Join environmental writer, investigative journalist (on sabbatical), and recovering activist Josh Schlossberg on a quest to uncover the roots of the modern ecological crisis on the Green Root Podcast.
On episode 65 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks to himself about the subgenre of eco horror fiction, his new novel CHARWOOD, and “The State of Eco Horror,” a virtual event on Sunday, August 20 @ 4 pm PT / 5 MT / 6 CT / 7 ET (RSVP at Josh@JoshsWorstNightmare.com for Zoom link).
On episode 64 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg walks the post-fire landscape with Maya Khosla, biologist and author of ALL THE FIRES OF WIND AND LIGHT, to find the overlap between art and environmental advocacy.
On episode 63 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with Chad Hanson, PhD, forest ecologist with John Muir Project and author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, where he rebuts High Country News' latest pro-logging propaganda.
On episode 62 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg exposes how elected officials are so eager to promote phony “wildfire risk reduction” logging on public lands that they'll lie on the record to hide what's really going on in the forest.
On episode 61 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with Shannon Wilson of Eco Advocates Northwest about the police killing of forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Terón in Atlanta, tracing the history of violence against environmental activists in the U.S. over recent decades, and discussing where to go from here.
On episode 60 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg talks with Andy Mahler of Protect Our Woods about how we can stop the ecological/climate disaster that is the Buffalo Springs “Restoration” Project in Indiana's Hoosier National Forest, and why it matters to the future of the planet.
On episode 59 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg reads a recent article from the Colorado Sun about logging on public lands under the guise of “wildfire risk reduction” while giving his commentary, in Part 2 of a 2 part series.
On episode 58 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg reads a recent article from the Denver Post about logging on public lands under the guise of “wildfire risk reduction” while giving his commentary, in Part 1 of a 2 part series.
On episode 57 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg warns about the biggest threat we've seen in decades to the carbon-storing forests of Colorado--and the entire western U.S.--from phony "wildfire fuel reduction" logging, recaps Eco-Integrity Alliance's ongoing campaign to stop it and route the money instead to making homes "Firewise," and lets you know how you can help today!
On episode 56 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage, about the crucial role climate change plays in driving large wildfires, the folly of logging our carbon-storing forests under the guise of “fuel reduction,” and the importance of making homes Firewise.
On episode 55 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg invites you to join Eco-Integrity Alliance as a voting member (and what that means), shares some dirt on the current unraveling of the mainstream Greens, and explains why NOW is the time to finally come together and fill that void.
On episode 54 of the of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with Michael Garrity, executive director of Alliance for the Wild Rockies, about the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), a bill that would create biological zones connecting new and existing wilderness and roadless areas over 20 million acres across Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming.
On episode 53 of the return (?) of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg announces the launch of the Eco-Integrity Alliance, an effort to unite the “alternative” environmental movement under a big tent of ecological integrity through common campaigns of mutual support. Check out the website at eco-integrityalliance.org to learn more and find out how to join.
In the 52nd—and final—episode of the Green Root Podcast, host and quitter Josh Schlossberg explains why he’s choosing to end the podcast, shares some of the environmental lessons he’s learned over the past year, and thanks his guests, listeners, and everyone else working to protect and preserve the natural world.
On episode #51 of the Green Root Podcast, host and former Northeasterner, Josh Schlossberg, returns to the forest with Chris Matera, director of Massachusetts Forest Watch, to discuss the state of the Great North Woods and how to maintain one's mental health as an environmental advocate.
On episode #50 of the Green Root Podcast, host and chick pea-lover, Josh Schlossberg, chews the fat with Mike Ewall, director of Energy Justice Network, about the environmental, public health, and ethical implications of eating animal products and how both individual AND systemic changes are needed to transform the food system.
On episode #49 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg, goes viral with Bhavana Chilukuri, Director of Programs at Dalberg Catalyst & Chip Barber, Senior Biodiversity Advisor from World Resources Institute, to talk about Preventing Pandemics at the Source, a new coalition of major health and environmental groups working to prevent the spillover of zoonotic viruses from animals to humans.
On episode #48 of the Green Root Podcast, host and failed public utility petitioner, Josh Schlossberg, gets energized with eco-philosopher Craig Patterson, shedding light on how utilities encourage excessive energy consumption, the need for a “conservation ethic,” and ways to incentivize efficiency.
On episode #47 of the Green Root Podcast, host and born-and-bred northeaster, Josh Schlossberg, talks with Nohham R. Cachat-Schilling, a Kanien’keha:ka-Nashawe Nipmuk medicine person, researcher, and author, about the differences in land use, stewardship practices, and cultural outlook between Native and European peoples in New England.
On episode #46 of the Green Root Podcast, host and beef-boycotter Josh Schlossberg, roams the range with Felice Pace, coordinator for the Grazing Reform Project, chewing the cud about water quality and supply impacts of cows on public lands, the ranching industry’s war against wolves and wild horses, and the importance of enforcing existing laws while offering grazing allotment buyouts.
On episode #45 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks out loud to himself about the "shadow" of the establishment and alternative environmental movements, homing in on the harsh realities its members are unable--or unwilling--to see. He finishes up with a plea for a U.S. nonprofit to step up and provide fiscal sponsorship for Rural Watch Africa Initiative, an outstanding Nigerian organization tackling the root issues of environmental degradation and poverty in the world's poorest nation.
On episode #44 of the Green Root Podcast, host and censored movie star Josh Schlossberg, gets behind the camera with Julia Barnes, director of the upcoming film Bright Green Lies, to document the sixth mass extinction, deep sea mining for “green” tech, and the ecocidal folly of trying to fuel industrial civilization with "renewable" energy.
On episode #43 of the Green Root Podcast, host & former Oregonian, Josh Schlossberg, hops the fence onto “private” timberlands with Chuck Willer, director of Coast Range Association, to reveal how the logging industry trades short-term profits for long-term forest productivity, when the environmental movement abandoned land reform, and the role western Oregon’s carbon-storing “industrial” forestlands can play in addressing the climate emergency, as detailed in Climate & Oregon's Industrial Forests: A Green New Deal Proposal.
On episode #42 of the Green Root Podcast, host and ex-farmhand, Josh Schlossberg, gets his hands dirty with writer, podcaster, and organic farmer, Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, to unearth the roots of the agricultural revolution, the ecological and societal impacts of industrial ag, and how humanity might find a balance between growing food and preserving nature.
On episode #41 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg gets lost in the woods with Ashley Lipscomb, Director of Kentucky Heartwood, to uncover threats to the Daniel Boone National Forest, the influence of “bullet groups” on public lands management, and proposals that would destroy roosting habitat for federally-endangered Indiana bats.
On episode #40 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg takes a trip to the Emerald Isle with Susan Breen, organizer with Deep Green Resistance and Shale Must Fall, to delve into fracking in Europe, “eco-sabotage,” and the role of the radical environmental movement.
On episode #39 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg digs below the surface with Deanna Meyer, executive director of Prairie Protection Colorado, to learn about endangered grasslands, the role prairie dogs play as keystone species, and how to save them from eradication.
On episode #38 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg leaves the continent with environmental and global justice campaigner, Florence Blondel, to explore biodiversity loss in Uganda, how empowering women’s birth control choices can reduce poverty while also protecting forests and climate, and whether the developing world may someday become a model of sustainability.
On episode #37 of the Green Root Podcast, host and accidental bear tracker, Josh Schlossberg, goes off the beaten path with Barrie Gilbert, Ph.D., retired wildlife biologist & professor, and author of One of Us: A Biologist’s Walk Among Bears, to discuss the ecological necessity of bears in North America, current threats to Grizzlies, and what we need to do to protect them.
On episode #36 of the Green Root Podcast, host and fake Buddhist, Josh Schlossberg, gets nondual with David R. Loy, professor, writer, Zen teacher, and author of Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis, to meditate on how Buddhist philosophy might enlighten environmental activism.
On episode #35 of the Green Root Podcast, host and Ken Wilber stunt double, Josh Schlossberg, goes deep inside human consciousness with Michael E. Zimmerman, Ph.D., co-author (with Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Ph.D.) of Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World, to explore Integral theory, biocentric lines of adult human development, and “The 8 Eco-Selves.”
On episode #34 of the Green Root Podcast, host and former Critical Mass arrestee Josh Schlossberg chats with Beth Verdekal, founder of Own It Economics, about the history of Critical Mass bike rides, the joys of giving, and the role of personal responsibility in addressing the climate crisis.
On episode #33 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg rants about the warped mindset common to those who refuse—or are unable—to accept the harsh realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and those claiming climate change is a hoax.
On episode #32 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg goes deep with psychoanalyst Joseph Scalia III, Psya.D. about how we might use psychology to better understand the successes and failures of the modern environmental movement.
On episode #31 of the Green Root Podcast, host and science writer Josh Schlossberg interviews Dr. Michael Miller, wildlife veterinarian with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, about the alarming epidemic of Chronic Wasting Disease—aka “zombie deer disease”—in North America’s cervid (deer, elk, moose, and caribou) populations, the role mountain lions may play in slowing the spread, and whether humans are at risk from the fatal infection.
On episode #30 of the Green Root Podcast, host & social justice warrior Josh Schlossberg speaks with Lorna Salzman, author of Politics as if Evolution Mattered: Darwin, Ecology and Social Justice, about the injection of critical race and gender theory into the modern environmental movement.
On episode #29 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg proposes that 2021 is our last—and best—chance to reinvigorate the failing environmental movement and genuinely address the eco-crisis.
On episode #28 of the Green Root Podcast, host & former Oregonian Josh Schlossberg speaks with forest consultant & timber cruiser Roy Keene about Big Timber’s aerial spraying of toxic herbicides in Oregon’s temperate rainforests, community efforts to ban the practice, and mainstream environmental groups cutting a deal with industry.
On episode #27 of the Green Root Podcast, host & desert rat Josh Schlossberg talks with Sean Prentiss, author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, about Ed Abbey’s influence on environmental activism & literature, the man’s most controversial views, and the beauty and mystery of the American Southwest.
On episode #26 of the Green Root Podcast, science writer Kristine Mattis, Ph.D. offers her insights on some of the contradictions of the Green New Deal, “gatekeeping” in the mainstream environmental movement, the lack of genuine solutions for the ecological and climate crises, and what a truly sustainable way of life could look like.
On episode #25 of the Green Root Podcast, Rachel Fazio, associate director and staff attorney for John Muir Project, clears the air on wildfire's crucial role in western forests, exposes legislation seeking to log in the backcountry under the guise of “fuel reduction,” and reminds us how making our homes Firewise is the single most effective measure we can take to protect people and property.
On episode #24 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with Uche Isieke, Executive Director of Rural Watch Africa Initiative, about Nigerians suffering from the ravages of climate change, the deforestation that results from rural people simply trying to feed their families, and his work to create alternative sustainable income sources for this struggling population.
On episode #23 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg touches base with Mark Robinowitz of PeakChoice.org about the ecological lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, how the Planet of the Humans film doesn’t go far enough, why fracking postponed energy rationing, the limits to growth on a finite planet, and the need to relocalize the American Way of Life (AWOL).
On episode #22 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks with climate justice organizer, Ananda Lee Tan, about environmental racism, the health & environmental impacts of waste incineration in the U.S. and overseas, and Zero Waste alternatives.
On episode #21 of the Green Root Podcast, host & hiking addict Josh Schlossberg chats with Gary Mcfarlane, Ecosystem Defense Director for Friends of the Clearwater, about the impacts of outdoor recreation on wildlife, the ecological benefits of removing old logging roads from public lands, and the pros and cons of the Great American Outdoors Act.
On episode #20 of the Green Root Podcast, host & future climate refugee Josh Schlossberg interviews abrupt climate change researcher & Nature Bats Last co-host, Kevin Hester, about tipping points and extinction cascades, media and entertainment as a distraction from climate breakdown, managing grief, and why it’s never too late to start telling the truth.
On episode #19 of the Green Root Podcast, host and anti-logging zealot Josh Schlossberg chews the fat with eco-forestry philosopher, Craig Patterson, about industrial logging’s decimation of U.S. forests, the difference between genuine and phony restoration, and reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps for a new paradigm of “jobs in the woods.”
On episode #18 of the Green Root Podcast, host and pro-wilderness extremist Josh Schlossberg confers with Amy Lewis, chief policy and communications officer with WILD Foundation, about the Nature Needs Half campaign, wilderness vs. “working landscapes,” and distinguishing between sustainability and survival.
On episode #17 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg interviews Karen Shragg, author of Move Upstream: A Call to Solve Overpopulation, about the ecological impacts of our growing human population, concerns about racism, and the real reason so few environmental groups address the issue.
On episode #16 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg speaks with Tim Hermach, executive director of Native Forest Council, about the history of the sellout of the environmental movement to corporate interests, how both Republicans and Democrats have greased the wheels of ecosystem destruction, and the need to swallow such bitter pills if we’re going to save what’s left of the natural world.
On episode #15 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg interviews Tiffany Hansen, co-founder and director of Rocky Flats Downwinders, about the ongoing plutonium (and other) contamination from Rocky Flats, the former nuclear weapons facility outside Denver, Colorado; concerns about the health of nearby communities; using hemp to remediate the toxic soil; and creating a Rocky Flats cannabis strain.
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