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A start-up is recycling tonnes of discarded fishing nets throughout Chile. Is this a template for tackling the global plastic waste problem?
Source: Ocean plastic was choking Chile’s shores. Now it’s in Patagonia’s hats | World news | The Guardian
Very cool idea.
A therapy dog from Baltimore, Maryland, is at the forefront of the city’s volunteering efforts to support hospital staff in light of the coronavirus outbreak. Loki, a 2-year-old Rottweiler and her owner, Caroline Benzel, a medical student enrolled at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, have collected over 4,500 “Hero Healing Kits”, which haveRead More
Good dog(tor).
The aerial salute for the “amazing” war veteran “was meant to be a surprise”, Grant Shapps says.
Source: Coronavirus: RAF flypast for Captain Tom’s 100th birthday – BBC News
This story, originally featured here a few weeks ago, keeps getting better and better.
The miniature Australian shepherd had been missing since an EF-4 tornado leveled the Putnam County home of Eric and Faith Johnson on March 3rd.
Source: Missing dog back with family 54 days after tornado destroys their home
Yay!
A FedEx delivery driver saved a couple’s wedding day by delivering the groom’s wedding ring to their beach ceremony.
Source: FedEx ‘Ring Bearer’ Saves Wedding By Delivering Ring To Beach Ceremony
Great!
Rather than take medical supplies the hospitals need, the nurses hit the hardware store.
Source: Across Minnesota, nurses make free house calls to patients in pain | Star Tribune
More heros.
Publix has launched an initiative where it will purchase fresh produce and milk from farmers impacted by the COVID-19 crisis and donate the goods directly to Feeding America food banks that are in its “operating area.”
Source: Publix is buying excess food from farmers and donating it to food banks
What a great idea.
Windows capable of harvesting energy from the sun have been on the horizon for a number of years, but they’re yet to help cut down a building’s energy costs. A new development from Australian researchers may change that.
Source: Semi-transparent solar cells could rival rooftop solar for efficiency
Love this idea — hope it pans out.
A scuba diving group is turning plastic water bottles that once polluted oceans into face masks for people to protect themselves against the coronavirus.
Source: A scuba diving group is making face masks out of recycled ocean plastic
Two birds, one (plastic) stone!
Scientists are racing to produce a coronavirus vaccine in what is something of a challenge to the anti-vaccine movement. But the virus has also done something more startling. It has made some anti-vaxxers change their minds.
Source: Anti-vaxxers: Coronavirus is changing some minds about vaccinations – CNN
Progress.