Good News Notes: “When Walmart rolled out a new grocery delivery service, it tested a bold premise: customers letting a stranger walk into their homes to deliver milk, eggs and other products directly into the fridge. Now that expanding service, InHome, is testing whether the country’s largest grocer and its shoppers can phase out reliance on single-use plastic bags and…
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‘It has been a true blessing’: Nonprofit dishes up healthy meals with food bank on wheels
Good News Notes: “It has been a month since MUST Ministries unveiled its “mobile pantry,” a 30-foot bus stocked with meats, produce and non-perishables. MUST plans to use the bus to reach and feed thousands of families in food desert neighborhoods. “So many of our clients are transportation challenged,” MUST Ministries President and CEO Dwight…
$85,000 Kroger donation to help around 81,000 people in Tri-Cities fighting food insecurity
Good News Notes: “Kroger has made a large donation of $85,000 to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee that is estimated to help around 81,000 food insecure individuals around the Tri-Cities region. The donation will go towards programs offered by the food bank such as its mobile food pantry, kids cafe, food for…
No sun or soil: Local farm uses technology to grow sustainable produce
Good News Notes: “A local farm leads the way in growing sustainable produce seen on store shelves. Robots control the operations at 80 Acres Farms in Hamilton. “I really do believe this is something different,” Noah Zelkind, Director of Business Development said. “Here we grow food and we grow really healthy food sustainability.” The 70,000…
Vegan meatless meat is going mainstream. Beyond Burger and Impossible Foods have big competition.
Good News Notes: “In a year of splashy news for plant-based meat — skyrocketing sales! the new McPlant! —one of the biggest developments in the field went oddly underreported. In the last three months of 2020, some of the biggest companies in the world announced major moves into the plant-based meat space. In September, Tesco — the UK’s…
DICK’S Commits to Eliminating Single-Use Plastic Bags by 2025
Good News Notes: “DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS), the largest U.S.-based, omni-channel sporting goods retailer, today announced two major actions to help create a future free of single-use plastic bags: a commitment to remove all single-use point-of-sale plastic bags from its stores by 2025 and a partnership with Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy. It’s estimated…
From the Impossible Burger to the Oscars, the rise of veganism in the mainstream
Good News Notes: “In early January, the Academy of Motion Pictures announced that plant-based food would be on the menu at this year’s Academy Awards Ceremony on Feb. 9th. This announcement came after the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards dinners both switched to vegan menus (prompted, at least in part, by vegan “Joker”…