Is repurposing shipping containers as tiny homes the wave of future housing? Read more about it at the below link. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/see-inside-idaho-factory-where-190020267.html
Helena Norberg-Hodge has been arguing for localism since the 1970s, but the pandemic is making the Australian activist-scholar’s ideas more relevant than ever. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/australia/norberg-hodge-local-organic-australia.html
With millions still unemployed and facing default on mortgage and rent payments, affordable tiny homes could offer many the chance to keep a roof over their heads. See how this manufacturer is converting old shipping containers into tiny homes. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/see-inside-idaho-factory-where-190020267.html
Fans of “complementary currency” are betting that this Depression-era idea for keeping towns alive by printing local money can prove its worth as pandemic relief. Source: A Depression-Era Idea Gets a New Look: Local Money – Bloomberg
‘Everyone tested positive’: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California’s heartland Read more about how California’s agricultural sector is struggling to survive during the current economic crisis, and what the implications might be. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/everyone-tested-positive-covid-devastates-100005164.html
Here is an account by one young family that, because of economic and corona virus concerns, moved from urban California to rural Maine to live with the author’s parents. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/relocated-central-california-tiny-coastal-130200430.html
Can there be a silver lining behind the corona virus cloud? Some small towns and cities are starting to see an influx of young people. Is this a longterm trend or just a temporary phenomenon? Only time will tell. Source: How a remote work boom and city exodus might reshape rural America
The collapse of the “Almost Everything Bubble,” which was catalyzed by NOT created by SARS-CoV-2, is increasing the the rate of hunger across the US. Food production, processing and distribution systems have all been severely impacted and will not be able to recover in the near term. — Read on www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hunger-rate-amid-coronavirus-higher-than-during-great-depression-feeding-america-ceo-113427115.html
Money isn’t distributed equally enough in America anymore, and it’s getting worse, faster. Those living on minimum wage are earning 38% less, adjusted for inflation, compared to their counterparts 50 years ago. What gives? — Read on finance.yahoo.com/news/america-we-have-a-problem-115714416.html
Cool new business idea from Japan: smart masks that do the communicating for you when you can’t. — Read on www.yahoo.com/entertainment/japanese-startup-creates-connected-face-094546599.html