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  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 10 2022
    Drug-resistant infections – the new pandemic? And, a tangled network of tiny tubes, pulsating beneath our feet. Fungal networks below ground sustain life above.
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    57 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Aug 31 2022
    Young Israelis who refuse to serve in the military. And, as climate catastrophe sweeps the planet, in the Swedish city, Goteborg, engineers and students are designing the sort of building where people can live – comfortably -- without squandering Earth’s limited resources, or polluting its atmosphere
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    1 h
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Mar 21 2023
    Old songs linger in your head. Mobile phones are covered in germs. On the path to zero carbon emissions, hydrogen is a no-brainer.
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    47 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Mar 26 2023
    The geology of cities. Built out of stuff mined from the ground. That’s where all cities will end up -- broken down and fossilized. Forever chemicals, they’re called. In non-stick cookware, cosmetics, clothing. They last forever, and they’re toxic. And ... All those bacteria living on us and in us, delivering crucial services. Nothing more amazing than the bacteria in the gut of a pregnant woman, steering healthy fetal development.
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    46 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Apr 4 2023
    Ice sheets melting, oceans rising, currents shifting … Sex and the brain; women’s and men’s brains are different … and sonic violence in Lebanese airspace; Israeli fighter jets and drones invade Lebanese skies, every day, every night.
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    57 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Apr 10 2023
    Fermented foods -- very nutritious, very magic. Taking stock of biological diversity, using DNA barcodes. And, a frightening vision of a warming planet – Hothouse Earth.
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    56 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Apr 22 2023
    A Palestinian village called Battir -- food culture under settler-colonial rule. What were humans like a hundred thousand years ago, and what have they done to the planet? And, the restorative powers of sleep. For both body and mind.
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    51 min
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Apr 30 2023
    Extinction Rebellion protests pack London streets; human beings have commandeered an astonishing quarter of Earth’s natural productivity, decimating biodiversity and polluting the planet; bacteria, on the other hand, are the foundation of life on Earth. Most are harmless, and even helpful.
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    55 min