May 12, 2021
Today we're talking about the case for kindness: why we should practice kindness at work and how one Swedish city is embracing it's rainy weather. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
May 12, 2021
Today we're talking about the case for kindness: why we should practice kindness at work and how one Swedish city is embracing it's rainy weather. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
May 12, 2021
Today we're talking about the case for kindness: why we should practice kindness at work and how one Swedish city is embracing it's rainy weather. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
May 12, 2021
Today we're talking about the case for kindness: why we should practice kindness at work and how one Swedish city is embracing it's rainy weather. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
Belgium melts more than 22,000 guns into 60 tonnes of recycled steel
Multiple studies have shown that the fewer guns in a society, the safer its people. With that in mind, the Belgian police have collected more than 22,000 guns from citizens and melted them into 60 tonnes of recycled steel. About half of the collected firearms were handed in by owners from across Read More...
Five ways to defeat morning grogginess
Have you ever noticed that some mornings you feel more groggy than usual and it’s just harder to get yourself out of bed? If so, you’ve experienced the highly common phenomenon of sleep inertia. This uncomfortable feeling can make it difficult to get a jump on the day and leave you feeling Read More...
Schools across the US will soon serve Impossible Foods plant-based meat
The Optimist Daily is a big fan of alternative meat company Impossible Foods and we love to write about its progress as it continues to grow. We celebrated when the company obtained its FDA approval so it could sell its plant-based meat in grocery stores, and also when it expanded from meatless Read More...
Heineken is turning wasted beer into sustainable energy
When the pandemic forced us into lockdown, many of our favorite watering pubs, bars, and restaurants had to throw out millions of dollars of stock. In the UK, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) estimates that about 87 million pints of beer have been tossed as a result. Fortunately, the Read More...
Scientists use human hair from barbershop to improve solar cell efficiency
In recent years, perovskite solar cells have emerged as a promising technology in the field of renewable energy, showing potential to outperform the monocrystalline silicon solar cells widely used today. One of the main challenges that have so far restricted them from large-scale adoption is that Read More...
The case for kindness: How and why we should be more kind at work
For over a year now, many of our “workplaces” have turned into a handful of scheduled online interactions. We often lose out on the small moments of appreciation, like a simple “thank you so much!” while bumping into a colleague in the lunchroom who has helped you with a project, or Read More...