Green Root Podcast

Environmental Veganism (with Mike Ewall of Energy Justice Network)

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.

Preventing Pandemics at the Source (with Bhavana Chilukuri of Dalberg Catalyst & Chip Barber of World Resources Institute)

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.

A Waste of Energy (with Craig Patterson)

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.

An Indigenous Perspective on Land Use (with Nohham R. Cachat-Schilling, Kanien’keha:ka-Nashawe Nipmuk medicine person)

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.

Do Cows Belong on Public Lands? (with Felice Pace of the Grazing Reform Project)

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.

The Shadow of the Environmental Movement

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. 

Climate & Oregon's Industrial Forests (with Chuck Willer of Coast Range Association)

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.

Unearthing the Roots of Industrial Agriculture (with Kollibri terre Sonnenblume)

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.

Not Out of the Woods Yet (with Ashley Lipscomb of Kentucky Heartwood)

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.

Protecting Nature, Empowering Women (with Florence Blondel, global justice campaigner)

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 her native country of 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.