Today’s Solutions: November 14, 2025
The Optimist Daily Update
The Optimist Daily Update
Sponge Cities and Climate Victory Gardens
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Happy April 1st! No tricks here on this April Fool’s Day, only good news about how cities around the world are taking initiative to soak up precipitation rather than dispose of it, and how more people are planting gardens to reduce their carbon footprint.

 

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