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 #20 of the Green Root Podcast, host & future climate refugee Josh Schlossberg interviews abrupt climate change researcher & Nature Bats Last co-host, Kevin Hester, about tipping points and extinction cascades, media and entertainment as a distraction from climate breakdown, managing grief, and why it’s never too late to start telling the truth.

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.