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Today’s Topic is … The REAL Deal about climate change.

Part 1: How trees and forests cool the climate and cause rain.

Part 2: What are droughts really about?

Part 3: What is flooding really about?

Part 4: What is the UN saying about the effects of climate change?

The purpose of TCR is to bring clarity and sanity to the conversation about climate change. We are being lied to constantly about climate change. Of course powerful lies are not completely false. They contain an element of truth. It’s true that climate change is caused in part by GHG. But is that the biggest part. And should reducing GHG be our sole and exclusive focus. And do the people who are bellyaching about GHG have a plan for dealing with them?

I say no to all these questions. GHG are a symptom of much deeper problems, scientifically and politically. And the people who are trying to scare us into reducing GHG do not have a plan for dealing with them.

My critiques of the prevailing narrative.

Greenhouse gases are not the only cause of global warming.

Fossil fuels are not the only cause of greenhouse gases.

Lowering fossil fuels is not going to happen under any of the proposals currently being discussed.

The main opportunities facing us are to restore

Our plant matter

Our water cycles

Our ecosystems

Opportunities (beyond the scope of this talk)

To lower our total energy

To live within our ecological limits

To look at WHO is making these decisions and decide whether or not we want a democracy or an oligarchy.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with two fellow plant and produce lovers, Noah Curtis, Founder of Pineal Gardens, and Doug Lowry (aka "Plantaclaus”) with the Sowers of Justice Network. Pineal Gardens has launched a new project to make surplus fresh food and plants available to the community through Trading Posts that act much like a Little Free Library or Pantry but for plants and garden produce. They hope to expand to more than the current dozen locations and are looking for potential property owner hosts, especially in West Louisville and other neighborhoods suffering from food apartheid where these plant and food sharing stations can be of tremendous benefit.

This is a great way to share extra produce and flowers from your garden, house-plants, and native plant starts with your neighbors! To support the work, you can join the Pineal Facebook group and like the Pineal page but more importantly use and support these trade stations. One way to help get the ball rolling is to post photos of shares in the Pineal Facebook group and other neighborhood groups when you have shared or when you will share, especially given how hot it will be in the weeks ahead. This is next level mutual aid and neighborhoods support!

Check out some of the existing stations:

1. 1852 Harvard drive (Highlands)

2. Above the dirt garden shop (J- town)

3. 3804 Billtown road

4. Rainbow blossom (St Matthews)

5. Fern creek high school

6. 1003 Ironwood Ct (Simpsonville)

And make plans to joins us for a Plant & Garden Produce Swap on Saturday, July 29th, 9-11am, at the Pineal Trade Station, 1852 Harvard Dr.

More info is at https://pinealgarden.com or contact Noah at [email protected] or 502-705-1386

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 http://forwardradio.org

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

K.A. Owens interviews Cory Lockhart - a proponent and instructor of Compassionate Communication. Lockhart defines and explains the process.

Recorded Friday July 21, 2023, 1PM.

Forward Radio was thrilled to participate in the 2nd annual Bluegrass VegFest, at the historic Mellwood Art Center on Saturday, July 15th, 2023! Bluegrass VegFest is a FREE public education event whose mission is outreach about the benefits of veganism as a way to protect animals and the environment, and improve health. Learn more at http://bluegrassvegfest.com

Forward Radio not only hosted a booth to help you translate your plant-power into community radio, but we also conducted a live broadcast to bring you interviews with some of the many vendors, keynote speakers & cooking demos.

On today's Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from the second hour of our live broadcast, including keynote speaker:

Dr. Kim Williams, Vegan Cardiologist

“There are two kinds of Cardiologists - those who are vegan and those who haven’t read the data.” - Dr. Kim Williams

Dr. Kim Williams MD, MACC, FAHA, MASNC, FESC is an internationally recognized speaker whose professional focus is on preventive cardiology, synthesizing data on cardiovascular risk and mortality due to nutrition, and is currently the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Williams specializes in cardiology, cardio-nutrition, cardio-rheumatology, cardio-nephrology, preventive cardiology and cardiovascular radiology. He is a past President of the American College of Cardiology, past President of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Black Cardiologists. He is also the founder of the Urban Cardiology Initiative in Detroit, Michigan, aiming to reduce ethnic heart care disparities, and continued community-based efforts in Chicago at Rush, including the H.E.A.R.T. program screening for heart disease and intervening with education, nutrition and lifestyle changes. He has been a delegate for cardiology to the American Medical Association for over 20 years and has served as a consultant for the FDA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He has over 600 research and guideline publications, online resources, movies and lectures, most recently on the topic of cardio nutrition. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention.

A native of Chicago’s South Side’s inner-city schools and a former professional tennis player and national tennis coach, Dr. Williams has over 40 years of experience as an educator, researcher, and clinician focused on advocacy for nutrition, national and international healthcare disparities, health care delivery, and advanced access to cardiac imaging.

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

Forward Radio was thrilled to participate in the 2nd annual Bluegrass VegFest, at the historic Mellwood Art Center on Saturday, July 15th, 2023! Bluegrass VegFest is a FREE public education event whose mission is outreach about the benefits of veganism as a way to protect animals and the environment, and improve health. Learn more at http://bluegrassvegfest.com

Forward Radio not only hosted a booth to help you translate your plant-power into community radio, but we also conducted a live broadcast to bring you interviews with some of the many vendors, keynote speakers & cooking demos.

On today's Truth to Power, we bring you highlights from the first hour of our live broadcast, including the first keynote speaker:

Karyn Moskowitz - Food Justice Activist, Founder of New Roots

Fresh Food is a Basic Human Right

Karyn is a veggie-obsessed leader and social entrepreneur for food justice movements in Louisville, Asbury Park, NJ, and beyond. She is one of the founders and executive directors of the New Roots Fresh Stop Markets, an award-winning solution to food injustice, where thousands of families pool their resources on an income-based sliding scale and pay fair prices to KY & IN farmers for fresh, seasonal, organic produce.

Our guest this week, Chelsea Hofmann, loves to feel her pulse quicken and gets excited by the idea that anything could happen. She lives her life spontaneously so her love of the thriller genre with its twists, turns, and surprise endings fit her personality just fine.

After finishing college and moving to Southern California with her husband, she wanted to reconnect with her love of reading books that she had as a child but none of the book clubs she tried felt like a good fit. So she started a virtual book club on the Instagram platform called Thrillers By The Bookclub. As that virtual club became became popular with members all over the globe, people started asking her about in-person book clubs. Chelsea nurtured this idea, encouraging book lovers to start their own Thriller By The Book Club chapters. There are now over 27 chapters and more are still forming. We chat with Chelsea in this episode about all the thrilling books she reads.

- You can find Chelsea on instagram at @thrillerbookbabe.

- To find out more about Thrillers By The Book club, to see if they have a chapter in your area or to get more information about starting your own, check out their instagram at @thrillersbythebookclub .

- Local Louisville listeners , there is a chapter in town. @txbc_louisville

Follow us on Facebook at The Perks of Being a Book Lover

Instagram at @perksofbeingabookoverpod

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com.

Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Boxcar Children series

2- Nancy Drew series

3- Hardy Boys series

4- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

5- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

6- Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver

7- His & Hers by Alice Feeney

8- In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

9- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

10- Survive the Night by Riley Sager

11- This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel

12- The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones

13- Outside by Ragnor Jonasson

14- The Mist by Ragnor Jonasson

15- Snowblind by Ragnor Jonasson

16- An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helena Tursten

17- An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed by Helena Tursten

18- The Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snickett

TV series:

1- The Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix 2017-2019)

Today's show featured an interview with Jason Bailey of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy on upcoming tax changes in Kentucky.

https://kypolicy.org/about/

Discussion of how past investment pays off in an economy over time.

Part 2 of Dr. Judy Albert's conversation with doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively - the attack on women's healthcare: implications for women, their families, and healthcare providers.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, catches up with an old friend who was in Louisville nearly a year ago facilitating a listening session at the Community Boathouse about developing an Ohio River Restoration Plan. Jordan Lubetkin is the Director of Ohio River Restoration for the National Wildlife Federation (https://www.nwf.org/ohioriver) and the Communications Director for the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition (https://www.healthylakes.org/).

Over the past year, Jordan has been criss-crossing the region conducting community listening sessions throughout the Ohio River watershed to discuss clean water priorities for a new plan to protect and restore the waters in the 14-state Ohio River region. The Ohio River Basin Alliance and National Wildlife Federation, cohosted these listening sessions to take advantage of a once-in-a-generation opportunity to craft a regional plan to restore and protect the waters of the Ohio River basin. The plan, once complete, will be delivered to Congress and the Biden Administration. The goal is for the federal government to implement the plan with new annual investments to address long-standing problems, such as sewage contamination, toxic pollution, inadequate water infrastructure, mine waste, run-off, flooding, and habitat loss.

Every year the federal government invests in programs to protect and restore our nation’s great waters – including the Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, Gulf Coast, and Great Lakes. We want to add the waters of the Ohio River basin to that list and to make sure that local clean water concerns are addressed and local solutions are prioritized in the clean water plan.

In August, the report will finally be released and in late summer/early fall, there’ll be opportunities for community engagement around the draft plan. A one-day river restoration tour with a Kentucky Legislative Delegation (Guthrie, McGarvey & Massie) is also being planned for August.

One of the key local partners in this process has been the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, which will be hosting a 30th Anniversary Celebration on Friday, August 18th, starting at 6pm at Waterfront Botanical Gardens. Everyone is encouraged to join us in celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance with an unforgettable evening of music, film, food, and art! The celebration will include:

•    A special performance by Louisville’s own Joan Shelley. Joan, longtime friend of KWA, has assembled a honkytonk band to back her, as well as a series of guest vocalists.

•    Following Joan’s performance, we will transport you into the captivating world of environmental storytelling through our 15th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival. This renowned festival showcases an array of short films that highlight the beauty of our planet's wild and scenic places, as well as the urgent need to protect them.

•    In between - or during! - these aspects of the evening, you will be able to visit with Al Gorman, renowned artist who creates art from objects found in the Ohio River.

•    Enjoy food from our sponsor Wiltshire Pantry, and West Sixth Brewing will be selling beer.

Get your tickets now and come together with fellow supporters of the KWA as we honor three decades of conservation and advocacy. Let's raise our voices and toast to a brighter future for our precious waterways! Kentucky is water. Water is commonwealth. More info and tickets at http://kwalliance.org

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 http://forwardradio.org

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