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On episode 145 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg ponders how the grassroots conservation movement might engage with large enviro NGOs that haven’t sold out to corporate interests but won’t take a strong public stand in defense of wildlands and wildlife.  Josh talks about how: -How certain conservation NGOs privately share concerns about threats to nature only to stay out of the public discussion; -How a lot of Big Green is staying neutral on Colorado’s Proposition 137, which could log up to 25,000 acres of public lands every year; -How several national environmental orgs oppose Prop. 137 on paper while keeping pretty quiet about it; -Why so many of our best-funded allies seem reluctant to stand up for what they believe in; -What grassroots advocates might do to empower these folks to speak more loudly on behalf of life on Earth.

On episode 144 of the Green Root Podcast, Elise Elswood, Founder of Grasslands Colorado, calls on Colorado Parks and Wildlife to take immediate action to curb the unregulated recreational shooting of prairie dogs on public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Elise about: -How outfitter-led prairie dog shooting sprees are killing up to 1,000 per day of the keystone species; -Grasslands Colorado’s case study, “Massacre for Sport: Ending Unregulated Prairie Dog Hunts in Colorado’s Protected Lands,” which reveals how prairie dogs are at less than 1 percent of original populations on 2 percent of historic habitat; -The complexity of prairie dog calls that reveal high intelligence; -The myth that prairie dogs spread plague (they’re victims not vectors); -Elise’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 143 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg reports how media outlets may be influencing a state election through one-sided and inaccurate coverage of a ballot measure (Colorado’s Proposition 137) that would siphon hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to INCREASE wildfire risk to communities through industrial logging. Josh talks about how: -Colorado Politics, Colorado Sun, Denver Post and other outlets may be interfering with fair elections through biased and censorious news and opinion around the deceptive and dangerous Prop. 137; -Nearly all Colorado media has thus far not simply overlooked the opposition to Prop. 137 but denied its existence; -Each of the outlets named above (and numerous others) have ignored multiple press releases about the ballot issue committee registered with the Colorado Secretary of State, Protect Colorado’s Land, Communities, and Tax Dollars (NoProp137.com); -All but a few outlets have published only the perspectives of Prop. 137’s corporate-funded NGOs without any fact-checking; -You can hold these media outlets accountable by sending the following email to these addresses: Subject: Concerns About One-Sided Coverage on Prop. 137 “Please cover Prop. 137 in a fair and balanced manner with equal time for news coverage and opinion pieces of backers and opposition. Such unbiased coverage is crucial at all times but especially so during an election.” [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

On episode 142 of the Green Root Podcast, Mike Rawluk with Protect Colorado’s Land, Communities, and Tax Dollars (NoProp137.com) analyzes a ballot measure that would siphon away tens of millions in tax dollars every year to expand scientifically-debunked “wildfire fuel reduction” logging on public lands. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Mike about: -Colorado’s Proposition 137, which would take $175 million every year from the general fund and/or taxpayer refunds, half of which could pay for up to 25,000 annual acres of public lands logging; -The numerous government funds this money would be routed through, making it difficult to track or demand accountability; -How watchdogging taxpayer spending on controversial land management should be a non-partisan issue; -How people can protect land, communities, and tax dollars from extraction interests by opposing Prop. 137 at NoProp137.com; -Mike’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 141 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Delia Malone, president of ColoradoWild, and host Josh Schlossberg discuss two destructive and deceptive ballot measures threatening Colorado’s wildlands and wildlife, which may be exported across the nation if they pass. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Delia about: -Amendment 83, aka the “Right to Hunt,” which may bring back leghold traps, snares, cyanide bombs, and hunting bears with hounds and bait; -Proposition 137, aka the “Clearcut Initiative,” which would hide behind recreation to siphon $175 million in tax dollars towards an estimated 25,000 acres (40 square miles) per year of public lands logging while increasing community risk to wildfire; -How the State of Colorado’s legislative council refuses to accurately describe these ballot measures—or even the arguments against them—in the voter’s “Blue Book.” -How most “Corporate Green” NGOs either remain silent on or support (!) these historic threats to nature, with many media outlets promoting the measures and/or censoring critics. -How the last real conservationists might better unite and strengthen our grassroots movement to stand for the wild; -Delia’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 140 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg exposes the Corporate Green land management NGOs selling out wildlands, wildlife, and their own reputations by greenwashing and FUNDING the most destructive public lands extraction scheme in the history of the West. Josh talks about: -The Corporate Green land management NGOs handing over public resources to extraction interests across potentially hundreds of millions of acres across the U.S. under the guise of “conservation”; -Colorado’s Proposition 137, which would siphon $175 million per year in taxpayer dollars, half of which would finance up to 25,000 annual acres of industrial logging; -The need for Grassroots Greens to call out and stand against Corporate Green corruption and unite under a common vision to genuinely and permanently protect Earth’s living ecosystems.

On episode 139 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares his solution for dealing with those destroying the American Western landscape by whipping up wildfire hysteria to siphon billions in tax dollars towards scientifically-debunked “fuel reduction” logging. Josh talks about: -Colorado’s Prop 137, which would siphon $175 million per year in taxpayer dollars, half of which would finance up to 25,000 annual acres of industrial logging; -How industry, government, politicians, NGOs, and media have colluded to promote disinformation and silence criticism to push clearcutting and mature and old-growth tree logging across Roadless Areas, endangered species habitat, and old-growth forests; -A solution for mountain and forest edge residents who are so afraid of wildfire that they’ve been duped by vested interests into cheerleading the degradation and destruction of the Western landscape they claim to love instead of actually protecting their homes and lives through home hardening. The mission of Eco-Integrity Alliance (eco-integrityalliance.org) is to unite U.S. grassroots ecosystem advocates through common campaigns of mutual support. Email [email protected] to get plugged into your state today!

On episode 138 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), John C. Krieg, landscape architect and environmental writer, exposes the hard reality of drought, the limits of consumption and economic growth, and the future of human habitation in the Western U.S. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with John about: -The impact of drought on rivers, deserts, chaparral, and forests; -Rapidly approaching environmental tipping points; -Water conservation, regenerative agriculture, green burial, and other ecological solutions; -His books, including the September publication of OUR ENVIRONMENTAL AWAKENING; A BRIEF GUIDE TO SURVIVING CLIMATE CHANGE; -John’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 137 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg examines a new tactic decision makers and gatekeepers may be using to silence environmental advocates. Josh talks about: -Three recent, specific instances where decision makers and gatekeepers tried to silence Eco-Integrity Alliance’s science-based critique of public lands logging; -The emails back and forth between Josh and a government agency staffer, a local politician, and the moderator for an environmental email list; -Whether Josh is imagining this attempt at censorship and/or is in the wrong himself; -Why this tactic may be employed and, if so, what enviros might do about it.

On episode 136 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Andy Zahn, Washington State legislative candidate, shares the facts and debunks the myths on the recent wildfires in Spokane, Washington. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Andy about: -How the Spokane wildfires aren’t forest but grassland fires driven not by fuels but weather and wind; -How urban sprawl makes cities such as Spokane so hard for firefighters to defend; -Andy’s candidacy for Position 1 in Washington’s 20th legislative district; -Andy’s platform to support the ecology and economy of rural communities through the designation of new public parks; -Andy’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 135 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Carol Rhodes, founder of Artists for Climate Awareness and Fran Kremer, co-founder of Uniting Artists and Scientists for Climate Action, reveal how art can be a form of environmental activism.

On episode 134 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), a woodland owl offers some insight into the four biggest obstacles to effective grassroots environmental advocacy and how to overcome them.  The owl hoots about: -Distraction - electronics, entertainment, and human-centric causes; -Laziness - our natural habit to save energy by avoiding difficult tasks; -Fear - exaggerated or unfounded worries about negative feedback or blowback; -Infighting - our species’ difficulty getting along with each other; -How advocates might acknowledge and overcome these obstacles to start reversing the eco-crisis. The mission of Eco-Integrity Alliance (eco-integrityalliance.org) is to unite U.S. grassroots ecosystem advocates through common campaigns of mutual support. Email [email protected] to get plugged into your state today!

On episode 133 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), concerned citizen Mike Rawluk questions a Colorado government/corporate scheme to poison a watershed and drinking water source inside designated wilderness with a fish-killing pesticide. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Mike about: -How Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Denver Water plan to use the pesticide/piscicide rotenone to extirpate an “invasive” trout subspecies native to Colorado from McQueary Creek and Lake in the Vaquez Peak Wilderness; -The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2006 ban on rotenone for agricultural and household due to potential health risks; -Recent legal victories in Montana to stop spraying rotenone in watersheds as a violation of the Wilderness Act; -Whether poisoning entire waterways to remove certain fish species—including in Rocky Mountain National Park—does more harm than good;  -Mike’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.

On episode 132 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), host Josh Schlossberg shares Eco-Integrity Alliance’s brand new “Ponderosa Pine Model,” a winning model for grassroots environmental organizing. Read about the model here: https://eco-integrityalliance.org/ponderosa/ Josh talks about: -The lack of structure in a lot of well-meaning grassroots environmental campaigns; -Movement successes and failures that birthed the Ponderosa Pine Model; -The various roles, minimal time commitments, and specific tasks that let organizers, advocates, and volunteers plug in to take effective action without burn out; -How grassroots organizers might use the Ponderosa Pine Model to win grassroots campaigns and start reversing the eco-crisis!

On episode 131 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Melissa Soderston, president of Tahoe Forest Matters, exposes California “land management” agencies’ scheme to log, burn, and poison public lands surrounding Lake Tahoe. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Melissa about: -How the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies spray toxic herbicides after destroying forest ecosystems with ineffective “wildfire fuel reduction” logging; -How glyphosate/Roundup threatens the waters of California’s iconic Lake Tahoe; -How the region’s forests are growing back beautifully after the so-called “devastating” Caldor fire of 2021; -The myth that California’s public lands are “unmanaged” as they are subjected to some of the largest, most destructive logging schemes in the U.S.; - Melissa’s take on a root cause of the ecological crisis.