Green Root Podcast #103: BIOMASS OR BIO-MESS? INCINERATING FORESTS FOR ELECTRICITY

On episode 103 of the Green Root Podcast (the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance), Hudson Kingston, legal director for CURE, battles government plans in Minnesota to greenwash dirty, forest-killing “biomass” energy by ignoring carbon emissions from incinerating trees and trash for industrial-scale electricity. Host Josh Schlossberg talks with Hudson about: -How the Minnesota Public UtilitiesContinue reading “Green Root Podcast #103: BIOMASS OR BIO-MESS? INCINERATING FORESTS FOR ELECTRICITY”

Green Root Podcast #94: EASTERN FORESTS UNDER ATTACK!

On episode 94 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—we report breaking news on the destructive logging threatening the Bell Smith Springs National Natural Landmark in Illinois and the legal battle on which the future of the Shawnee National Forest depends, with Sam Stearns, founder of Friends of Bell Smith Springs &Continue reading “Green Root Podcast #94: EASTERN FORESTS UNDER ATTACK!”

GREEN ROOT PODCAST #77: Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix (with Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage)

On episode 77 of the Green Root Podcast—the official podcast of Eco-Integrity Alliance—host Josh Schlossberg gets empirical with Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage and co-editor of Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix, as they discuss the vast and growing body of peer-reviewed studies showing the ecological necessity of “severe” wildfires and the harmful, ineffective,Continue reading “GREEN ROOT PODCAST #77: Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix (with Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage)”

Eco-Integrity Alliance Awarded Grant for Campaign to Protect National Forests as Climate & Biodiversity Reserves

Eco-Integrity Alliance is pleased to announce the receipt of a grant from Ben & Jerry’s Foundation for our campaign to Protect National Forests as Climate & Biodiversity Reserves.

900,000 Acres of Unscientific “Emergency Action” Logging in U.S. National Forests

As of July 15, 2024, 900,368 acres of unscientific “emergency action” logging and burning has been approved or proposed across fifteen National Forests in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Washington.

Green Root Podcast #66: CLEARCUTTING CALIFORNIA? (w/ Melissa Soderston of Tahoe Forests Matter)

On episode 66 of the Green Root Podcast, host Josh Schlossberg chats with Melissa Soderston, director of Tahoe Forests Matter, where she reveals a massive logging scheme planned for California’s carbon-storing public forests and how you can help locals planning to stop it.

US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colorado) and Val Hoyle (D-Oregon) are co-sponsoring a bill to spend 30 billion in taxpayer dollars to log and clearcut carbon-storing public forests across the West, a scientifically contested scheme that would undermine President Biden’s “commitment to protect old growth forests on National Forest system lands” while ignoring proven strategies forContinue reading “US Reps. Neguse (D-CO) and Hoyle’s (D-OR) $30 Billion Logging Bill Undercuts President Biden’s Old Growth Protection”

Eco-Integrity Alliance Supports Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)

Eco-Integrity Alliance, a new coalition of U.S. environmentalists uniting the alternative environmental movement, endorses Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), a bill encompassing nearly 20 million acres across Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Wyoming, creating biological zones to connect new and existing wilderness and roadless areas. Containing some of the most ecologically-rich lands left inContinue reading “Eco-Integrity Alliance Supports Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA)”