"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Today we cover strategies for remaining a determined optimist and new technology saving lives in neuroscience and the ocean. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today Kristy shares new advances in bionic eye technology and Summers features two teenagers making a real difference in their community. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Kristy and Summers interview founder and COO of sustainable menstrual product startup viv for your v. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Michigan is funding free college education for its essential workers and a study from Tufts has found that over 300 metropolitan areas in the US could grow all their food locally. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Dog mom Kristy shares 4 spiritual lessons we can learn from our canine friends and Summers dives into agricultural finance with soil health investment fund, rePlant Capital. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

It's an athletic day on the Update! Today we feature Salomon's new and actually recyclable running shoes and a surfboard fin that allows surfers to capture ocean data as they ride. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

As destructive wildfires continue to blaze across the western United States, we dive deeper into how controlled burns and sustainable building practices can reduce wildfire intensity and impact on our communities. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Brisbane will soon be home to a new jungle-like skyscraper and a new law in Riverside is letting chefs run small restaurants from their homes. Tune in to hear Summers share her own small business experience and find out what type of restaurant Kristy would open from her home. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Tune in for Summers' exclusive orchid care secrets, tips on media literacy, and some truly inspirational kids taking legal action to defend their futures. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!

Today we celebrate social justice solutions! Incarcerated firefighters can finally pursue careers in the field after release in CA and a heartwarming gesture of sportsmanship makes way for the Iroquois Nationals to claim their place in the 2022 Lacrosse World Games. Listen to The Optimist Daily Update with Summers & Kristy - Making Solutions the News!