Hello again, podcast listeners, it's Matt, once again coming to you unscripted, unplugged, mostly to thank those of you who

responded to my request last week. Your donations have been extremely heartening and we are very, very

grateful. We have a good long ways to go, I'm afraid that's why on this this week's show you're going to hear

Lou Friedman making an appeal in the break in the middle of the show of public service

announcement we'll be doing the same thing on the broadcast side with slightly

different wording, but it's you folks who've responded so far. I'm especially

happy that I've already been able to respond individually personally to several of you

who've donated and I think I'm going to be getting information on everyone who

donates so that I can send you a personal note.

I'm really looking forward to that.

One thing we do want to apologize about is the unfortunate lack of our website off and on

over the last week or so. We know it has been up and down and for those of

you who went to the website to help out to make your donation I think things are

better now but the main thing I can say is keep trying what can I say it's a serious

problem with our our web server and they're having all trouble figuring it out getting

it diagnosed but the link is there at planetary.org

slash radio and we still very much need your support. So thanks again and hope you

enjoy this week's show which is a special edition as you're about to hear. Simulating a shrinking Earth this week on planetary radio.

Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the

final frontier. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. A special program and

topic today will visit with a unique gathering of activists and experts who began the creation of the World Resources Simulation Center, a concept created by Buckminster Fuller 30 years ago that has only recently

entered the realm of possibility.

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