Series: The Green Planet Monitor -- Smart Solutions for a Developing World
Produced by David Kattenburg
Communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America are overcoming social, economic, environmental and health challenges, using local imagination, knowledge, skills and energy.
Each 29-minute magazine features original reports from journalists abroad, based on travel through the Asia-Pacific region, Africa and the Americas. Interviews, live recordings and music round out each edition.
12 Pieces
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Conserving scarce pockets of precious water and their wildlife. In the middle of one of India’s largest cities, citizens say, ‘Don’t touch our lake...
- Added: Mar 18, 2009
- Length: 00:27:12
In today’s edition, communities struggle to be healthy in the shadow of the Big Three: tuberculosis, malaria and HIV-AIDS.
Bought by WSKG
- Added: Mar 18, 2009
- Length: 00:30:00
- Purchases: 1
Media and development. Two stories of how journalists contribute to the communities where they report, and an interview with one of India’s leading...
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 00:28:44
Three of the world’s most bustling cities … what makes them tick, and what their citizens are doing to improve life on the street.
- Added: Feb 28, 2009
- Length: 00:29:55
The plight of the farmer – struggling to produce for global markets, avoiding the toxic tailings of chemically treated fields, or robbed of the lan...
- Added: Feb 28, 2009
- Length: 00:29:56
In today’s edition … clean energy – it’s the way to go. Wind power in China, natural gas in Egypt. And from one of capitalism’s most hallowed halls...
Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 11, 2009
- Length: 00:29:57
- Purchases: 2
Living with the legacy of war: Landmines that continue to maim, chemicals that poison and disfigure; memories that refuse to be erased.
- Added: Feb 04, 2009
- Length: 00:25:25
Health is much more than the absence of disease. Personal safety, connections to community and freedom from oppression are as crucial to a person’s...
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 00:29:43
Remarkable bodies of water and the threats they face ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2009
- Length: 00:29:32
In today’s edition … Get up, stand up. From Peru, Palestine and India, marginalized communities are standing up for their rights through democratic...
- Added: Jan 22, 2009
- Length: 00:29:38
Farming, Environment & Development
Bought by WRPI
- Added: Jan 16, 2009
- Length: 00:29:37
- Purchases: 1
Garbage
- Added: Jan 14, 2009
- Length: 00:27:52




