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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. 75 percent on non electrified households in the US are in Native American communities. Listen to learn about a female-led company bringing local solar power to these homes. Listen to The Opt...

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 mini Update we talk EV batteries which can be recharged for up to a million miles. Check out the full article here.  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. Kristy reminds us that coffee, fruit, and moving your body are keys to success so today we share yoga poses for those of us who have been sitting at our desks all week. Check out the related...

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 lucky clover lawns with guest and producer Amelia Buckley. If you're sick of watering your lawn, check out the story here for a greener alternative to grass. Listen to The Opti...

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. Welcome to the summer story highlight reel. Today it's all about rare grizzly bears. Check out the featured story here! Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Sol...

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 cover how 41 states reduced emissions while boosting GDP and how digital agriculture resources can prevent a hunger epidemic in Africa. 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's Update includes how the humble pine needle could clean India's polluted water and a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research. 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. If you love to garden you'll love today's episode featuring the world's largest urban rooftop farm and a company making the most of those backyard fruit trees.  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. Today we discuss women making waves in sea plastics research and the Cousteau family's next big ocean floor idea. 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 on the Update: How shutdowns are reducing premature births and a radioactive fungus with out of this world potential.  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 share a personal narrative to support creating inclusive housing and public transportation and some good news on a potential coronavirus vaccine.  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. Today we explore education solutions for a socially distanced back to school and four teens who made a coloring book to explain the pandemic to children. 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 diving into the ocean today with stories about the kinship of beluga whales, the biggest ocean cleanup in history, and Kristy's heroic rescue at sea! 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. It's screams and stretching day on the Update and we're talking about productive ways to manage anger and the heart health benefits of regular stretching. 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. Today we discuss what Portugal can teach us about looking beyond GDP to determine a country's success and the little hydrogen engine that could. 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, Summers gets a little silly updating us on the secret lives of bugs and Kristy covers how robots and systematic testing is beating COVID-19 in Rwanda. 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. Today, a new study reinforces that humans are optimistic even when times are tough and finding new quarantine views with Window Swap. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Krist...

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 focus in on changing biased language in computer coding and Summers reminds us that, "The very inherent structure of our language has oppressive capacity." Listen to The Optimist Da...

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 cover affordable housing solutions in Portugal and how your favorite drink may soon come in a paper bottle. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Soluti...

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. To quote Summers, "Optimist Daily is not about rose colored glasses, it is about reality" and today the reality is we need to close the digital divide to make society more equitable and ther...

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. In addition to top "brain candy" reading recommendations, today we cover all things animal related from butterflies to grizzly bears and Kristy fills us in on the latest anti-domestic abuse...

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 Kristy is excited about new tech healing broken bones with electric pulses and Summers shares baby-approved alternatives to traditional pasta. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with...

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 changing the tenor of news media AND social media with stories about an unexpected wave of roadside conservation and a woman feeding her community through the pandemic. 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. Do you know what gleaning is? Find out more about that and Vermont's new composting law today on 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 discuss a startup giving renters more equity, why recycled jewelry is just as fun and sparkly, and last but not least, what everyone is talking about this weekend: Hamilton. Listen...