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 stove. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy – Making Solutions the News!
August 14, 2020
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