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Kentucky State Senator Gerald Neal. representing the 33rd District, fielded questions, both from the audience and posed by moderator Dr. Wayne Tuckson (colon and rectal surgeon), at the Louisville League of Women Voters monthly Democracy in Action series, held May 15, 2023. The session begins with several announcements by the League of upcoming events.

Jessica Brody is the author of the well-known writing book Save the Cat! Writes a Novel and teaches classes on this writing method, but she has published over 20 books for all ages, including middle grade. Her most recent, titled Amelia Gray is Almost Okay, came out in March of this year.

Amelia is a kid who moves around a lot due to her father’s job as a hotel renovator and reimaginer. Like a lot of middle schoolers, she is trying to figure out who she is and what she’s good at. During one memorable summer in a new town, she decides to try on different personas to see which one fits best. Is she an athlete, a theater kid, or a reporter? What I loved about this book is that I could relate to it even as an adult. I still try different versions of myself sometimes.

Jessica talks to us about what words in the English language really get under her skin, how being fired from MGM Studios gave her the writing opportunity she needed, and her overwhelming passion for spreadsheets.

You can find Jessica at her website www.Jessicabrody.com and on her instagram at @jessicabrody.

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Amelia Gray is Almost Okay by Jessica Brody

2- Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

3- Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder

4- Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel by Jessica Brody

5- Addie Bell’s Shortcut to Growing Up by Jessica Brody

6- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

7- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

8- Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

9- The It Girl by Ruth Ware

10- Big Tree by Brian Selznick

11- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

12- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

With a focus on inequality, social justice and community from a global perspective, Heather Dalmage has written books and articles, appeared on TV, radio and podcasts. She has traveled with students to a variety of countries as part of my pedagogical approach to developing critical thinking and communities of learners. She directs the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and is a past-president of The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Damage has received awards for her pedagogy, service and scholarship. As a Fulbright Scholar to South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal, she has engaged in qualitative research (focus groups and individual interviews) and written and lectured broadly about race in the U.S. and South Africa. As director of the Mansfield Institute Professor Damage oversees fellowships, scholarships, lecture series, research agendas, grant writing, workshops, community partnerships, and student development. Chicago is her home. The lakefront running path is one of her favorite places on the planet.

K.A. Owens discusses the legacy of the late actor, football player and activist Jim Brown who died at 87 years old on Thursday May 18, 2023.

Recorded Monday May 22, 2023, 9PM

OUR LIVING CLIMATE

The purpose of The Climate Report is to deal with glaring misconceptions that exist within the mainstream climate movement. We have a living earth and a living climate, in that life impacts our climate, ecosystems impact our climate, plants and animals have a dramatic effect on water cycles and temperatures. Most climate problems such as flooding, drought and wildfires are broken water cycles.

And the single biggest missed opportunity that we have is to utilize and leverage evaporative cooling.

Step out of the bath, the shower the swimming pool. It feels cold ….

When we sweat, it feels cool because of the power of evaporative cooling. When we walk into a forest or under a shade tree, it feels cool because of the power of evaporative cooling.

Let’s look at an article at resilience.org.

Fast Tracking Extinction: The Rush to Streamline Permitting for “Green” Energy By Rob Lewis, originally published by Resilience.org

May

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On this week's show, your host, Justin Mog, catches up with Tyler Lloyd, a former UofL student and environmental organizer with Group Recycling And Sustainable Solutions (GRASS). After UofL, Tyler went on to serve in the U.S. Peace Corps in Burkina Faso and wrote a book about his experience called: "Service Disrupted: My Peace Corps Story" and then hosted a podcast interviewing dozens of Peace Corps Volunteers about their service - check it out at https://mypeacecorpsstory.com/author/tyleredwardlloyd/

Today, Tyler is Louisville-based and works on chemical regulation for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Listen in as we discuss Tyler's journey to the EPA, the importance of education, and how he is incorporating sustainability in his own life, especially as a new home owner!

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

Kay Tillow, chairperson of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare and Dr. Garrett Adams, pointperson for the KY chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program discuss the new Medicare for All legislation proposed and the need for a national nonprofit single payer system.

Mark Klym is certified by the University of Rhode Island, Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies as a Level II Kingian Nonviolence Trainer and holds a Master of Public Administration degree. He has 20+ years experience in violence prevention programs and is a co-founder and co-director of the Phoenix Peace Builders. Mark is a peace educator, activist and consultant. He enjoys working with several peace and justice organizations to promote the wisdom and strategies of Nonviolence through education, public events and activism.

#197 Critical Thinking for Everyone! | Reboot & Declinism | May 18, 2023 by Forward Radio

In Climate news, CO2 gets all the coverage, but water is an exceedingly important factor in climate change. Many of our climate related problems, such as floods, droughts and wildfires are, by their nature, broken water cycles. But we are told that floods, wildfires and droughts are a product of "climate change," as if we have to wait for "climate change" to be fixed before we can deal with flooding, droughts and wildfires.

This episode offers a different perspective. Flooding, droughts and wildfires, as well as habitat loss and food shortages are a direct result of what we do to the land. If we treat the land better, we will mitigate these “climate”-related problems.