Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 3 of 314:33Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 3 of 3When Edith and Mike first changed from operating a beef operation to running an animal sanctuary, they knew they would face many challenges. But they also knew deep in their hearts that it was the right thing to do. "I think for him (Mike), once he made the decision that he didn’t want to slaughter the animals anymore, it was just, 'That’s it.' He couldn’t do it anymore. We knew we were going to fPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-14 1164 Views24396p720p720pHQ2020-12-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 2 of 311:43Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we’ll learn more about Farmhouse Garden Animal Home. The mission of the sanctuary is “to provide a safe home for the animals in [their] care, as well as to show others that farm animals deserve love and compassion.” When Edith and Mike first transitioned from beef farming to running a sanctuary, they wondered about the best way to accomplish the change. "So when we first becamePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-12-07 1177 Views18396p720p720pHQ2020-12-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 1 of 312:04Farmhouse Garden Animal Home: From Slaughter to Sanctuary, Part 1 of 3On today’s program, we’ll travel to Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada to visit Farmhouse Garden Animal Home, an animal sanctuary co-founded in 2016 by Michael Lanigan and Edith Barabash. For many years, Mr. Lanigan had been a fulltime farmer, earning his income by growing organic vegetables and raising beef cattle for slaughter. Although he did not like having his animals butchered, he did not know what ePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-30 1551 Views21396p720p720pHQ2020-11-30Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 3 of 314:04Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 3 of 3Mr. Guttman describes how he was able to achieve his dreams by incorporating minimalism into his life, and how ecofriendly travel is attainable by the ordinary person. "You know, now I just have my bicycle, a few bags, and it's my whole life. I’m traveling on my own money. Some ask how I get the money to do it. Some say you have to have a lot of money. Or you won the lottery. Or you have to be ricPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-07 2787 Views12396p720p720pHQ2020-11-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 2 of 313:20Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 2 of 3Our special guest on today’s program, Sebastian Guttman, is an environmentalist and vegan athlete from Germany who has chosen to use a zero-emissions form of travel with his selfmade bamboo bicycle. A champion of sustainable travel, Mr. Guttman has traveled to approximately 30 countries over the past two-and-a-half years, and plans to pause his bicycle tour during the COVID-19 pandemic. "I would hPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-11-02 1587 Views16396p720p720pHQ2020-11-02Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 1 of 312:45Ecotourism: The Sustainable Way to Travel, Part 1 of 3In 2019, a record number of people traveled internationally, 1.5 billion, to be exact. However, conventional mass travel has been shown to be unsustainable and actually has many hidden, deeply intertwined costs for both tourist destinations and our planet. The good news is that over the past decade trends in travel have been changing considerably. As the world becomes more aware of the threats thaPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-26 1608 Views15396p720p720pHQ2020-10-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 3 of 314:22Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 3 of 3In late May 2020, a 23-square-kilometer horde of locusts entered Argentina after passing through Paraguay. The insects landed first in the provinces of Santa Fé and Formosa, both of which are essential for agriculture. Millions invaded cities and farms, devouring all the crops in the area in a matter of hours. The locusts were enormous; technicians from the Argentine government measured specimens Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-19 1722 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-10-19Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 2 of 312:45Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we’ll travel to Pakistan and India to learn how the insects have affected these countries. But first, let’s find out more about locusts, and why they’ve been so plentiful during the past year. Many scientists believe that climate change is largely responsible for the current locust plague. The unusually warm, wet weather in the normally arid areas around the Arabian Peninsula hPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-12 1607 Views22396p720p720pHQ2020-10-12Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 1 of 313:02Warning Signs to Help End Climate Change: Locust Swarms, Part 1 of 3On today’s program we’ll travel to Africa to learn about the recent massive invasion of locusts that the continent has experienced. The plague began in June 2019 and has continued through 2020. Billions of desert locusts, resembling dark storm clouds, have descended on the Horn of Africa, destroying vast areas of cropland and vegetation. Dr. Rick Overson of Arizona State University's Global LocustPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-10-05 1789 Views25396p720p720pHQ2020-10-05Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 3 of 315:16Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 3 of 3On today’s program, we’ll look at some of the solutions emerging all around the globe. According to a 2019 study published in the journal Science Progress, as many as 90% of all plastic items are used only once and then discarded. Plastic bags are among the biggest sources of pollution, with as many as five trillion being consumed globally each year. When disposed of improperly, the bags clog watePlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-09-14 2449 Views14396p720p720pHQ2020-09-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 2 of 314:46Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 2 of 3On today’s program, we continue our exploration, as we travel to Africa to visit the magnificent River Nile. This 6,650-kilometer-long waterway runs through 11 countries on the African continent, and an estimated 250 million people rely on it for drinking water, household use, and irrigation. In June 2020, the British free-to-air television news channel Sky News aired a remarkable documentary callPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-09-07 4493 Views22396p720p720pHQ2020-09-07Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 1 of 314:53Plastic Pollution: Its Consequences for Rivers and Oceans, Part 1 of 3On today’s program, we’ll examine the global issue of plastic pollution and learn how the problem began. The production of plastic is relatively new; the first manufacture only began during the 1940’s. Over the ensuing decades, we have become increasingly reliant on plastic in many aspects of our lives. If we look around us, we’ll see that we’re surrounded by plastic. Since the development of plasPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-31 3531 Views22396p720p720pHQ2020-08-31Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 3 of 313:18Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 3 of 3It is becoming increasingly clear that hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones around the world are becoming stronger and potentially more deadly as the planet warms due to the climate crisis. On May 20, 2020, it was reported that Amphan, the strongest cyclonic storm since the 2007 season, had made landfall along India’s east coast and in Bangladesh. With wind speeds gusting to more than 240 kPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-26 2648 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-08-26Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 2 of 312:51Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 2 of 3Apart from heatwaves and wildfires, climate change has also triggered many other extreme-weather events, including intense storms, floods, and blizzards. For example, a series of recent winter storms in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe led to severe downpours, floods, high tides, and other extreme weather events. The first storm, Atiyah, swept across the Republic of Ireland on DecemberPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-22 1935 Views9396p720p720pHQ2020-08-22Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 2 of 215:38Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 2 of 2Today we’ll further explore the causes, interconnections, and solutions for our planet’s public health and economic crises. In June 2020, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) released a report entitled, “COVID-19: Urgent Call to Protect People and Nature,” urging governments, corporations, organizations, and the public to take action to restore our broken relationship with nature and thus avoid fuPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-17 2249 Views25396p720p720pHQ2020-08-17Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 1 of 313:46Extreme Weather Events: Urgent Call for Prevention, Part 1 of 3As various regions across the globe become hotter and drier, destructive wildfires have been growing in size, ferocity, and speed. Wildfires that caused severe destruction of ecosystems, homes, and other types of property in Australia, California, Siberia, and parts of Europe were featured on Supreme Master Television in March of this year. Unfortunately, the dismaying weather phenomena caused by Planet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-14 2019 Views13396p720p720pHQ2020-08-14Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 1 of 212:34Zoonotic Diseases: Nature’s Self-Defense, Part 1 of 2“Through COVID-19 the planet has delivered its strongest warning yet that we must change our ways. Human activity has altered virtually every part of the land. As we displace the natural world, we’re destroying vital ecosystems and the biodiversity that thrives on them. We are causing climate change, harming our ability to feed ourselves, opening the door to new illnesses such as COVID-19. It’s tiPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-08-10 9091 Views68396p720p720pHQ2020-08-10Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 3 of 316:36Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 3 of 3Today we’ll explore more about drought-induced conditions, this time in Asia and Australia. More than 66 million Southeast Asians have had their lives disrupted by drought in the past three decades. Severe drought and the construction of dams have driven the Mekong River to its lowest level in 100 years, endangering food supplies for tens of millions of people. In East Asia, a severe drought is plPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-27 1303 Views8396p720p720pHQ2020-07-27Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 2 of 314:11Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 2 of 3On today’s show, we’ll explore the severe drought conditions that are affecting Africa and Europe. Home to the Sahara, the world’s largest hot desert, North Africa is one of the driest regions on Earth, where it's common to have no rainfall for more than a year in some places. However, for many years climate change has increased the lack of rain and abnormally hot weather across East Africa, SouthPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-20 1299 Views11396p720p720pHQ2020-07-20Planet Earth: Our Loving Home Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 1 of 313:16Extreme Weather Events: Droughts Around the World, Part 1 of 3As the world warms, Earth’s climate has been undergoing intense heat waves caused by the increased chance of extremely hot days and nights. Warming air also boosts the evaporation of surface water, thus worsening the effects of droughts. More droughts create dry fields and forests that are prone to catching fire, so increased global temperatures mean longer wildfire seasons around the world. DrougPlanet Earth: Our Loving Home2020-07-13 1570 Views18396p720p720pHQ2020-07-13Planet Earth: Our Loving Home