Tools, services and organisations that do less harm than the default choice, in 43 categories. We’re re-checking every entry against our checklist, one category at a time.
Podcasts on humane technology, climate, slow living, meaning and the limits of growth, most of them still publishing. For podcasts about ethics and sustainability, we look at who makes each show and how it’s funded, and we say when one has become an archive.
Two to start with: Your Undivided Attention, from the non-profit Center for Humane Technology, on how tech shapes our minds. And On Being, Krista Tippett’s conversations on meaning, faith and science, from a US non-profit, released in seasons.
How we choose: we pick shows in the spirit of the 6 principles in our manifesto, from interbeing to what we leave behind, and check that each one is still online. Last checked on 13 October 2026.

Paris Marx's weekly critical look at Big Tech and its politics, listener-supported on Patreon

Nate Hagens on energy, ecology and the economy's limits, from a US nonprofit, 431 episodes

Long-running podcast on owning less and living deliberately, 559 episodes so far

Clean energy podcast by Wood Mackenzie, a private equity-owned energy consultancy

Technical clean-tech podcast by Wood Mackenzie, a private equity-owned consultancy

Podcast from the nonprofit Center for Humane Technology on how tech shapes our minds

Krista Tippett's podcast on meaning, faith and science, from a US nonprofit

Weekly climate politics podcast from Global Optimism, Christiana Figueres's group

Joshua Spodek's podcast on acting on your environmental values, 860+ episodes

Douglas Rushkoff's weekly podcast on human autonomy in a digital age; ad-free via Patreon

Interviews on AI ethics and society with Ben Byford, 117 episodes and still going

Christopher Butler's podcast on design, tech and being human; archive, last episode Sep 2019

Dan Harris's podcast on meditation for sceptics, 3 episodes a week, ad-free for app members

BBC Radio 4's live weekly debate on the moral questions behind the news

Weekly podcast on cutting everyday toxins from food, body and home, 499 episodes so far

Brooke and Ben McAlary's podcast on slow living, from the makers of The Slow Home Podcast

BBC Radio 4's weekly environment series and podcast, with Tom Heap and Helen Czerski

Comedy podcast on green guff and climate talk, 276 episodes; archive, last episode Dec 2022