The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup
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The world is solving hard problems. We cover them! Every Friday, Arielle and Karissa dig into the week's best positive solutions news from The Optimist Daily. Plus, monthly guest interviews with the innovators and advocates making it happen.
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Recent episodes
- (Guest Interview) A place to breathe: inside #CreateConnectCare, the youth mental health program giving young people a voice | World Mental Health Day 2026
- A wildlife overpass, a solar train, and Japan's massive centenarian population
- The tilcayo, cancer-sniffing dogs, and 8 more things going right
- A 450-year map mistake gets corrected by 164 countries, plus nine more solutions
- NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions
- AI music banned from Australia's charts, Roman telescope launches, a biodegradable balloon and much more!
- Niger restored 5 million hectares without planting a single tree plus nine other things going right
- (Guest Interview) Catch up with Kristy: clean energy, leaving California, and embracing the slow life
- Taking our own advice on slowing down this summer
- Liquid air batteries, dolphins saved by plastic bottles, and an empty weekend a month