Good News Notes: “San Antonio nonprofit organizations and city outreach worked together to get homeless people off the streets and into warm and dry places to stay. The freezing and wet conditions could be deadly to those stuck with nowhere to go. On Wednesday, crews started making the rounds to inform people of the upcoming…
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Jean’s Angels nonprofit unveils laundry truck for homeless people
Good News Notes: “A group of “angels” are taking their fight to help the Tri-county homeless to the streets via a mobile trailer. Today, the non-profit “Jean’s Angels” unveiled their new laundry truck. It has four washer and dryer units, and will be brought to spots where the area’s homeless are known to gather, giving…
20% of Brits Are Eating Less Meat To Actively Fight Climate Change, Survey Finds
Good News Notes: “A Censuswide survey, commissioned by environmental search engine Ecosia, has revealed new plant-based trends. Major takeaways include more than 20 percent of participants reducing meat intake in light of the climate crisis. It was revealed that 32 percent are willing to change their diets to help the environment. More than 50 percent…
11-Year-Old Arkansas Boy Donates Mullet Competition Earnings to Foster Care
Good News Notes: “Eleven-year-old Allan Baltz of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is familiar with the foster care system. When he and his twin sister Alice were only four, they came to live with Derek and Lesli Baltz. Lesli said she and her husband became foster parents with the intention of helping kids reunite with their families, but their plans…
North Carolina nonprofit builds free homes for licensed foster families
Good News Notes: “A North Carolina nonprofit is building free homes for foster families aimed at keeping large sibling groups together and in their own home communities. Alex Williams, the founder of Fostering Hopes, told Fox News that North Carolina limits how many children, including biological children, can be in a home. “It’s very, very difficult to…
You’ve Got Mail — and Clean Air
Good News Notes: “Forget Amazon delivery, it could be the humble, dependable US Postal Service that ushers us all into the electric future. Along with 200 billion pieces of mail a year, electric postal service trucks could also deliver clean air benefits to every neighborhood – that is, if the Biden administration takes charge. As…
Students fill hundreds of backpacks for children in foster care
Good News Notes: ‘“You want to make kids feel loved who maybe don’t have it as well as we do, and you don’t want them to go into a home where they don’t know anybody already not feeling well about themselves. You want to make them feel like somebody does care,” Horter said. The club…
All-electric Clean Air Express commuter bus makes debut in Buellton
Good News Notes: “North County commuters who ride the Clean Air Express to jobs on the South Coast will help eliminate 450 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually each time they ride a new all-electric bus unveiled Friday morning in Buellton. More than 25 elected and appointed federal, state, county and city officials and representatives of state and local…
Polish researchers invent anti-smog sound cannon
Good News Notes: “In a battle against Poland’s constant smog, scientists are testing out a new “cannon” that uses soundwaves to push toxic particles higher into the atmosphere to allow residents to breathe. Installed on top of a metal container, the experimental device consists of a large upside-down cone that makes a loud sound every…
Cutting animal agriculture buys time to get off fossil fuels: study
Good News Notes: “Eliminating animal agriculture over the next 15 years would effectively stop global warming in its tracks – largely halting the increase of greenhouse gases for the next 30 years, according to a recent study in PLOS Climate. The largest contributor to that decrease in heating would be a massive expansion in prairie, forest and…