Good News Notes: “One of the first things you see when you visit the headquarters of ESS in Wilsonville, Oregon, is an experimental battery module about the size of a toaster. The company’s founders built it in their lab a decade ago to meet a challenge they knew grid operators around the world would soon…
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The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Good News Notes: “On Gotland, the largest island in Sweden, fresh water is scarce. At the same time, residents are battling dangerous amounts of pollution from agriculture and sewer systems that causes harmful algal blooms in the surrounding Baltic Sea. These can kill fish and make people ill. To help solve this set of environmental…
Forest Park receives 60-acre conservation donation
Good News Notes: “A 60-acre section of North Portland’s Forest Park has received a conservation easement donation. This is the first donation of its kind in more than 25 years, and the Forest Park Conservancyis making sure it won’t be the last….” View the whole story here: https://www.koin.com/local/forest-park-receives-60-acre-conservation-donation/
IKEA Assembles a Future Without Plastic Packaging
Good News Notes: “Thanks to tiny pieces and convoluted instructions, putting together a bookshelf from IKEA can be a maddening experience. But there’s a payoff: What’s stressful is stylish—and also sustainable. The Swedish retailer has been a champion of the environment for years. In 2018, for instance, it announced plans to use only renewable and recycled materials…
Solar-Powered Vehicles From Solarolla
Good News Notes: “The refreshing part of being part of a clean energy blog like CleanTechnica for me is when an independent, innovative person or group contacts us about their work towards freedom from fossil fuels and adventures in nature. I received such a contact recently. “I’m part of a grass roots solar vehicle production company in…
Hero Veterans Tackle Food Insecurity and Feed Fellow Vets
Good News Notes: “Former Marine Corps cook Dionisio Cucuta, Jr. has served 2.7 million meals since March 30, 2020. At the beginning of the pandemic, the retired chef and disabled combat veteran partnered with the food rescue organization Table to Table, feeding 3,000 families — including 250-300 veterans — through his Table to Table Tuesdays program…
Soles4Souls Launches Program to Provide Shoes for All Homeless Kids
Good News Notes: “Homelessness. For more than 1.5 million children in the U.S. it’s about more than not having a roof over their head. It can mean not having a pair of clean, comfortable shoes to get them to school. Enter Soles4Souls’ new 4EveryKid initiative, the nonprofit’s most ambitious project since it launched 15 years…
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…
Illinois becomes 1st Midwestern state to pass a law to phase out fossil fuels
Good News Notes: “At a time when the Midwest is being battered by more severe storms due to climate change, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a landmark law this month that will transition the state to 100 percent clean energy by 2045, with benchmarks along the way. While the effort has largely escaped national media attention, it…
Utah-based nonprofit brings people to new heights with adaptive paragliding program
Good News Notes: “For the last six years, Chris Santacroce and his team at Project Airtime have been bringing people to new heights with their adaptive paragliding program. The nonprofit, Project Airtime, is free for everyone – individuals with special needs, people with brain and spinal cord injuries or other illnesses, their caregivers, the elderly and…