Episodes

No Late Fees at this Library RONNI ABERGEL is founder of the innovative Human Library organization. By turning people into books (not quite literally) all over the world, the project is tackling prejudice, stigmatization and discrimination in a powerfully earnest, intimate and successful fashion. This is where you can literally borrow a human book for a half-hour chat to challenge and dismantle your deepest prejudices. With people as living “books” the big difference is the conversation ends u...

Turn on, tune in, and drop into… SHELBY HARTMAN is the founder and CEO of Double Blind magazine, a super nice publication that covers “timely, untold stories about the expansion of psychedelics around the globe.” Shelby is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has worked as a journalist for VICE Media, LA Weekly, Huffington Post and others. Listen in to learn about her journey, how DB came to be, her Super Nice challenge to YOU and, as almost always, a couple o...

From his early X Games notoriety to his beautiful new book AFRO SURF, Selema Masekela has always ridden the waves of his own passions.

Comedy writer Spike Ferensten finds himself at the mercy of the moderators Spike Ferensten is our neighbor. Sort of. He doesn’t come over to borrow cups of sugar or peek over the fence when we have conversations, but Spike met Tod through posts on Nextdoor. The most wonderful horrible app in existence. Nextdoor: That hyperlocal social network that can make a bucolic charming neighborhood seem like a crime-ridden hellhole. The thing is, Nextdoor has the potential to be a really cool, really unif...

One of our Super Nice Club members sent over a link to the book How To Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting—from Tots to Teens.

If you can put one foot in front of the other, you can do this week’s Be Nice Challenge.

Musician and explorer JW Francis Wanders through Nice Work! JW Francis is a fascinating young human. We can’t summarize it any better than his Spotify bio: Raised in Paris, living in New York City, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and Murder Mystery business owner, JW Francis is a super nice musician whose brand new album, "Wanderkid" is a thing of beauty. His brand of lo-fi, utterly irresistible bedroom dream-pop takes its lead from the city JW lives in, wi...

Welcome to this week’s BE NICE CHALLENGE. This 4-minute episode consists of our current guest’s challenge to YOU to make your world, and by extension, THE WORLD, a nicer place. 10% nicer, that’s all we ask. This week’s challenge is laid down by AMANDA RAVENHILL, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and cofounder of Project Drawdown. Do you have the SPINE to tackle her challenge? And are you into winning cool stuff? If so, press play!

Welcome to this week’s BE NICE CHALLENGE. This 4-minute episode consists of our current guest’s challenge to YOU to make your world, and by extension, THE WORLD, a nicer place. 10% nicer, that’s all we ask. This week’s challenge is laid down by AMANDA RAVENHILL, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and cofounder of Project Drawdown. Do you have the SPINE to tackle her challenge? And are you into winning cool stuff? If so, press play!

Welcome to this week’s BE NICE CHALLENGE. This 4-minute episode consists of our current guest’s challenge to YOU to make your world, and by extension, THE WORLD, a nicer place. 10% nicer, that’s all we ask. This week’s challenge is laid down by AMANDA RAVENHILL, executive director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and cofounder of Project Drawdown. Do you have the SPINE to tackle her challenge? And are you into winning cool stuff? If so, press play!

This episode of Nice Work! tackles systems change, trim tabs, and astronauts on planet earth. Sometimes these are all the same thing AMANDA RAVENHILL is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI if you like acronyms which lots of people seem to, which we think is slightly disturbing in that it’s another paper cut against full-throated language) + cofounder of PROJECT DRAWDOWN (PD), the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Amanda is dedicated to...

This episode of Nice Work! tackles systems change, trim tabs, and astronauts on planet earth. Sometimes these are all the same thing AMANDA RAVENHILL is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI if you like acronyms which lots of people seem to, which we think is slightly disturbing in that it’s another paper cut against full-throated language) + cofounder of PROJECT DRAWDOWN (PD), the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Amanda is dedicated to...

This episode of Nice Work! tackles systems change, trim tabs, and astronauts on planet earth. Sometimes these are all the same thing AMANDA RAVENHILL is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI if you like acronyms which lots of people seem to, which we think is slightly disturbing in that it’s another paper cut against full-throated language) + cofounder of PROJECT DRAWDOWN (PD), the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Amanda is dedicated to...

This week’s challenge is laid down by PAULA LOOS, founder of Toiless Toilet Paper. Listen to Paula talk dirty in Episode #79.... and be sure to listen to her challenge and let us know if you participated by posting to IG or FB. Pretty please?

This week’s challenge is laid down by PAULA LOOS, founder of Toiless Toilet Paper. Listen to Paula talk dirty in Episode #79.... and be sure to listen to her challenge and let us know if you participated by posting to IG or FB. Pretty please?

This week’s challenge is laid down by PAULA LOOS, founder of Toiless Toilet Paper. Listen to Paula talk dirty in Episode #79.... and be sure to listen to her challenge and let us know if you participated by posting to IG or FB. Pretty please?

Best episode ever or pure potty talk? You decide. Joining us is super nice PAULA LOOS, founder of TOILESS TOILET PAPER and passionate advocate, somewhat paradoxically, of a toilet paper-free world.

Best episode ever or pure potty talk? You decide. Joining us is super nice PAULA LOOS, founder of TOILESS TOILET PAPER and passionate advocate, somewhat paradoxically, of a toilet paper-free world.

Best episode ever or pure potty talk? You decide. Joining us is super nice PAULA LOOS, founder of TOILESS TOILET PAPER and passionate advocate, somewhat paradoxically, of a toilet paper-free world.

Iconic bass guitarist, chef and super nice human GREG NORTON of Hüsker Dü joins Nice Work!

Iconic bass guitarist, chef and super nice human GREG NORTON of Hüsker Dü joins Nice Work!

Iconic bass guitarist, chef and super nice human GREG NORTON of Hüsker Dü joins Nice Work!

Without exaggeration, BILL RYERSON founder of Population Media Center, is one of the humans who has done the very most to help preserve and enhance both people and planet.

Without exaggeration, BILL RYERSON founder of Population Media Center, is one of the humans who has done the very most to help preserve and enhance both people and planet.