Good News Notes: “In the battle against climate change, a San Francisco nonprofit has developed a cutting-edge technology that uses olivine sand to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide emissions of all human activity around the world has surpassed 40 billion tons per year. Governments are now encouraging, and in some cases, requiring…
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How America’s least sustainable city learned to love recycling
Good News Notes: “From Arlo Guthrie, who wrote a seven-minute song about taking out the garbage, to Shel Silverstein’s Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, who drowned in her own garbage, our society has long struggled with the excesses of its own existence. Today, Americans hold the title of biggest trash producers in the world, at 6.5…