This neighborhood food sharing app aims to cut down on waste
Food waste is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and a misuse of valuable resources. While at-home strategies like meal planning and freezing greens can help your family cut down your food waste footprint, it’s not always easy to use up every last grocery item before they go Read More...
Sale of world’s largest painting reaps $62 million for charity
The world officially has a new “largest painting” and the whopping $62 million from its sale is going to a good cause: charities for children. Sacha Jafri’s The Journey of Humanity (2020), makes the mark for the world’s largest painting, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records, Read More...
This grassroots renewable energy organization is powered by local moms
One by one, more cities are banning natural gas in new construction projects. One grassroots organization leading the transition to fully-renewable in Cambridge, Massachusetts is HEET, the Home Energy Efficiency Team. HEET advocates for replacing old gas infrastructure with geothermal micro Read More...
March 24, 2021
Today we're sharing how Krispy Kreme is encouraging Covid-19 vaccinations with free doughnuts and how transparent solar panels could build the extra efficient greenhouses of the future. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
March 24, 2021
Today we're sharing how Krispy Kreme is encouraging Covid-19 vaccinations with free doughnuts and how transparent solar panels could build the extra efficient greenhouses of the future. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
March 24, 2021
Today we're sharing how Krispy Kreme is encouraging Covid-19 vaccinations with free doughnuts and how transparent solar panels could build the extra efficient greenhouses of the future. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
March 24, 2021
Today we're sharing how Krispy Kreme is encouraging Covid-19 vaccinations with free doughnuts and how transparent solar panels could build the extra efficient greenhouses of the future. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
7 Habits that build mental resilience
We recently discussed how time outdoors boosted teens’ mental health during the pandemic. Getting out into nature is a great way to bolster mental health, but it’s only one of many strategies we can employ to protect our mental health and build resilience. Today we share seven habits that build Read More...
The Optimist View: Knocking down the negative news bias
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Victor Frankel The old news mantra, “If it bleeds, it leads” has long steered traditional media outlets towards the violent, the Read More...
Sustainable agriculture startup turns CO2 into animal feed
Recently, we shared a story about how feeding cattle seaweed could significantly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with livestock farming. Now, we would like to introduce to you Deep Branch, a UK-based startup that aims to cut the environmental footprint of agriculture by creating Read More...