Better World

Henry and special guest host/SmileRadio podcast engineer Brendan Metz talks with director Jared Scott about his new film the Great Green Wall, and how people are using trees to fight desertification in Africa. Great Green Wall website Jared's documentary

Even for the best of us, straws are still a daily product. At the coffee shop, at home, at a restaurant, they are inextricably tied to so many cherished items in our society. Who among us drinks ice coffee without one? The straw is institution, and Eighty Six is here to make sure it survives the sustainable future. They produce a straw made from grass that is way more functional than other flimsy...

Just in time for the World Series, this week we've hit a double. The team sits down with Anne Therese and Brana Dane of Role Models Management and the Model Mafia. These are two rad humans on the forefront of the movement from Influencer to Activist. Role Models is an agency who works exclusively with brands doing campaigns focused on change, impact, or sustainability. The Model Mafia is a group o...

The team chats with the founders of Cloverly, a marketplace for Carbon Offsets for consumers (formerly inaccessible due to the purchase size of offsets), helping consumers to purchase their own offsets for behaviors like flights, car rentals, and the shipping of goods. Come learn how you can utilize Carbon Offsets to reduce your carbon footprint! Cloverly Website

Host Henry Lihn chats with Megan Williams May and Vince Dickson of The One Good, the first ZeroWaste reusable coffee cup that fits in your back pocket! The One Good Website The One Good Instagram

This week, Henry Lihn is joined by guest host Roxana Zadeh as they talk to Future Earth founder, Max Moinian. Future Earth is a digital platform designed to teach people the realities of climate change and ways they can integrate eco-friendly habits into their lifestyles. Future Earth Instagram Future Earth Catalog

This week, Henry, Barnett, and special guest star Emily interview the CEO of Terra Kaffe, a Brooklyn-based, zero-waste coffee company, and discuss the environmental impacts of the coffee industry and what they are doing to improve it. Terra Kaffe Website

This week, hosts Henry Lihn and Barnett Zitron meet with Polly from Unbound to discuss sexuality and self-love. Bound Website

Henry and Maddie are going on a field trip to ARCADIA , an immersive VR/AR installation on climate change located in NYC, and beforehand sit with co-founder Kyle from Regeneration Magazine to discuss the crisis and how they are raising consumer awareness. Use BETTERWORLD for 25% off tickets. Let’s talk climate change!

Henry and Barnett are joined again by Maddie Wallace to talk clean beauty with Jenna Rosenstein of Harper’s Bazaar, an authority in the space. The number of chemicals in our beauty products and their effects on the health of the planet and people is staggering. Come listen to part II in our series with Harper’s Bazaar icons and editors Olivia and Jenna on clean beauty. Harper's Bazaar 'Ultimate Gu...

Henry and special guest host Maddie Wallace (from episode 20!) talk to two of three founders of Branch Basics Marilee Nelson and Kelly Love who explain how harmful chemicals are affecting our health and how we only need on solution. Come learn to get clean!

The team is joined by Matt Scanlan from Softmatter (a VC fund investing in green companies) and CEO of Naadam (a producer of our favorite $75 cashmere sweaters), where we discuss sourcing sustainable mongolian cashmere, and what it truly means to be a Net Good company from the ground up.

This week, Henry and Barnett sit down with Harper's Bazaar Feature Editor Olivia Fleming and discuss clean, environmentally-friendly beauty products, as well as what she is doing with Harper's Bazaar to make consumers more informed on the environmental impact of what they purchase. Be sure to check out her and Jenna Rosenstein's article "The Ultimate Guide to Clean Beauty" (link below)....

Henry and Barnett sit down with Co-Founder of Plant People Gabe Kennedy and talk about Gabe's products, alternative medicine, and the medicinal uses of Cannabis with its various compounds (including, but of course not limited to CBD). Better World's IG Plant People's IG Gabe's IG

Henry and special guest host and eco warrior Molly Virostek talk with Micro-plastic scientist and mermaid Madeleine Wallace about all things plastic. Hear how you can save the world! Better World IG : @itsbetter.world Madeleine Wallace IG : @madeleinewallace Molly Virostek IG : @mollyviro

Not every company can create world changing products, but every company can have purpose and impact. Join us as we talk with founder Jeff Berman of wine maker Out East and special guest Alexandra Richards about their impact initiatives and how they are making a difference. What you drink can help change the world!

18 — The team talks to NAECO (ocean spelled backwards) about reusable plastic alternatives and what behaviors we have to change to do away with single use plastics. Learn about more alternatives to plastic and what’s being developed! #doingbetterbest

Barnett explores his man crush with Leo, the founder of Buffy, a sustainable bedding company, while Henry watches on in awe, and learns about the VOCs and carbon impacts come from bedding and furniture. Let’s snuggle.

Barnett and Henry are joined by Steven of Journey, a meditation company bringing mindfulness and a whole lot of chill to consumer and corporations through their practices and new social meditation platform. Let’s chill.

Barnett and Henry discover the negative carbon impact that comes from shipping tons of liquid detergent and cleaners worldwide (that’s a lot of gas!) and the alternative with Blueland, a tablet that you drop into water in a bottle that isn’t plastic! Get cleaner.

On Episode 14 Henry and special guest Dave Grossman dive in to Aquaculture with James Weidner of Panasea and Courtney Boyd Myers of Akua, discussing ocean farming, kelp, and sea cucumbers. Learn more about how ocean farming can save the world and what products you can purchase which support it!

Better World Host Henry Lihn and guest Co Host David Grossman (filling in for Barnett who is either at Coachella or an illuminati meeting in Park City) discuss how to save the world through Agro Forestry, with Arnold, CEO of Simplamente Madera, a company specializing in training farmers to regrow trees, cacao, and coffee in Latin America. IT'S A BIG ONE!

On episode 12 the team flies in Hawaiian Healer and environmental activist Ramona Sildlo to talk with one of our most impactful guests to date, Lauren Singer of Package Free. Come learn about how you can be waste free!

In this episode Barnett and Henry travel deep into Bushwick, Brooklyn to a grocery store that sells almost no packaged goods called Precycle. With hundreds of millions of pounds of one use goods being used and thrown away yearly, precycle encourages customers to shop using reusable containers. Get Precycle with us.

In this episode the team talks to Topper Luciani of Goodfair, a recycle tech company that sells and data matches used goods to consumers. 10.5M tons go into the landfill, and goodfair is helping to reduce waste by selling used goods and matching them to consumers. That thing you want to buy whether a bike, a glass or a T-shirt (and up to 10,000 other product categories) has already been made and i...