Austin startup Neutrall as big dreams for eco-friendly glassware

Good News Notes: “An Austin husband-and-wife team is aiming to promote conservation and sustainability one drinking glass at a time. In June, Sarah Scott Mitchell and Ernesto Humpierres launched Neutrall, a line of eco-friendly glassware that is upcycled, which involves taking discarded items and creating something new from it in its current state. The process…

Tackling air pollution with autonomous drones

Good News Notes:  “Hovering 100 meters above a densely populated urban residential area, the drone takes a quiet breath. Its goal is singular: to systematically measure air quality across the metropolitan landscape, providing regular updates to a central communication module where it docks after its patrol, awaiting a new set of instructions. The central module…