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Mars exploration, the benefits of seaweed and the history of music are just some of the fascinating topics viewers and listeners can explore through more than 100 free lectures offered yearly by GBH Forum Network. The team of two works with more than 20 universities, libraries and organizations, to give audiences all over the globe access to the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policymakers and community leaders.

Solar has become one of the least expensive sources for new energy generation and fields of solar panels are appearing everywhere, including on forest and farmland. Most people have a sense that cutting down forests to install solar is not a good idea, but we assume it must be necessary in order to curb climate change. That was the thinking of early legislation passed to fast track solar installations without environmental review. But has that assumption stood up to the facts?<br/><br/>We will explore two aspects of the negative impacts of of solar installations on forest land and ...

Ford Hall Forum and GBH Forum Network invite you to a panel discussion moderated by Adrian Walker of The Boston Globe, with Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD., associate professor of Africana Studies, Stonybrook University and the author of, <i>A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle</i>, Alisa R. Drayton, Executive Director, Yawkey Club of Roxbury, and Marilyn Flowers-Marion, chairperson, Retired Teachers Chapter of the Boston Teachers Union, who will share their lived experiences of court-ordered busing in Boston during the 1970s. The panel will also explore the long-term impa...

By Saio Marrah The President of the Children’s Forum Network, Amadu Barrie has during the 2023 girls-health summit called on the government to allocate a specific budget line to mental health in the country. Barrie told the Summit organized by West Africa Women and Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (WAWGE-SL) at the Freetown City Hall last week that the specific budget line is of

This series explores the many ways that living systems create and regulate environmental conditions on our planet. Without a living system, Earth would be a dry barren rock, like Venus or Mars.Life has created the planet as we know it, a place where all species, including humans, co-evolved. The symbiotic relationships that created this Eden are badly damaged. The Life Saves the Planet Series, presented by [Biodiversity for a Livable Climate](https://bio4climate.org/), will introduce you to people (and other species) doing amazing work all over the planet to regenerate systems, repair crucial ...