It was just a week ago that the Internet exploded with confused-anger after a photograph of peeled oranges packaged in plastic on the shelves of a Whole Foods store was posted on Twitter. Whole Foods, which fancies itself a sustainable and environmentally friendly company, quickly pulled the fruit from its shelves after enduring thousands of complaints about the oranges’ “wasteful” packaging.
Have you heard of ‘floating farms’ that can harvest sunlight and rainwater to grow 20 tons of vegetables every day – amounting to thousands of tons of vegetables every year?
Floating farms have been getting a big boost of late. With the extremes of drought and deluge occurring more frequently on every continent, floating farms are looking better by the day. Because they are multi-level and multi-purposeful, they possess much more flexibility than land-based farms.
Now that earthquake number two has hit Nepal, the relief efforts for victims trying to reclaim their lives will need to be doubled over, but with solar power, those efforts will now be more sustainable.
When Nepal was rocked by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake recently, no one would have imagined that it would occur while more than 18,000 injured and hundreds of thousands more were still trying to recover from a previous earthquake that hit just two weeks prior.
Governments fund solar capacity in countries that receive little sun and install wind turbines in nations that get little wind.
Prevailing neo-liberal dogma holds that private capital is responsible for most economic innovation and that governments stand in the way.
