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Restaurant Feeds Community With Free Fridge–Then Gets Paid Back When Business Faces Closure in Austin, Texas

A husband and wife in Austin, Texas have been honored as heroes for nourishing neighbors-in-need by hosting a community fridge outside their restaurant. Now, the...

Visit ‘Fortlandia’ Where Designers Have Built Odes to Childhood Fort-Building in Austin, Texas

An annual mass ‘fort building’ event is going on now which for years has brought smiles uncountable to the faces of children visiting in...

Austin, Texas Votes ‘Yes’ on a $7 Billion Transportation Revolution

The Texas state capitol of Austin is getting ready for a public transit revolution, with a $7 billion plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Texas Tiny Home Community Thrives With 2,000 Neighbors: Easing Homelessness in Austin

In Travis County, beyond the zoning laws of Austin city, a village of tiny homes has been easing the chronic homelessness in Austin for...

Striking 3D-Printed Hotel Will Turn Heads With its Design Ideas For Texas Location

In the far western desert of Texas, a striking 3D-printed hotel with Swedish style will take shape over the coming years to present both...

First 3D Printed Neighborhood is Providing 100 Sturdy Affordable Solar Homes Near Austin For $400K+

Out in Austin, a 3D-printed neighborhood is taking shape, where 100 homes are being simultaneously made to start next year for around 30% less...

Texas Scientists Have Created a Protein That Breaks Down Plastic Bottles

A 'Pac-Man' protein that gobbles up plastic and breaks it down could open the door to eliminating billions of tons of landfill waste. The enzyme...

Strangers Shelter Stranded Delivery Driver for 5 Days During Texas Cold Snap–Now She’s ‘Part of the Family’

Chelsea Timmons decided to make it her last delivery because the roads in Austin, Texas were getting slicker. When she ended up getting stuck...

This Austin Restaurant is Making the Wittiest Pandemic Signs Anywhere

A restaurant that’s famous for its hilarious signs has been pulling out all the stops to bring laughs in the era of COVID-19. Austin-based restaurant...

Businessman Uses Nature’s Wisdom to Transform Drought-ruined Texas Hills into Lush Landscape

What was once an abandoned landscape of waterless scrubland has been transformed into a lush green oasis—thanks to the business acumen of a nature-lover...

University of Texas Announces Full Scholarships to Residents With Family Incomes Under $65K by 2020

Texas University has vowed to cover full tuition for students from families that earn up to $65,000 a year—for more than 8,600 undergraduates.

Texas Signs ‘Save Our Lemonade Stands Bill’ as Governor Tips a Cold One on Twitter Video

Little lemonade entrepreneurs will no longer have to worry about running their lemonade stands without a business permit in Texas.

From No Cure To No Trace, Texas Girl’s Inoperable Brain Tumor Disappears

A girl’s inoperable brain tumor has vanished—and her doctors have no explanation. In June, Roxli Doss was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor known as...

Humble Popcorn Seller From Texas is Now the ‘People’s Prime Minister of Australia’

LISTEN to this story here, as told by The Good News Guru, from Friday’s radio broadcast with Ellen K and the GNN founder, on KOST-103.5 — Or, READ the story...

America’s First Permitted, 3D-printed House Was Built in Texas in Less Than 24 Hours

The organizations responsible for the home in Austin now plan on constructing entire communities of 3D-printed buildings around the world.

Food Scrap Recycling Business in Texas is Bike-Powered

A bike-powered business in Austin, Texas diverts nearly 100 tons of restaurant and residential food scraps to community gardens. East Side Compost Pedallers from homes and...
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Country Stars Raise $500,000 for Texas Fire Victims

Willie Nelson joined George Strait, the Dixie Chicks and other musicians for a mega-concert in Austin that raised more than a half million dollars...
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World’s First LEED Platinum Hospital Thriving in Austin

Unique among its peers, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is the first healthcare facility in the world to achieve a LEED Platinum...

Good News in History, November 6

806 years ago today, the Charter of the Forest was signed in England by King Henry III. This law document is sometimes described as...

Tiny Home Village for Salt Lake City‘s Homeless Gets Green Light for 430 Units

Taking the lead to fight the homelessness epidemic in America, the Salt Lake City council has moved forward with a plan to lease 8...