The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News

Street sign reading Oxford Street W1, City of Westminster, mounted on a stone wall.

London’s Oxford Street gets fully pedestrianized this month: here’...

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Oxford Street, one of the busiest shopping streets in the world, goes traffic-free on October 26. London Mayor ...

Berlin mapped 900,000 street trees. Now 12,000 people water them.

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Amanda Gläser-Bligh named her street tree Linda. Linda is a linden, eight years old, growing outside Gläser-Bligh's apartment ...

Greece is home to Europe’s largest double-sided solar farm

In April 2022, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis inaugurated an enormous two-sided 204-megawatt solar park—the biggest system in all of Europe. The installation ...

This climate action tool shows where we are on our path to net zero

While the world has set big targets for tackling climate change, keeping track of progress is quite difficult — especially with so many factors ...

Ways to make your Thanksgiving celebration more eco-friendly this year

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Thanksgiving, a time of thanks and feasting, often comes with an unanticipated environmental cost. From extra food waste ...