September 11, 2020
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 Read More...
September 11, 2020
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 Read More...
September 11, 2020
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 Read More...
September 11, 2020
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 Read More...
How to get better at managing your time
A new study out of the University of California, Irvine, found that the typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes and five seconds. The problem is that after a disruption, it takes an average of 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back on track. We’re prone to wasting a lot of time Read More...
Portugal is no longer extracting fossil fuels on their soil
We recently shared an inspiring article about a group of young Portuguese activists taking 33 countries to court over climate change inaction. Today we also get to share that the country has canceled its last two remaining fossil fuel contracts, meaning Portugal is no longer extracting fossil fuels Read More...
Thought Leader Series: We need more controlled burns to prevent wildfires
Many residents in California woke up this week to apocalyptic orange skies due to fast-growing wildfires across the state. Today, for our Thought Leader Series, we share a ProPublica article that dives deeper into solutions for reducing the severity of what many are now calling Read More...
Zimbabwe bans coal mining in national parks in major conservation win
Home to more than 40,000 elephants and numerous other species, including the endangered black rhino, Zimbabwe’s biggest national park, Hwange, is a thriving wildlife haven. In 2015, however, the country’s government gave permission to two mining companies to explore the park for coal, Read More...
How the retro drive-in is being reimagined in the coronavirus era
The drive-in theater: It’s a nostalgic relic of America’s past that we typically only see on screen rather in real life. At least, that was the case last year. In October 2019, there were only 305 drive-in theaters in the US—and hardly any outside America. But with the pandemic demanding us Read More...
Giant robot in Arizona hunts for crops that thrive in hot climates
On the farmlands of Arizona, the world’s largest farming robot is being rolled out to help secure the future of food. The robot, which is called the Field Scanalyzer, looks a bit like a bridge at first glance, spanning from one side of the crop field to the other. With this vantage point over Read More...