GreenplanetFM Podcast

Listen to how a young entrepreneur Qiujing Wong uses film to bring to our awareness the many survival challenges of peoples in developing countries. From the steppes of Mongolia, where displaced farmers and others struggling to come to grips with the rapidly changing localised economy are taught commercial skills and then are assisted to take control of their own business. Then to African grandmothers in Kenya who have found themselves caring for children who have lost both their parents to HIV and Aids, and how money and consciousness was raised to assist them. Plus how Indian women are forming their own banking systems based on low cost loans in Calcutta and for the first time can chart their own course in life.

This dynamic little NZ filming group shows us how to survive and thrive by assisting other cultures and races that brings us into connection that we are all one global family. That the conscious use of media and innovation can facilitate much needed change in countries and peoples that are less fortunate than we, here in NZ. Yet they do good works in this country too, aiding in bringing attention to people suffering from ailing kidneys. www.borderlessproductions.com

Gavin is the sales & social marketing manager at Good Magazine, the Ecological and Sustainability Magazine. Listen to how a high quality magazine using social networking, the web and various other innovative alliances, operates to find win/win situations to inspire readers and those who wish to come into an environmental understanding to take action and be part of a positive movement for sustainability.

With the need for all of society and the middle class to "come on board" the truth is, we are already on board Spaceship Earth, the imperative now is, can we aspire to initiate the much needed social, cultural, ethical and commercial changes to make sure that our destination as a sustainable planet is accomplished? http://good.net.nz and www.gomad.co.nz = Go make a difference.

Listen to a powerful proclamation for positivity and optimism towards the challenges we face on earth today. Frank strongly advocates humanity working towards cooperative participation across all levels of society especially within business. Success comes from taking an active interest in all staff. Warmth, fun and enthusiasm are prerequisites for a dynamic organisation. A believer that good character and ethics needs to be increasingly emphasized he contends that character is at least important as skills. "You have to have an honest and strong intention to add value to whatever you are dealing with."

The first NZ manager for the Natural Step out of Sweden, Frank gives an insightful understanding of what can and needs to be accomplished to initiate the much-needed local and global changes towards sustainability and peace.

Frank Olsson - Originally from Sweden

• International Banker
• Chairman Enviroschools Foundation
• Trustee Leadership New Zealand
• Director of Wallace Corporation
• Chairman Auckland Chamber Orchestra
• Chairman AUT MBA program Advisory Committee
• Member Advisory Board Auckland Uni Business School, Short Courses
• President Pompallier Lawn Tennis Club

www.olsson.co.nz

In 1787 a group of 12 men, met in a Quaker bookstore in London. Nine were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and three were Anglicans. These men were determined to abolish the slave trade and through their diligence and dedication the British Parliament passed a law in 1792 banning the slave trade. In 2003, 39 Quakers met in Wallingford Pennsylvania to consider the moral challenge posed by the global economic system and the heedless destruction of the Earth's ecosystems and failing to serve the well being of hundreds of millions of people. Listen to a compelling story of a New Vision of the Earth, looking at a Global Federation that will emerge from the grass roots up, and will draw on the aspirations of all of humanity. Based on "Right Relationship" the "Commonwealth" that is life, on "Fairness" and why Ecology needs to in many ways, set the boundaries for the Economy.

Hear of many interesting and staggering insights to what has gone on and what inspiring things are been put into motion. Dr Robert Howell, CEO of the Council of Socially Responsible Investment in NZ. On Right Relationship, Building A Whole Earth Economy. A bold Quaker initiative for a Just and Flourishing Earth.

www.moraleconomy.org

You can purchase the book Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy from Fishpond in New Zealand.

Adrian Butler is chairman of the World Fire Safety Foundation. The Foundation is a non profit global organisation, dedicated to saving lives by exposing the defective nature of the *type* of smoke alarms installed in homes around the world and promoting the safe and affordable alternatives. Overwhelming evidence proves that ionization smoke alarms that use radio active components are not safe because they do not detect smouldering fires, the type of fire that commonly kills.

The Foundation's website provides evidence of fire-fighter and scientific testing that exposes the existing flawed standards testing, that has allowed ionization smoke alarms to be certified as safe and sold to the public for over forty years. It is estimated that tens of thousands of people have been injured or killed globally as a direct result of ionization alarms failing to sound a timely warning. Since April 2004 new legislation requires that certain Australian commercial buildings must install photoelectric smoke alarms in all sleeping areas and exit paths. Despite Standards Australia having now acknowledged that the testing of ionization smoke alarms is flawed, the change to the standard affecting homes continues to be blocked, without justification, putting Australian and New Zealand lives at needless risk.

World Fire Safety Foundation; www.TheWFSF.org What you as listeners can do.

Contact: New Zealand Fire Service; www.fire.org.nz New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union; www.nzpfu.org.nz Fire Services are the responsibility of Hon. Richard Worth, Minister of Internal Affairs;http://www.dia.govt.nz

Gary Williams permaculture specialist, who is the author of 'Out of the Helix' as well as farming a small block of land put into forestry using organic and bio-dynamic principles. He is also a consulting engineer in water and soil resources, as well as being involved in music, theatre and woodworking plus being a Tai chi practitioner.

Listen to how land can be restored, soil stabilized and how trees and birds bring life back into natural surroundings and, that from a place of consciousness there is an urgent need for a commitment to total transformation as to how we as a humanity chart our course towards sustainability. http://waterscape.co.nz

Thomas Greco is a community and monetary economist, writer and consultant and a leading Global researcher on the subject of free market alternative currency and monetary systems. He is founder and director of the non-profit Community Information Resource Center, which supports community improvement and sustainability efforts. British author David Boyle has called Thomas Greco a "pioneer" in the field of local currencies. Greco's insightful writings are regularly mentioned by alternative currency advocates. He is a keynote speaker at alternative currency forums around the globe and definitely is a world authority, on both financial issues and for humanity to awaken to the need to become proactive in this field. He has recently toured NZ on speaking engagements.

The key to sustainability in the changing global dynamics is for communities to come together and build networks with business, faith groups, voluntary organisations, schools and the full spectrum of localised community, so as to build a robust system of energy exchange if and when national/global currencies loose value and or credence. The imperative being, is to have a strategy in place so that localised community can exist as a viable, stable entity, if a sudden downturn was to occur. His latest book, "The End of Money and the Future of Civilization" from Chelsea Green Publishers is now in print. Web pages: www.Beyondmoney.net and www.Reinventingmoney.com

With the recent announcement that the National Government of New Zealand will impose super city status on seven local councils over the greater Auckland area, this has caused concern to many people about the methods involved to bring this about. One of the unique qualities of localised self governance is the closeness of community, cultural identity and many collaborative ventures between council, small business and neighborhood engagement plus area employment. And yes, we need more integrated transport, and other infrastructural systems, but not without community involvement with powers to act.

With the enforcement to super city status with $28 billion of community assets, such as the Auckland airport stake, (that was recently sold off by the smaller Auckland council) what does the future hold for keeping our community resources in public hands?

With participative democracy needed like never before, you are being asked as an Aucklander to break the spell of inaction and communicate with "our paid servants in Wellington" and demand more transparency and community liaison, participation plus feed back. This is a call to action For involvement at a localised level; www.cc4a.net.nz www.stopthesupercity.org.nz http://ihiaotearoa.wordpress.com On May 25 there will be a Hikoi where New Zealanders from all persuasions can join us to say out loud that this proposal is flawed and will become flawed law if passed. This is the anniversary of the Bastion Point evictions. We will gather in the four corners of Auckland and hikoi, convening at the bottom of Queen Street by 9.30am. From there we will walk to the Town Hall, the symbolic heart of the proposed new Council. Here we will hold a free public concert showing the beauty and talent of our people.

Lisa Er was the founder of Lisa's Hummus and prior to that a primary school teacher. She stood as a Green Party candidate in Mt Roskill for the last election. Since selling her business, Lisa has been steadily building a group who attend a Friday event here in Auckland, called the Forum. In creating and maintaining this Forum for speakers Lisa feels that she is doing a service which assists in the raising of consciousness of the planet. The group has now expanded to Christchurch and will shortly begin in Hawkes Bay.

"If humanity is going to survive as a race, then we clearly need to change our way of living. Underlying our daily activities are our attitudes and beliefs that, as Dr Bruce Lipton confirms, affects our cells and the way we create our collective life. We are not separate, we are one."

Lisa has five principles that she believes would change the way any institution would operate, and if applied everywhere would give us a totally new 'operating manual' for the future."At the moment society operates on survival of the fittest mode. The economy is based on growth and not sustainability, yet, we underestimate the power of nature, and we can feel very helpless in the face of the world's challenges."

Operating from a different belief system while also being active politically are Lisa's answers to the way forward for humanity and in caring for the planet.

Recently from Hawaii, Charlottemarie is an enigmatic performer grounded in ancient knowledge of chant, harmonics and energy that heals. Through her mesmerizing, multidimensional voice, Charlottemarie presents a field of vibration in song and chant that transforms and elevates, opening hearts and souls to the experience of the unseen world of love and union. As a humanity we are rapidly learning that we are a sub atomic field of energy that is oscillating at a frequency that aligns us with this reality/dimension. We are coming into the realisation that as a field of energy we can consciously heal our body of pain and many other ailments. Vibrational healing which is more than a modality, is moving towards its ascendancy.

From the healing temples and higher knowledge of the past, we are now able to utilise this knowing and integrate sound therapy by the voice and the harmonics of love into a method of healing that could quite possibly restore to health a large segment of today's global society.

www.charlottemarie.com