projectsavetheworld's podcast

Episode 762 Teaching University Students Peace 24.04.2026 1:03:25 ↓

Carolyn Stephenson, Erika Simpson, and Nathan Funk all are professors of peace studies. They discuss the declining numbers of university programs in peace and the impact the movement had in academia.

Episode 761 Cooling Ecosystems 24.04.2026 56:28 ↓

Yes, we must curb greenhouse gas emissions, but nature also has other ways of cooling the planet. Rob de Laet reminds of an overlooked one: evapotranspiration of water and aerosols into the air.

Episode 760 Yes, President Caligula! 24.04.2026 1:08:45 ↓

Lloyd Axworthy, Michael Beer, Douglas Roche, and Doug Saunders discuss what to do if your ruler is a madman who appoints his horse to the senate or prepares to end a civilization.

Episode 759 Global Town Hall Mar 2026 10.04.2026 1:48:36 ↓

Talk: from mountain lions to hearing aids to kelp farming to whether the New York Times covered the third No Kings demonstration to whom will the Republicans choose as a candidate: Vance or Rubio?

Episode 758 What News Gets Covered? 10.04.2026 1:07:00 ↓

Aja Romano is a journalist who writes about the news business and cancel culture. We discuss the puzzling question: Why does the mainstream press cover what it does -- and why not about protests.

Episode 757 Abolishing War 10.04.2026 1:01:47 ↓

In his book, Abolishing War, Winston Langley offers several promising suggestions to promote world peace. Lawrence Wittner agrees with most of them.

Episode 756 Environmental Peacebuilding Law 10.04.2026 1:00:33 ↓

Carl Bruch, an environmental lawyer who founded an organization looking into the impact of war on the environment. Alex Belyakov is a consultant producing, with Carl, an encyclopedia on this topic.

Episode 755 Climate and Insurance 10.04.2026 59:50 ↓

Sandy Trust has authored studies on the risks of climate change the urgency of preparation by insurance companies. Robert Chase joins to explore the danger that property is becoming uninsurable.

Episode 754 The War in Iran 10.04.2026 1:03:20 ↓

Shahram Tabe, an Iranian-Canadian journalist and professor at U. of Toronto, discusses the ongoing war with Doug Saunders, the Globe and Mail international affairs columnist.

Episode 753 Climate Hope, Doom, Duty 13.03.2026 1:08:04 ↓

Eliot Jacobson thinks the real challenge is to save nature, not human civilization, for we humans are not a uniquely wonderful species. Robert Tulip disagrees, favoring hope as a spiritual asset.