The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor


Latest Episodes

Sex Is Complex
April 19, 2025

Transgender rights versus womens rights, and last week's landmark British Supreme Court ruling on what the words woman and sex mean. The GPM speaks with Canadian human rights lawyer Robert Winte

The End of Law
April 10, 2025

The rule of law, the end of law, lawyering, and Dimitri Lascaris. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris.

Planet in Polycrisis
March 30, 2025

Self-amplifying cascades on planet Earth some negative, some positive. A conversation with complexity theorist Thomas Homer-Dixon. And, Earth systems can tip, cascading off in dangerous directions.

Stamping It Out
March 15, 2025

Gender-based Israeli violence, extermination and genocide in Gaza. A new report from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A conversation about

Activist Arrested, Gets To Talk About It
March 02, 2025

Montreal-based author and guerilla-style political provocateur Yves Engler talks about his recent arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Montreal's Bordeaux Prison (something police originally tried to

Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech
February 17, 2025

The Ivory Tower Bans Free Speech. Exiled Students Take Columbia University to Court. The GPM speaks with Catherine Curran-Groome about her court case -- Catherine Curran-Groome, Brandon Murphy and Aid

Inspired by Hind Rajab
February 01, 2025

A year after the brutal murder of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, trapped in a bullet-ridden car in the ruins of Gaza City, a Belgian-based foundation hunts down Israeli war criminals in the little girl's name

Earth Heat, Salty Seas
January 25, 2025

The heat beneath: harvesting and recharging Earth subsurface heat, to heat and cool buildings, without heating Earths atmosphere. And, the wind blows, the sun shines rivers flow. Wherever they flow

Domicide
January 19, 2025

Ceasefire in Gaza: respite for those whove survived Israels genocidal onslaught perhaps. And homeless, amid the ruins left behind by US bombs and missiles. The GPM speaks with Paula Gaviria Betanc

Obscure Committee
January 04, 2025

On the margins of the 23rd session of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Court, in The Hague, a stairway conversation about international law, and its fate, with South African Amba