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On today's Access Hour, we bring you highlights from the first hour of Forward Radio's special live broadcast from the 10th Annual How-To Festival at the Main Public Library on Saturday, May 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. In addition to hosting an all-day booth on How to Broadcast with Community Radio, we did a LIVE broadcast from the Festival, dropping in on all kinds of How-To sessions and interviewing participants. From learning how to beat box to dancing Flamenco to painting like Bob Ross – participants learned how to do more than 50 things in five hours, all for free! And thanks to our partnership with Forward Radio's proud Community Parnter, the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition, How-To again featured three gardening tents with classes presented by Urban Ag member groups. The How-To Festival is FREE and takes place throughout the Main Library. Learn more at http://www.lfpl.org/how-to/

This is Part 2 of a discussion on the Kentucky Prison/Jail System after 13 inmates died in less than a year. Participating were Judith Jennings of Louisville Family Justice Advocates, 9th District Councilman Andrew Owen and Kyle Ellison, retired KY Dept. of Corrections probation and parole officer. The second half of the program is a free-wheeling conversation with Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson, occasional Election Connection co-hosts, on the subject of increased and widespread use of smarter and smarter surveillance technologies and potential ramifications.

I think many aspiring writers have a juicy family story passed down that they are sure would make a great novel. Our guest this week, Ciera Horton McElroy, had heard stories about her grandfather, a scientist who worked at a plant that produced materials for a hydrogen bomb during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. That one family story is the jumping off point of her debut novel, a work of historical fiction titled Atomic Family that takes the reader on a journey to an era of burgeoning women’s rights, Sears Roebuck fashion, and the suburban American dream. With some good old radiation thrown into the mix.

We talk to Ciera about what it was like to be a tourist at a now abandoned hydrogen bomb facility, how writing a little blog at 16 helped her start her own company, and the big differences between living in a state like Florida versus the Midwest.

You can find Ciera on her website at www.cieramcelroy.com and on instagram @cierahmcelroy.

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 - Atomic Family by Ciera Horton McElroy

2- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

3- Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

4- Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich (basis for Dark Waters)

5- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

6- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

7- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkah

8- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

9- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

10- White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

11- I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez

12- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

13- Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg

14- Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg

Movies/Shows mentioned--

1- A Man Called Otto (Netflix 2022)

2- Our Great National Parks (Netflix 2022)

3- Dark Waters (2019)

Why are 1000 computer experts calling for a moratorium on the development of new Artificial Intelligence capabilities? Then, Amanda Fuller (Kentucky Academy of Science) interviews undergraduate researcher Chase Yost (Bellarmine University) on natural and synthetic phosphatase inhibitors. Finally, Scott Miller (Maysville Community and Technical College) discusses the science and policy of climate change and sea level rise.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

The music heard on this episode is ‘O Fortuna’ from the cantata ‘Carmina Burana’ composed by Carl Orff in 1935. This public domain performance is by the University of California-Davis University Chorus from 2016: https://orangefreesounds.com/carl-orff-carmina-burana/#google_vignette

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sits down in the studio with Julia Finch, the new Director of the Sierra Club's Kentucky Chapter (https://www.sierraclub.org/kentucky) as of January 2023. Tune in and get to know Julia and her fascinating background, having pursued a Ph.D. in medieval art history, and other advocacy & community building work she’s done in arts and creative spaces. We also discuss the Sierra Club's core values nationally, and break down the structure of Sierra Club Kentucky and its six existing local groups (Great Rivers, Pennyrile, Mammoth Cave, Greater Louisville, Bluegrass, and Northern Kentucky) and three groups planned for future in Eastern Kentucky (Troublesome Creek, Red River, and Highlands)

Listen in to hear how the national Sierra Club is undergoing a major reorganization (https://www.eenews.net/articles/sierra-club-announces-layoffs-restructuring/), and as we discuss the issues Sierra Club is watching and supporting across the state:

• River Metals Recycling pollution in Newport, KY https://linknky.com/news/2023/04/04/newport-residents-may-soon-get-to-share-their-experiences-with-river-metals-recycling-in-court/

• Century Aluminum Sebree plant on Green River in Robards, KY https://www.penncapital-star.com/energy-environment/american-aluminum-plants-are-bigger-polluters-than-some-abroad-why/

• Bernheim Forest / LGE Pipeline issue in Greater Louisville area https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/lg-e-can-take-bernheim-forest-land-for-bullitt-county-gas-pipeline-judge-rules/article_2668cd72-a321-11ed-bebb-c7083eb47f40.html

• A proposal for $500 million federal prison in flood-ravaged Letcher County https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/29/opinion/kentucky-prison-flood.html

• Tree-planting efforts in and around the Bowling Green area https://www.wbko.com/2023/03/26/retree-bg-distributes-trees-tornado-victims/

• Opportunities for funding within the IRA/IIJA and Sierra Club's Community Advocates program https://www.sierraclub.org/community-advocates-program#:~:text=The%20Sierra%20Club%20is%20launching,by%20climate%20and%20environmental%20injustice.

• Sierra Club Kentucky's Healthy Food, Healthy Earth campaign https://www.sierraclub.org/kentucky/healthy-food-healthy-earth

• Judah Schept's book is called “Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia” and he teaches at EKU. https://nyupress.org/9781479858972/coal-cages-crisis/"

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

Forward Radio was thrilled to be a part of the 10th Annual How-To Festival at the Main Public Library Saturday, May 13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. In addition to hosting an all-day booth on How to Broadcast with Community Radio, we did a LIVE broadcast from the Festival, dropping in on all kinds of How-To sessions and interviewing participants. From learning how to beat box to dancing Flamenco to painting like Bob Ross – participants learned how to do more than 50 things in five hours, all for free! And thanks to our partnership with Forward Radio's proud Community Parnter, the Louisville Urban Agriculture Coalition, How-To again featured three gardening tents with classes presented by Urban Ag member groups.The How-To Festival is FREE and takes place throughout the Main Library. Learn more at https://www.lfpl.org/how-to/

This week we focus on books about mom "adjacent" books; by or about motherly figures in our lives. We give you 10 (plus a few more) books to add to your TBR or maybe even gift your mom for Mother's Day. We have memoirs, historical fiction, children's books, speculative fiction, graphic memoir, and even books celebrating moms of the non-human persuasion.

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- Now Beacon, Now Sea by Christopher Sorrentino

2- The Measure by Nikki Erlick

3- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

4- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

5- The Other Mother by Rachel Harper

6- Runaway by Erin Keane

7- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

8- Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith

9- The Particulars of Peter: Dance Lessons, DNA, and other Excuses to Hang Out with my Perfect Dog by Kelly Conaboy

10- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

11- Skylark by by Patricia MacLachlan

12- Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan

13- Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou

14- A Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou

15- A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

16- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

17- A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck

18- Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

19- The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

20- The Need by Helen Phillips

21- The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman

22- Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

23- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance

24- Different: The Story of an Outside-the-Box Kid and the Mom Who Loved Him by Sally Clarkson and Nathan Clarkson

25- Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth

26- Glitter and Gun by Kelly Corrigan

27- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe

28- The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

29- The White Enchantress by Caitriona Drexler

Movies mentioned—

1- The Light Between Oceans (2016)

Podcasts mentioned—

1- The Daily (NY Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/podcasts/the-daily/tv-wga-writers-strike.html

2- Tell Me More (Kelly Corrigan)

3- Wiser Than Me (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

Articles mentioned—

https://www.gq.com/story/writers-strike-2023-wga-explained

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/03/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-prohibit-book-bans-00095151

https://apnews.com/article/texas-library-banned-books-73f17143237d57784efd2746d292ab68

DROUGHT OCCURS WHEN WE ABUSE AND MISMANAGE LAND. IT IS NOT PRIMARILY THE RESULT OF "CLIMATE CHANGE." GREENHOUSE GASES ARE NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF DROUGHT.

Drought is misunderstood as an effect of climate change. But drought has its own set of causes, and is itself a cause of climate change. In fact, drought is climate change. And it is mostly caused by human mismanagement of the land.

We can prevent drought by practicing the principles of soil health: Avoid tillage and chemical fertilizers, avoid toxic pesticides, which degrade biodiversity, keep the ground covered with organic matter and/or plants, keep living roots in the ground at all times, incorporate animals and nurture biological diversity at all levels.

Drought is misunderstood as a lack of precipitation, but more important is how much precipitation does the ground absorb, and how much water can the ground hold. If the ground holds water, then periods of low rainfall will not have the power to destroy the vitality of the land, the plants or the animals.

If we care for the land and manage it holistically and ecologically--including the strategic use of grazing livestock--then we can restore the land and prevent drought.

This is one of the many unreported facts about "climate change."

Priscilla Sandifer : was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky and the fourth of six children. She is a notary public for the state of Kentucky and a graduate of Sullivan University and Spencerian College. Priscilla has a gripping story to share. That story concerns the killing of her daughter, Amaya Victoria, as a result of uncoerced gun violence.

Kyle Ellison (retired KY Dept. of Corrections probation and parole officer and current jail/prison system historian), Judith Jennings (of Louisville Family Justice Advocates) and 9th District Councilman Andrew Owen share personal experiences, historical facts, and insights gained with respect to the Louisville Metro Dept. of Corrections downtown jail -- where 13 people have died in a little over a year, and where a new $400 million jail to replace it has been proposed. For a thorough analysis of issues surrounding KY prisons and jails, the following web address should take you to a paper written by Mr. Ellison:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LKLBbyRjYh9om1cU2XOpeFwimcUBNArk/view