Good News Notes: “Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many places, and the dryness, wildfires and shrinking water supplies are making climate change personal for millions of people. As an engineer, I have been working with colleagues on a way to both protect water supplies and…
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Phykos’s carbon-capturing robotic seaweed farms are like planting fore
Good News Notes: “A new prototype of a small, solar-powered robotic vessel recently started sailing in the Pacific Ocean, pulling an underwater rack filled with seaweed. The startup developing the technology, called Phykos, says each platform holding the fast-growing kelp may be able to capture as much CO2 as 250 trees—and though the approach still needs…
Destiny Jackson has been homeless and in foster care in Philly. Now 50 colleges want her.
Good News Notes: “At last, Destiny Jackson, then 13, said to herself. After the abuse and the torment she’d endured over time, someone had called representatives from Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services into her family’s West Philadelphia home. Now they’ll see what I’ve been through, she believed. Now I’ll get out. But it didn’t happen….
The University Of California Is Taking The Lead On Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics
Good News Notes: “Legislation to reduce single use plastics failed to pass the California Legislature this year, but the University of California has committed to phasing out single use plastics on its 10 campuses in the next ten years. Each year, 300 million tons of plastic is produced globally and about 50 percent of that is used once and…