Breaking Green

Breaking Green

Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor

Episodes 48
Avg. Duration 39m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (11)
Since May 2021
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Months
Format
Episodic
Consistency
61%
Hosting
rss.buzzsprout.com

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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.

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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S6E4 Data Centers And Industrial Farming Are Fueling A Groundwater Crisis, with Kaleb Lay

Apr 27, 2026 38m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWe 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 gap. We explore…

S6E3 Armageddon Briefings: US Commanders Said Iran War to Bring Armageddon - with Jonathan Larsen

Mar 18, 2026 43m Bonus Transcript

Send us Fan MailSome 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 Religious Freedom…

S6E2 How Monoculture Undermines Soil and Communities with Dr. Joshua T. Anderson

Mar 10, 2026 42m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWe 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…

S6E1 Rising Resistance to ICE in Minneapolis with IEN's Mark Tilsen

Jan 25, 2026 42m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWe 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.…

S5E7 American Chestnut Revival on A Scientist’s Land In Maine

Nov 21, 2025 26m Transcript

Send us Fan MailA celebrated naturalist’s Maine hillside holds thousands of wild American chestnuts thriving across three generations, challenging the claim that the species cannot return without…

S5E6 Kollapse Kamp with Dr. Tadzio Mueller

Sep 26, 2025 50m Transcript

Send us Fan MailDespite escalating climate disasters across the Global North - from deadly floods in Germany to devastating hurricanes in the United States - we're witnessing alarming rightward…

S5E5 The Marshall Islands: Between Nuclear Colonialism and Climate Crisis with Shem Livai

Aug 20, 2025 22m Transcript

Send us Fan MailThe 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…

S5E4 When Arctic Climate "Solutions" Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

Jun 06, 2025 49m Transcript

Send us Fan MailPanganga Pungowiyi, an Indigenous mother and climate geoengineering organizer from Sibokuk in the Dena'ina Islands, shares her community's historical trauma and resistance against…

S5E3 Mapuche Ancestral Rights and Political Prisoners in Chile's Wallmapu - with Anne Petermann

Apr 16, 2025 36m Transcript

Send us Fan MailThe 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…

S5E2 No Planet B: Why Mars is More Myth than Mission with Dennis Meredith

Mar 03, 2025 37m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWe 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…

S5E1 Leonard Peltier's Road to Clemency with Michael Kuzma

Feb 10, 2025 33m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWhat 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 Leonard Peltier, a…

S4E9 Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas

Dec 16, 2024 43m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWhat is artificial intelligence and how are some corporate interests seeking to hand over the development of genetically engineered organisms to it?Join us as we unpack this question…

S4E8 When "Protecting Nature" Harms Its True Guardians with Anuradha Mittal

Sep 17, 2024 36m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWhat if conservation efforts meant to protect our planet were actually causing significant harm to the very people who have safeguarded these lands for generations? On this episode of…

S4E7 The Renewable Diesel Scam with Gary Hughes

Jun 23, 2024 44m Transcript

Send us Fan MailCan converting petroleum refineries into renewable diesel production truly serve as a green alternative, or is it merely greenwashing? Join us this week on Breaking Green as we tackle…

S4E6 International Petition Filed on Behalf of COP City Protester Killed by Police with Anthony Enriquez

May 20, 2024 45m Transcript

Send us Fan MailOn 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 hail of bullets fired…

S4E5 The Navajo Nation's Battle with Uranium Mining's Toxic Legacy with Justin Ahasteen

Apr 26, 2024 40m Transcript

Send us Fan MailChristopher Nolan's movie Oppenheimer captured the imagination of the nation as it dramatized the super-secret Manhattan Project that was responsible for creating the first atomic…

S4E4 Fight for Salmon Conservation and Cultural Survival with Brook-Thompson

Apr 10, 2024 42m Transcript

Send us Fan MailWhen the salmon numbers in the Klamath River dwindled, it wasn't just a loss of wildlife, it was a piece of Brook Thompson's heritage slipping away. Our latest episode of Breaking…

S4E3 The Battle Against Eucalyptus in Galicia with Joam Evans Pim

Mar 13, 2024 32m Transcript

Send us Fan MailTerrible forest fires that are the result of eucalyptus plantations are becoming an increasing threat. Known as green deserts, these monoculture eucalyptus tree plantations are…

S4E2 Failure of the GE American Chestnut with Anne Petermann and Dr. Donald Davis

Feb 18, 2024 42m Transcript

Send us Fan MailThe American Chestnut Foundation has long supported a controversial plan to release genetically engineered chestnut trees into the wild. The Tree was being developed by the State…

S4E1 Suppression in East Palestine Ohio With Scott Smith and Lesley Pacey

Jan 20, 2024 40m Transcript

Send us Fan MailOn February 3rd 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying thousands of gallons of hazardous chemicals derailed. It was later set on fire in part to clear the tracks.Residents have…

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