This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: Young Americans in record numbers are leaving their desk jobs for farm lands; California might decriminalize magic mushrooms; and Detroit is building community by building local internet.
New rivers, smaller condoms and bigger waste + this day in history w/the US invades Grenada and our song of the day by Blitzen Trapper on your Morning Monarchy for October 25, 2017.
In Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, hundreds of pounds of industrial hemp were planted on June 1, 2017, marking the first time hemp has been grown in the state in nearly 80 years. And the hemp planting is moving right along. [1]
/center>President of Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council Geoff Whaling said:
“What you’re seeing now is the culmination of some 20 years of effort by some of my colleagues in the Pennsylvania hemp industry.”
Scientists have detected a disturbing form of antibiotic-resistance on U.S. farms in recent months, but it’s not the type they anticipated, and they don’t know how it wound up there.
The British government has approved the planting of a new experimental crop of genetically modified “super wheat” despite fears that it could contaminate other crops and despite opposition from about 30 environmental groups. [1]
The GM wheat, engineered to use sunlight more efficiently, will be tested by researchers in Hertfordshire. The crops are touted for boosting yields by as much as 20% to 40% in the greenhouse.
Rothamsted Research’s Head of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Dr. Malcolm Hawkesford, explains:
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up on some of the ways we're winning with food, farms, kids, cannabis, collaboration and so much more.
This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: We catch up on some of the ways we're winning with food, farms, kids, cannabis, collaboration and so much more.
