Breaking Green

04/26/2024

I had the opportunity and honor of interviewing Justin Ahasteen, Executive Director of the Navajo Nation National Office about the history of uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.

Christopher 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 bomb. But what about the legacy of radioactive waste that the US we...

02/17/2024

I have been tapped to do the Earth Minute for a nationally syndicated program on Pacifica Radio. It's fun.

Global Justice Ecology Project produces the Earth Minute for the Sojourner Truth Show hosted by Margaret Prescod.Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod is a public affairs program that airs Tuesday through Friday on KPFK Radio from 7 to 8 AM (PST)....

09/20/2023

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New Zealand is a GE Free zone were all produce grown in New Zealand can be guaranteed GE Free.  Companies are allowed to do research with Genetically Modified Organisms but according to current New Zealand law such organisms must be proven sa...

07/19/2023

An instructor at an Ofaié school in Brazil talks of the genocide of his people and reflects on history and resistance. The presentation was to an international…

07/17/2023

The latest episode is now out. It features Anne Petermann about Brazil's "green deserts" and GJEP's recent delegation that met with Indigenous communities, NGOs and government ministries about the increased threat from GE trees and their use in eucalyptus plantations.

Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest is a well-known threat to the world's environment, but the loss of natural biodiversity to so-called "green deserts" resulting from expanding non-native eucalyptus plantations for pulp and paper producti...

06/08/2023

It has been a long 3 weeks in Brazil documenting the STOP GE Tree Campaign's meetings with Indigenous peoples, secretariats for various Brazilian Ministries and MST camps. Now comes a lot of editing and writing. Here are two stories filed from the field.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/834411278
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/832887919
This was quite the technical challenge for Press Express when it came to translators.

06/08/2023

3 weeks documenting in Brazil. We have some great interviews lined up.

05/01/2023

New episode explores how the community of East Palestine is continuing to struggle for environmental justice in the wake of he Northfolk Southern disaster.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1785184/12720256

02/09/2023

Our latest interview on Breaking Green has just been published in Eurasia Review.

Antiwar and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart. This intervie…

01/31/2023

On January 25th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight. The next day I interviewed Nobel Peace Prize nominee, environmentalist and founder of physicians for social responsibility. This is an excerpt of the soon to be released show. It is Dr. Caldicott explaining what a nuclear war looks like.

An excerpt from a January 25th, 2023 interview on Breaking Green with host Steve Taylor. Video of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer. Breakinggreen.buzzsprout.com