This is Good News Friday, where we find some good economic, energy, and environmental news and share it with PP readers. Please send any positive news to dd@peakprosperity.com with subject header "Good News Friday." We will save and post weekly. Enjoy!
Economy
Pennsylvania school lunch debt furor ends with an apology and an announcement: free lunch for all (TS)
“As a result, all students of the Wyoming Valley West School District will receive free breakfast and lunch in all of our schools for the next five years regardless of income,” according to the Wyoming Valley West School Board.
The program “allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications,” according to the agency’s website.
American Brothers Successfully Save Irish Girl Who Was Swept Out to Sea in Serendipitous Twist of Fate (Thomas R.)
Upon successfully bringing the girl back to dry land, Eoghan and Declan noticed that the girl’s father was still in the water after he had put on a life vest to swim out and help with the rescue mission. The twin brothers then plunged back into the water and rescued the struggling father as well.
Though the young men felt relieved to have rescued the father-daughter-duo, they felt particularly emotional when they were visited by the little girl’s mother the very next day.
7-Eleven Starts College Fund for Baby Girl After Serendipitous Birth on 7/11 at 7:11, Weighing 7’11” (Thomas R.)
One week after company officials learned of J’Aime’s birthday, they told reporters that they would be making a donation to the little girl’s college fund.
“After catching wind of the incredible news, 7-Eleven decided to pledge $7,111 to the newborn’s college fund to honor her entry to the world,” 7-Eleven representatives told USA Today.
“The problem with these molecules is they are present in cannabis at such low levels, it’s not feasible to try to engineer the cannabis plant to create more of these substances,” said Rothstein. “We are now working to develop a biological system to create these molecules, which would give us the opportunity to engineer large quantities.”
See the Grand Opening of the First Solar Energy Farm in North Dakota at Standing Rock Reservation (Rebecca S.)
Two years ago, the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline became operational, following passionate protests across the country. Out of this controversy and out of concerns of the pipeline’s impact on the environment, the Sioux Nation fought back in an unconventional and empowering way by working with SF-based GivePower to build the first and largest solar energy farm in North Dakota.
New Solar + Battery Price Crushes Fossil Fuels, Buries Nuclear (jdargis)
The plant will be developed by 8minute Solar Energy on 2,653 acres of privately-owned land in the Barren Ridge renewable corridor in Kern County. The development was first reported Friday by John Weaver at pv magazine, who noted in comments that the price for battery storage is not added on top of the solar price. It’s a separate power product, sold at 1.3¢.
Major automakers strike climate deal with California, rebuffing Trump on proposed mileage freeze (TS)
“These terms will provide our companies much-needed regulatory certainty by allowing us to meet both federal and state requirements with a single national fleet, avoiding a patchwork of regulations while continuing to ensure meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions,” the group said.
College student finds 65 million-year-old Triceratops skull in North Dakota (Thomas R.)
“I can’t quite express my excitement in that moment when we uncovered the skull,” Duran said in a university news release Wednesday. “I’ve been obsessed with dinosaurs since I was a kid, so it was a pretty big deal.”
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