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This is a talk Ruth Newman gave at Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church in 2017 in preparation for the launch of a new radio show she was calling Reach Out in the Darkness.

How should we respond to the latest conspiracies and misinformation about the COVID19 vaccine? Then, we start reviewing the top science stories of 2022. Hear about James Lovelock and Richard Leakey who both passed away last year. Then hear about volcanoes, purple tomatoes, lunar agriculture, electrical communication in fungi, a 30,000-year-old frozen mammoth, ancient DNA, and the largest bacteria ever seen. We will continue our list on a future episode.

‘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.

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Dr. Corinne Frugoni with the California Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program discusses the privatization of the Medicare program.

Dr. Jess Wright continues the conversation about treating mental illness with doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, highlights the fact that January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month with our guest, Dr. Theresa Hayden, Treasurer of the People Against Trafficking Humans (PATH) Coalition of Kentucky (http://pathcoalitionofky.org). Their mission is to foster awareness, one step at a time, by educating and equipping everyone to understand, identify and reduce the risk of human trafficking through educational programming. Led by a Board of Directors, PATH works with academic, community, and faith-based organizations in an effort to raise awareness. PATH offers educational sessions on Human Trafficking 101, Digital Safety for Youth and Young Adults, and other topics related to understanding the impacts of human trafficking in modern day society. PATH was born in 2013 when a few Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) began a public prayer service during Derby Week because of the SCN Corporate Stance against Human Trafficking. Officially designated as a 501(c)3 in 2015, PATH strives to become the leading education and awareness organization in Kentucky regarding human trafficking.

In January, 2010 the President dedicated the month of January to raising awareness about the different forms of human trafficking, also known as modern slavery, and educating people about this crime and how to spot it. Media coverage in Louisville around the 1st Saturday of May invariably includes a reference to sexual human trafficking incidents. While it is important the public be informed this type of criminal activity occurs in our backyard, it is more important they be informed that it occurs year-round and that trafficking includes more than just sexual based incidents.

* Calculate your own Slavery Footprint at https://slaveryfootprint.org/

* PATH is co-sponsoring a Cross-Cultural Hospitality Training with La Casita Center, Thursday, January 19th, 11am-1pm, online (Register by Tuesday, Jan. 17th at http://bit.ly/3V0m3WH) - a training focused on cultural sensitivity for those providing services to a diverse and multicultural audience, including info on local cultural awareness, and tools for best practices based on the first-hand experience of a local non-profit for the immigrant and Latinx community.

* UofL will be hosting a Human Trafficking 101 Workshop on Tuesday, January 24th, 5-7pm, online. Join the UofL Women's Center and the PATH Coalition of KY for an interactive workshop on human trafficking and prevention. Learn more an find the link to register at http://louisville.edu/sustainability

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 longtime community and political activist Larry Hovekamp. Larry shares with us the history of city county merger in Louisville/Jefferson County Kentucky.

Recorded Friday January 13, 2023. 2PM

On today's program we bring you a special conversation recorded on January 5, 2023 with authors Madeline Ostrander and Bill McKibben. It's an engaging conversation about life in America in a time of climate disaster and unruliness; and how we're building resilience and re-examining the nature of home.

• Environmental science journalist, Madeline Ostrander, is author of the new book "At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Planet" (https://madelineostrander.com/)

• Long-time climate activist and author, Bill McKibben, has released a new book "The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened" (http://billmckibben.com/). Read Bill McKibben's recent article in The New Yorker on the Inflation Reduction Act:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/from-climate-exhortation-to-climate-execution

The conversation was moderated by Valerie Schloredt from Yes! Magazine (https://www.yesmagazine.org), and was hosted by Elders Climate Action (http://eldersclimateaction.org) and Third Act (https://thirdact.org), which is organizing a Dis-credit Bad Banks Day of Action on 3-21-23 (https://thirdact.org/national-day-of-action/).

Today’s Solutions to Violence program is the second in at two-part series that features April Lawson.

April 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. Braver Angles is an organization designed to diminish the discourse and the political division that exist in the U.S. today.

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.

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Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- The Mist by Ragnar Jónasson

2- Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson

3- Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht

4- Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

5- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

6- The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton

7- How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Pryor

8- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

9- A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis

10- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

11- Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

12- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

13- The Snowchild by Eowyn Ivey

14- The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher

15- Midnight in Everwood by Maria Kuzniar

16- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

17- The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

18- Bellwether Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

19- The Fires by Sigrídur Hagalín Björnsdóttir

20- Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation #1) by M. T. Anderson

21- Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution by Alfred Blumrosen

22- Snow by John Banville

23- The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales edited by Maria Tatar

24- A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

25- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

26- The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

27- Braineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski

Shows mentioned--

Santa Clarita Diet (Netflix)

Articles mentioned--

Invisible Evidence by Jo Marchant (Smithsonian Vol 53, No 6 )

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, gets sunny about our city’s energy future with Sam Avery and Margaret Stewart from REAL, the Renewable Energy Alliance of Louisville (https://renewableenergylouisville.org/). Tune in to learn about REAL’s work to hold the city accountable for implementing Metro Council’s Resolution that lays out an immediate goal of 100% renewable electricity for city government operations by 2030, or about 100M kwh, $12M/year, or 84MW. We discuss ways the city can achieve this goal, some obstacles in the way, and what role LG&E might play in all of this.

We’ll also give you a sneak preview of REAL’s upcoming quarterly event this week:

REAL Good News: A Solar Farm for Louisville?

Wednesday, Jan. 11th, 7:00-8:30pm, on Zoom

A solar power installation in Louisville could go a long way to meeting the city’s renewable energy goal. A virtual event on Wednesday will explore how that could become a reality as “REAL Good News” holds its ninth in a series of quarterly public Zoom meetings aimed at making sure Louisville implements its green energy goals. In 2020 the Metro Council passed a resolution to move the city’s operations to 100% clean renewable electricity by 2030. That resolution also sets a goal of 100% clean energy for the entire Louisville community by 2040. Wednesday's event will feature a description of a solar project that’s underway in Hart County, and the steps required to build a similar project in Louisville. Speakers will include Rob Kalbouss, project manager for the Thoroughbred Solar Installation in Hart County, and Julie Donna, climate justice organizer with Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. Music by Louisville musician and activist John Gage will open and close the event. People attending will also learn about how to attend Metro Council meetings to speak in favor of implementing Louisville's clean energy resolution. The three sponsoring organizations are 100%REAL, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, and the Christian Action group of St. Paul United Methodist Church. Register and learn more at https://renewableenergylouisville.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