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The Green Planet Monitor

Communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America are achieving development goals using local knowledge, skills and energy. This half-hour magazine program features original documentaries, news reports and music from around the world.
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 16

April 24, 2007
| Empowered communities planning for the future -- with women and youth at the vanguard. Reports from indigenous Cauca province, Colombia, and Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Length: 29:05
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 15

April 17, 2007
| Special Economic Zones pave over farmland in India, biodiversity provides food security in Colombia -- in spite of "free trade" -- and conservative risk management among poor African farmers
Length: 29:55
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 14

April 10, 2007
| A special edition on Rwanda, on the thirteenth anniversary of her 100-day genocide. The ghosts of hate radio -- Where Rwandan radio has been and where it's headed.
Length: 29:29
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 13

April 3, 2007
| Mosquitoes that bite ... ghosts that haunt. Community malaria eradication in southern India and emotional recovery work thirteen years after the Rwandan genocide.
Length: 24:19
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 12

March 27, 2007
| Communities take control of the land they call home: Johannesburg township residents launch a peoples housing project and indigenous Nasa of Colombia seize ancestral lands.
Length: 29:18
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 11

March 20, 2007
| Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism in Africa. Canadian CDM projects? Nicaragua, Nicaraguita: a village way up in the Segovias goes solar.
Length: 29:51
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition# 10

March 13, 2007
| Food production on opposite ends of the spectrum: moving beyond chemical agriculture in Costa Rica and the ecological food movement in Evo Morales' Bolivia.
Length: 29:17
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 9

March 6, 2007
| Happy 50th, Ghana! A Ghanean special: New readers read at Accra's Osu Avenue Library, Michelle Betz avoids sucking mud in her search for the elusive sitatunga, and stern words on energy responsibility
Length: 29:50
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 8

February 27, 2007
| A report from a Karen refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, Winnipeg students head down to Bolivia, and the voice of a young Mohawk woman -- speaking out.
Length: 29:40
The Green Planet Monitor
The Green Planet Monitor

The Green Planet Monitor -- Edition # 7

February 20, 2007
| Community radio bursts forth in India, ordinary cement sinks provide welcome relief in Honduras and Bogota's bicycling ex-mayor, Enrique Penalosa, offers thoughts on urban renewal.
Length: 26:16