Green Root Podcast

Clearcutting California? (w/ Melissa Soderston of Tahoe Forests Matter)

On episode 66 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg chats with Melissa Soderston, director of Tahoe Forests Matter, where she reveals a massive logging scheme planned for California’s carbon-storing public forests and how you can help locals planning to stop it.

Eco Horror (with Josh Schlossberg, author of CHARWOOD)

On episode 65 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg talks to himself about the subgenre of eco horror fiction and his new novel CHARWOOD about forest destruction (and other dark forces).

Art as Environmental Advocacy (w/ Maya Khosla, biologist and poet)

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.

Politician Caught LYING About Logging Old-Growth Trees

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.

Debunking Media Pro-Logging Propaganda (with Chad Hanson, forest ecologist)

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.

Exposing the Buffalo Springs ”Restoration” Project (with Andy Mahler of Protect Our Woods)

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.

Eco-Integrity Alliance’s ”Firewise Not Logging Lies” Campaign in the News (Part 2 of 2)

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.

Eco-Integrity Alliance’s ”Firewise Not Logging Lies” Campaign in the News (Part 1 of 2)

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.

Clearcutting Colorado?

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!

Climate-Driven Wildfire (with Dominick DellaSala of Wild Heritage)

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.