This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Show was Dr. Juliette Rooney-Varga. Dr. Rooney-Varga is an expert on climate change and sustainability. She is the Director of the UMass Lowell Climate Change Initiative, Associate Professor of environmental science at UMass Lowell, and a Research Affiliate with the MIT System Dynamics Group. In this interview with show host Margaret Prescod, Dr. Rooney-Varga discusses the negative impacts caused by using wood for bioenergy.

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