Today’s Solutions: March 17, 2026

The Optimist Daily Update with Summers McKay & Kristy Jansen – Your weekday commute update from The Optimist Daily featuring discussions of our top positive news solutions from independent, reader-funded, journalists. Today we tackle how facing the collapse of life as we know it gives us the opportunity to create a new and better “normal” including new solar designs and innovative approaches to economic policy. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy – Making Solutions the News!

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