Breaking Green

Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor
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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. But we can't do it without you! We accept no corporate sponsors, and rely on people like you to make Breaking Green possible.If you'd like to donate,  text GIVE to 716-257-4187 or donate online at: https://globaljusticeecology.org/Donate-to-Breaking-Green (select apply my donation to "Breaking Green Podcast")

  1. How Monoculture Undermines Soil and Communities with Dr. Joshua T. Anderson

    5H AGO

    How Monoculture Undermines Soil and Communities with Dr. Joshua T. Anderson

    Send a text 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 longer asks if we are growing food. Caregiving for his father with MS shapes a vision to “restory” land and rebuild soil health through minimal disturbance, living roots, diversity, and cover. Joshua T. Anderson is a writer and soil conservationist from rural North Dakota committed to flyways, foodways, and folkways. His featured article on the intersection of soil health and human health appears in the fall issue ofEarth Island Journal, and his creative nonfiction essay on the dominance of the sugar industry in North Dakota’s Red River Valley appears in Open Space(the online journal of North American Review). His recent publications on regenerative agriculture and grassland conservation appear inMary Swander's Emerging Voices,Iowa Capital Dispatch, andNorth Dakota Monitor. He was recently an artist-in-residence at the Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts and Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon. His soil and water conservation efforts have been featured in newspapers throughout the Great Plains, including feature interviews about his podcast, prairie conservation through arts and education, and his work to protect his home watershed. He is the co-founder of the Flyway Institute, which brings artists to rural communities in support of conservation efforts throughout the North American flyways. His first narrative nonfiction book Soil Horizons will be published by Plainspoken Books.  In this episode: • topsoil loss in North Dakota since the 1960s • monoculture sugar and fuel displacing real food • food deserts amid vast agricultural acres • soil health principles and prairie ecology • costs of inputs rising as organic matter falls • cultural change and land consolidation pressures • small diversified farms feeding communities • language links: humus, humility, human • excerpt reading from Rooted In Care • forthcoming book Soil Horizons and its themes Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights, and expose false solutions Simply text Give G I V E to 1716 257 4187 Support the show

    43 min
  2. Rising Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis with IEN's Mark Tilsen

    JAN 25

    Rising Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis with IEN's Mark Tilsen

    Send a text 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 decentralized resistance. The conversation traces lawless tactics, historical patterns, and the courage that grows when people act together. • collapse of civic life in Minneapolis under raids and fear  • judicial warrants versus administrative actions  • masked agents, unmarked vehicles, and disinformation  • legal observers, community recording, and evidence  • targeting at churches, schools, and traffic stops  • Indigenous detentions and the Whipple Building’s history  • AIM patrol legacy and modern rapid response  • AI surveillance, stingrays, and counter-tactics  • decentralized movement led by everyday neighbors  • fear transforming into large-scale public courage  • poem “Around the Neighborhood” honoring Renee Good This episode of Breaking Green is dedicated to Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the VA hospital in Minneapolis who was shot and killed by ICE on 24 January 2026 To learn more about Global Justice Ecology Project, visit GlobalJusticeEcology.org  Support the show

    42 min
  3. American Chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine

    11/21/2025

    American Chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine

    Send a text A celebrated naturalist’s Maine hillside holds thousands of wild American chestnuts thriving across three generations, challenging the claim that the species cannot return without genetic engineering. We explore the history of blight, restoration strategies, climate shifts, and why evidence from the field matters. • origins of the blight and early containment attempts • limits of Chinese hybrid chestnuts in forest settings • selective breeding for American traits with blight tolerance • push for GE chestnuts and its one-gene promise • documented natural resurgence on Bernd Heinrich’s land • seed dispersal by birds and squirrels across miles • published mapping, burr counts, and multi‑generation stands • climate change moving the chestnut range north • reports of wild chestnuts in gap openings across the Northeast • missteps and credibility issues in GE field trials • how to see the documentary and share chestnut sightings Premieres December 4 at thewildamericanchestnut.org. “People can go there, sign up for the movie, and share your chestnut story.” Support the show

    27 min
  4. Kollapse Kamp with Dr. Tadzio Mueller

    09/26/2025

    Kollapse Kamp with Dr. Tadzio Mueller

    Send a text Despite escalating climate disasters across the Global North - from deadly floods in Germany to devastating hurricanes in the United States - we're witnessing alarming rightward shifts instead of rational policy responses.  Countries experiencing climate catastrophes also often elect their most conservative governments shortly afterward, which suggests our traditional assumption that climate impacts drive climate action has fundamentally failed. Tadzio Mueller, a prominent global climate activist, sees collapse as inevitable but also sees a future worth organizing for.  On this episode of Breaking Green, Mueller describes what he calls the Just Collapse Movement. Text GIVE to 17162574187 to support Breaking Green's work lifting up the voices of those protecting forests, defending human rights and exposing false solutions. Support the show

    50 min
  5. The Marshall Islands: Between Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Crisis with Shem Livai

    08/20/2025

    The Marshall Islands: Between Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Crisis with Shem Livai

    Send a text 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 justice and survival. On this episode of Breaking Green we are going to speak with Shem Livai. Shem Livai is a Director at Marshalls Energy Company in the Marshall Islands. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Creative Leadership for Innovation and Change from the University of the Virgin Islands, he has an MBA from the University of the South Pacific, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawai‘i.  Text GIVE to 17162574187 to support Breaking Green's work lifting up the voices of those protecting forests, defending human rights and exposing false solutions. Support the show

    22 min
  6. When Arctic Climate "Solutions" Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

    06/06/2025

    When Arctic Climate "Solutions" Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

    Send a text Panganga Pungowiyi, an Indigenous mother and climate geoengineering organizer from Sibokuk in the Dena'ina Islands, shares her community's historical trauma and resistance against experimental climate technologies deployed without consent. Her powerful testimony reveals how colonial patterns of exploitation continue today through geoengineering experiments that ignore Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge systems. • Military contamination during the Cold War left lasting environmental damage and health impacts including cancer and Parkinson's disease • Climate geoengineering experiments are being conducted in Indigenous territories without free, prior and informed consent • Researchers spread silica beads on Arctic ice  • Carbon capture technologies primarily benefit fossil fuel companies through enhanced oil recovery rather than addressing climate change • Indigenous cosmovision views humans as part of nature, not above it, making ecosystem manipulation fundamentally problematic • Outside researchers fail to understand Arctic ecosystems, where ice movement and marine life cycles would be disrupted by interventions • True climate solutions require addressing oppression and restoring Indigenous rights rather than technological quick-fixes Text GIVE to 17162574187 to support Breaking Green's work lifting up the voices of those protecting forests, defending human rights and exposing false solutions. Support the show

    50 min
  7. Mapuche Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - with Anne Petermann

    04/16/2025

    Mapuche Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - with Anne Petermann

    Send a text The Mapuche people of Chile are fighting to reclaim ancestral lands taken over by vast industrial eucalyptus and pine plantations established during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s. Their struggle goes beyond land ownership—it's about reclaiming culture, spirituality, language, and food sovereignty while facing criminalization under Chile's new "usurpation law." • Mapuche territory (Wallmapu) was initially protected by treaty but later seized through what the Chilean government called "pacification of the Araucanía" • Industrial tree plantations have destroyed native ecosystems, depleted water resources, and created conditions for devastating "megafires" and "gigafires" • Chilean authorities use "preventative prison" to hold Mapuche activists for up to two years without formal charges or trials • Militarization of Mapuche territories has led to surveillance, intimidation, and targeting of young activists • The controversial "usurpation law" criminalizes land reclamation efforts, violating international indigenous rights agreements Chile has ratified • The struggle connects to broader patterns of indigenous land theft for industrial tree plantations under dictatorships globally • Land reclamation is essential for Mapuche cultural revival and addressing extreme poverty On this episode of Breaking Green, we spoke with Anne Petermann.  Petermann co- founded Global Justice Ecology Project in 2003. She is the international coordinator of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, which she also co founded. Petermann is a founding board member of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series. She has been involved in movements for forest protection and indigenous rights since 1991, and the international and national climate justice movements since 2004. She participated in the founding of the Durban group for climate justice in 2004, in Durban, South Africa, and Climate Justice Now in 2007 at the Bali Indonesia UN climate conference. She was adopted as an honorary member of the St. Francis- Sokoki band of the Abenaki in 1992 for her work in support of their struggle for state recognition. In 2000, she received the wild nature award for activist of the year. Photo by Orin Langelle. For more information visit: https://globaljusticeecology.org/brazil-2023/ This podcast is produced by Global Justice Ecology Project. Breaking Green is made possible by tax deductible donations from people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights and expose false solutions.   Donate securely online here Or simply text GIVE to 716-257-4187 Support the show

    37 min
  8. No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith

    03/03/2025

    No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith

    Send a text 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 Meredith explains why we might need to rethink our ambitions and focus on protecting our planet instead. • Dissecting the notion of humanity becoming a multi-planet species  • Highlighting the physical impacts of space travel on human health  • Exploring toxic lunar and Martian dust hazards  • Discussing the economic feasibility of Mars colonization  • Urging prioritization of environmental efforts on Earth over space exploration  • Advocating for a deeper understanding of Earth's ecosystems  Earthbound is scheduled to be released March 31st. Learn more about Dennis Meredith's book at earthboundthebook.com.  Dennis Meredith has worked as a science communicator at leading research universities, including MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Duke and the University of Wisconsin. He is author of the nonfiction books Explaining Research: How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work; The Climate Pandemic: How Climate Disruption Threatens Human Survival; and Earthbound: The Obstacles to Human Space Exploration and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence.  He also writes science thrillers, and his latest environmentally themed novels are the award-winning Mythicals and Attack of the Food Zombies. Breaking Green is made possible by tax deductible donations from people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights and expose false solutions.   Donate securely online here Or simply text GIVE to 716-257-4187 Support the show

    38 min
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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. But we can't do it without you! We accept no corporate sponsors, and rely on people like you to make Breaking Green possible.If you'd like to donate,  text GIVE to 716-257-4187 or donate online at: https://globaljusticeecology.org/Donate-to-Breaking-Green (select apply my donation to "Breaking Green Podcast")

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  • Creator
    Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Breaking Green
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