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240 Anchorage Restaurants Recycle Fryer Grease into Biodiesel

The Anchorage area's private trash hauler, Alaska Waste, is picking up used food-frying oil and has started turning it into biodiesel to power its...
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Garage Invention Turns Restaurants Into Power Plants

Invented in a garage, a new generator burns the used oil from restaurants' deep fryers to generate electricity. The first Vegawatt is being...
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McDonald’s Sees Restaurants as Green Laboratories

McDonald's has made a variety of changes to benefit the environment, like fueling delivery trucks with used French fry oil, reducing the amount and...

Dubai Company Buys Used Cooking Oil to Turn Into Biofuel for Cars Citywide to Reduce CO2 Emissions

A Dubai-based company Lootah Biofuels is producing biodiesel from used cooking oil bringing sustainable transportation options to a major oil-producing country. The result is a...

UK Restaurant is Letting People Pay-as-They-Can While Rescuing Tons of Food

A restaurant in England has been able to employ 22 full and part-time staff serving food diverted from landfills to people on a "pay-as-you-can"...

For World Happiness Day, Finland Wants to Bring 5 Winners to World’s Happiest Country–Crowned 7 Years in a Row

Today, for the seventh year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world by the annual United Nations World...

Run by Grandmothers, a Staten Island Restaurant Highlights Homecooking from Around the World

Most visitors going to Staten Island are doing so to see the Statue of Liberty, but within the kitchen at 27 Hyatt Street can...

Kyoto Passes Law to Protect Traditional Geisha From the Obnoxious Tourist ‘Paparazzi’

GNN has long been an employer of travelers, and is quick to point out positive developments in tourism—which includes when malbehaved tourists are 'corrected'...

New Sustainable Florida Homes Survived Hurricane–as Nearby Homes Were Devastated–and Never Lost Power

These cute little Florida townhomes are tougher than they look. While they may be as green as a budding daffodil, they have a backbone...

Japanese Eels Found Living in Polluted River are Shining Example of Resilience

Running under the lights of a seemingly endless corridor of neon-lit advertising boards through a dense urban area of 2.7 million inhabitants, the Dotonbori...

NFL Scores Touchdown for Renewables: The Super Bowl Was 100% Solar Powered

The biggest sporting event in America went green this year thanks to its position out in the desert. 621,000 solar panels channeled the electricity...

IRS Collected Half a Billion Dollars in Back Taxes From Delinquent Millionaires in 2023, Sentencing Some to Prison

The Internal Revenue Service says it collected $482 million from wealthy tax cheats last year, in a continuing effort to step up their enforcement. The...

Good News in History, January 26

100 years ago today, the first ever Olympic gold medal was won in a Winter sport. American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (right) won the...

Mom Channeled Her Terminal Cancer into Debt Relief Fundraiser–Wiping Out $65 Million in Medical Debt

A wife and mother turned her last month on Earth into a fundraiser to wipe out medical debt burdens of families and individuals in...

Good News in History, November 23

60 years ago today, the very first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast on the BBC. An Unearthly Child, starring William Hartnell, is set amid a...

‘No-Kill Caviar’ Method Produces Superior Product While Boosting Endangered Sturgeon Population

A long-destructive industry is now experiencing a sustainable revolution thanks to a determined German scientist. The industry: caviar. The revolution: harvesting those tiny black pearls...

When Builders in Maui Constructed Tiny Homes for Man’s Family, it Grew into Crowdfunded Rehousing Project

Buried under the 24-hour news cycles of the last few months, recovery in Lahaina is progressing, one tiny house at a time. William Fincher, an...

Good News in History, October 5

Happy 65th Birthday to popular science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. Born in the Big Apple without a star in the sky to look up...

Starbucks Workers Raise Over $40K for Beloved Barista After Her Car Was Burglarized

Recently, hordes of West Virginia college kids who "couldn't afford a cup of coffee" shelled out five dollars to help a motherly Starbucks barista...

Good News in History, August 17

Happy Birthday to Robert De Niro, who was born in New York City 80 years ago today. The actor has appeared in over 100...