Tariq Rauf and Erika Simpson discuss the risks around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the health effects of plastics. Paul Werbos had annoyed the Russians by photographing an Arctic coalmining town.Jo Hayward-Haines is delighted by the proliferation of pollations gardens in place of lawns. For the video, audio podcast, comments, transcript: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-568-global-town-hall-aug-2023.

Nandita Basu is a professor at U. of Waterloo who studies the processes on farms and wetlands that affect the pollution of water in lakes. She is a modeller, so she collects data about fertilizer use and animal manure around the world, combining the data to see overall patterns is the whole data set, since particular areas differ. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-567-water-sustainability.

Tom Goreau talks about coral reefs and biorock, and James Baird shows a long power point presentation of his concept, Thermodynamic Geoengineering, which develops the differential in heat between the top and bottom of a stratified ocean to produce what physicists call "work." For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-566-small-island-developing-states.

Jill Carr-Harris interviews three Indians about the civil unrest in Manipur between the Kuki and Meitei people. Dr. Deben Bachaspatimayum, who lives in the area, explains the historical and demographic background of the struggle over land rights. Rajagopal suggests holding meetings by third parties, not the fighting communities, Father C.P. Anto describes the refugee camps and Lily Khawbung recounts the appalling story about the abuse of Kuki women. For the video, audio podcast, transcript and comments, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-565-manipur/.

Two Russians, Konstantin Samoilov and Victor Kogan Yasny, struggle together about whether to compromise with an evil political and military system. Vladimir Krasnov views his decision to leave from a more pragmatic perspective., while Jill Carr-Harris and Shorena Lortkipanidze report on the attitudes of Georgians and the Russians who are living there. We also talk about Bangladesh's violations of human rights and the views of Leda Raptis, a Greek immigrant to Canada who puts the current struggle into the context of an earlier one involving her own country. For the video, audio podcast, transcripts and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-564-global-town-hall-july-2023.

Rebecca Shoot heads the Citizens for Global Solutions in the US. Andreas Bummel heads Democracy Beyond Borders, and Alexandre MacIsaac heads World Federalist Movement - Canada. We discuss ongoing steps toward holding nations and their leaders accountable for adherence to international law (especially against aggression) and ideas for developing a democratic World Parliament. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, summary, and public comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-563-next-global-governance/

Peter Wadhams is an expert on Arctic sea ice. He tells us about the extraordinary warming of the oceans this year. Scientists don't have an explanation. Andre Kamenshikov has been traveling in the post-Soviet countries, interviewing the men who fled from Russia to avoid being sent to war. Nivedita Das Kundi was recently in St. Petersburg for a conference and we talk about the war. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-562-

Hashem Akbari is a professor of civil engineering at Concordia University. His research studies the temperature of cities with the effects of global warming, the shade of trees, the technological changes in buildings, such as lightness of color. Robin Collins asks him to compare these factors with other matters, such as heat pumps, insulation. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, summary, and public comments, see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-561-heat-islands-and-trees.

Olivia Ward and Metta Spencer discuss current global issues with Bob Rae, Canada's ambassador to the UN. Metta is concerned about the plight of Russian men who left their homeland to avoid being sent to fight against Ukrainians. Rae sees immigration policies regarding refugees as determined by individual nation states, and the same goes for the enforcement of international law, the issue that Olivia poses here. We will have a rule of law internationally when al the nation states commit to fulfilling that goal. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, and comments column, https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-560-canadas-bob-rae-at-the-un/.

Ray Cumming is with the Lafarge company, which manufactures concrete, the most common building material in the world and the source of about 8 percent of human-made carbon dioxide emissions per year. The industry is trying hard to find ways to create strong concrete that does not emit carbon, and Lafarge has invested in a California-based company, Blue Planet, which makes concrete that is strongly carbon-negative -- it sequesters more carbon from the atmosphere than is emitted in the process of manufacturing it. Adele Buckley questions Cumming about the commercial viability of such products. He says that the engineers who design concrete structures are notoriously conservative and slow to pick up new possibilities. For the video, audio podcast, transcripts, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-559-the-concrete-business.