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People-Powered Planet Podcast

People-Powered Planet Podcast

By: Arthur Kanegis and Melanie N. Bennett
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Solutionaries join us each Wednesday to help envision and build our future!Arthur Kanegis and Melanie N. Bennett Politics & Government
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  • Fixing the Crises in Capitalism and Democracy - Dr. Shann Turnbull
    Aug 21 2025

    Eight Billionaires possess as much wealth as half the world’s population. Dr. Shann Turnbull, who was selected by Garry Davis as his World Economics Commissioner, has a plan to cure the world's gross inequality.

    Shann has proved how tax incentives can radically reduce inequality, so all voters obtain locally controlled eternal well-being dividends. Twice he has used tax incentives to raise millions of dollars from hundreds of investors in 15-year leases that funded publicly traded corporations.

    Twice he has also created corporations with locally elected boards to introduce “Polycentric” self-governance described by Elinor Ostrom in her 2009 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Both innovations could win voter support from both sides of politics.

    In 1976, the ultra-right stockbrokers’ journal in Australia published a review by Socialist Deputy Prime Minister of Australia of Shann’s 1975 book Democratising the Wealth of Nations. The United Nations published a summary of his book. This led to Shann being invited to explain stakeholder privatization in Prague in 1991/2 and Beijing in 1992.

    He authored Australian Parliamentary reports on Aboriginal self-determination in 1977/8.

    His 2001 PhD from Macquarie University created a methodology to establish the science of governance of any specie and introduced to social scientists the self-governing concept of Tensegrity.

    He is a prolific author on using the self-governing practices of biota to purify, share and sustain localized capitalism.


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    • Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
    • Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
    • Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/endorse⁠
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    50 mins
  • A global anthem for harmony and peace - Maestro Diego Carneiro
    Aug 7 2025

    Hiroshima Day August 6, 2025
    Maestro Carneiro shares his mission to unite the world through music as a powerful tool to transform conflict and chaos into peace, growth and harmony.


    As a visionary social entrepreneur, a Celebrity Master cellist, Orchestra conductor and Rotary Peace Fellow, he has integrated his skills and expertise to roll out several creative projects that are aimed at building global bridges between music and humanitarian action, spreading messages of peace, environmental & cultural preservation, prosperity through heart-centered mental well-being across the globe.


    His “Instruments For Hope Campaign -- Concert Without Borders” helped stateless musicians around the world, and was featured on the BBC.


    Discover how you can contribute to “Paths to Peace,” his new composition of unity and peace, from the Amazon to the Nile.


    "Paths to Peace" will blend nature’s voice with folk, classical, and cinematic soundscapes that have enriched Diego's Path from his travel and performance in over 45+ countries, bringing the world closer through music.

    It is more than music — it’s a call to action, a prayer for our planet, and a message of peace the world needs now.


    Scheduled to premiere at Rotary’s Peace Centers in 2025, this work aims to become a lasting anthem for global harmony.

    fomita.org/diego-carneiro​

    amazonarts.org

    diegocarneiro.com


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    • Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
    • Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
    • Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/endorse⁠

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    48 mins
  • Meet award-winning Director John Viscount!
    Mar 29 2025

    John Viscount is a screenwriter, producer, director, composer, author, branding specialist, and global peacebuilder.

    His film “Admissions”, stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award winner James Cromwell and addresses the Middle East conflict and the power of forgiveness to heal interpersonal and international conflicts.

    “Admissions” has now won over 30 International Awards, and has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, German, Arabic, Farsi, and Spanish, and broadcast to 80 million homes worldwide. The film continues to screen in important venues around the globe including The Parliament of World Religions, The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and The Rotary Global Peace Conference.

    His new film on cyberbullying, “The Principle”, starring 4-time Grammy nominee, Mickey Guyton, premiered Summer, 2024 at The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change’s “Be Love Day” celebration.

    He also founded The Peace Entertainment Project (PEPSTAR.org), a new non-profit that offers fiscal sponsorship and mentoring to uplifting filmmakers and content creators who address global challenges, inspire hearts and minds, and “promote the kind in humankind.”

    John is also co-founder of PeaceNow.com, a non-profit that creates platforms for strengthening the global Culture of Peace and is gathering ONE BILLION signatures in support of the establishment of cabinet-level Ministries & Departments of Peace in governments worldwide.

    Also see his proposed United Nations Global Resolution called “The Muscles of Peace Global Resolution”

    peacenow.com/resolution

    johnviscount.com

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    • Music by: „World Citizen“ Jahcoustix feat. Shaggy, courtesy of Dominik Haas, Telefonica and EoM
    • Check out the film on World Citizen #1 Garry Davis: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
    • Endorse the ban on Nuclear Weapons: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠theworldismycountry.com/endorse⁠
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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