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…

Peter Wadhams is an expert on Arctic sea ice. He tells us about the extraordinary warming of the oceans this year. Scientists don't have an explanation. Andre Kamenshikov has been traveling in the post-Soviet countries, interviewing the men who fled from Russia to avoid being sent to war. Nivedita Das Kundi was recently in St. Petersburg for a conf…

Hashem Akbari is a professor of civil engineering at Concordia University. His research studies the temperature of cities with the effects of global warming, the shade of trees, the technological changes in buildings, such as lightness of color. Robin Collins asks him to compare these factors with other matters, such as heat pumps, insulation. For …

Olivia Ward and Metta Spencer discuss current global issues with Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the UN. Metta is concerned about the plight of Russian men who left their homeland to avoid being sent to fight against Ukrainians. Rae sees immigration policies regarding refugees as determined by individual nation states, and the same goes for the enf…

Ray Cumming is with the Lafarge company, which manufactures concrete, the most common building material in the world and the source of about 8 percent of human-made carbon dioxide emissions per year. The industry is trying hard to find ways to create strong concrete that does not emit carbon, and Lafarge has invested in a California-based company, …

Lyn Adamson is concerned about the dispute among peace activists about the Ukraine War. Some of them, while acknowledging that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a war crime, are willing to let Putin keep the lands that he has acquired, just to win some kind of ceasefire and end of the violence. Others believe that international law must be enforced.…

David Mitchell thought of the idea that thinning cirrus clouds would allow heat to escape from the world, and that the winter clouds at the poles would be the optimum clouds to thin. Blaz Gasparini is, like Mitchell, continuing the research on the matter, largely by modeling. Stephen Salter is working to design a suitable nozzle for marine cloud br…

Bjorn Embren was the man in charge of renewing Stockholm's urban forest -- especially the trees along roads and other public places where the soil. was seriously compacted. He learned at a conference in Hannover that porous rocks can provide a hospitable environment for tree roots. He began to line the bottom of trenches with heavy stones and above…

Tariq Rauf describes the seriously worsening threat of nuclear war during this conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The consensus of opinion is still pro-NATO in Europe, but the nuclear arms control treaties have been abrogated and all sides are warning of their intentions to "keep up" in any race. This includes China, which is building up rapidly …

Konstantin Samoilov and Alexey Prokhorenko are among the hundreds of thousands of Russian men who fled Russia to avoid being sent to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians. Andre Kamenshikov had already left Russia for Kyiv, and is now traveling in Central Asia meeting other emigré Russians. Doug Saunders is the international affairs columnist with the Globe a…

Franz Oeste, Clive Elsworth, and Peter Fiekowsky are working on several climate change reduction experiments that arose from the study of Ocean Iron Fertilization. They would not use iron salt aerosols in the Arctic, for example, but titanium, since it is white and does not discolor the ice and snow and interfere with the planet-cooling albedo effe…

The war in Ukraine is on our minds, with some attributing it to the US. We talk about an old song by Buffy Sainte Marie, “Universal Soldier.” Is the military industrial complex the cause of war or is it the lack of effective world government? Who are the war criminals and who will arrest them? Then we talk about the recent IPCC report. Franz Oeste …

Alex Bellamy is a professor at the University of Queensland who heads an institute on Responsibility to Protect. James Simeon is a professor of Public Policy and Administration at York University, where he specializes in human rights and refugee law. We discuss several conflicts in which the so-called "R2P" doctrine has (sometimes successfully) sav…

Benoit Lambert is a Quebec entrepreneur devoted to promoting the use of biochar as a means of reducing global warming. Alan Bates is an author who has written several books about global warming and also specializes in promoting the use of biochar in innovative ways, such as as an additive to concrete and to restore the fertility of soil in farmland…