Get your vegetables
Veggies are edgy.
Three Word Addresses
Colleen and Neil dust off an archive episode: three word maps!
Recycling in Response
Colleen and Neil share some news about the changing recycling landscape and how people are responding to it.
Pool Time
Neil and Colleen talk about pools and blue skies day-dreamin' And bonus at the very end of the episode, Neil sounds just like Matthew McConaughey.
Get yer pronouns straight
Neil shares some good news from the World Health Organization. Happy Pride Month!
A Very Green Year for the UK
Colleen and Neil share three mini stories with good green news from across the pond.
Passport to Palau
Colleen and Neil dust off an episode from the archive- some poetry from the passport to the island of Palau.
LEGO Braille Bricks
The Lego Foundation is releasing LEGO Braille Bricks in 2020. The project hopes to help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a fun way!
Heimlich Helper!
Colleen and Neil share a story about the Heimlich maneuver and home alone safety.
Kids Share Facts and it's F**king Adorable
A Chicago JK classroom gives us the cutest audio we've heard in a long time.
Water Globs
The London 2019 marathon has a great idea! Water bottles are getting replaced by seaweed water globs. Genius!
Airport Dogs
TSA dogs are super cute and that's ok.
Wacka Wacka
Colleen brings listeners to a vintage video game arcade (meep meep). You're Welcome.
Keanu's Kindness
Colleen and Neil rerun an episode about Keanu Reeves and some of the many good things he's done. He has a new movie coming out because Keanu never stops working.
Pod Wet
Colleen shares some great news about Germany helping refugees find work, this conversation then de-evolves to Colleen mentioning "pod wet".
Beautiful Botanical Book Bounces Back
Colleen and Neil share good news about a lost book that has been found.
G O A T
Innovation on the California firefighting front.
New Yawk City's Roofs Are Getting Greener
Colleen and Neil share news about a new New York initiative.
I do?
21st-century marriage talk
Notre Dame Restoration
Colleen and Neil chat about some of the good things coming out after the fire at Notre Dame.
Hey Four Eyes
Rwanda becomes the first low-income country to provide vision care to ALLL of its citizens free of cost.
Jason Momoa, Plastic Protester
Colleen and Neil discuss GoT, beards, and aluminium.
Good News about Animals 🐘🐯
Tigers are making a come back and China makes a good choice; banning ivory
Drones: Hawaiian Hibiscus Helpers
Colleen and Neil discuss a drone that is finding plants thought to be lost.
Haitian Dance
A rerun from January, a story about family and Haitian dance culture from KFAI Minnesota community radio.
FunkHead
Neil shares some funky sounds and the pair discover they listen to music very differently.
Termites
A throwback to an episode we aired in January, all about termites!
Sit Stay Read
Dogs and kids learning to read in a cuddle puddle. A cuddle puddle.
Antarctic Trivia!
Three quick facts for you about the planet's southernmost continent.
Good Earth Tips
Tips to continue to care for Mother Earth.
Homework 911!
Colleen and Neil talk about 911, 311, and people helping each other.
Brunch Pooch
Be a hero! Adopt an older dog.
Cat Video Fest
Colleen and Neil talk about another dream job. Meow
UT
The University of Tennessee is doing some good that is gonna save some folks some money, money!
Hashtag Trashtag
Social media for good? That's crazy.... smart. Neil tell us about #tashtag.
Donate Your Organs (if you want to)
Can you believe it! Good news about organ donation.
Pads For Dads
Neil tells Colleen about Pads for Dads and Colleen has big dreams for Fiona.
The Crew Dragon
Colleen and Neil ponder the new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and it's recent, successful test flight.
Very most popular jobs
Colleen loves lists and she found a great list about fastest growing jobs that holds some good news.
The Undiagnosed Diseases Network
Colleen and Neil talk about the common cold and more exotic sicknesses.
Wiki Women
Another installment of Wiki Women-- highlighting women's entries on Wikipedia. This episode architecture.
Gigantic Elephant Sweaters
Colleen and Neil check out some humongous sweaters for pachyderms.
Teeny, Tiny Detroit Homes
Colleen and Neil take a look at some small homes from Detroit.
Axolotl
The Axolotl or also known as the Mexican Walking fish is a salamander that can basically regrow any part of its body!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, STEM Champion
Colleen and Neil discuss memorabilia and STEM education.
VCR: Very Cool, Right?
Colleen and Neil read a letter from an eBay buyer. It's kind and heartfelt and good.
How Did The Zebra Get It's Stripes?
Scientists have finally figured out why a Zebra has stripes!!
Free Market Fun!
Colleen and Neil dissect recent commerce news. Snow plowing commerce and toilet bowl vs. phone commerce.
A Leafier Planet
Colleen and Neil share good news about globally impressive leafiness.
What's your Atomic Number?
We celebrate the Periodic Table on today's episode! UNESCO has announced that 2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. Yay!
A Final Goodbye to Opportunity
Colleen and Neil send one final interplanetary goodbye and thank you to the show's favorite Mars rover.
Tinder 4 Dogs
Colleen and Neil chat about putting the power of swiping to use to help Lithuanians adopt more dogs.
TSA
Neil and Colleen share actual good news about the TSA.
Hawaiian Centenarian Cigarettes
Colleen and Neil chat about cigarettes; smoking them, buying them, and avoiding them.
EAT your VEGGIES
Good News! Eating veggies will benefit your mental health. Neil has strong feelings about fruit.
The Whimsical Teddy Bears of Paris
Colleen shares with Neil pictures of teddy bears just going about their daily lives in Paris.
Cold Weather Happiness Tips
Colleen and Neil share some cold weather tips after the recent Chicago polar vortex.
Black Hole Help
Nervous about Black Holes? Don't be! Scientists are trying to figure out ways to help you not fall in.
More Little Free Ideas
Colleen and Neil discuss more ideas like the Little Free Library.
The Happy Broadcast
The Good News Podcast brings you good news to your ears. Mauro Gatti creator of the Happy Broadcast brings good news to your eyes. Just sit and think. about. that.
The People's Hero
Colleen and Neil tell the tale of The People's Hero.
Good Work Guardian!
Colleen and Neil share some good news coming from the UK newspaper, The Guardian.
RISK! Kevin Alison
Creator of the storytelling podcast RISK! Kevin Alison joins Colleen and Neil and talks getting up and telling your truth. What's your truth?
Happiness Tips for Twenty Nineteen
Using the power of science- Colleen and Neil offer some tips to make this year even happier.
Inbox Investigation
Colleen and Neil open up their email and share some good news that was sent in. Thanks for sending them!!!
Termite Heros
A very special episode about an unlikely hero. Also, Neil reads poems and they are AMAZING!
Milwaukee Beavers
Colleen and Neil share some exciting developments from beavers up ol' Milwaukee way.
Neil's Straw
Good things that are happening all over to help reduce the use of plastic.
The Far Side of the Moon
Colleen and Neil discuss new moon developments. What's going on up there anyway?
2018 - Not So Bad
Colleen shares three pieces of good news that happened in 2018! See it wasn't a total wash.
Another Returned Painting
Colleen and Neil share a story about another stolen piece of art getting returned to it's home.
Put A Ring On It.... but no so fast
Colleen and Neil talk marriage and the bennies of waiting till you're brain is done maturing.
The Good News About 2019 -- Podcast Update!
Colleen and Neil talk about what is and is not changing about the podcast in 2019.
New Year, New Renewables
Colleen and Neil share good news coming from the financial realm about renewable energy.