David Henkel-Wallace, Franz Oeste, Clive Elsworth, Jeff Shrager, Peter Fiekowsky, and Rocio Herbert are all exploring the new discovery that clouds (the white ones that reflect sunlight back into space) also cool the planet in another way: by adding hydrochloric acid to the atmosphere, which has an independent cooling effect by destroying methane m…

Suzanne Reed and Doug Grandt belong to HPAC, an online webinar coalition of groups promoting technologies of climate repair. Lawrence Martin is a Cree environmental leader in Canada. We discuss the importance of including indigenous people in all phases of any planning for experiments on climate repair to be held in their territories. For the video…

Hugh Pope spent two years editing and publishing his late father's book about Athenian democracy. He became convinced that it is a superior form of governance that can be adopted even today, and indeed it is being used as citizens' assemblies, which government sometimes establish as a way of reaching consensus about issues that could not be address…

Hugh Hunt, Daniel Rosenfeld, and Steven Rogak are all engineers who are eagerly studying the potential. use of salt water spray to whiten clouds and reflect sunshine back into space, thereby reducing global warming. Adele Buckley is an engineer who is skeptical about the value of trying to keep the Arctic frozen at this time. For the video, audio p…

Jonathan Lauderdale is an oceanographer and ocean climate modeler at MIT, the alma mater of Peter Fiekowsky, who is now promoting research into the effects of sprinkling iron into oceans. It makes phytoplankton multiply, which removeds CO2 from the air, so that some of it sinks and sequesters carbon. For the video, audio podcast, summary and commen…

Barbara Leger talks about her peace work in Ukraine; Bill Geimer shares his desire for Canada to become more independent of the US. We hear about the situation in Kashmir, the purge of military leaders in Russia, and the use of platforms in the ocean to grow seaweed. For the video, audio podcast, summary and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/epis…

Flower Msuya, Ole Mouritsen, and Paul Carnell all are scientists studying various aspects of seaweeds. Also, Flower helps local producers, Ole experiments with cooking, and Paul helps governments save coastal ecosystems. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-605-eating-seaweed.…

Laura Kahn is a leader in the field of "One Health," which studies the interdependence of human, veterinary, and environmental health issues. She authored a book about the increasing resistance of microbes to antibiotics and antiviral medications, mainly because of over-exposure. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosav…

John Nissen, Robert Tulip, Doug Grandt, and Robin Collins belong to webinar groups studying Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) as a way of cooling the planet by the same means as volcanoes do. Greg Evans is an expert on aerosols at U of Toronto. We discuss the pros and cons of attempting such a project at full scale. For the video, audio podcast…

Ulrike Lohmann and Blaz Gasparini are cloud scientists studying the potential climate effects of various geoengineering proposals – especially cirrus cloud thinning, stratospheric aerosol injection, and marine cloud brightening. Adele Buckley asks them whether the Arctic ice could be saved by brightening clouds in a warmer climate.…

Mark Winfield is a professor specializing in energy policy; Ronald Baiman is a retired economics professor who promotes climate repair technology now; and Arthur Edelstein is an expert on computer privacy. They discuss the changing public opinion about carbon pricing.

Louis Kriesberg mentioned the protest movement at US universities, and Peter Wadhams commented rom the view in Italy. Bil Leikam and Marilyn Krieger told us about opossums and Alexey Prokhorenko lamented the deteriorating state of affairs in Russia. We talked about how to enforce international law.

Aria McKenna works with the Healthy Planet Action Coalition, a group that endorses a more open exploration of the possibilities of climate repair. Robin Collins and Adele Buckley, both active in the Canadian Pugwash Group, are also now convinced of the necessity of using such technological solutions.…

Oswald Petersen is working on an intervention to reduce methane from the atmosphere with iron salt. Peter Fiekowsky, in California, is endorsing this project with enthusiasm. They explain the current plans to climatologist Paul Beckwith and Canadian Pugwashites Adele Buckley and Robin Collins. The new plan is to use airplanes to disseminate the iro…

In this the Paleocene giant animals roamed the earth. Kate Lyons and Alessandro Mereghetti are scholars studying the extermination of those creatures. Some people believe that a way to protect our climate may be to repopulate our arctic with wooly mammoths and other animals. We discuss this.By Metta Spencer

On this monthly town hall meeting we discussed human similarities to animals and the nature of mind and the management of nuclear waste. To see the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-596-global-town-hall-mar-2024.By Metta Spencer

David Mitchell (and his colleague Ehsan Erfani) are pointing out that the high cirrus clouds are like a blanket warming the planet. If we poke holes in the blanket, we release heat. Likewise, by seeding the cirrus clouds in the winter at the poles, we can release excess heat from our world. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: htt…

Gwynne Dyer's new book, Intervention Earth, is really about geoenginering and the urgency of studying the numerous proposals for cooling the planet faster than by simply reducing carbon emissions. For several years, Dyer and his wife Tina Viljoen have been filming numerous interviews with experts on climate, aware earlier than most other people tha…

A chat with whale and Arctic experts Edwina Tanner, Krys Chutko, and Joe Roman discuss the impact of the big sea mammals on our environment and the way human activities have decimated them. Surprisingly important is their digestive system, which affects the proliferation of phytoplankton. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https…

News: Franz Oeste has found several other aerosols that can demolish methane in the atmosphere even faster. Clive Elsworth explains with slides to Peter Wadhams and Adele Buckley For the vieo, audio pocast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld,ca/episode-591-new-aerosol-discoveries.By Metta Spencer

Discussing foxes, monkeys, bison, and cats are Bil Leikam and Alexey Prokhorenko. Then we talk about war with Richard Denton and Charles Tauber, and about nuclear waste with Sandy Greer. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-590-global-town-hall-2024.…

Is economic growth lethal for the environment? Francesco Mellino and Richard Sandbrook discuss the dilemma and a recent journal that Mellino edited for C-40, the organization of mayors around the world who are collaborating for urban sustainability. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and to comment: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-598-green…

Ricardo Letelier and Peter Fiekowsky know that phytoplankton created the oxygen in our atmosphere. Now maybe they can help us again by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and sending it to the ocean depths. But do phytoplankton respire it out too quickly for that to work? And would a good new volcano do what Mt. Pinatubo did: cool the planet by feedin…

Shaun Fitzgerald is director of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge, which studies various technological proposals for removing carbon and cooling the planet. We discuss the various options for potentially re-freezing the Arctic and saving ice on Antarctica and Greenland. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comment…

Brian von Herzen, Paul Beckwith, and Peter Wadhams are climate scientists who generally favor the rapid deployment of marine cloud brightening to the Arctic to cool the planet by increasing albedo. Adele Buckley does not favor that approach because it would be easier to do cloud brightening elsewhere. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and co…

Andre Kamenshikov is a Russian peace worker who has lived in Kiev for several years. Boroys Wrzesnewskyj is a Canadian who is very active in the large Ukrainian Canadian community. Both are engaged in supporting the Ukrainians defence against Russia's aggression. Andre is working now to help expatriate Russians inform their friends and relatives at…

Simon Dalby, Neil Craik, and Byron Williston are all Canadian professors in Waterloo who study the ethical and political considerations around the use of technological solutions to global warming. They agree that we are now in an emergency but this does not excuse rashness. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavethewor…

Vamik Volkan is a psychoanalyst who studies the psychological dynamics of international relations – the conflicts that are perpetuated over long periods because of the general tendency to identify with one's ancestral community and to refer to its historic traumas to justify its current or recent political or mlitary relations with other groups.His…

Peter MacLeod leads a Canadian company, Masslbp, which organizes "citizens assemblies" – gatherings of representative samples of populations selected by "sortition" – to inform public policies. MacLeod began this activity when he was a university student and both B.C. and Ontario were holding citizens assemblies to explore electoral reform. His exp…

Marilyn Krieger, Richard Denton, Bill Leikam, Sandy Greer, and Charles Tauber. Monthly conversation time, this one about animal diseases, vaccination, radiation hazards, citizens assemblies, proportional representation, and the abused of migrants by right wing politicians in Europe. Inviting participants to watch the new "Cool Thinking" series that…

Jens Orback heads an NGO in Stockholm, the Global Challenges Fooundation, which addresses all existential threats to humankind. This is a get-acquainted conversation with him which compares the positions taken by his group to those that are being explored with high priority by.Project Save the World. They are working seriously toward the Summit of …

Alexander Likhotal, now a professor of international relatons in Geneva, was formerly executive director of Green Cross International, appointed by Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he served as press secretary both during and after Gorbachev's presidency. His pessimism about the future is based on the universally shared conclusion that 2023 has been tragic …

Global warming will submerge most of Tuvalu, but Ambassador Falefou is at the UN, mobilizing support for his country's survival. For a billion dollars or two, it is possible to raise the elevation and enable the society to continue as a sovereign country in Oceania. That is less expensive that removing the whole population to other countries, which…

Dr. Mukete Tahle Itoe is a judge in Cameroon and the leader of a humanitarian organization that seeks to provide security for the refugees and migrants in his country. There are over 700,000 internally displaced persons there, victims of the violence that has been going on since 2017 as a result of the "Ambazonian" separatist movement of English-sp…

The war in Gaza has been going on all month, so we talked most about it. Shane Steinman, Alan Haber, Paul Werbos all want a solution that does not involve exclusive sovereignty. Andre Sheldon and Alastair Farrugia both promote changes in process. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-577-global-tow…

Both Konstantin Samoilov and Andre Kamenshikov have left Russia because of their opposition to the war. Jill Carr-Harris is a Gandhian leader in India. We discuss the possibilities and risks of producing educational forums about nonviolence to millions of expatriate Russians. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavethew…

Aaron Wolf is a geography professor at Oregon State University. He heads a program teaching graduate students to work out treaties and other agreements among countries with transboundary disputes over water – mainly rivers that run through their lands. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-575-rive…

Leila Harris is a professor in British Columbia who studies the political and social aspects of water. She began with a dissertation on the methods of irrigation in Turkey and more recently has spent time in African townships, seeing how the access to abundant clean water affects the social relationships among neighbors. For the video, audio podcas…

Cynthia Rosenzweig is a professor at Columbia University who studies the connections between food security and climate change. She reports that the number of hungry people has markedly increased since the Sustainable Development Goals were promulgated, promising to reduce it. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavethew…

Nicole Redvers was invited to discuss her book about indigenous medicine, The Science of the Sacred, which is described by Amazon: “Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific co…

Paul Werbos jokes about Shroedinger's cat, Marilyn Krieger tell us about California's cats, Andre Kamenshikov describes the present state of the Russia/Ukraine war as like the Western front of WW1 and Gordon Edwards reminds us that Canada was first to practice vitrification of nuclear waste. What a Global Town Hall! For the video, audio podcast, tr…

Maj. Gen. Robert Latiff is a retired US military officer who was responsible for new technological means of intellligence-gathering. Now retired, he teaches a course every year at his alma mater, Notre Dame University, focusing on the ethical issues and principles governingn the use of such new weapons. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and…

Bill Leikam and Marillyn Krieger update us on the work of California naturalists -- re beavers and butterflies. After that, there was usually strong disagreement among participants about the Ukraine War, with some placing much of the blame on the US, but Andre Kamenshikov replying eloquently from Kiev. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and c…

Joel Salatin is a farmer who has turned a degraded farm into one that contains 8 percent organic matter in its soil – an achievement he attributes to using perennial plants, which can sequester large amounts of carbon and which are hosts to methanotropic bacteria. He teaches his skill to young would-be farmers. For the video, audio podcast, transcr…

Tariq Rauf and Erika Simpson discuss the risks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the health effects of plastics. Paul Werbos had annoyed the Russians by photographing an Arctic coalmining town.Jo Hayward-Haines is delighted by the proliferation of pollations gardens in place of lawns. For the video, audio podcast, comments, transcript…

Nandita Basu is a professor at U. of Waterloo who studies the processes on farms and wetlands that affect the pollution of water in lakes. She is a modeller, so she collects data about fertilizer use and animal manure around the world, combining the data to see overall patterns is the whole data set, since particular areas differ. For the video, au…

Tom Goreau talks about coral reefs and biorock, and James Baird shows a long power point presentation of his concept, Thermodynamic Geoengineering, which develops the differential in heat between the top and bottom of a stratified ocean to produce what physicists call "work." For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavethew…

Jill Carr-Harris interviews three Indians about the civil unrest in Manipur between the Kuki and Meitei people. Dr. Deben Bachaspatimayum, who lives in the area, explains the historical and demographic background of the struggle over land rights. Rajagopal suggests holding meetings by third parties, not the fighting communities, Father C.P. Anto de…

Two Russians, Konstantin Samoilov and Victor Kogan Yasny, struggle together about whether to compromise with an evil political and military system. Vladimir Krasnov views his decision to leave from a more pragmatic perspective., while Jill Carr-Harris and Shorena Lortkipanidze report on the attitudes of Georgians and the Russians who are living the…

Rebecca Shoot heads the Citizens for Global Solutions in the US. Andreas Bummel heads Democracy Beyond Borders, and Alexandre MacIsaac heads World Federalist Movement - Canada. We discuss ongoing steps toward holding nations and their leaders accountable for adherence to international law (especially against aggression) and ideas for developing a d…