Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts

Search Radio and Podcast

Podcasts›How to Be a Better Human›How increasing your happiness can help solve climate change (w/ Jiaying Zhao and Elizabeth Dunn)

Education

How increasing your happiness can help solve climate change (w/ Jiaying Zhao and Elizabeth Dunn)

How to Be a Better Human by TED

Aug 17, 202641:14Education

The conversation around climate change is often bleak and terrifying, but it doesn’t have to be that way, says climate behavior scientist Jiaying Zhao, or JZ. In this episode, JZ and happiness researcher Elizabeth Dunn j...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from How to Be a Better Human.

Does it Take a Twisted Mind to Write Twisted Stories? from Better In Person

Sep 7, 2026 - 43:39

Harlan Coben doesn’t think so. The mega-best-selling author talks suburbia, impostor syndrome, and what h...

Summer Fridays: How zombies, dragons, and superheroes could make you a better person (w/ Christopher Robichaud)

Sep 4, 2026 - 34:26

Roleplaying games and the Marvel universe may be fictional, but they can also teach us a lot about morali...

How to be creatively inspired (w/ Hrishikesh Hirway)

Aug 31, 2026 - 43:17

Hrishikesh Hirway is a musician and producer, but you probably know him best as the host of the podcast S...

Summer Fridays: The art of paying attention (w/ Wendy MacNaughton and Laurel Braitman)

Aug 28, 2026 - 37:10

If you found yourself doodling or writing a lot as a child but then lost the hobby as you grew up, Wendy...

The last places without human sounds (w/ Matt Mikkelsen)

Aug 24, 2026 - 43:27

What is natural sound in an increasingly noisy world? asks sound recordist and audio engineer Matt Mikkel...

Summer Fridays: Why you should try birding (w/ Christian Cooper)

Aug 21, 2026 - 34:03

If you ask Christian Cooper, a science writer, editor, and the host of the show “Extraordinary Birder Wit...

Summer Fridays: How to clean your house without losing your mind (w/ KC Davis)

Aug 14, 2026 - 35:13

Let’s face it: if chores were fun, they probably wouldn’t be called that. Because for most people, life c...

What trees can teach us about life (w/ Robert Moor)

Aug 10, 2026 - 41:13

What can we learn from trees? Robert Moor thinks that the path to a well-lived life lies in trying our be...