An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet

How can we be optimistic in 2025? As Nikolaj Coster-Waldau begins season two, we’re reminded of the delicate balance between human progress and protecting our planet. (Source: Bloomberg)

Waste is a significant contributor to global warming, but turning it into a resource can help curb emissions and shrink humanity’s environmental footprint. (Source: Bloomberg)

From transforming concrete into a carbon sink to mining nickel from genetically enhanced plants, we meet the bold inventors preserving and adapting to nature’s offerings to help humanity thrive. (Source: Bloomberg)

Meeting humanity’s insatiable demand for energy while still curbing greenhouse emissions will require creative solutions both big and small. (Source: Bloomberg)

We travel the world to see how tradition, technology and human ingenuity can help reclaim the planet’s precious water supply. (Source: Bloomberg)

As we look toward the future and seek to overcome our world’s climate challenges, people with imagination are showing the way. (Source: Bloomberg)