Incarcerated people in Kansas raised over $4,000 to pay off kids’ school lunch debt
When inmates at Norton Correctional Facility in Kansas learned that Norton public county schools were left with approximately $6,000 of unsettled school lunch account debt — they stepped up to help.
On August 3, nearly 30 incarcerated men gathered to present Corey Roy, the USD 211 Superintendent of Schools, with a final total of $4,267 — much of it raised from their own, personal funds — covering about 71% of the district’s debt.
Many inmates who donated told Roy that they had often gone hungry growing up, and the lack of support negatively impacted their studies.
Why is this good news? Over 1.5 million U.S. children lost access to SNAP benefits following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, leaving even more families to face food insecurity. And despite receiving a number of bills that sought to erase lunch debt nationwide, Congress has yet to do so.
99.9% of materials from Scotland’s first wind farm have been recycled or reused
One of the critiques of wind energy is the recyclability of wind turbine materials at their end-of-life. In particular, turbine rotors are typically made from a composite material that’s difficult to break down.
A new analysis of turbines decommissioned from the oldest wind farm in Scotland is giving new, hopeful insight: 99.9% of the materials have either been reused or recycled. And most of it happened within 30 miles of the site of the wind farm.
The report found that 79.5% of the materials were recycled into polymers for construction materials, and 20.4% were reused.
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