Breaking Green
by Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor
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About this podcast
Produced by Global Justice Ecology Project, Breaking Green is a podcast that talks with activists and experts to examine the intertwined issues of social, ecological and economic injustice. Breaking Green also explores some of the more outrageous proposals to address climate and environmental crises that are falsely being sold as green.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- The USDA Just Cleared a Defective GMO Tree for Release into the Wild with Anne Petermann · 31 min · Season 6 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail A genetically engineered (GE) chestnut modified with a wheat gene is being framed as a conservation breakthrough, but the reality is far messier and far more…
- Conservation by Force: The Hidden Violence of Protecting 'Wilderness' with Zahra Moloo · 40 min · Season 6 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Be sure to subscribe or follow, and share this podcast We talk with investigative journalist and filmmaker Zahra Moloo about how conservation in Southeast…
- Decolonizing Conservation: Evictions of Indigenous Maasai in Tanzania · 30 min · Season 6 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Photo: Orin Langelle / Global Justice Ecology Project UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It is tasked with the…
- AI Power Demands Are Rewriting Nuclear Safety with Peter Jones · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail In the face of new studies showing increased dangers of exposure to radiation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing the repeal of a 50 year old safety…
- Data Centers And Industrial Farming Are Fueling A Groundwater Crisis, with Kaleb Lay · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail We talk with Kaleb Lay from Oregon Rural Action about how people living in a rural Oregon “sacrifice zone” end up with poisoned well water, and a widening wealth…
- Armageddon Briefings: US Commanders Said Iran War to Bring Armageddon - with Jonathan Larsen · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Some US service members say they were told a war with Iran wouldn’t just be strategic—it would be biblical. According to complaints gathered by the Military…
- How Monoculture Undermines Soil and Communities with Dr. Joshua T. Anderson · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail We trace how the Great Plains still lives with Dust Bowl forces as Dr. Joshua Anderson links soil loss, monoculture, and rural decline to a culture that no…
- Rising Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis with IEN's Mark Tilsen · 42 min · Season 6 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail We talk with Oglala Lakota poet and organizer Mark K. Tilson about the ICE surge in Minneapolis, the killing of Renee Good, and how neighbors are building a…
- American Chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine · 27 min · Season 5 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail A celebrated naturalist’s Maine hillside holds thousands of wild American chestnuts thriving across three generations, challenging the claim that the species…
- Kollapse Kamp with Dr. Tadzio Mueller · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Despite escalating climate disasters across the Global North - from deadly floods in Germany to devastating hurricanes in the United States - we're witnessing…
- The Marshall Islands: Between Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Crisis with Shem Livai · 22 min · Season 5 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail The Marshall Islands face dual threats from the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing and the advancing impacts of climate change, creating an urgent struggle for…
- When Arctic Climate "Solutions" Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail Panganga Pungowiyi, an Indigenous mother and climate geoengineering organizer from Sibokuk in the Dena'ina Islands, shares her community's historical trauma and…
- Mapuche Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - with Anne Petermann · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail The Mapuche people of Chile are fighting to reclaim ancestral lands taken over by vast industrial eucalyptus and pine plantations established during the Pinochet…
- No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail We explore the myths and realities of space colonization and assess whether humans can survive long-term deep space travel. In this episode, author Dennis…
- Leonard Peltier's Road to Clemency with Michael Kuzma · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail What happens when justice collides with government secrecy? We invite you to join our conversation with attorney Michael Kuzma as we untangle the complex case of…
- Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail What is artificial intelligence and how are some corporate interests seeking to hand over the development of genetically engineered organisms to it? Join us as…
- When "Protecting Nature" Harms Its True Guardians with Anuradha Mittal · 37 min · Season 4 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail What if conservation efforts meant to protect our planet were actually causing significant harm to the very people who have safeguarded these lands for…
- The Renewable Diesel Scam with Gary Hughes · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Can converting petroleum refineries into renewable diesel production truly serve as a green alternative, or is it merely greenwashing? Join us this week on…
- International Petition Filed on Behalf of COP City Protester Killed by Police with Anthony Enriquez · 46 min · Season 4 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail On January 18th of last year, a land defender protesting the razing of an urban forest to build a police training mega complex known as COP City was killed by a…
- The Navajo Nation's Battle with Uranium Mining's Toxic Legacy with Justin Ahasteen · 41 min · Season 4 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Christopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer captured the imagination of the nation as it dramatized the super-secret Manhattan Project that was responsible for…
