This episode is the audio recording of an article published at https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/remembering-the-lost-giants. In it, I reflect on shifting baseline syndrome and the fact that redwoods aren't the tallest trees on Earth: they're the tallest which haven't been logged.By Biocentric

This episode is the audio recording of an article published at https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/this-native-elder-is-being-sued-by. In it, I introduce Dean Barlese, a traditional knowledge-holder from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, an elder who was raised on old stories told by his father and grandparents. He’s the leader of the Pyramid Lake Spiri…

The Wildlife Rescue was formed in 2010 to provide quality health care, often on an emergency basis, to native wildlife. Located in Delhi, India the NGO was founded by brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Muhammad Saud. This interview is a conversation with Nadeem and Saud. Their work was the focus of a 2022 documentary film, All That Breathes, which won Bes…

A massive copper mine is planned 100 feet from the edge of Lake Superior (and may actually mine underneath the lake), adjacent to "the most beautiful State Park in the country" in the Upper Peninsula (UP) of Michigan. Sound like a bad idea? It gets worse: Tom Grotewohl says this should be called a "toxic waste mine" because 98.55% of what is produc…

Roger Hallam is the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Radical Routes, Burning Pink, and Just Stop Oil. On today's show, we discuss strategy for the climate and ecological movements, the role of mass street protests and public assemblies, violence vs. nonviolence, revolutions throughout history, the collapse of industrial civilization, the dangers…

For episode 100 of The Green Flame, we hosted a special live conversation between hosts Jennifer Murnan and Saba Malik, Saba Malik, Renee Gerlich, Carl Van Warmerdam, and Rebecca Wildbear. We announced that the show has separated from Deep Green Resistance, reflected on the origins of the Green Flame, discussed our favorite and most impactful episo…

Episode 99 is an interview with Carl Van Warmerdam. Carl delves into on the impact listening to the Ahjamu Umi Green Flame episode had on his life and activism. We asked Carl three primary questions: How has the GF informed and inspired you? What is your favorite episode? What would you like to hear more of on the GF? Please email contact@deepgreen…

The Tongass Rainforest in Southeast Alaska is the last great expanse of temperate old growth forest left in the United States, and it has been partially protected since the "Roadless Rule" halted most logging there in 2001. Now, the "biggest threat to the west coast rainforest this century" is here: Bill S.1889/H.R. 4748, which would permanently pr…

Dr Nzinga Dalilia, Saba Malik, and Max Wilbert join in conversation offering their unique perspectives on trauma, trauma community, addiction, “environmental justice”, othering, the necessity of feeling safe in the process of seeing and being seen, healing spaces, falling back in love with ourselves and with all of life and coming into our individu…

Before listening to this episode, stop. For the first time Lierre Keith’s presentation on non-violent direct action is publicly available! Go here and absorb this information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMk1eltyuek Next, listen this GF episode, Lierre’s account of ten courageous women's experiences as they organized and practiced NVDA brillian…

Attny Bobby Chan graces us with an introduction to the deep social justice and spiritual roots of PNNI (Palawan NGO Network Inc) founded in 1991. PNNI organizes communities through consensus. They use advocacy, civilian enforcement and increasingly are seeking legal measures to protect and defend the Palawan paradise. To learn more and support this…

Jessica Reznicek is a 40-year-old land and water defender who has worked with and lived in the Des Moines Catholic Worker Community. After being charged with a "terrorism enhancement," she was sentenced to 8 years in 2021 for taking action to protect the water along the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) route by disabling construction machinery during …

Species extinction. Plastic pollution. Global warming. Catastrophic floods. Raging fires. The failure of coral reefs. Whales dying en masse. Forever chemicals contaminating mothers' breast milk. Our planet is in crisis. And while the wealthy and governments pour trillions into technological so-called “solutions,” things are spiraling out of control…

Joshua Wright talks about his film Eden's Last Chance that was released in April of 2023. "For the nonhuman world, the apocalypse has already arrived. Don’t be a bystander to the death of the living world." Go to https://www.edenslastchance.com/ or watch it on Prime Video, Vimeo, Apple TV, Vudu, and Hoopla. The Fairy Creek Blockade has been establi…

In this episode of The Green Flame podcast, host Max Wilbert shares an update about the lawsuit filed against him and six other water protectors (including Will Falk, who has been on the Green Flame before) related to their protests against the Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada. For more information on the lawsuit and the campaign, visit https://…

We are asking for your help to keep the Green Flame moving — we need to raise $1000 or more for production equipment for our audio engineer. This equipment will also support the final edits to an audiobook version of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet that we have recorded and are planning to release for free. Thank you so much for …

On this episode, Max Wilbert speaks with Anne Keala Kelly about her new short book, "Our Rights to Self-Determination: a Hawaiian Manifesto." In addition to being an author, Keala is a filmmaker, journalist, podcaster, and writer. Her published articles and Op-Eds have appeared in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The Nation, Indian Country Today, Hono…

Our third Green Flame interview with Renee Gerlich celebrates the publication of Out Of The Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming Alive (Spinifex Press, 2022). Renee is a writer, artist and feminist based out of New Zealand. We focus on the coming alive aspect of Renee's life and her new multidimensional book. From the Publisher: From racialised po…

On November 19th, Deep Green Resistance hosted a special 3-hour live streaming event, "Collapse: Climate, Ecology, and Civilization" featuring Derrick Jensen, Saba Malik, Max Wilbert, Robert Jensen, Lierre Keith, and grassroots activists from four continents. This podcast is the audio recording of the event. If you wish to donate to support this wo…

Our way of life — industrial civilization — is destroying the planet. From coral reefs to the great forests, the last strongholds of the wild are falling. The climate is destabilizing. And we are entering the 6th mass extinction of life on Earth. Ecological collapse is here. This unprecedented crisis demands extraordinary solutions. And yet, govern…

Joshua Clinton reads the article, "What is Biocentrism?" which was originally published on the DGR News Service on April 15, 2022. https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/what-is-biocentrism-the-unfolding-miracle-of-life/By Deep Green Resistance

In this episode, Max Wilbert and Carl van Warmerdam discuss the 2021 Netflix film "Don't Look Up," an extended allegory for global warming. We discuss whether the film is an accurate satire or a pandering neoliberal fairy tale - or both.

Joshua Clinton reads the article: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/bolivia-extinction-and-displacement-dams-not-green-energy/By Deep Green Resistance

Lauren Levey has had a lifelong involvement with women's rights and lesbian rights. She is a second-wave radical feminist who is currently on the Board of Directors of the Women's Human Rights Campaign USA, and serves as its Vice President. In this episode Lauren shares her radical analysis of abortion in America and on the fight to end the subjuga…

Longtime environmental and social activist and co founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center Betty Ball reflects on ecofeminism and her relationship with Judi Bari. The music for this episode is provided by the late Gary Ball, Betty's husband and fellow co-founder of the MEC.

Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth's Girls and the Grasses keynote presentation, Principles of Sustainable Societies: Matriarchy as a Radical Alternative followed by a Q&A conversation with Lierre Keith, Michelle Martin, Rebecca Wildbear, Sue Breen and Jennifer Murnan. Check out the full event, which live streams on Saturday November 20th at 1pm Pacific,…

In this episode Max speaks with Joshua Wright, a front-line activist who was amongst the first involved in blockading access to Fairy Creek, trying to prevent ancient old-growth forests from being destroyed by logging companies. There have been over 1000 arrests making it one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in Canadian history. These on t…

Renee Gerlich, feminist writer from Wellington, New Zeland outlines her seven book Brief Complete Herstory series. Renee established Dragon Cloud Press in 2021 to publish the series. An invitation to attend the online DGR Girls and the Grasses ecofeminist fundraiser on November 20th is offered at the conclusion of this podcast.…

Deanna Meyer is a serious longtime protector of Prairie Dogs. We discuss her work, how she got started, how her campaigns got so much attention from the media and how to take radical action in defense of what you love. Prairie Dogs are under constant threat, often getting gassed in their burrows in the name of 'development'. Protecting them also me…

Today's episode is a discussion with Chris Devault. Chris is a permaculture practitioner and environmental steward who has worked for many years in the solar and wind energy industries, and who is now dedicated to exposing the lies we are told about how wind and solar are 'green' and capable of saving the planet.…

Stephany Seay has been on the front lines working to protect Yellowstone’s wild buffalo for the past twenty years. For this episode of The Green Flame, we discuss how she got involved in her work, what bison need in order to restore themselves, and tease Stephany's new buffalo and prairie protection organization. Music: I Need You by LiQWYD, https:…

For this episode, Max Wilbert shares some updates from projects he is working on such as lithium mine resistance and Bright Green Lies. Music is Cinderella (Instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0.By Deep Green Resistance

Resistance to HS2 is the focus for this episode of the Green Flame. HS2 is the high speed rail project whose first phase is under construction in the UK. HS2 is currently the largest infrastructure project in Europe. We thank Dr Maxey who has been heavily involved in the HS2 protests for interviewing for the Green Flame, and Kara for conducting the…

On this episode of the Green Flame the DGR Book Club discusses Bright Green Lies by Lierre Keith Derrick Jenson and Max Wilbert. The discussion, led by Beth Robson, also encompasses the documentary film, Bright Green Lies. We are so grateful to Julia Barnes, the film's creator for joining us in this conversation.…

For this fascinating Green Flame episode Jennifer Murnan interviews Hanna Bohman. Hanna Bohman is a Canadian civilian who spent time volunteering in the effort to support women's rights in the middle east, including battling ISIS and liberating women in Syria. Motivated to fight, Hanna joined an all-female Kurdish army, the YPJ. A film, Fear Us Wom…

This Green Flame Fairy Creek episode is an update with forest defender Carole Tootill recorded on the 300th day of direct action to protect old growth forest in the territories of the Pacheedaht and Ditidaht First Nations.

This Green Flame episode is a Deep Green Book Club discussion and honoring of the documentary film Gather - https://gather.film/. We thank Kris for drumming us in with 'Drumming in the Mushroom Lodge', and drumming us out with 'After the clouds have passed... drumming with the Wakinan'.

This episode of the Green Flame features Jore's music as well as an interview with this remarkable activist, artist, writer, musician, independent film-maker and freelance journalist. His work focuses on the interface between the dominant culture and the real impact on people, society and the environment and can be found at Jore.…

The protection camp at Thacker Pass, Peehee mu'huh, has been in place for more than four months. This episode is an update starting with a new recording from May 18th, as well as audio from recent video updates recorded on-site by Max Wilbert over the past month or so. Poem "Newspeak" by Trinity La Fey. https://www.protectthackerpass.org Petition: …

On the second episode of Radicalizing Permaculture, Beth Quist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, environmental activist and writer joins Jennifer Murnan and Boris Forkel in conversation. Her performance of Me Phirava Daje Mori (Bombastic Version), a traditional Macedonian Rom accompanies this episode. You can find Beth at bethquist.com an…

For this episode of The Green Flame, we're joined by Diane Wilson. Diane is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. During the last 30 years, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, sunk boats, and even climbed chemical towers in he…

On this episode of the Green Flame, an anonymous voice from Nepal speaks to us eloquently on behalf of her land and of the environmental struggles in her country. We thank her. We also thank Jore for permission to share his music. You can find his work at https://jore.cc/.

Ja is a community organizer, film maker and podcast host living with the land in the Philippine Archipelago. You can find out more about his work by going to piratestudio.net and samalahatadvocacy.org. Visit Deep Green Resistance Asia Pacific on FB for upcoming events. The music Ja plays in this episode is performed on the 2 stringed ethnic instrum…

Come hiking with Rebecca Wildbear in the Sonoran Desert. Rebecca teaches people how to listen deeply to the Mysteries that live within the Earth community, Dreamtime, and their own wild Nature, and to encounter and live their Souls, or truest selves. She is a guide with Animas Valley Institute and the creator of Wild Yoga. To explore all that she o…

This edition of the Green Flame offers you an incredibly rich conversation centered on discussion of the 2002 documentary film Drowned Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnSsK-ZHTg. We thank Franny Armstrong at Spanner Films for allowing us to use audio clips from the documentary in this episode.

This episode is a set of deeply personal ruminations on permaculture experiences, practices and ethics between two radical environmental activists. .Music is provided by Solebound with their song Seeds and cover of Pacha Mama, an old rainbow gathering song. Solebound can be found on facebook https://www.facebook.com/soleboundmusic/ and bandcamp htt…

This episode features a launch party for the new book Bright Green Lies: How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. The book tackles the greenwashing surrounding so much so-called "green" technology and other false solutions. The authors read excerpts from the book, dis…

In this episode, Max gives a brief update on the Protect Thacker Pass action, and Elisabeth Robson interviews Jamie Kneen, Communications & Outreach Coordinator for Mining Watch Canada, an organization that works to protect the public and the environment from destructive mining practices. https://miningwatch.ca/ Elisabeth also reads two excerpts ab…

In this episode Max Wilbert interviews Danish historian of Religion Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen who runs the youtube channel Nordic Animism. Danish Viking folk band Gjaldulei provides the perfect accompaniment with their original composition Lyset Vågner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Bd50fqIRk

In this episode, Max Wilbert and Will Falk sit around the campfire at Thacker Pass to share the latest updates from the #ProtectThackerPass campaign, which aims to stop Lithium Americas Corporation from strip mining this place and more broadly to shift power in the environmental movement away from extraction and towards degrowth. Our music for this…