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Today we are talking with Canadian filmmaker Julia Barnes about her movie, “Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It.”

We talk about seven kinds of rest and the ways to get it. We also talk about ways to achieve your best intellectual self in 2023!

We got together on the first day of 2023 to review our top books of 2022 and we’re already busy reading books to discuss this year. Time was too short to talk about all of our favorite books but you can see a full list of our 5 star reads from 2022 as well as a list of all the books we mention in this episode on our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com.

Our year in review episode is always fun because we ask our guests from the past 12 months to tell us about their favorite book. It brings back great memories to hear all their voices again.

Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Babel by RF Kuang

2- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

3- The Stone Loves the World by Brian Hall

4- I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall

5- Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

6- Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone

7- The Marmalade Diaries by Ben Aitken

8- The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin

9- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia

10- Where I Can’t Follow by Ashley Blooms

11- Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

12- Odin’s Child by Siri Pettersen

13- The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

14- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborthy

15- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

16- Gallant by VE Schwab

17- The Nightmare Man by JH Markert

18- Devolution by Max Brooks

19- Leech by Hiron Ennes

20- Finna by Nino Cipri

21- Defect by Nino Cipri

22- Morning Glory Milking Farm (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta

22- Sweet Berries (Cambric Creek) by CM Nascosta

23- How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

24- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

25- Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class by Dan Canon

26- Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

27- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

28- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

29- The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

30- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

31- When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

32- The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

33- The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken

34- What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir by David Sipress

35- Girl at War by Sara Nović

36- Haven by Emma Donoghue

37- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

38- Champagne Widows (Veuve Clicquot) by Rebecca Rosenberg

39- The Guncle by Steven Rowley

40 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

41- Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby

42- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

43- How to Fake It in Hollywood by Ava Wilder

44- The Dance of Time: The Origins of the Calendar by Michael Judge

45- Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

46- Thistlefoot by Jenna Rose Nethercott

47- Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

48- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Movie - Nightmare Alley ( 2022)

App - Storygraph

What can scientists do to fend off nuclear war? Are there inherited genes that provide resistance to diseases that cause pandemics (like the Bubonic Plague)? What meteor showers, planets and constellations can we see in the sky in January, 2023?

Dave Robinson, Mary Williams and J Scott Miller fill you in. Here is the link to the article about nuclear disarmament: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf2194. Here is the article about the Bubonic Plague: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05349-x.

‘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

To welcome in the New Year and get you started down a better path in 2023, on this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, tries to get at the roots of our future fulfillment with Chris Isgrigg. Once a farmer in rural Kentucky, Chris Isgrigg is now a practicing psychotherapist in Louisville. He’s thought deeply about the relationships that weave each of us to each other and to the more-than-human world and has integrated the natural world meaningfully into his therapeutic approach.

Our goal today is to invite you to nurture your relationships with the other-than-humans in our world. We explore reasons for avoiding the term “nature” and start our conversation with the definition of culture from Navajo elder Pat McCabe/Woman Stands Shining: "Culture is the Earth expressing Herself through human beings in a particular place." This conversation is so rich. You won’t want to miss it and wend with our wishes for you going into 2023:

May you be happy, healthy and whole,

May you have love, warmth and affection,

May you be protected from harm and free from fear,

May you be alive, engaged and joyful...may you experience inner peace and ease

You can get in touch with Chris at [email protected] and learn more about his counseling practice, Deeply Rooted Counseling at https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/chris-isgrigg-louisville-ky/156084

If you’d like to hear more from Chris, check out his appearance on Kyle Kramer's “Earth & Spirit” podcast 7-31-22 https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/relationships-of-respect-and-reciprocity-chris-isgrigg-on-healing-and-wholeness-for-individuals-and-culture/

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

The crew talks about the latest movie, Wakanda Forever, and the social and geopolitical themes of the movie with a critical analysis

Dr. Craig Woodson is a musicologist, Historian and biological relative of the famous African American historian and founder of Black History month, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Craig Woodson explains how the Caucasian Woodson family became biological relatives of the African American Woodson family. Craig Woodson also explains how apologies and asking for forgiveness lead to reconciliation with the African American Woodson family. Finally, Craig Woodson explains how drums, originally created by Africans, led to the invention of the American Drum Set and how music help create a common bond between white Americans and African Americans.

**Carrie and I are taking a much needed holiday break. We will be back in Mid-January with all new episodes.

Until then, we have some replay episodes.

New Year’s Eve is just a few days away and often we think of toasting with a glass of sparkly at the stroke of midnight. Historical fiction writer Rebecca Rosenberg’s love of wine and sparkling wine in particular took her on travels to France to visit the great wine houses. And one of the things she discovered was the huge influence women had on the wine and sparkling wine industry. That inspired her to write Champagne Widows, a novel about Madame Clicquot, France’s first lady of wine from Napoleon’s time. In fact you may be toasting in 2023 with a glass of Clicquot wine as it is still one of the premier sparkling wines today. Rebecca will continue the series this coming March with the story of Madame Pommery who lived in the 1860s but changed the way we think of champagne today.

Cheers everyone!

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Part of what drew us to this week’s author, Rebecca Rosenberg, was the cool cover of her historical fiction novel, Champagne Widows. But as we read the book, we realized it was a pretty fascinating story of a young widow, Madame Clicquot, who essentially revolutionized champagne production in France during the Napoleonic years.

Rebecaa has written two other historical fiction novels but Champagne Widows is the first in a series about the trailblazing women of wine in France in the 19th century. As a champagne historian, Rebecca decided these stories needed to be told. She gave us a lot of the background on champagne and Madame Clicquot when we spoke to her. And reading Rebecca’s book right around New Year’s gave Amy all the excuse she needed to splurge on a bottle of Veuve Clicquot Champagne and share it with me to toast in 2022.

Book mentioned in this episode:

1- Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg

2- The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage

3- The Last Duel by Eric Jager

4- Witcher series by Andrezj Sapkowski

5- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

6- Nancy Drew series

7- One Thousand and One Nights

8- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

9- Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

10- Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

11- Gold Digger: The Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor by Rebecca Rosenberg

12- The Secret Life of Mrs. London by Rebecca Rosenberg

13- Champagne Widows: Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg (coming in 2023)

14- Mordew by Alex Pheby

15- The Huntress by Kate Quinn

16- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

17- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

18- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

19- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Shows/movies mentioned--

1- After Party (Apple+)

2- The Power of the Dog (Netflix)

3- The Last Duel (Hulu)

4- Witcher (Netflix)

You can find Rebecca Rosenberg at her website www.rebecca-rosenberg.com.

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How does the media really work? They want us to think they are fearlessly challenging power. In reality, they are subservient to power. They want us to think that the media is a "self-correcting" system. In reality, they perpetuate whatever errors are useful to their masters.

In this episode, I look at the "Propaganda Model" as set forth by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their classic media analysis, "Manufacturing Consent".

In that model, five filters govern the quality, quantity, extent and frequency of coverage given to any particular issue. Those filters are:

1) the ownership of the media

2) the sponsors of the media

3) allegiance to powerful sources

4) something called "flack" and

5) the religion of anti-communism, and other powerful ideologies that control the public discourse.

If we are to solve the problem of climate change and other important environmental problems, we must understand who shapes news coverage and how it all works.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, gathers friends around the microphones for the second half of a two-part conversation about the threats posed by the proposed LG&E gas pipeline through Bullitt Co. This week’s guests: Rev. Elisa Owen, Executive Director of Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light, KIPL (http://kentuckyipl.org); Wallace McMullen, one of the founding members of PPL Shareholders for Economic Democracy; and Danica Novgorodoff, artist, writer, and mother of young kids who has been involved in protesting Wall Street's financing of fossil fuel extraction with 350Brooklyn (and is still involved as a co-lead of the Stop the Money Pipeline working group) and Sunrise Kids (a group of parents with babies and toddlers, a branch of Sunrise Movement). She's also working on a graphic novel about youth climate activists, and is on the board of the Cofan Survival Fund, which supports the indigenous Cofán people in the Ecuadorian Amazon so they can protect their million acres of rainforest from mining and oil pollution. She recently joined KFTC's energy justice group (http://kftc.org).

The focus of this week’s conversation is on the broader threats posed by the pipeline in terms of contributions to the global climate crisis, the legal precedents, and the future of our children. We’ll give you an update on the thicket of litigation that this proposal has generated, and share some faith-based perspectives on the issue. Learn more about the issue and how to get involved at http://savebernheimnow.org/

The timing of this conversation is critical. LGE-KU is taking Bernheim to court to condemn their property and the court date is January 10, 2023. Bernheim is using its scarce resources to fight this aggression, but the need your help. Here’s what you can do:

• Spread the word with a new “Save Bernheim Now!” yard sign available at the All Peoples Justice Center - email [email protected]

• Sign the new petition at https://bernheim.org/forestunderthreat/pipeline/?id=tog-contain2

• Make a special donation to Bernheim’s “Land Protection Fund” to help pay for legal fees at http://bernheim.org

• Join weekly protest gatherings – bring your signs, dress in costume, just come! Fridays at noon in front of LG&E, 220 W. Main, coming up on January 6th.

• Write a letter to PPL and LG&E: [email protected]; [email protected]

For more, watch the Save Bernheim Now! event held at All People's Church on December 4, 2022 at https://youtu.be/ANi0Kdd_Bts

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