Louisiana’s only glass recycling facility wants its ‘sand’ to help the coast. This $700K grant will help. | Environment | nola.com

Good News Notes: “When Tulane University alumni Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz opened Louisiana’s only glass recycling facility, they dreamed of using the crushed sand to help restore the state’s eroding coastline. But they hit a few snags.  A lack of funding and need for regulatory approval of their “glass sand” prevented the pair from selling the recycled…

Google updates Maps, Search, Shopping, Nest for sustainability

Good News Notes: “On Wednesday, Google launched a suite of changes to many of its core products to help consumers make sustainable choices more easily. “Today, climate change is more than a threat,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a prerecorded video during a virtual press event Tuesday. “It is a…

Neighbors, strangers help Enoch woman clean-up after flood

Good News Notes: “One day after major flooding damaged at least 200 homes in Enoch, Utah, hundreds of people came together to clean up. In some cases, entire basements flooded nearly to the ceiling. Very little was salvageable. “The basement’s totally gone,” said Amy Howe, whose home sustained serious damage from the water that poured…