Green Root Podcast

On episode 148 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg wonders whether recreation NGOs (and an increasing number of recreationists) have become enemies of conservation by not simply ignoring the impacts of more people on the land but actually advocating for public lands extraction.

On episode 147 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg reads a letter signed by thirty-one conservation groups from across the U.S. warning the public about the $2 billion budget corporate NGO, The Nature Conservancy, and its industrial land extraction agenda as exemplified by its recent state ballot measure in Colorado.

On episode 146 of the Green Root Podcast, Sam Stearns, founder of Friends of Bell Smith Springs, announces a great victory for forest protection and how other ecosystem advocates might win just as big.    Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Sam about: -How grassroots conservation groups stopped the McCormick logging scheme in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois; -The U.S. Forest Service’...

On episode 145 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg ponders how the grassroots conservation movement might engage with large enviro NGOs that haven’t sold out to corporate interests but won’t take a strong public stand in defense of wildlands and wildlife.  Josh talks about how: -How certain conservation NGOs privately share concerns about threats to nature only to stay out of the publ...

On episode 144 of the Green Root Podcast, Elise Elswood, Founder of Grasslands Colorado, calls on Colorado Parks and Wildlife to take immediate action to curb the unregulated recreational shooting of prairie dogs on public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Elise about: -How outfitter-led prairie dog shooting sprees are killing up to 1,000 per day of the keystone species; -Grasslands Colorado...

On episode 143 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg reports how media outlets may be influencing a state election through one-sided and inaccurate coverage of a ballot measure (Colorado’s Proposition 137) that would siphon hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to INCREASE wildfire risk to communities through industrial logging. Josh talks about how: -Colorado Politics, Colorado Sun,...

On episode 142 of the Green Root Podcast, Mike Rawluk with Protect Colorado’s Land, Communities, and Tax Dollars ( NoProp137.com ) analyzes a ballot measure that would siphon away tens of millions in tax dollars every year to expand scientifically-debunked “wildfire fuel reduction” logging on public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Mike about: -Colorado’s Proposition 137, which would take $...

On episode 141 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Delia Malone, president of ColoradoWild, and host Josh Schlossberg discuss two destructive and deceptive ballot measures threatening Colorado’s wildlands and wildlife, which may be exported across the nation if they pass. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Delia about: -Amendment 83, aka the “Right to Hunt,” w...

On episode 140 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg exposes the Corporate Green land management NGOs selling out wildlands, wildlife, and their own reputations by greenwashing and FUNDING the most destructive public lands extraction scheme in the history of the West. Josh talks about: -The Corporate Green land management NGOs handing ove...

On episode 139 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares his solution for dealing with those destroying the American Western landscape by whipping up wildfire hysteria to siphon billions in tax dollars towards scientifically-debunked “fuel reduction” logging. Josh talks about: -Colorado’s Prop 137, which would siphon $175 million per y...

On episode 138 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), John C. Krieg, landscape architect and environmental writer, exposes the hard reality of drought, the limits of consumption and economic growth, and the future of human habitation in the Western U.S. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with John about: -The impact of drought on rivers, deserts, chaparral, and forest...

On episode 137 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg examines a new tactic decision makers and gatekeepers may be using to silence environmental advocates. Josh talks about: -Three recent, specific instances where decision makers and gatekeepers tried to silence Eco-Integrity Alliance’s science-based critique of public lands logging; -The...

On episode 136 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Andy Zahn, Washington State legislative candidate, shares the facts and debunks the myths on the recent wildfires in Spokane, Washington. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Andy about: -How the Spokane wildfires aren’t forest but grassland fires driven not by fuels but weather and wind; -How urban sprawl makes...

On episode 135 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Carol Rhodes, founder of Artists for Climate Awareness and Fran Kremer, co-founder of Uniting Artists and Scientists for Climate Action, reveal how art can be a form of environmental activism.

On episode 134 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), a woodland owl offers some insight into the four biggest obstacles to effective grassroots environmental advocacy and how to overcome them.  The owl hoots about: -Distraction - electronics, entertainment, and human-centric causes; -Laziness - our natural habit to save energy by avoiding difficult tasks; -Fea...

On episode 133 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), concerned citizen Mike Rawluk questions a Colorado government/corporate scheme to poison a watershed and drinking water source inside designated wilderness with a fish-killing pesticide. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Mike about: -How Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Denver Water plan to use the pesticide/p...

On episode 132 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares Eco-Integrity Alliance’s brand new “Ponderosa Pine Model,” a winning model for grassroots environmental organizing. Read about the model here: https://eco-integrityalliance.org/ponderosa/ Josh talks about: -The lack of structure in a lot of well-meaning grassroots environmental c...

On episode 131 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Melissa Soderston, president of Tahoe Forest Matters, exposes California “land management” agencies’ scheme to log, burn, and poison public lands surrounding Lake Tahoe. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Melissa about: -How the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies spray toxic herbicides after destroying for...

On episode 130 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg asks the controversial question: Will more recreationists (Nature Users) join with wildland and wildlife protectors (Nature Lovers) or keep teaming up with resource extractors (Nature Abusers)? Josh talks about: -The difference between being a Nature Lover, User, and Abuser; -How import...

On episode 129 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), forest defender and artist, Holly English (Hollyenglish.com), fills us in on the state of Australia’s native hardwood forests along with past and ongoing campaigns to protect these ecosystems from industry, government, and NGO degradation and destruction. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Holly about: -Her pa...

On episode 128 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg asks whether a new ballot initiative to expand taxpayer funded logging on public lands—“Clearcut” Initiative 308—might be violating the Colorado State Constitution. Josh talks about: -Clearcut Initiative 308 , which would fund clearcutting and industrial logging in endangered species ha...

On episode 127 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Delia Malone, president of ColoradoWild, pulls the curtain back on how Colorado government and certain NGOs promote some conservation efforts while also decimating the state’s iconic wildlife and wildlands at the behest of well-funded special interests. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Delia about: -The succ...

On episode 126 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg talks about—and not-so-subtly coerces you to read—his latest semi-controversial essay for Eco-Integrity Alliance’s Substack entitled, “The Environmental Activist’s Paradox: Unite or Divide?” Josh talks about: -How good Organizing seeks to Unite while strong Advocacy looks to Divide; -Ho...

On episode 125 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, writer at “Speaking for the Trees, No Matter Where They’re From,” guides us through the wild enchanted forests of J.R.R. Tolkien’s (Lord of the Rings) Middle-Earth. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Kollibri about: -Kollibri’s five-part essay series on Substack, “ Tolkien & Tre...

On episode 124 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares Eco-Integrity Alliance’s long-term global vision for public lands. Josh talks about: -How public lands are the last best ecosystems in the U.S. with both the legal and cultural frameworks for genuine protection; -How we can no longer afford to sell off nor “sell out” public lands...