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.

On episode #15 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg interviews Tiffany Hansen, co-founder and director of Rocky Flats Downwinders, about the ongoing plutonium (and other) contamination from Rocky Flats, the former nuclear weapons facility outside Denver, Colorado; concerns about the health of nearby communities; using hemp to remediate the toxic soil; and creating a Rocky Flats cannabis strain.

On episode #14 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg goes deep with Mike Ewall, founder and director of the Energy Justice Network, on the various forms of biomass energy, its environmental, climate, and human health impacts, and how not all “clean energy” is created equal.

On episode #13 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg interviews Hailey Hawkins, Southern Rockies Field Representative for the Endangered Species Coalition, about the return of wolves to the western landscape, the importance of habitat connectivity for sustaining wildlife populations, and recent efforts by the powers that be to gut the Endangered Species Act.

On episode #12 of the Green Root Podcast, Josh Schlossberg talks with Gary Wockner, director of Save the Colorado and founder of the the Free Flowing Rivers Initiative of the Waterkeeper Alliance, about the intrinsic value of rivers, the ecological and human rights consequences of hydroelectric power, the economic benefits of dam removal, and lots more.

On episode #11 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg ponders what it means to be an ecosystem patriot, points out how disagreements between enviros often come down to different views on the concept of “wild nature,” and suggests how we can re-unite our fragmented movement by coming together to permanently preserve public lands.

On episode #10 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg chats with Dayna Yildirim of Extinction Rebellion about how environmental activists can become more effective—and personally fulfilled—by practicing radical self-honesty, “leading with the heart,” and processing their grief over the eco-crisis.