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Feb 26, 2020

In our monthly Global Town Hall meeting friends discussed such topics as the impact of mining on Guinea's rainforest, the prospect of shifting to 100% renewable and non-nuclear energy with storage, a plan to ring bells in Hiroshima Day, a project training “barefoot therapists” to help their peers in conflict zones,...


Feb 23, 2020

Charles David Tauber and Sandra Maric practice psychotherapy without calling it that. In Croatia, the effects of war trauma are evident but usually denied. Therapy is stigmatized, so they call their work "psychological education," and they train other local people ("barefoot therapists") to do it too, using Carl...


Feb 22, 2020

Heather Alexander is an ecologist who spends her summers in Siberia studying the effect of forest fires on its remarkable carbon-rich permafrost. She explains to Metta that there are trade-offs involved. Nature has prepared many organisms to withstand small fires, but the current ones threaten to mess upset nature's...


Feb 17, 2020

Fergus Watt is executive director of World Federalists in Canada and John Daniele chairs the Toronto branch. In 2020 the UN will celebrate its 75th anniversary and there is a process underway to review the current system of world governance and consider possible improvements. Peacekeeping is one big challenge, but one...


Feb 8, 2020

Erin Hunt works at Mines Action Canada, which works to promote compliance with the Landmines Treaty, which prohibits the use of bombs that indiscriminately explode by touch or proximity and which, therefore, can injure civilians or even cattle, often long after the war has ended. Erin tells Metta about the origins...