The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup

As destructive wildfires continue to blaze across the western United States, we dive deeper into how controlled burns and sustainable building practices can reduce wildfire intensity and impact on our communities. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Brisbane will soon be home to a new jungle-like skyscraper and a new law in Riverside is letting chefs run small restaurants from their homes. Tune in to hear Summers share her own small business experience and find out what type of restaurant Kristy would open from her home. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Tune in for Summers' exclusive orchid care secrets, tips on media literacy, and some truly inspirational kids taking legal action to defend their futures. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today we celebrate social justice solutions! Incarcerated firefighters can finally pursue careers in the field after release in CA and a heartwarming gesture of sportsmanship makes way for the Iroquois Nationals to claim their place in the 2022 Lacrosse World Games. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today we feature a new compostable hoodie, the modern version of early man's clothing, and endangered wildcats making a comeback in Scotland. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

It's a health day on the Update! Find out how honeybee venom can kill cancer cells and why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a big success. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today we feature an innovative company turning abandoned hotels into affordable housing and the essential role that sanitation workers and waste sorters play in the transition to a circular economy. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we dive into the carbon capture powers of seagrass and sail through California's resilient redwood forests. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we talk all things fishy and Kristy shares how she's been spending her quarantine free time. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Does it feel like you're living at the office rather than working from home? Today we discuss at home work solutions and Google's new certificate programs. Listen to The Optimist Daily Updat...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. We're all about energy solutions today with new and improved clear solar panels and a quick fix to protect bird populations near wind turbines. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summe...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. On this episode we look at two solutions out of NYC: a refillable cleaning supply station in Brooklyn and hotels housing the unsheltered during the pandemic. Listen to The Optimist Daily Upd...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. We're focused on wildfires today with resources to help those affected and one adorable therapy dog bringing attention to the mental health needs of first responders. Listen to The Optimist...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Resilience is key to surviving hard situations. What helps you build resilience? Today we talk gardening, lighthouses, and tackling tough times. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summ...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we're trash talking with a dump that has been transformed into a beautiful park and new technology to recycle e-waste. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Makin...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we welcome guest Ethan Steinberg, CEO of Propagate Ventures, to talk about agroforestry, crop diversity, and why our soil should look like chocolate cake. Listen to The Optimist Daily...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Are we moving past single family home zoning? How can storytelling convince where facts can't on the issue of climate change? Listen to find out! Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Sum...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today Amelia and Summers talk troubleshooting the renewable grid and challenge big beauty brands to take the sustainability plunge. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. We're celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the 19th amendment, talking tech solutions to food waste, and what happens when oil wells are abandoned but still pollute the environment. Liste...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we tackle saving the US Postal Service and the importance of purpose in finding happiness.  Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Summers' favorite animal is the elephant so today she is excited to share news of an elephant baby boom in Kenya and Kristy keeps us up to date on why it's time to ditch that natural gas sto...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Need some closet clean out motivation and want to learn about a new tool for low-cost desalination? We've got both today on the pod! Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we discuss how agroforestry can transform our food systems and how small vagus nerve vibrations could be key to picking up a second language. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with S...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Missing travel? You're not alone. Today we satisfy our wanderlust with virtual travels to scenic locations on the forefront of the renewables revolution. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update...

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen - Your weekday update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. We're back to full episodes and kicking it off with a town in Washington creating its own currency to support local business and drones playing an unexpected role in the Amazon. Listen to Th...