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Microsoft places massive 12GW solar module order, bolstering U.S. solar supply chain

January 10, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Building on a previously announced 2.5GW module supply agreement signed in January 2023, Qcells will supply Microsoft with 12GW of solar modules over an 8-year period. Equivalent to powering more than 1.8 million homes annually, the solar modules will be produced in the United States at a fully integrated solar supply chain factory in Cartersville, Georgia.

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Gulfstream completes first-ever transatlantic flight with 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel

November 22, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

SAF is designed to cut aviation carbon emissions by using sources that rely much less on fossil fuels: include maize, seed oils, algae, animal fats, oils, greases, farm residues, and more. According to Gulfstream, SAF has the potential to reduce net carbon emissions by 70%.

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Final U.S. Army base stripped of Confederate name as Fort Gordon becomes Fort Eisenhower

October 27, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

The renaming ceremony was the ninth — and final — among Army installations this year, capping a controversial three-year effort initiated by top Pentagon officials in 2020 amid a nationwide racial reckoning following the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

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First vaccine to target deadly fungal infections passes preclinical tests

February 2, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Good News Links

Fungal infections cause more than 1.5 million deaths annually and cost billions. A new vaccine from the University of Georgia could be the first clinically approved immunization to protect against them.

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U.S. Department of Justice charges three Georgia men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery with federal hate crimes

April 29, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

All three defendants have also been charged in a separate state proceeding with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit a felony.

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Morehouse College and Spelman College co-create Center for Black Entrepreneurship with $10 million from Bank of America

March 23, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

The Center for Black Entrepreneurship will be the first-ever academic center to assemble, educate, and empower a new class of Black entrepreneurial talent.

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Atlanta builds the United States’s largest food forest to tackle food insecurity

February 25, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

Thanks to a US Forest Service grant and a collaboration between the city’s municipality and a number of different NGOs, the 7.1 acres of land are now ripe with 2,500 pesticide-free edible and medicinal plants.

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Raphael Warnock wins election to become Georgia’s first Black senator

January 7, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

As the New York Times eloquently pointed out, the election in Georgia “was also a rare chance for one Senate barrier breaker to pass the torch to another.”

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Los Angeles, Atlanta among cities joining coalition to test universal basic income

June 29, 2020 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

The mayors of Los Angeles, Oakland, Atlanta, Georgia, Tacoma, Newark, Saint Paul, Jackson, Compton, Shreveport, and Stockton have joined Mayors For A Guaranteed Income, a coalition advocating for UBI policies, or the idea of giving out recurring cash payments to all individuals without any strings attached.

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Rare sea turtles smash nesting records in Georgia, Carolinas

July 15, 2019 | By Peter Schulte | Good News Links

Researchers and volunteers have cataloged more than 12,200 nests left by loggerheads, a threatened species protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

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