A Judi Bari Day special edition of Terra Verde featuring Global Justice Ecology Project and Karen Pickett of Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters.

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The makers of the documentary movie Burned: Are Trees The New Coal? join Terra Verde to describe the environmental and economic dangers of the ongoing destruction of forests for industrial fuels to feed the biomass energy industry.

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Climate and finance campaigners from the Rainforest Action Network join Terra Verde host Gary Hughes to discuss the 10th edition of the annual fossil fuel finance report card “Banking on Climate Change.”

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Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra, talks two award-winning Bay Area eco-poets and authors, who also happen to be scientists — have Sonoma County Poet Laureate Maya Khosla and Lucille Lang Day founder of Scarlet Tanager Books, about eco-poetry and the power of ideas and words, to change minds.

Maya Khosla, who is also field-based biologist and a writer and filmmaker and she has just come out with a new book of poems All the Fires of Wind and Light published by 16 Rivers Press,  which invites readers to find themselves in the wild, even in the most challenging times.

Lucille Lang Day has worn many hats. Among other things, she’s been a science writer and administrator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a staff scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute. Her publishing house has just come out with a new anthology of poems that she has co-edited — Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California.

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