Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Series produced by David Kattenburg

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A weekly, hour-length package of interviews and short docs about global ecology, Earth systems, human development, human rights, international law & justice, science, technology and medicine. Voices and stories from a warm wet planet.

A weekly, hour-length package of interviews and short docs about global ecology, Earth systems, human development, human rights, international law & justice, science, technology and medicine.


33 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
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One of medical science’s greatest paradoxes: The cancer cells that killed Henrietta Lacks revolutionized medicine -- medical care her own family co...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
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A small Canadian lake records humanity’s impact on Planet Earth. On the floor of Canada’s House of Commons, an old Nazi veteran gets a standing ova...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:14
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Terrorist atrocities in Israel, Israeli atrocities in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Seeds sown, reaped, then sown again. A conversation with Can...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:42
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A Canadian political scientist attends a sanctioned forum in Russia -- and asks Vladimir Putin a question. An Italian climate researcher refuses to...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
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October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum. As Israel retaliates, with customary super-violence, reducing little Gaza to rubble, in the occupied West Bank...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
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Another great package that will sink like a stone at PRX: The Canadian military shops for surveillance drones that can kill. The GPM speaks with ar...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:17
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Hamas didn't parachute into Gaza from another planet. The Islamic Resistance Movement, its leaders and militants are an organic part of a packed po...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
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The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
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Sleeping and dreaming: -- essential and mysterious. An old Tanzanian friend speaks about torrential rains and village celebrations. And, in the Dut...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2023
  • Length: 56:01
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Another great GPM edition that will sink like a stone at PRX, without listen, sales or editorial profiling: The Universal Declaration of Human Righ...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 57:31
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Another great GPM edition that will sink like a stone at PRX, without listen, purchase or editorial profiling. Oceans of clean energy on humanity’s...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:10