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Stop Oreos, Save the Rainforest w/ Forest Campaigner Maggie Martin

March 4, 2026Climate, Direct Action

Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high environmental scores and pledging to eliminate…

No Option But Sabotage: Rad Enviros and the Climate Crisis w/ Prof. Thomas Zeitzoff

March 2, 2026Climate, Direct Action, state repression

After 9/11, the radical environmental movement was considered the number one domestic terror threat by the U.S. government. But by the end of the decade the movement had largely gone…

#COP30: “ One out of every 25 attendees is a fossil fuel lobbyist, which frankly, is horrifying.” w/ climate campaigner Collin Rees

November 14, 2025Climate

In our latest, Scott talks with climate campaigner Collin Rees (@collinrees) in Belem Brazil for COP 30. They discuss what's happening on the ground, the high concentration of fossil fuel…

Journalist Will Potter on Big Oil’s Attempt to Bankrupt Greenpeace

March 25, 2025Climate, Direct Action

Will Potter, author of *Green is the New Red* and one of the best-known observers and analysts of the way the state uses contrived charges of "terrorism" to attack environmental…

Deep Dive on the Climate Crisis w/ Prof. Lucas Vargas Zeppetello

January 28, 2025Climate

In our latest, we talk with Prof. Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, climate scientist at UC Berkeley and do a deep dive into the the climate crisis. From the science behind global…

Why Is Wall St. Backpedaling on Its Climate Commitments? w/ Climate Organizer Liv Senghor

January 21, 2025Climate

In our latest episode in our series on Climate in the Age of Trump, Scott talks with Liv Senghor about Wall Street's backpedaling on its commitments to phase fossil fuels…

How Big Oil Covered Up Climate Change 70 Years Ago w/ Rebecca John

January 13, 2025Climate

We’ve long known that the fossil fuel industry, and front groups like the Western States Petroleum Association, has created a system of denial and disinformation to prevent the public from…

#COP27: Update from Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt

November 10, 2022Climate

The 27th meeting of the United Nations Climate talks, or COP27m is happening in Sharm El Sheikh, a coastal resort town in Egypt. The gathering is happening amidst a crackdown…

Best of G&R: The Myth of California’s Climate Exceptionalism ft. Gary Graham Hughes w/ Biofuelwatch

August 28, 2022Climate

Not unlike our (not so) esteemed leadership in Congress, Green and Red is out on a little summer recess. We will be back with new episodes soon.

In the meantime here’s a “Best of Green and Red” episode from March 2022 on the energy sector’s false solutions agenda in California. Since false solutions like carbon capture and storage and nuclear are in the news so much lately (particularly hipster socialist Brooklyn media) and getting new life through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), we thought we’d share a little info on them. But we’re now planning an episode on the IRA coming soon.

Climate Hegemony: Now is the Time of Monsters

May 9, 2022anti-capitalism, Climate, Materialism and Economics, Peoples' History, politics

cross-posted from Medium by Scott Parkin he·ge·mo·ny | 1.) preponderant influence or authority over others; 2.) the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group Recently, it…