Planet Classroom

Planet Classroom’s AI for a Better World series debuts its new podcast, Highlights Take 2 - Nick Bostrom Envisions Our AI Future, produced by April Klein. This episode offers key insights into how artificial intelligence will revolutionize jobs, reshape essential skills, and create global opportunities, all while navigating critical risks and ethical challenges. Philosopher Nick Bostrom explores AI’s transformative role across industries such as healthcare, education, and climate, stressing the importance of adapting the workforce. The podcast highlights the need for critical thinking, digital literacy, and ethical AI development—essential listening for those preparing for an AI-driven future.

NET ZERO #5 - Youth Monitor the Green Transition, produced by Kristen Gallinaro, showcases highlights from four Net Zero episodes. Featuring top global thought leaders and youth climate activists, this Net Zero podcast series, curated by Planet Classroom and the Protect Our Planet Movement, tracks global progress in the race to net zero. Youth leaders engage with experts to discuss sustainable solutions and climate justice. Tune in for insights from Dr. Florian Graichen, Ineza Grace, Gwenaelle Avice-Huet, and Paloma Costa Oliveira, and youth activists Drishya Pathak, Samuel Okorie, Sayan Das, and Vedaant Thuse Bal.

Join Climate Hosts Ved Sanyal, Mphathesithe Mkhize, Barry Nyuydze Berry, and Philo Magdalene from Planet Classroom and the Protect Our Planet Movement in Net Zero Podcast #4: Youth Monitor the Green Transition. Each activist shares valuable insights from conversations with some of the world's leading global experts on Climate Change, including Kim Holmen, Thomas Minda, Tshilidzi Marwala, and Omnia El Omrani. The activists discuss, among other things, human-induced climate change and biogeochemical cycles, and their impact on Norway; South Africa's progress in the race to find solutions for fossil fuels; Ethiopia's solutions for dealing with the climate impact on agriculture; and Egypt's role in youth activism to address Net Zero challenges. Tune in as our youth activists distill profound insights from these experts, contributing to the vital conversation on sustainability. Produced by Kristen Gallinaro.

Join climate hosts Jerôme Peyret Oberholzer, Wen Tian, Prachi Shevgaonkar, and Philo Magdalene from Planet Classroom and the Protect Our Planet Movement as they discuss the key takeaways from their recent Net Zero interviews with global climate thought leaders Adrián Fernández, Hu Jiaojiao, Sam Fankhauser, and Sophia Kianni to address critical topics such as Mexico's climate goals, the challenges of replacing fossil fuels, and the importance of translating climate resources into over 100 languages. Be inspired by the leadership and dedication of these young climate activists, as they monitor the world’s Race to Net Zero.

Produced by Keegan Haskin.

Climate activists Ricardo Delgado, Sofia Lana, Sam Okorie and Mphathesithe Mkhize report their takeaways on where the world stands on the Race to Net Zero from Venezuela, Nigeria, South Africa and UNESCO in Paris. Ricardo, Sofia, Sam, and Mphathesithe reflect on their interviews with Manuel Diaz, Rep Sam Onuigbo, Crispin Hemson and Alexander Leicht.

Climate activists Nahid Perez Ayala, Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman, Levy Nyirenda, and Cherry Sung report their takeaways on where the world stands on carbon capture and storage technologies, agroforestry, climate education and other critical solutions in the Race to Net Zero. Ayala, Kaiman, Nyirenda and Sung recently interviewed global experts Dan Schrag, UnaMay Gordon, Susan Chomba and Chris Dede.

Voice of Orb: Peter Jude Ricciardi. Produced by Colby McGregor.

Improving care and access for youth mental health globally begins with understanding the problem. UNICEF’s On My Mind 2021 Report and separately, Drs. Howard Gardner’s and Wendy Fischman’s The Real World of College, underscored the mental health challenges young people are facing. In this episode of Planet Classroom, Orb introduces us to the work of Harvard’s Wendy Fischman and filmmaker Chelsea Jackson. We learn about the strategies used by young leaders from the Global Youth Mobilization movement to address mental health issues. We share perspectives from youth film critics on the work of acclaimed educator Molly Beauregard shown in the film Tuning the Student Mind. Mental Health should be on all our minds. Get the inside scoop on how change leaders are tackling the challenges.

Supported by the World Health Organization, the United Nations Foundation and the big 6 youth organizations, Global Youth Mobilization is a movement of young people taking action to improve their lives in a post COVID-19 world. To date this initiative has funded 134 local solutions and 74 national projects in over 100 countries worldwide. In this final podcast of our popular SHINE series, Planet Classroom is proud to introduce you to 6 of the young Awardees from these projects doing critical work to address the negative impact of the pandemic and build back better. Get the inside scoop on how these social impact entrepreneurs are tackling the challenges on mental and physical health, the digital divide, education disruption and poverty in their local communities. Hopefully this podcast will influence you to get up and join them!

You fight like a girl! The greatest compliment anyone could receive! Women are strong beings that go through numerous hardships everyday. They teach us how to be independent, healers, advocates, and strength holders. Planet Classroom presents a podcast that will put you into the shoes of the everyday woman. You'll find out just how strong she is. Join our virtual host, Orb, to find out how creative young leaders are finding ways to change the world for girls and women, and to empower them to be changeleaders.

Being able to learn and grow from what we have gone through during Covid-19 is a great tool to have under our belts. There are technological and personal achievements that have emerged from the pandemic. How might we reform global learning so that it supports the local good and the global good in our world? Planet Classroom in association with Creative Visions have invited youth globally to shine a light on their thoughts, feelings, hopes and desires for the world. In this new episode of the SHINE series, Orb, Planet Classroom’s virtual host, asked eight young leaders to tell us what they hope to see in a world once covid-19 diminishes. As members of the UN Youth and Global Citizenship Foundation, they have taken their own tools to teach us how we can create a more sustainable world.