Good News Notes: “For the past three years, the Plastic Impact Alliance (PIA), a coalition of more than 420 active-lifestyle businesses committed to reducing single-use plastics in the outdoor industry, has been working to eliminate plastic bottles from our industry’s biggest trade shows and events. The most recent Outdoor Retailer show, held last month in Denver, was yet another opportunity for the…
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How Afghan Women Refugees In Delhi Are Helping Eliminate Plastic Waste From Their Host City
Good News Notes: “After being forced to flee from their country years ago, women refugees from Afghanistan have made a living for themselves in India’s capital. In New Delhi, Afghan women refugees are carving a career for themselves working on what our planet needs the most today – fighting plastic pollution. One such woman is…
Naomi Osaka Designs Sustainable Levi’s Collaboration That Pays Homage to Her Japanese Heritage
Good News Notes: “Naomi Osaka is building her fashion empire. The tennis pro just announced her latest collaboration — a limited-edition womenswear line in partnership with Levi’s — that pays homage to her Japanese heritage. Available Aug. 24 in select Levi’s stores and on the brand’s app, the Levi’s x Naomi Osaka collection features four upcycled denim pieces:…
Utah tech company may hold the key to solving the world’s food problems and cutting water use while also fighting climate change
Good News Notes: “Before Utah’s searing, mega-drought summer, came the winter storm of 2021. In February tornadoes and ice storms swept across the nation causing massive damage. Hardest hit was Texas, where millions lost power, over 200 people died and economic damage exceeded $195 billion. Agriculture saw devastated crops and livestock killed in massive numbers….
Can Plant-Covered Buildings Cool Things Down?
Good News Notes: “You don’t realize how small you are until you find yourself walking on a sidewalk in the middle of a city surrounded by hundreds, thousands, and often millions of people, and it’s hard to conceptually fathom the amount of people living, breathing, and working in that city, isn’t it? But everything you…
BIG and Vestre on the world’s most sustainable factory
Good News Notes: “Redefining eco-friendly architecture root and branch, BIG and Vestre aspire to create the world’s most sustainable furniture factory, called The Plus, in the middle of a Norwegian forest. Jan Christian Vestre is on a quest. He wants to create the world’s most sustainable furniture factory – and he is taking his goal suitably seriously. The young…
Life Time to Eliminate Plastic Water Bottles by Labor Day
Good News Notes: “Life Time, the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brand, announced today that it will stop selling water in plastic bottles at its 150+ athletic resorts across North America by Labor Day, cutting more than 1.6 million plastic bottles annually. The plastic bottles are being replaced by aluminum bottles with Life Time-branded natural alkaline spring water. While the vast…
UK Engineering at Paducah Collaboration Aims to Reduce Plastic, Produce Safe, Inexpensive Cooking Fuel
Good News Notes: “Jeffrey Seay, PJC Board of Trustees Engineering Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Extended Campus at Paducah (UK Paducah), has collaborated with partners in numerous countries, including Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda and India, for the purpose of finding new ways to convert harmful waste into fuel for…
Eastman joins forces with P&G to ‘eliminate plastic waste’
Good News Notes: “Eastman Renew materials are made via the company’s patented molecular recycling technologies using plastic scrap that otherwise would end up in landfill. This advanced approach is said to complement traditional recycling, thus expanding the types and volume of plastics eligible for recycling. P&G patented its own advanced recycling process several years ago,…
Repour bar now open at Charlotte’s Innovation Barn
Good News Notes: “When you visit Repour for a pint, make sure you bring some recyclables with you. The bar is the first business to open at Innovation Barn, a partnership between Envision Charlotte and the City of Charlotte designed around the idea of a “circular economy” operating with minimal resources and waste. Repour opens Friday, August 6, and will…