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A talk on a recent published article in Monthly Review titled "The Thermodynamics of Capital: Artificial Intelligence, Energy Crisis, and Ecological Crisis" by Professor Te Li. https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-thermodynamics-of-capital/

A discussion of crime data and ratings for Louisville by looking at Crimegrade.org as a focus.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, talks sustainable youth development with Lynn Rippy, Founder, President & CEO of Blueprint502 - Formerly YouthBuild Louisville (https://blueprint502.org). Lynn has worked for 50 years in youth development, helping open the Louisville Office of Youth Development prior to her work with YouthBuild. We discuss some of the many initiatives and programs that Blueprint502 has underway, including:


1. The Smoketown Community Center - opened June 2025, as a hub for summer learning, connection, and opportunity, with offices and event areas available for rent.

- Hosts after-school Summer Program and TECH-nique’s TECH BOSS Summer Program.

- Home to Smoketown Next Generation program, an ongoing after-school initiative held M-Th 4-7pm, focused on youth development, safety, and violence prevention.

- Operates a Kid’s Café program M-F 3:30-5pm, providing meals to youth ages 11 to 17.

2. Milestones Achieved

- Through SummerWorks in 2025, 2,358 young people registered for services, with 1,271 receiving direct support and 212 placed into sponsored jobs. The SummerWorks platform continues to expand, now connecting 262 private employers with more than 4,700 job opportunities.

- YouthBuild Louisville celebrated 28 graduates who completed the program and moved forward with stronger skills and clearer career pathways.

- Urban Conservation Corps program supported 15 members through successful program completion, while workforce-focused training continued to grow: 30 participants earned certifications through the Brownfields Job Training program, 17 individuals became Certified Apartment Maintenance Technicians, and 139 people received industry-recognized certifications through our HazMat training.

3. Crisis to Stability: The Rapid Growth of a Housing Program

- Housing Now Program provides safe, supportive, and empowering environments for young adults who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Three core components—Transitional Housing, Rapid Rehousing, and Supportive Services. Impact has scaled significantly: 124 served in 2024; 221 in 2025; and on track to serve over 250 more families this year.

How You Can Help:

a. Become a "Home Starter" Sponsor: Companies and organizations can sponsor "Move-In Kits" for Rapid Rehousing participants. This provides essential household items, furniture, and kitchen supplies to help a young adult turn a new apartment into a true home.

b. Mentorship & Professional Coaching: lead workshops on financial literacy, resume building, or mock interviews to help our residents achieve employment stability.

c. Direct Financial Support: Directly toward rental deposits, short-term financial assistance, and individualized case management that prevents a crisis from becoming a setback.

d. Property Partnerships: Local property managers/landlords partnering with Rapid Rehousing program

4. Strengthening Neighborhoods: Work at Alberta O. Jones Park; annual Back-to-School Backpack Drive and entrepreneurship career fair at Meyzeek; 3 on 3 basketball tournament at Shelby Park.

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com

Russ is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the University of Louisville where he was Founding Director of its Peace, Justice & Conflict Transformation program. Before joining UofL he led Chicago’s Northlight Theatre as Artistic Director for over a decade. Dr. Vandenbroucke was also on the artistic staffs of the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Plays he has directed, written, or produced have been seen around the country and broadcast on radio or television. Many reflect his long commitment to peace and justice. So do courses he taught at UofL. He was a Rotary Foundation Peace Fellow in Bangkok and a conscientious objector during Vietnam war. Russ Vandenbroucke current writes opinion pieces syndicated by PeaceVoice, a program of the Oregon Peace Institute.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a statewide community conversation about "Data Centers in Kentucky" that took place online on May 26th and was organized by the Kentucky Waterways Alliance as part of its Kentucky Watershed Network Monthly (KWN) Virtual Sessions where you can hear from watershed partners, leaders, and experts from across the Commonwealth. Every other month is an evening meet-up and every other month is a lunchtime workshop.

Our Speakers were: Byron Gary (Kentucky Resources Council) & Hank Graddy ("We are Mercer County") addressing KY Data Centers in Your Community. This conversation is for: concerned citizens, volunteers, professionals, students, elected officials. You will come away knowing more about data centers in Kentucky and how it may affect you, your community, your waterways, and how you can make a stand! Learn more and register at https://kwalliance.org

Starts with intro by Laura Gregory (KWA), then Nick Hart (KWA Water Policy Director), and presentations by Byron Gary (KRC) and attorney Hank Graddy with We Are Mercer County. The second half of the session will be Q&A and community conversation.

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://www.forwardradio.org

Single Payer Radio | Dr. Murphy | Suboxone | 5-29-26 by Forward Radio

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a deep dive into food justice with Taylor Ryan, Founder and CEO of Change Today, Change Tomorrow (https://change-today.org). Taylor was last on the program in August of 2024 and 2023, but we’re excited to have her back because next week she will be a featured speaker and honoree at the Food & Science Forum on Thursday, June 11th, 4-7:30pm, at Bates Memorial Baptist Church (620 Lampton St.).

During Food & Science, a health forum hosted by UofL’s Envirome Institute, we will celebrate community heroes and hear from an expert panel on the key intersections of food & science. The Envirome’s “& Science” series is a quarterly health forum and this fourth installment of the series will focus on Food & Science, featuring leaders from different agricultural and scientific backgrounds. The “& Science” series provides a community forum for conversations at the intersection of health, the environment & science. Together we will: Explore key intersections of nutrition, health and wellbeing; Identify drivers of food insecurity in Louisville; Discuss overcoming barriers that promote access to healthy food; and Envision a food secure future for all of Louisville.

The event kicks off with a Community Block Party (Farmers Market & Community Fair) from 4:00 - 6:00pm, followed by a the presentation of the "& Science" Champion Award and the panel from 6:00 - 7:30pm. Our speakers include:

- Taylor Ryan (Founder and Executive Director of Change Today, Change Tomorrow)

- Cassia Herron (Healthy Communities Fellow, Aspen Global Innovators Group)

- Vincent James (President and CEO, Dare To Care)

- Dr. Wayne Tuckson (Kentucky Health Host, Kentucky Educational Television, retired Colon and Rectal Surgeon)

- Dr. Kim Williams (Chairman of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine; Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine)

Also Featuring:

- Farmers Market hosted in collaboration with the South End Community Market

- Community booths featuring the work of many non-profits tackling food and health issues: Feed Louisville, West Jefferson County Community Task Force, NAACP Louisville Branch, Catholic Charities - Common Earth Gardens, Food Literacy Project, Feeding Kentucky, Ag in the City, Greater Louisville Food Council/Food In Neighborhoods, and UofL's Trager Institute, Louisville Clinical & Translational Research Center, School of Medicine Office of Community Engagement, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, and more.

For more information, please contact Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, [email protected] or (502)852-9354.

This event is free, but please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-science-tickets-1988855934639?aff=erelexpmlt

We also catch up with the work of Change Today, Change Tomorrow (CTCT), including:


- CTCT's 2nd Annual Breaking Barriers Farm to Table Brunch on Friday, June 19th, 11am-2pm, Evan Williams (528 W Main) https://tinyurl.com/CTCT-BB26

- CTCT’s new mobile market

- Voter engagement with Feed the West families

- CTCT’s West End Farmers Market: Every other Sunday (next June 14th) through Oct. 18th, 3–7 PM at California Park (16th & St. Catherine)

- CTCT’s new food hub at 2339 Date Street (25th & Date in the California neighborhood) which hosts a Neighborhood Garden Club on Tuesdays, Fridays + every 2nd Saturday of the month, 10am – noon.

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com

Dr. Pat Murphy is back with more information on using Buprenorphine (Suboxone) for Opiate Addiction and the need to change the prescribing rules for Physicians in Kentucky through legislation.

Our guest today is Ra’ Shann Martin

Ra’ Shann Martin is an accomplished, mission driven leader committed to ensuring that every person has access to safe, stable housing and the opportunity to thrive. As Executive Director of St. John Center, she leads one of Louisville’s most critical frontline organizations, serving individuals experiencing homelessness through outreach, shelter, and permanent supportive housing.

Since stepping into leadership, Ra’ Shann has expanded access to housing and strengthened coordination across programs and community partners, helping ensure that people receive support with dignity and consistency. She has led the growth of permanent supportive housing initiatives, including the 2025 development of Sheehan Landing in partnership with LDG and St. John Center, creating 80 new units for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.

Prior to joining St. John Center, Ra’ Shann served as Chief Operating Officer at YouthBuild Louisville, where she created pathways for young adults through education, workforce training, and housing stability programs.

In addition to her executive leadership, Ra’ Shann Martin is an instructor at Bellarmine University, where she is director of Interdisciplinary Studies

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a conversation about "Interwar Germany and the U.S. Today: Are They Comparable Cases of the Failure of Democracy and the Rise of Dictatorship?" This virtual community conversation with Christopher R. Browning, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, took place on February 24, 2026, and was organized by the Oberlin Club of Washington, D.C.

Given the propensity to invoke Hitler, Nazism, and fascism in current political discussion, historians of Europe in the era of fascist dictatorship, World War II, and the Holocaust should set a high bar for responsible and informed analogizing, against which facile and distorted attempts can be measured and found wanting. This talk will attempt a careful comparison and contrast between Hitler and Trump as personalities and politicians, as well as between the fall of Weimar and rise of Nazi dictatorship on the one hand and current events and trends in the U.S. on the other. Professor Browning will do so operating from the premise that insights based upon knowledge of the past are very important for illuminating and understanding our current situation, but the careless weaponizing of the past simply to stigmatize one’s opponents is self-defeating.

Christopher R. Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor History Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where he taught from 1999-2014. He is a specialist on the Holocaust and renowned for work documenting the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing Nazi policies, and the use of survivor testimony. Earlier, he taught at Pacific Lutheran University from 1974-1999. Christopher is the author of nine books, including three–Ordinary Men (1992), The Origins of the Final Solution (2004), and Remembering Survival (2010)—which received the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust Category. He has served as historical expert witness at two Holocaust denial trials: Ernst Zündel v. Crown Prosecution in Toronto in 1988, and David Irving v. Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Press in London in 2000. Christopher was a History major at Oberlin and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2014. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife Jenni Horn Browning ’67. Watch a full recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgHQEEFeBWA.

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://www.forwardradio.org