Green Root Podcast

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 #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 #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.