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1055628) BrightVibes brings us the story of a new report from the World Economic Forum. The report affirms that pursuing a nature led approach to rebuilding…
Positive Future #789 (Feature photo – Standing Rock Sioux Indian Logo – Public Domain) Perhaps the most high-profile Indian initiative in modern history is the efforts of several Sioux Indian Tribes to stop the Dakota Pipeline. After being intimidated while challenging the environmental assessment reports in 2017, the Indians recently had a victory. U.S. District…
Positive Future #765 (Feature photo – Earth Map – By User:Cogito ergo sumo – File:BlankMap-World.png, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=372520) As covid fears recede, it gives back room to consider much larger concerns such as the well-being of 7.5 billion people. Our planet’s health and prioritizing our future economies for greater sensitivity to the world that…
Positive Future #761 (Feature photo – Foodbank Distribution Warehouse – Public Domain) NPR a month ago reported that 10,000 cars lined up at a San Antonio emergency food distribution point – overwhelming what local food banks had prepared for. Why did this story not make headline news? Feeding America – the nation’s coordinating food bank…
Positive Future #758 (Feature photo – Clean Air Buttons – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=167450) It is not secret that coal plants emit particle pollution that has been linked to respiratory health. Inhabitat news portal brings news of how Sweden and Austria just closed their last coal plants. Now three nations in Europe are coal-free – Belgium,…
