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This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, catches up with Betsy Ruhe, the new District 21 (South End) Metro Councilwoman. Betsy was elected to Metro Council in 2022. She currently serves as a member of the Parks & Sustainability Committee, the Planning & Zoning Committee, and the Equity, Community Affairs, Housing, Health & Education Committee.

Betsy Ruhe was born and raised in Louisville. She moved to the South End when she married her husband in 1991. She taught special needs children in Jefferson County Public Schools, until retiring in 2021. She was elected to Metro Council in November, 2022 and represents the neighborhoods of Beechmont, Wilder Park, Iroquois, Southside, Belmar, Preston Park, Sunshine Acres, My Old Kentucky Home, and the City of Lynnview. The District also includes the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport and the Kentucky Exposition Center.

Betsy earned a Master of Arts in Teaching from Bellarmine in 2000 with endorsements in special education and environmental education, and had the honor of becoming the first graduate of the University of Louisville’s Masters in Sustainability program. She is the founder of Orchards of Beechmont, a public orchard on South Third St., and a founding member of the Friends of Iroquois Park. She has a passion for spending time outdoors and getting her hands dirty, and can often be found walking her dog in Iroquois Park or along Southern Parkway, enjoying the fresh air and picking up litter, doing her part to keep her neighborhood beautiful.

Betsy Ruhe is a retired teacher and advocate for public green spaces, who says she will use her background in sustainability work to push for change as District 21’s Metro Council member. Ruhe was sworn in January 2023, taking over from Nicole George, who didn’t run for re-election and now oversees public health for Mayor Craig Greenberg’s administration. Learn more at https://louisvilleky.gov/government/metro-council-district-21

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

We discuss the largest labor strike in academia in US history. Then hear about the discovery of a Neanderthal family, Ice Age human footprints found in North America, the lost cities of the Amazon, drugs given to ancient Incan children prior to sacrifice, and a discussion of whether ancient Americans were mammoth hunters, or just mammoth scavengers. We talk about a surgery taking place in Borneo some 31,000 years ago, and the discovery of a long-lost wooden ship that sank in the Antartica back in 1914. Finally, hear an interview with Ameca, a realistic humanoid robot that was recently introduced to the public.

'Bolero' (by Maurice Ravel) was performed by Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and conducted by Ravel in 1930 (public domain).

‘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

Listen to John Bunzl, founder of Simpol (Simultaneous Policy) and John Stewart, an evolutionary theorist and author of The Evolutionary Manifesto, as they explain how the Simpol method can work to solve the world's seemingly intractable problems such as Climate Change, nuclear war, Pandemics and other global issues.

K.A. Owens interviews Community Activist, Playwright, Scholar Michael Tee. Topic: Death of Tyree Nichols at the hands and feet of the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department.

Recorded Thursday February 9, 2023, 2PM.

Alarmed by the growing mistrust between Republicans and Democrats in the aftermath of the 2016 election, a bipartisan group of Americans came together to create Braver Angels. The idea resonated with April Lawson.

Lawson now leads Braver Angels’ Debate and Public Discourse Program. She designed Braver Angels Debates and has grown the program from its first debate to serving over 1,000 participants per month. She oversees a team of 50 volunteers and staff to administer all Braver Angels’ debate work and is lead voice in public-facing communications.

Previously, she provided research and editing for David Brooks’ weekly columns at The New York Times. Most recently, she cofounded and served as the Associate Director for Brooks’ new Aspen Institute initiative, Weave: the Social Fabric Project.

She has also worked at the U.S. Treasury Department, the New Haven Mayor’s Office, and as a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton.

April grew up in Kansas, studied anthropology at Yale, and now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband Dan and her dog June.

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Books Mentioned in this Episode--

1- Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald

2- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone

3- Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith

4- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

5- A Separate Peace by John Knowles

6- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

7- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

8- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

9- Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

10- The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

11- Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane

12- Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

13- Cackle by Rachel Harrison

14- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore

15- Doctors & Friends by Kimmery Martin

16- The Eves by Grace Sammon

17- Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

18- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

19- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

20- White Noise by Don DeLillo

21- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

22- Waiting For Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

23- Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

24- Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

25- Everyone Knows Your Mother is A Witch by Rivka Galchen

26- The Line Tender by Kate Allen

27- Trespasses by Louis Kennedy

28- The Red-Headed Pilgrim by Kevin Maloney

29- Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir by Aliana Regan

Podcasts mentioned--

The To Be Read podcast

Movies/shows mentioned--

1- Wildcat (no release date yet)

2- Reality Bites (1994)

3- Gattaca (1997)

4- Mystic River (2003)

5- White Noise (Netflix 2022)

6- White Lotus (HBOMax 2021 - 2022)

Dr. Thomas Murphy joins host Hart Hagan. He is an astrophysicist who hails from UC San Diego. He has spent his career pointing lasers at the moon to test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.

Now he worries that we have climate change all wrong. We misunderstand the causes. We misunderstand the solutions. And it's a symptom of much deeper ecological and societal problems.

Few Americans (North Americans) understand that the economic pressures pushing people northward from Latin America are caused by the United States itself and our oppressive policies relating to business, trade, agriculture, the military and policing.

In this episode we look at the Biden White House's lame and arguably hypocritical attempt to address the root causes of migration from Central America.

Tom Lambert has PhD in public policy, urban and public affairs. His graduate courses include courses in economics as well as courses in statistics. Dr. Lambert has published mostly in economics and public policy journals and is currently with both the economics and equine administration programs at University of Louisville. He is involved in the University of Louisville equine program as an economist who mostly analyzes the equine industries. Dr. Lambert has taught for Jefferson Community and Technical College, Indiana University Southeast and Northern Kentucky University and now teaches at University of Louisville. For the last 20 years Tom Lambert has taught at the aforementioned universities in the areas of economics, public policy and statistics. Dr. Lambert began his teaching career in remedial math in 1983.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, discusses the need for culture change with Eloisa Lewis, a climate scientist and founder of the think tank New Climate Culture (https://www.newclimateculture.com/). Eloisa has spent the past decade living in urban centers, on farms, homesteads, artist residencies, eco-villages, communes, schools, tiny houses, squats, and tents to help communities become more resilient and resistant to disasters through education.

She travels the world teaching communities about the symbiotic built environment and how to rebuild their internal and external structures to be regenerative environments that boost biodiversity and are resilient to disasters. Learn more about Eloisa at https://www.linkedin.com/in/eloisa-alena-lewis/.

Read her response to Politico's inquiry about what sustainability means: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2022/12/21/how-the-sustainability-experts-define-sustainability-00074966

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