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Researchers recycle discarded face masks to make stronger road material
In addition to a global health crisis, the pandemic has also exacerbated our toxic relationship with plastic, with millions of single-use face masks and gloves ending up in the environment daily. There are some ways, however, we can mitigate this new form of pollution. Recently, we shared a Read More...
Stylish floating Amsterdam village produces and shares all its own energy
The city of Amsterdam is known for having beautiful homes along picturesque canals, but in the industrial north part of the city, a floating neighborhood has been completed that is unlike anything we’ve seen before. The visionary neighborhood is called Schoonschip (Dutch for “clean ship), and Read More...
February 5, 2021
Denver's unarmed 911 response team is six months in with over 700 incidents and no arrests. That and how France is cutting down on e-waste today on the Update. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 5, 2021
Denver's unarmed 911 response team is six months in with over 700 incidents and no arrests. That and how France is cutting down on e-waste today on the Update. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 5, 2021
Denver's unarmed 911 response team is six months in with over 700 incidents and no arrests. That and how France is cutting down on e-waste today on the Update. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
February 5, 2021
Denver's unarmed 911 response team is six months in with over 700 incidents and no arrests. That and how France is cutting down on e-waste today on the Update. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the Read More...
The Ideal City is an urban ‘cookbook’ for planners to design better cities
By 2050, more than 70 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. This means that we’ll need to significantly expand our urban landscapes to accommodate for the incoming wave of urban dwellers. In an effort to inspire urban planners to design tomorrow’s cities in a Read More...
Study: Plant-based diets are critical for protecting biodiversity
What is our most powerful tool for protecting biodiversity? A new report by the Chatham House, backed by the UN, indicates that widespread adoption of plant-based diets is one of the most crucial ways to protect endangered species. Plant-based diets are environmentally beneficial because they Read More...
These trainers are made from mycelium and dog hair
In recent years, we’ve seen an increasing number of big brands in the footwear industry make attempts at mitigating the environmental impact of their trainers. This comes as no surprise. Footwear has one of the heaviest carbon footprints of anything we wear, and most of the materials they use can Read More...
Meet the woman who created a safe haven for Black and Trans women in NYC
Ceyenne Doroshow knows first-hand the struggle of being a trans woman of color living on the streets. Feeling unable to express her true self in her home neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn, New York, she set out on her own as soon as she reached adulthood. Unfortunately, with no shelter Read More...