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Elizebth Gail Chandler has degrees from Berea College in Kentucky and from The New School in New York City. She served three years in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam era. In 1976, she became the first female deputy warden in a male prison in Kentucky and enjoyed a career in corrections working in four state facilities and directing a Dismas halfway house. . In 2003, Dismas Charities published her nonfiction book, Sunflowers on Market Street, in 2009, Finishing Line released her poetry chapbook, Where the Red Road Meets the Sky

and in 2016, He Read to Us.

We are being lied to from all directions when it comes to climate change. This episode is the unvarnished truth, from my five years of looking at climate change from every conceivable angle.

IMO, you can't believe what you hear from most media outlets, government agencies, political parties or Big Green organizations. It's a mess, but I'm here to help you sort out the mess.

Pack you bags for this week’s Sustainability Now!, as your host, Justin Mog, welcomes aboard, Erica Ward, the Peace Corps Regional Recruiter for Kentucky, southern Indiana & southern West Virginia. Erica Will share her stories of serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer TWICE - in Malawi (2010-12) and Ethiopia (2018-20). We’ll also get an update on Peace Corps’ return to service after the March 2020 global evacuation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

There is an April 1st application deadline for fall departures (Sept/Oct) with the Peace Corps, so we’ll walk you through the process and share some of the many benefits of Peace Corps service to you as an individual and to the communities we serve around the world. Learn more at http://peacecorps.gov

Get in touch with Erica at [email protected].

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

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you the University of Louisville's 2023 Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. On Thursday, February 23rd, 2023, in UofL's Gheens Science Hall and Rauch Planetarium, we heard from Dr. Treva Lindsey, a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University and co-founder of the Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House in Columbus, OH. She is the author of the 2022 book "America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice." (https://louisville.edu/wgs/news/america-goddam-violence-black-women-and-the-struggle-for-justice)

You can watch a full video recording of the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe_BCju8M0 (starts at 20:40)

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

Senator Armstrong, who won her seat in the KY State Legislature in a Special Election to replace Morgan McGarvey, talks about her Appalachian roots, the Rural/Urban divide, her legislative priorities and more. Also on this program is Tim Darst, adjunct professor in the Dept. of Environmental Studies at Bellarmine University, who discusses the March 3, 2023 wind gusts that caused massive damage to power lines and power outages across parts of Kentucky, including Jefferson County. He juxtaposes the advantages of decentralized renewable energy sources as a viable alternative to centralized monopoly control of electrical power through coal and other fossil fuels.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A RIVER?

HART HAGAN: My guest is Derrick Jensen, Writer and Environmental Activist, author of over two dozen books, including

- Endgame: The Problem of Civilization

- As The World Burns: 50 Things You Can Do To Stay in Denial

- A Language Older Than Words

- The Culture of Make-Believe and

- Bright Green Lies, which Derrick co-authored with Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert.

HART HAGAN: I asked Derrick to read a passage from his book “Endgame.”

DERRICK JENSEN: The way this passage came to be written--I think it’s the most beautiful thing that I've ever written--and I didn't actually write it. It was written by a nearby stream. And the way it came to be was that I had been for a few weeks trying to write “What is it Like to be a River?” And I wasn't getting anywhere. And so I thought, well, I'm going to go down and ask the stream, “What is it like to be you?”

So I went down to the stream and I said, what is it like to be you? And the stream had been waiting so long for someone to ask that question, for some human at least ask that question, because it gave me the answer, just like that, and the entire piece came to me, I ran back inside as fast as I could, and wrote it down. I almost didn't have to edit it at all.

So, here it is.

Pretend you are a river. Pretend you are the mist who falls so fine—so gentle—that nothing separates water and air. You are the rain who falls in sheets, explodes onto the ground to leave pocks and puddles. You are the ground who receives this water, soaking it up, taking it in, carrying it deep inside. You are the cracks and fissures where the waters accumulate, flow, fall to join more water, and more, in pools and rivers who move slowly through cavities, crevices, pores. You are the sounds and silence of water seeping or staying still. You are the meeting of wet and dry, the union of liquid and solid, where solids dissolve and liquids solidify. You are the pressure who pushes water through seams. You are the rushing water who bubbles from the earth.

You are a tiny pool between rocks. You overflow, find your way to join others who like you are moving, moving. You are the air at the surface of the water, the joining of substantial and insubstantial, the union of under and over, weight and not-weight. You are the riffle, the rapid, the tiny waterfall who turns water to air and air to water. You are the mist who settles on the soil. You are the plants who drink the mist, and you are the sun who warms and feeds them.

You are the fish who feed on insects who feed on plants who feed on soils who feed on fish. You are the fish who become soils who become plants who become insects who become fish who flow down the river.

You are the river who joins other rivers to become a new river who is all of the rivers and something else.

You are the river. You do not stop at the banks, where liquid turns to solid. You reach into the sky and into the soil. Water moves through rocks, comes up to form pools far from the fast flow where the rivers move together, seeps down to join still waters deep below the surface, waters who sleep and wake and sleep and mingle with the stones who are the river, too.

You are the river, who is married to the mountains you have known since they were young, who have given themselves to you as you have given yourself to them. You are the canyons you nestle into, each year deeper than the year before. You are the forests who give you their fallen trees, and the meadows you flood and feed and who feed you back their fruits and fine insects who fly to your surface to be taken in by the fish who with their own bodies again feed the meadows.

It's "MIddle Grade March" so this week we talk about why book lovers, (even adults!) should try a middle grade book. We give you 10 titles that definitely deserve a spot on your TBR list.

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- The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard

2- Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz

3- American Cheese: An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World by Joe Berkowitz

4- Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

5- The One and Only Bob / The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

6- Pax by Sara Pennypacker

7- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

8- The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

9- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

10- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (Gold Mountain Chronicles)

11- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

12- American Gods by Neil Gaiman

13- Sandman by Neil Gaiman

14- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

15- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

16- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

17- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

18- The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

19- Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani

20- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

21- The Greenglass House by Kate Milford (series)

22- A History of Scotland by Neil Oliver

23- 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith

24- The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

25- The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec

26- Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

27- Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Book Seller by Oliver Darkshire

28- Dream Girl by Laura Lippmann

29- The Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippmann

Films mentioned--

1- The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix 2022)

2- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

3- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)

On Friday, March 10, 2023, Iran and Saudi Arabia reached a peace agreement, largely with the help of China. The deal was hosted by the Chinese government in Beijing.

Observers indicate that this represents the rise of Chinese influence and the waning of US influence in the region.

Iran and Saudi Arabia had severed diplomatic relations in 2016.

Dust off your bike for this week’s Sustainability Now!, as your host, Justin Mog, takes you for a spin with friends from Falls City Community Bikeworks (http://fccbikeworks.org)! Laurance Levine is the Executive Director, and he is joined in studio by one of the Founders, John Krueger. Join us as we discuss the history of the city’s only cooperative, not-for-profit bike shop and what's on the horizon with events happening this spring!

FCCB is located in beautiful Shelby Park at 1217 Logan St. The current hours for their Public Open Shop are:

Sundays: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Wednesdays: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

FCCB will be hosting the next Green Drinks on Wednesday, March 15th at 6pm at Falls City Community BikeWorks, 1217 Logan St.

Green Drinks is a casual monthly meet-up of community members and organizations organized by the Louisville Sustainability Council. Each month they host different speakers from across the city to educate and inform the community on local happenings, projects, and initiatives. Each presentation is followed by Q&A, discussion, and networking. For this month’s Green Drinks, we will convene at Falls City Community BikeWorks, where we will learn more about FCCB's operation, and how you can become a member to work on your own bike! BYOB, and after party to follow at Canary Club. Ride your bike there to be entered to win awesome door prizes! This event is free and open to the public, so bring a friend and we look forward to seeing you there! Learn more at http://louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.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

Your kids might be using ChatGPT (artificial intelligence), but have you tried it yet? Well, we have! Hear about it on this episode. Then we discuss the world's fastest supercomputer, a cyborg cockroach, microplastics in our lungs, and how the new mass of the W Boson could set particle physics aflutter. What are the prospects for nuclear fusion saving the planet? And did you know that children born in the 1960s and 1970s were exposed to the highest levels of lead pollution, but that lead has lowered the IQ of about half the US population?

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