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We love finding people who do interesting bookish things that are a little out of the ordinary, and our guest this week is costume designer and author Jacqueline Firkins who combines her amazing dressmaking skills with her love of novels. She creates dresses based on book covers that you can see on her Instagram page or her website. Located in Vancouver, Jacqueline teaches at the University of British Columbia.

We also lucked out because we were also able to chat with Jacqueline about her new book which just hit book stores two weeks ago titled Marlowe Banks, Redesigned, a rom-com featuring a behind the scenes look at the costume designing world.

You can find Jacqueline Firkins and pictures of her amazing dresses on Instagram @jfkillsdarlings and at her website jacquelinefirkins.com.

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- Marlowe Banks, Redesigned by Jacqueline Firkins

2- Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch

3- Ink in the Blood by Kim Smejkal

4- Small Favors by Erin Craig

5- The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson

6- Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby

7- Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

8- Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice

9- Thanks for Listening by Julia Whelan (audiobook narrated by Julia Whelan)

10- My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

Shows mentioned--

1- Sandman (Netflix 2022)

2- Awakenings (1990)

3- Interview with the Vampire (1994)

4- Interview with a Vampire (AMC 2022)

Why are we talking about Latin America on The Climate Report?

Foreign policy, not least of all with Latin America, involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed. Climate involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed.

Plus, the purpose of our trade regime/military/security state is to preserve our unfair advantage on the world stage, whereby we can continue to consume 25% of the world’s resources.

Involves trade deals that are pro-US corporations, anti everyone else. As such, they create huge inefficiencies, as when Haitians go unemployed or work for slave wages because they can’t compete in a rigged market for farm goods.

NOTES:

UN Charter

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.

--Charter of the United Nations

Polls show the world considers the US as a threat.

According to a 2013 WIN/Gallup poll, most countries said the United States is the greatest threat to world peace.

A 2017 Pew Research poll found that a record number of people in 30 surveyed nations saw US power and influence as a “major threat.”

Psychiatrist Dr. Jess Wright, vice chair of Academic Affairs at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and director of the U of L Depression Center discusses PTSD with doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, floats up river to a special place on the banks of the Ohio River with Jessica Whitehead & David Wicks, two Board members of Payne Hollow on the Ohio (https://www.paynehollowontheohio.org/), a new non-profit organization whose mission is to sustainably preserve the structures and land at Payne Hollow in Trimble County, Kentucky, as a means to protect and promote the legacy of Harlan and Anna Hubbard.

On October 14th, they announced that the organization met its Phase I fundraising goal and officially closed on the property. With gratitude to all of its Founding Partners, Payne Hollow on the Ohio is now ready to begin its next phase of fundraising and mission-driven work. The organization is seeking donors from the community who will be able to support the vital and ongoing preservation and restoration of the structures, land, and artifacts at Payne Hollow.

Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988) was considered by many to be a modern-day Thoreau. Hubbard is widely beloved for his writing and art, but he and his wife, Anna Hubbard, captivated the public imagination when, after years of living on a shantyboat, they settled down in Payne’s Hollow–later shortened by Harlan to “Payne Hollow” along the banks of the Ohio River. There they built a charming, bespoke homestead where they lived for thirty-five years. The Hubbards spent their days living sustainably–foraging, fishing, gardening, chopping wood, as well as writing, artmaking, and playing music. They were unique in twentieth-century life, choosing a life of quiet solitude, foregoing electricity and running water, shunning modern tools and amenities, all to live “on the fringe of society.”

When the Hubbards died in the 1980s, Paul Hassfurder, a friend and fellow artist, inherited and maintained the property. Now that responsibility has passed to Payne Hollow on the Ohio, an organization which seeks to honor the Hollow’s former owners by tirelessly bringing the land and structures back to their former glory.

To learn more about Payne Hollow on the Ohio’s goals, work, team, and future, or to make a donation to our ongoing projects, visit https://www.paynehollowontheohio.org or follow them on Facebook and Instagram @paynehollowontheohio. Donations and gifts of any amount will help Payne Hollow on the Ohio meet its Phase II fundraising goals. They can be made through the website or via check.

Due to the severe topography, habitat concerns, historical landmarks, and management, access to Payne Hollow on the Ohio is by permission only. Guided tours and events on the property will be announced in the coming months, and property access will be limited to those events.

See also: The Ohio River Way (hosting a summit on Nov. 15th): http://theohioriverway.org

UofL's Hubbard archives: https://library.louisville.edu/archives/hubbard

Afloat on the Ohio: https://www.afloatontheohio.com/

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

Joshua Douglas, Professor at the University of Kentucky, College of Law, talks about his recent book "Vote for US -- How to take back our elections and change the future of voting" and about voter accessibility and security as it now stands. This is followed by a wide-ranging discussion with Victoria Strange and Ruth Newman on elections and threats to democracies.

We talk about decolonizing your holiday thinking and thinking more deeply about the racial and colonial roots of this national holiday and how you can be more inclusive in how you thinking about and celebrate Thanksgiving.

Dr. Phill Gittins is World BEYOND War’s Education Director and is a Peace Ambassador for the Institute for Economics and Peace. He has 15+ years’ programming, analysis, and leadership experience in the areas of peace, education, and youth. He has particular expertise in context-specific approaches to peace programming; peace-building education; and youth inclusion in research and action.

To date, he has lived, worked, and traveled in over 50 countries across 6 continents; taught in schools, colleges, and universities in eight countries; and led experiential training and training-of-trainers for hundreds of individuals on peace and conflict processes. His work includes youth in prison; consultation for public and non-profit organizations on peace, education, and and is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and counsellor.

ALISON SUTHERLAND

Alison Sutherland is a Rotarian peace-builder and serves on the Board of Rotarian Action Group For Peace (RAGFP). She is also Chair Rotarian Action Group for Peace at Rotary International Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Alison Sutherland is the Past President of Cardiff Bay Rotary, District Rotaract Officer, District Peace Officer and DGNN (District Governor Nominee-Nominee). She has a degree from Durham University in Theology and Ministry and until four years ago, spent eleven years at grassroots level in East Africa.

She founded an NGO offering counseling, testing, management and treatment, home based care, awareness and prevention seminars, feeding, micro finance, catch up school for orphans and training. She worked with other leading organizations and institutions into research around behaviors which might contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Since her return to the UK she has pioneered in Southern Wales a Peace/Citizen Program based on the lives of 13 Nobel Peace Laureates to children and young people. It provides opportunities to gain skills in leadership, critical thinking and peace and conflict resolution. The program has been delivered to schools, colleges, university and international places of education.

We are back with a global reader episode this week and are traveling to Australia using the magic of the internet. We had the pleasure of chatting with Lily Raiti, an avid reader who lives outside Melbourne and has worked as a personal trainer for 16 years and also does some freelance copyediting on the side.

It’s always fun to hear about what book lovers in other places are reading and Lily had some great indigenous author suggestions for us which we’ll have in our show notes for you to check out. Of course, Lily also had to answer some general Australia questions like how far it takes to fly from one city to another but we avoided anything about Crocodile Dundee.

You can find Lily Raiti on Instagram @lilyraiti.

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- Books by Enid Blyton

2- Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal

3- Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews

4- The White Girl by Tony Birch

5- The Yield by Tara June Winch

6- Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman

7- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko

8- The Boy From the Mish by Gary Lonesborough

9- The Dry by Jane Harper

10- Picture books by Graeme Base

11- Books by Henry Lawson

12- My Brilliant Career and other books by Miles Franklin

13- The Year of Magical Thinking and other books by Joan Didion

14- My Name is Lucy Barton and other books by Elizabeth Strout

15- Beloved and other books by Toni Morrison

16- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

17- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

18- The Change by Kirsten Miller

19- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

20- The Unbelieved by Vikki Petraitis

21- The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku (Audiobook narrated by Raphael Corkhill)

Welcome to The Climate Report on Forward Radio WFMP 106.5 FM, Louisville. Also streaming worldwide at Forwardradio.org

This is Hart Hagan your host.

We are on episode number 352, Wars R Us

Wars are the way we settle conflicts.

Wars are the way we get what we want.

Wars are the way we get the populace stirred up against some perceived external threat.

Unless we bring the war machine under control, there is no reason for us to hope.

“War is the health of the state.” Randolph Bourne.

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few … No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

—James Madison, 1795

The Charter of the United Nations states: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."

--Charter of the United Nations

Why are we talking about it on TCR?

Pentagon is the world’s biggest consumer of fossil fuels.

Plus, the purpose of our military (arguably) is to preserve our unfair advantage on the world stage, whereby we can continue to consume 25% of the world’s resources.

Consumption takes a lot of fossil fuels and is therefore a major cause of global warming.

War involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed. Climate involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed.

Pediatric surgeons Dr. Cindy Downard and Dr. David Foley discuss causes and treatment of child trauma at Louisville's Children Hospital with Dr. Mike Flynn and Dr. Gene Shively