Today’s Solutions: March 04, 2026

September 4, 2020

September 4, 2020

It's a health day on the Update! Find out how honeybee venom can kill cancer cells and why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a big success. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

September 4, 2020

September 4, 2020

It's a health day on the Update! Find out how honeybee venom can kill cancer cells and why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a big success. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

September 4, 2020

September 4, 2020

It's a health day on the Update! Find out how honeybee venom can kill cancer cells and why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a big success. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

September 4, 2020

September 4, 2020

It's a health day on the Update! Find out how honeybee venom can kill cancer cells and why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was a big success. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

Honeybee venom can kill aggres

Honeybee venom can kill aggressive breast cancer cells

Honeybees hold the key to our agricultural systems, but it turns out they may also have other amazing healing powers. A study from the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research shows honeybee venom could treat triple-negative breast cancer, a type that currently has limited treatment Read More...

These “nanotweezers̶

These "nanotweezers" can pick up an individual molecule

Most likely you’ve used tweezers to take out a tough splinter. Now, engineers are taking the humble tweezer to a whole new level with tweezers so small and precise they can grab individual molecules.  It may sound impossible, but the newly developed “nanotweezers”, built by engineers at Read More...

Thought Leader Series: Post-pa

Thought Leader Series: Post-pandemic travel needs to be regenerative

Tourism has been decimated by the pandemic, but when travel returns, what will it look like? This week’s Thought Leader Series from The New York Times, shared with us by an Emissary, looks at the concept of regenerative travel and how we can take sustainable vacations one step Read More...

September 3, 2020

September 3, 2020

Today we feature an innovative company turning abandoned hotels into affordable housing and the essential role that sanitation workers and waste sorters play in the transition to a circular economy. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

September 3, 2020

September 3, 2020

Today we feature an innovative company turning abandoned hotels into affordable housing and the essential role that sanitation workers and waste sorters play in the transition to a circular economy. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...

September 3, 2020

September 3, 2020

Today we feature an innovative company turning abandoned hotels into affordable housing and the essential role that sanitation workers and waste sorters play in the transition to a circular economy. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...