The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor


Latest Episodes

Tipping Points
June 16, 2024

In the heart of one of Canadas biggest cities, paradise. Below a city dwellers feet, a pulsating, living network. All around us on this living planet, the clear and present danger of sliding into ob

Sound of Silence
June 09, 2024

Music in your head. Brain signals sing along. The GPM speaks with neuromusicologist Roger Dumas. Is nature going silent, or is it just drowned out by human noise? The GPM speaks with sound ecologists

Scholasticide
June 02, 2024

Scholasticide. Bombing schools, libraries and cultural centers. Killing students and teachers. Sound like genocide? It is. The GPM speaks about Israeli scholasticide in Gaza with the UN Special Rappor

Wheels of Justice
May 27, 2024

Some thought it would never happen. This past week it did: criminal charges against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court, in The Hague. Israeli leaders can kiss their overseas travel pl

Scoundrel Time Revisited
May 19, 2024

European governments try to stop a Palestinian surgeon from talking about Israeli ultra-violence and fail. No one seeks to stamp out free speech more zealously than the Germans. How to explain the p

Gowns and Goons
May 14, 2024

Dutch students and staff stand up for Gaza at a university gathering, and get a hearing. Free speech in the Netherlands? Just for show, protesters say. Weeks later, peaceful campus encampments are bro

Underground Networks
May 04, 2024

Underground fungal networks, pulsating with nutrients; storing mountains of carbon. On Lebanese hilltops, ancient cedars grow, against all odds. And, looking back at a cosmic event of colossal proport

Beautiful Resistance
April 28, 2024

For those whove never visited a Palestinian refugee camp, these are not dense tent or tin shacks encampments. Theyre more like barrios; densely packed, tightly knit, fully functioning communities. O

Genocide by Home Demolition
April 21, 2024

In the seven months since Hamas' daring incursion into southern Israel, the Israeli military has demolished over 300,000 Gazan homes -- almost three-quarters of Gaza's housing stock -- killing an esti

Land & People
April 15, 2024

Clinging to the walls of a fertile valley beneath the city of Bethlehem, a half dozen kilometers south of Jerusalem, alienated from the holiest of Palestinian towns by walls, barbed wire and a string

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