Good News Notes: “One local Dutch Bros Coffee employee is doing a lot more than serving up drinks. She noticed her store wasn’t recycling much, so she took matters into her own hands. With a drive-thru packed with cars, employees at the Dutch Bros in Rio Rancho don’t miss a beat. “My friend actually got…
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Design Label ADIFF Reimagines Fashion With Upcycling In New ‘Fashion Cookbook’
Good News Notes: “Design label ADIFF is cooking up innovative solutions to fashion’s waste problem. The woman-founded label’s new book, “The Open Source Fashion Cookbook,” offers recipes and tips for DIY sustainable designs. The recipes provide directions for creating everything from a shirt dress comprised of button-downs to a hat made from an umbrella. The amount of…
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation Announces Second Innovation Fund Cohort
Good News Notes: “The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation (“Foundation”) today announced the second cohort of its Innovation Fund (“Fund”). From a pool of more than 145 applicants, the Fund selected 10 startups to receive a total of $2.5 million in funding to launch innovative new consumer products made with surplus food or…
Here’s a cool green way to upcycle millions of old tires
Good News Notes: “If you’ve ever seen a tire graveyard piled high with trashed rubber, you can easily understand that Israeli company EcoTech Recycling has a green gem of an idea. EcoTech’s nontoxic process produces a unique material, Active Rubber (AR), from end-of-life tires. With1.6 billion tires manufactured annually, and 290 million tires discarded each year in…
TerraCycle wants to recycle everything in your life
Good News Notes: “Have you ever felt guilty about tossing your old Teva sandals, or Colgate toothbrush, or Etch A Sketch into the trash, where they will clog up a landfill for hundreds of years? I have good news for you. All of those items—and many more—are now recyclable thanks to TerraCycle, a company that…
How sportscar ace Habsburg is speeding to save trees in 2021
Good News Notes: “Racing is something I’ve been doing intensely for the past 12 years since I started karting when I was 11. In that period of my life, I had school that I had to complete until I was 17, and then after that I was just fully focusing on racing all the way….
5 simple ways to reduce plastic waste in the workplace
Good News Notes: “1. Perform a waste audit The best place to start when you want to reduce the plastics in the workplace is doing a waste audit. This type of check helps you determine the types of waste generated, as well as the volume and the sources. Once you have an inspection, you now…
How U.S. Cities Can Learn From Amsterdam in Becoming More Sustainable
Good News Notes: “As the climate crisis comes into sharper focus with ever new urgency, architects have been redefining just what ‘sustainable architecture’ can mean, treating the question as a design challenge itself. For a long while, the building industry got a pass for defining sustainability as a less wasteful alternative than conventional approaches. Now,…
Conservation tips: Retail brands that use less plastic
Good News Notes: “If this coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything (beyond how to use Zoom, sew a face mask and bake bread), it’s that the stuff we routinely take for granted could end up having a profound effect on our future. Case in point: the abundance of plastic in our lives — whether a…
Cruise commits to using ‘100 percent renewable energy’ to power its self-driving taxis
Good News Notes: “Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, prides itself on being one of the few autonomous vehicle companies to use only electric cars in its fleet. Now, the company is going a step further by committing to using only ‘100 percent renewable energy’ to power its EVs. Cruise, which has a large…