Green Root Podcast

On episode 123 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Julie Brams, psychotherapist and author of  THE NATURE EMBEDDED MIND , lays out some paths for humanity to reconnect with nature to save the planet and ourselves. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Julie about: -How separation from nature harms mental health; -What it means to be an Earth-centered psychologist...

Green Root Podcast 122: JUDGE’S RULING: DID PRO-LOGGING POLITICIAN VIOLATE “OPEN RECORDS” LAW? On episode 122 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg announces a District Court judge’s final ruling on his lawsuit against Jefferson County, Colorado Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper for allegedly deleting emails about public lands logging in vio...

On episode 121 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Joshua Wright, Program Director of the Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, urges immediate public action to stop the “Landless” legislation that would privatize 115K acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, including 80K acres of old growth forests with trees up to 1,000 years old. Host Josh Schlossberg talks...

On episode 120 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Jeff Gibbs, director of Planet of the Humans and producer and composer for Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, teaches environmental advocates how to make a compelling and hard-hitting documentary film. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jeff about: -The secret behind why Jeff’s 2019 documentary, PLANET...

On episode 119 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg outlines and asks for your feedback on his new article, “Yin-Yang of the Environmental Movement,” which you can read on Substack here . Josh talks about how: -The concept of Yin (“being”) and Yang (“doing”) can apply to environmentalism; -There can be positive (“light”) and negative (“s...

On episode 114 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Jen Clanahan, executive director of Colorado Nature League , reveals how Colorado State Legislature caved to pressure from hunters, trappers, government agencies (funded by hunting), and even a former “conservation” NGO to kill a bill that would’ve protected beavers from being slaughtered on public lands. Ho...

On episode 117 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares the most recent, most egregious example of how Colorado has become the most anti-environmental Democrat-majority state in the U.S. Josh talks about how: -The Colorado House Agriculture, Water, and Natural Resources Committee just shot down two bills that would’ve protected public...

On episode 116 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Jeff Ruch, Senior Counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, exposes decades of evidence pointing towards collusion between the U.S. Forest Service and the logging industry in stealing—yes, stealing—trees from public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Jeff about: -Government estimate...

Green Root Podcast #115: IS SCIENCE ENOUGH? On episode 115 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg points out how, despite having the consensus of peer-reviewed science on our side, environmental advocates are still losing out to pro-extraction industry, government, media, and NGO disinformation, and what we can do to reclaim the narrative....

Green Root Podcast #114: GOV’T LAND MANAGER SHARES AGENCY SECRETS (with Lyle Lewis, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) On episode 114 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Lyle Lewis, writer and former Endangered Species Branch Chief with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, speaks up for genuine ecological conservation while revealing the best ways for adv...

On episode 113 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg asks for your help to fend off the latest wave of “beetlemania”: industry and government pushing the myth—debunked by consensus science—that the (native) mountain pine beetle causes wildfire, so as to unleash more public lands logging than we’ve seen in our lives. Josh talks about how:...

On episode 112 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Paul Koberstein, editor of Cascadia Times and author of CANOPY OF TITANS, proposes the single most important action we can take to ward off the worst impacts of the climate crisis: protecting and preserving forests. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Paul about: -The ecological importance of the amazing temper...

On episode 111 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), a raven (Corvus corax) sits in for host Josh Schlossberg to share some insights about why elected officials ignore ecosystem and wildlife protection, and how to get them to start listening again.   The raven caws about: -The recent historic event that convinced politicians to stop taking risks. -How well-mea...

On episode 110 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Chris Searles, ecologist with BioIntegrity.net, shares his results from over a hundred field-tested projects rehydrating forest ecosystems so as to alleviate drought and reduce wildfires. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Chris about: -How trees store and release moisture—evapotranspiration—to create rain. -H...

On episode 109 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg questions whether it’s finally time to declare the failed, mainstream “conservation movement” officially dead, while wondering what new, inspiring vision might rise from its ashes. Josh talks about: -How middle-of-the-road “conservation” might no longer be a relevant concept this late i...

On episode 108 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg tries to figure out why so many supposedly pro-environment Democrats not only refuse to fight Trump’s onslaught on public lands but ACTIVELY PROMOTE the unprecedented extraction. Josh talks about: -The danger of Democrats greenwashing some of the most disastrous anti-environmental polic...

On episode 107 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Dagny Signorelli, Wyoming/Northern Utah Director with Western Watersheds Project, exposes the severe and worsening ecological, wildlife, and watershed impacts from ranchers grazing livestock on public lands across the West. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Dagny about: -How supposedly protected public lands—...

On episode 106 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg wades into an old but ongoing debate within the environmental movement about whether it’s ethical for ecosystem advocates to focus exclusively on public lands protection at the expense of “private” land extraction. Josh talks about: -The arbitrary yet currently legal definitions of publ...

On episode 105 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Rachael Himsel, executive producer and co-director of the forthcoming film, SAVING THE HOOSIER: THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA’S FORESTS , talks about winning the decades-long battle for Indiana’s precious public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg chats with Rachael about: -Why Indiana forest defenders are so good at prote...

On episode 104 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg brainstorms about ways that grassroots advocacy might fix our broken chain of participatory democracy between corporations, government, media, and the public. Josh talks about: -Why media—the biggest broken link in the chain—should be held accountable or bypassed -How grassroots advocac...

On episode 103 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Hudson Kingston, legal director for CURE , battles government plans in Minnesota to greenwash dirty, forest-killing “biomass” energy by ignoring carbon emissions from incinerating trees and trash for industrial-scale electricity. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Hudson about: -How the Minnesota Public Utilit...

On episode 102 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), we strategize with Rocky Smith, forest management consultant with over forty years’ experience, about the worst threat we’ve ever seen on public lands in the West—including the now biggest logging project in Colorado history announced last week—and one quick action you can take to start turning things around...

Green Root Podcast #101: ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA: INEPT OR CORRUPT? On episode 101 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host and former investigative journalist Josh Schlossberg tries to make sense of whether most media outlets are unable or unwilling to accurately and honestly cover environmental topics. Josh talks about: -The ideological and partisan bias he...

On episode 100 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we explore the ecological wonderland and wildlife haven that is a severely-burned forest, with Richard Hutto, emeritus professor in wildlife biology and author of the new book, A BEAUTIFULLY BURNED FOREST: LEARNING TO CELEBRATE SEVERE FOREST FIRE . Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Richard about: -The science in...

On episode 99 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we talk about a positive alternative vision for public lands that would establish 100 new National Parks in the U.S.—at least one in every state—with Michael Kellett, executive director of RESTORE: The North Woods. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Michael about: -How the U.S. Forest Service under the Department...