Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

On Monday’s show Leonard talks to the filmmakers of “BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?” a new documentary which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. Woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior. The film focuses on the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use. “I thought we were well-informed about biomass, but we were stunned at what we learned,” co-director Lisa Merton told the Times Standard. “Most environmentalists think that biomass is fine because trees grow back, but it takes a long time and it’s not a renewable source on that timeline or in that timescale.” Join Lisa, along with producer Chris Hardee and Dr. Mary Booth (who appears in the film) for a discussion of this vital topic.

On Monday’s show Leonard talks to the filmmakers of “BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?” a new documentary which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. Woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior. The film focuses on the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use. “I thought we were well-informed about biomass, but we were stunned at what we learned,” co-director Lisa Merton told the Times Standard. “Most environmentalists think that biomass is fine because trees grow back, but it takes a long time and it’s not a renewable source on that timeline or in that timescale.” Join Lisa, along with producer Chris Hardee and Dr. Mary Booth (who appears in the film) for a discussion of this vital topic.

On Monday’s show Leonard talks to the filmmakers of “BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?” a new documentary which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. Woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior. The film focuses on the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use. “I thought we were well-informed about biomass, but we were stunned at what we learned,” co-director Lisa Merton told the Times Standard. “Most environmentalists think that biomass is fine because trees grow back, but it takes a long time and it’s not a renewable source on that timeline or in that timescale.” Join Lisa, along with producer Chris Hardee and Dr. Mary Booth (who appears in the film) for a discussion of this vital topic.

Isaac "Ike" Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America. Don’t miss Leonard’s conversation with a man who had a front row seat for one of the worst chapters of human history.

Isaac "Ike" Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America. Don’t miss Leonard’s conversation with a man who had a front row seat for one of the worst chapters of human history.

Isaac "Ike" Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America. Don’t miss Leonard’s conversation with a man who had a front row seat for one of the worst chapters of human history.

“Democracy Now” co-host Juan Gonzales has called Monona Rossol a hero for her work in helping to cope with the environmental disaster that arose in lower Manhattan following the tragic events of September, 11, 2001. The chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist is the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts, and the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829 union of of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Monona talks to Leonard about the dangerous toxins we encounter in our daily lives.

“Democracy Now” co-host Juan Gonzales has called Monona Rossol a hero for her work in helping to cope with the environmental disaster that arose in lower Manhattan following the tragic events of September, 11, 2001. The chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist is the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts, and the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829 union of of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Monona talks to Leonard about the dangerous toxins we encounter in our daily lives.

“Democracy Now” co-host Juan Gonzales has called Monona Rossol a hero for her work in helping to cope with the environmental disaster that arose in lower Manhattan following the tragic events of September, 11, 2001. The chemist, artist, and industrial hygienist is the founder and of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts, and the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829 union of of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Monona talks to Leonard about the dangerous toxins we encounter in our daily lives.

Michael Rechtshaffen of the Los Angeles Times recently wrote "for those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif., the provocative, if slight, documentary, ‘Calling All Earthlings,’ heeds the call...Jonathan Berman finds no shortage of cooperative family members, historians, conspiracy theorists, healers and artists (singer Eric Burdon among them) in an area long associated with off-the-grid living." Don't miss a conversation for UFO believers and skeptics alike when Leonard talks to Jonathan about what the latest research and first-hand accounts tell us about the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe.