People-Powered Planet Podcast

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Russia to “immediately suspend” its invasion of Ukraine. 4 experts will discuss what it will look like when we evolve a future in which no nation or national leader is above the law. Can you imagine what the future will look like if we, the people, used our economic and nonviolent power to enforce world law? How could we enforce the recent World Cou...

How can we, as sovereign World Citizens Govern our World? In 1993, Garry Davis, operating on behalf of world citizens, engaged organizational cybernetics pioneer Stafford Beer to join him in developing and testing an interactive system for ordinary people to have a real voice in governing spaceship Earth. Come hear about their early experiments and how we can now use the Syntegrity process and pro...

What is beyond systems built on Domination Culture? Partnerism, developed by Dr. Riane Eisler, (The Chalice and the Blade) is a socio-economic system where all relationships, institutions, policies, and organizations are based on principles of equitable partnership that supports linking rather than ranking and hierarchies of actualization rather than hierarchies of domination. Rosie von Lila has w...

Al Jubitz is a soft-spoken powerhouse - a changemaker working through Rotary to promote World Peace, Environmental Stewardship and the needs of at-risk children. He is Executive Producer of "A Bold Peace" a fabulous film about how Costa Rica, surrounded by hostile military powers, got rid of their military - and thus gained 75 years of peace, energy independence, education for all and so much more...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights unanimously confirmed that everyone on Earth has certain rights and freedoms. But who is going to enforce our rights? Who is going to protect our freedoms... and the most basic right of all -- the right of our species to survive on Planet Earth? Mark Oettinger, a seasoned attorney, educator and author, with extensive experience in Judicial Systems and Rule...

Rieki Cordon is an inspiring speaker with innovative ideas and creations to help plant the seeds for a better future. He will share some ideas on how we can opt-out of the degenerative economies that are harming our planet and opt-into regenerative economic systems that give us more voice and value while doing so! He also explains a unique perspective on cryptocurrencies that go well beyond the sc...

Prof. René Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, a global organization promoting oneness with humanity and seeing the whole planet as our home. It has official consultative status in the UN's Economic & Social Council. René first met Garry Davis at the home of Harry Jacobsen -- the machine-shop Guru and teacher of Natarajan's Indian philosophy -- who played a key role i...

Peter Meisen heads the World Energy commission of the World Citizen Government founded by Garry Davis. The inspiration for his life’s work came from meeting the visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller and reading his seminal book “Critical Path.” Dr. Fuller created the global gaming simulation, The World Game – “to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through sponta...

David Swanson, co-founder of World BEYOND War will tell us about the big campaign to get COP26 to include the biggest source of environmental damage of all: the Military/War System. See David's clever story "Harry Potter and the Secret of COP26 War and war preparations are one of biggest greenhouse gas emitters. Yet they are excluded from COP26! World Beyond War has brought together hundreds of or...

Shann Turnbull is the coordinator of the World Economics Commission of Garry Davis' World Citizen Government . He is an Educator, Author, Speaker and co-founder of UK Sustainable Money Working Group. ln his book A New Way to Govern Organizations and Society after Enron, he says that the old "command and control" hierarchies cannot cope with complexity or human diversity - or regulate themselves an...

Bud Wilson co-created the “Choices for the Future Symposium” with John Denver and the Windstar Foundation - advised by Buckminster Fuller. Fuller described Bud and his colleagues as “Adaptive Generalist Comprehensivists” An advocate for principles of deep ecology, Bud believes that regenerative human behavior is the next essential step for humanity - to replace the standard practices of industrial...

Rob Kall is the author of The Bottom-Up Revolution, an inspiring book that shows how every element of society is erupting from the bottom up -- including story-telling and even government! He is the host of the Bottom up Radio show, on Pacifica. He founded OpEdnews.com, which publishes 500-1000 articles a month - including whistle-blowers and important news missed by the mainstream press. He also...

Cristina Garcia is the Organizing Lead for OXFAM's Migration Campaign --bringing visibility to migrants and refugees, fighting gender-based violence, and meeting with Members of Congress to shift policies. She works with multi-issue coalitions in California, Arizona and New Mexico to advocate for migrants, workers, women and children, and people of color. OXFAM works in 70 countries, with thousand...

Hear Beatrice Fihn's ideas about how we can personally be involved in effectively implementing the nuclear ban! Beatrice Fihn accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for their coalition which helped bring about the Treaty to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons which is currently in force.   "The Treaty categorically outlaws t...

Dr Anneloes Smitsman,(Ph. D., LLM), Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre, is a visionary scientist, system architect, and leadership catalyst for the transition to a Thrivable Civilization. She is the lead architect of the EARTHwise Tipping Point System,and of the r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint. She helped form the TPS Wisdom Collaboratory and is an architect of the SEEDS Constitution (a...

"In 1991, while I was launching Global Village Network, a new cable TV channel in Washington DC, people in the industry were surprised the CEO was not a white male, they got me instead, a brown woman from Hawaii," says Gloria Boreland.   To help change stereotypes she launched a PBS nationwide TV series profiling African-American business owners.   Gloria has several new projects in development -...

Dov Baum is the Director of Economic Activism for American Friends Service Committee Check out their Investigate website, where you can find out if the companies you are invested in participate in state violence or human right violations. She is also the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation and of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. She frequently lectures on feminism and democrac...

Eston McKeague is President of the Young World Federalists ( ywf.world ), an international organization dedicated to modernizing the movement bringing the message of world federation to a new generation.   Eston holds a MSc in Political Science: Public Policy and Governance from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in Global Affairs with minors in both Economics and Religion and Culture from Weste...

Olympic Day! - June 23, 2021 Nathaniel Mills competed as a speed skater in three Olympic Games, serving as Team Captain of the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team in Nagano, Japan. He served as a delegate to the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece and co-founded the Olympism Project to advance the ideals and practices of Olympism.   ​"Coach Nat" is Co-Founder and Head Coach of DC Inner City Excell...

June 16, 2021 World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement to end war!   David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is cofounder and executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org . Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie . He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org . He hosts Talk Nation Radio . He is a Nobel Peace Prize nomi...

June 9th, 2021 ​Joanne Dufour, an anti-nuclear weapons educator, brings us a message of hope as we face humanity's greatest challenge.   She is a trainer in International Humanitarian law for the Red Cross and has the Disarming Our Planet blog.   Today China, Russia and the US are rattling the sabers of new arms races - yielding big profits for corporate bomb makers but threatening the very life o...

Aura Kanegis, American Friends Service Committee's director of public policy and Merle Lefkoff president of the Center for Emergent Diplomacy share their unique first-hand perspectives on how to engineer peace in the Gaza Israeli conflict given the extreme power disparities.   See the video and ask questions of future guests at:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/club⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Todd Miller talks about his new book "Build Bridges, Not Walls".   Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work toward—a bold new reality.   Todd Miller has been reporting from international border zones for over twenty...

​Karen D. Kendrick-Hands co-founded the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG)   She believes that the ultimate “Service above Self” is ensuring a stable climate for future generations.   Karen, an attorney, has been a volunteer public interest advocate for cleaner air, mobility and transportation choices, including serving on various local, state and regional advisory bodies,...

May 12, 2021 David just celebrated his 81 birthday and will be talking about his book "Waging Peace, the Global Adventures of a life-long activist".   It's an amazing story filled with action and adventure!   ​David is a Co-Founder of World BEYOND War, a global movement to end war - making it as illegal to kill people outside countries as it is inside!   He has been Waging Peace since meeting Mart...