Guy Fieri serves thousands of meals to California firefighters
Guy Fieri is best known for his eccentric hair and delectable Food Network Series, but the celeb chef is also quite the philanthropist in his community. Most recently, Fieri fed 2,000 firefighters battling the wildfires in northern California. The “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” star grew Read More...
12 companies turning food waste into wealth
As the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and this is the driving philosophy behind the companies upcycling food waste into new products. The Upcycled Food Association (UFA) defined upcycled food products as those which "use ingredients that otherwise would not have gone Read More...
This plastic is made from waste and biodegrades within a year
Traditional plastic is made from petroleum and pollutes our environment for centuries when it’s thrown away, so scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology set out to create a plastic alternative that addresses these two primary problems. They have Read More...
October 9, 2020
TGIF! We're talking light therapy helping seniors get better sleep and congratulating chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on being the first two women to share the Nobel Prize. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 9, 2020
TGIF! We're talking light therapy helping seniors get better sleep and congratulating chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on being the first two women to share the Nobel Prize. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 9, 2020
TGIF! We're talking light therapy helping seniors get better sleep and congratulating chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on being the first two women to share the Nobel Prize. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
October 9, 2020
TGIF! We're talking light therapy helping seniors get better sleep and congratulating chemists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna on being the first two women to share the Nobel Prize. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
For the first time, two women jointly win Nobel Prize for chemistry
We’ve shared stories about how CRISPR is revolutionizing treatment for diseases like sickle cell and other genetic diseases. The gene-editing technology has the potential to change the course of modern medicine and this week, its inventors were recognized with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Read More...
Graphene circuits are the newest supplier of limitless clean energy
Earlier this week we discussed the rise of wave energy in the renewable energy sector. Now, scientists have discovered yet another potential source of green power drawn from the thermal motion of graphene at room temperature. The new technique captures the nanometre-sized rippling and random Read More...
Thought Leader Series: Jay Inslee on the power of optimistic climate action
The climate crisis is an increasingly present and visible threat to our world and few know this better than Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, who watched more than 600,000 acres burn in his state during just the beginning of the second-worst fire season on record. In this week’s Thought Read More...