The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup

Today we're talking education with a new collaboration from LEGO and IKEA keeping kids at play without sacrificing the usable space in your home and why STEM and the arts may be more closely related than you think. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Did you know we lose 2,000 football fields of agricultural land every hour to desertification? Today we interview Ole-Kristian Sivertsen, CEO of Desert Control , about his mission to save our soil with liquid nanoclay. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News! Want to learn more? Check out his TedTalk!

Ok - let's do this microwaves! Solutions to our plastic problem are not siloed. A combination of reducing consumption, recycling where possible, and utilizing waste will help us solve the issue. Today's Optimist Daily Update shares one next step in the plastic reduction journey. Also, maggots are better for chickens. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the...

In today's Summers & Kristy are surviving (but barely) without Amelia episode, we learn about the brilliant $5 Trillion impact investment strategy of Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance. We also discover that sometimes, while managing your Covid Shag.... you show up late to work. . Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Summers & Kristy share stories from today's Optimist Daily and go down a furry rabbit hole of why we love animals and houseplants. Learn about the Dutch trend of Koe knuffelen and much much more - on yet another episode missing the guidance of Amelia but with all the wisdom of solution based news. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

On today's Optimist Daily Update, Summers & Kristy are left to their own devices and lack of editing and here's what happens.... Listen in to learn about media responsibility, conversation incompatibility, and what #proudboys really stand for. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

TGIF! We're talking light therapy helping seniors get better sleep and congratulating chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on being the first two women to share the Nobel Prize. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

We're all about mushrooms today! We've got alternative packaging grown from carbon-absorbing mycelium and major fashion brands ditching cows in favor of fungus leather in 2021. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

We're spanning the generations on the Update today. We've got fecal transfers boosting the gut biome of C-section newborns and robots that could assist the elderly from the ceiling in Japan. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today Summers shares how innovative companies are harnessing renewable energy from the sea and Kristy explains why windows of the future could be made of wood. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

It's a green energy day on the Update! We're looking at how California can really achieve all electric vehicles sales by 2035 and forward-thinking mayors divesting from fossil fuels in their cities. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

It's October which means Fat Bear Week is back in Alaska! We're celebrating big bears, big conservation efforts, and a new law in California bringing down drug prices. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

We're flying right into stories about jetpacks used for emergency rescues and how transitioning to employee-owned cooperatives is saving restaurants in Denver. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today Summers and Amelia talk the rise of vegetarianism in Germany and a super plastic-eating enzyme. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today we're joined by Optimist Daily Editorial Manager Marvin Lanes to talk pets, solar roadways, and what lockdown is like in his home in Amsterdam. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News! Today we talk China's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 and share 10 ways to boost your self-confidence.

Today we welcome guests Lise Van Susteren, MD and Stacey Colino to talk about their book, Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

We're all about empowering renters today with ideas about looping landlords into the voter registration process and an initiative offering pro-bono legal resources to those facing eviction. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Happy fall! We're celebrating the new season with a department store in Berlin offering second-hand goods and an environmental justice law passed in New Jersey. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Today we cover strategies for remaining a determined optimist and new technology saving lives in neuroscience and the ocean. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today Kristy shares new advances in bionic eye technology and Summers features two teenagers making a real difference in their community. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Kristy and Summers interview founder and COO of sustainable menstrual product startup viv for your v . Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Michigan is funding free college education for its essential workers and a study from Tufts has found that over 300 metropolitan areas in the US could grow all their food locally. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Dog mom Kristy shares 4 spiritual lessons we can learn from our canine friends and Summers dives into agricultural finance with soil health investment fund, rePlant Capital. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

It's an athletic day on the Update! Today we feature Salomon's new and actually recyclable running shoes and a surfboard fin that allows surfers to capture ocean data as they ride. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!