The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup

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The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup is a news podcast hosted by The Optimist Daily, with 687 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Niger restored 5 million hectares without planting a single tree plus nine other things going right

  Aug 28, 202621 min

  Karissa hosts solo this week while Arielle recovers, covering ten solutions including the world's first wild bird flu vaccination program for Phillip Island's little penguins, France making unsolicited telemarketing calls flat-out illegal, and what Baltimore is doing with $400 million in opioid settlement money. transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422844 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily/Weekly Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?lsc=41ef528d Theme and all original music by Marvin Lanes

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  (Guest Interview) Catch up with Kristy: clean energy, leaving California, and embracing the slow life

  Aug 21, 202626 min

  Many of the long-time listeners of The Optimist Daily's podcast will recognize Kristy Jansen's voice. She's the former co-host and Executive Director of this show, and she's back, joining Arielle and Karissa from Mérida, México, to catch them up on what happened in between: the clean energy industry from the inside, and what it's like to start over somewhere new when you didn't really pick the timing. Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422807 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily/Weekly Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?gift=Y%20http:// Theme and all original music by Marvin Lanes bird in rainforest.wav by reinsamba -- https://freesound.org/s/19257/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

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  Taking our own advice on slowing down this summer

  Aug 14, 20263 min

  Arielle checks in solo to explain why the Kristy guest episode is getting a little more time. Both she and Karissa have been doing what they always say matters most: showing up, fully present, for the people they love. Babies, weddings, miles between people who love each other. Sometimes slowing down really is the solution. Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422764 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily/Weekly Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?lsc=41ef528d Theme and all original music by Marvin Lanes

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  Liquid air batteries, dolphins saved by plastic bottles, and an empty weekend a month

  Jul 31, 202628 min

  Dolphins fatally swim into fishing nets because the nylon is acoustically too similar to water for their echolocation to pick up. A researcher at Newcastle University wondered if attaching something that does produce an echo might change that. The dolphin-saving solution may surprise you. Ten solutions this week with Arielle and Karissa. Also in the episode: energy storage technologies that sound like science fiction but are getting serious investment, India's first domestically built hydrogen train, and the garden sign that looks like a win but means your plant is struggling to survive. Stay tuned til the end for a wonderful Emissary Shout-Out that will brighten your day! Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422684 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily/Weekly Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?lsc=41ef528d Theme and all original music by Marvin Lanes

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  The science of soccer-stress, salsa dancing for depression, and why summer slips away

  Jul 24, 202629 min

  Watching a tense soccer match nearly doubles cardiac event risk, and cortisol could start rising fourteen hours before kickoff. With Spain just taking the World Cup, a fair portion of the world's population has basically been running a biological experiment on itself. Arielle and Karissa also get into the neurological reason summer keeps slipping away, an Oxford trial where eight weeks of salsa classes outperformed existing tools for depression and anxiety, and a brush swab for oral cancer that returns results in under an hour — no scalpel needed. Stay tuned til the end for a wonderful Emissary Shout-Out that will brighten your day! Transcript link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/?p=1422640 If you have questions, comments, feedback, suggestions, or just want to say hi, send a message to: podcast@optimistdaily.com . Want to be part of the Optimism Movement? Become an Emissary . Subscribe to our FREE Daily/Weekly Newsletter and follow us on Instagram , X , and Blue Sky . The Optimist Daily is a project of the World Business Academy. Donate link: https://www.optimistdaily.com/donate-to-support-the-optimist-daily/?lsc=41ef528d Theme and all original music by Marvin Lanes

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