Good News Notes: “Tuesday kicks off the start of Share Omaha’s ‘Do Good Days’. The three-day event looks to encourage community members to support local nonprofits. One of those nonprofits, Aspire of Life Inc, has a big project in the works. The nonprofit is planning to build a mobile hygiene unit: a trailer equipped with showers,…
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Food Bank of Lincoln provides 1.3 million meals during holiday season
Good News Notes: “The start of the new year brings new goals for the Food Bank of Lincoln after a busy effort to feed families over the holidays. From Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, the food bank distributed over 1.3 million meals to families in Southeast Nebraska. More than 33,000 of those meals were from…
Boy Scout troop collecting, recycling Christmas trees, helping feed Omaha Zoo animals
Good News Notes: “Some may argue it’s a little too soon to take down those Christmas trees, but thousands of Omahans and Lincolnites are already signed up to have theirs collected. “We have our annual Scouting for Trees service project where we pick up trees,” says Matthew McConnell, the senior patrol leader for Omaha Boy Scout Troop 282….
Omaha-metro nonprofit and recycle center team up for electronic drop-off
Good News Notes: “ A steady stream of cars rolled through the parking lot at Dingman’s Collison Center near 144th and Industrial Road Saturday morning. The contents, unused electronics, laptops, computers, cell phones, tablets, and more were turned over to Nebraska Recycles and the Open Door Mission. Nearly 10,000 pounds of old equipment that won’t end up in…
Nebraska MRF adds plastic-lumber manufacturing line
Good News Notes: “Firstar Fiber is receiving a loan from the Alliance to End Plastic Waste that will help the processor convert hard-to-recycle plastics into building materials, all within the confines of the MRF. Omaha, Neb.-based Firstar Fiber last week announced the project, stating that the company will develop an “integrated recycling facility” adjacent to Firstar’s…
Ted Turner to give land to nonprofit but keep paying taxes
Good News Notes: “Media mogul and billionaire bison rancher Ted Turner is donating an 80,000-acre ranch he owns in western Nebraska to his own nonprofit agriculture ecosystem research institute and says he might do the same with four other ranches in Nebraska’s Sand Hills. But he’ll continue to pay taxes on the land, much to…
“There’s so many women who have no help’: Local non-profit for single mothers extends overseas
Good News Notes: “An Omaha woman founded a nonprofit to help single mothers in the Omaha metro. The Rose House, Inc donates necessities like diapers and baby formula. It now has a global reach, as far as Africa. TaRae Peoples started The Rose House in 2012. But her vision started long before that. ‘I myself…
Nonprofit physicians group supports ‘beans over beef’ in Nebraska
Good News Notes: “The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is launching a campaign in Nebraska, asking the state Department of Health and Human Services in a request filed Friday, to help the state transition to what the doctors believe is cleaner, safer food, and to have meatpacking facilities produce plant-based proteins. It is also sponsoring…
This Photographer Is Working To Document Species Before They Go Extinct
Good News Notes: “Joel Sartore, a photographer based in Lincoln, Nebraska, has worked with National Geographic for over 30 years, and has led the Photo Ark for the past 15. The mission of the Photo Ark is to document the 15,000 species that are in captivity, many of which are on the edge of extinction. Sartore…
Solar Energy Kicks Carbon Capture Butt In Renewable Energy Rampage
Good News Notes: “Wild Springs is the name of the South Dakota’s new 128 megawatt solar farm, to be located about 20 miles east of Rapid City in Pennington County. The developer is Geronimo Energy, a leading renewable energy company under the umbrella of National Grid — but that’s not what makes this project particularly interesting. After all, solar…