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Take a deep dive into the issue of ocean plastics on this week’s show as your host, Justin Mog, dips into the topic with Kathryn Anderson, Education Coordinator at the Ocean Legacy Foundation (http://oceanlegacy.ca), from Vancouver Island, BC. The Ocean Legacy Foundation is a Canadian non-profit organization that develops and implements worldwide plastic pollution emergency response programs, with the goal to end plastic pollution. They have just released an updated EPIC Academy, a free online platform providing global education on plastic pollution, cleanup efforts, and solutions for creating plastic pollution-free lands and waters. Check out their new curriculum on ocean plastics at https://edu.oceanlegacy.ca

The source of plastic is finite and has potential for highly toxic production practices so it's critical to address the issue since the estimate is that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish! Estimates from National Geographic tell us that roughly 8-13 million metric tons of plastic enter the ocean annually (or about 5 grocery bags of plastic trash for every foot of coastline!). 91% of all plastic produced every year ends up in landfill, improperly incinerated or littered.

You cannot see much of the problem because 99% of the plastic is actually found below the water's surface - found on every shore on earth (much in microplastic form that is far less obvious to the naked eye) all the way to Mariana Trench, the deepest known ocean trench - nearly 11,000m deep!

The EPIC Academy curriculum aims to provide individuals, businesses and organizations interested in learning more about ocean plastic pollution with an easily accessible and free resource to start their learning journey, with the goal of building a global community working together to advance plastic pollution cleanup efforts, evidence-based policy expansion and infrastructure development to better manage plastic resources. Suitable for ages 14 and up, it includes 10 online lessons pertaining to ocean and land-based plastic pollution, the environmental impact of plastic pollution, and how different communities across the globe can take action managing plastic waste and solving the ocean plastic pollution crisis. The curriculum can be accessed in English, French and Spanish.

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 Beautiful Chemistry Project' is a collaboration between art historians, physicists and chemists to decipher the cosmetic recipes popular during the Renaissance and beyond. In this episode we explore the case of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of King Charles I of the United Kingdom back in the 1600s. Then, Professor Scott Miller tells us how we can see meteors, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and a lunar eclipse during the month of November. Finally a discussion of 'Ginkgo Rain' produced by the exotic Maidenhair Tree. Is Ginkgo a harbinger of global climate change?

Thanks to Mary Williams for her acting performance on the cosmetics story. Here is the article being quoted in this story: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/rest.12724?src=getftr

and here is the link to 'The Beautiful Chemistry Project': https://www.beautifulchemistryproject.com/about

‘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

At this candidate forum put on Oct. 12, 2022 by the Louisville League of Women Voters, Tina Ward-Pugh speaks about her reasons for running for Jefferson County Clerk and what her plans are if she wins. Bobby Holsclaw, the Incumbent, declined to participate. Also at this forum, hear Dr. Karen Berg (Democrat) and James Peden (Republican), who are running for KY Senate in District 26.

On this show, you will learn all about Amendments 1 and 2, proposed to amend Kentucky's Constitution, on the 2022 Ballot. But first, three Independent candidates for Louisville mayor give brief statements about themselves.

K.A. Owens interviews Malcolm Sanders. Malcom is a longtime developer of educational and youth programs.

Recorded by K.A. Owens on Thursday November 3, 3022, 2PM.

We saw this week’s guest in early fall at Carmichael’s Bookstore when she read aloud from her latest book, Don’t Call Me a Hurricane. Ellen Hagan has roots in Kentucky and is part of Spalding University’s low residency MFA faculty but lives and works in New York City. She is a poet, fiction writer, performer, and teacher for several programs including the The DreamYard Project and the International Poetry Exchange Program, programs geared towards young people. She is also the author of many books for teens, including Watch Us Rise, a book she wrote in collaboration with Renee Watson.

Don’t Call Me a Hurricane is a YA novel written in verse that addresses climate change, romantic, family, and friend relationships, as well as the tension between tourism and ecology.

You can find more information about Ellen Hagan on social media @ellenhagan or her website www.ellenhagan.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- Don't Call Me a Hurricane by Ellen Hagan

2- Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

3- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

4- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

5- Rivers of London/Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

6- Naruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera

7- Vinyl Moon by Mahogany L. Browne

8- I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg

9- Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau; audiobook narrated by Cailtin Kinnunen

10- Reckless, Glorious, Girl by Ellen Hagan

We are on episode number 351, The 2022 National Security Strategy.

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 is a moral issue. Climate is a moral issue.

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.

In reading and commenting on this report …

We should ask, how believable are the words we are reading?

We should ask, what narrative is being supported?

What are other countries around the world hearing and thinking when they hear or read these words?

I’m going to take the position that

These words Are completely

disingenuous (insincere, duplicitous)

Ahistorical (not rooted in fact)

Threatening (because other countries know what they REALLY mean.)

These words called the national defense strategy are not about defense. They are about aggression. A war of aggression is a capital crime.

These words, called the national defense strategy, are not making the American people safer. They are creating a world that is much more dangerous for the American people.

These words are designed to make money for the MIC and all of Wall Street, but they are not for the good of the American people or the people of the world.

These words constitute high sounding rhetoric that masks a deeply violent country, a deeply violent government, a deeply violent foreign policy.

These words are completely useless in addressing the real problems of Americans or people around the world.

Consider these quotes:

“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 final phase of our national sickness is the disease of militarism…We are arrogant in professing to be concerned about the freedom of foreign nations while not setting our own house in order…

No enemy has ever been able to cause such damage to us as we inflict upon ourselves.

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A civilization can flounder as readily in the face of moral bankruptcy as it can through financial bankruptcy.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice.”

—John Foster Dulles

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, tackles the climate crisis head-on through a sober and inspiring conversation with Samuel Goodman, PhD. Dr. Goodman is a scientist by training, earning his doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. He has since spent his career working at the intersection of science and public policy in Washington, DC, at the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. International Trade Commission. 


Dr. Goodman has always been focused on climate change both in and out of the laboratory. It is an all-encompassing problem that influences every part of our civilization. However, over time, he grew frustrated with the lack of progress and seemingly dead-end ideas taking up all the air within climate discussions. The book, "Beyond Carbon Neutral: How We Fix the Climate Crisis Now” (New Degree Press) was his attempt to find firm footing and determine if solutions and hope truly exist. He now firmly believes they do. Learn more and keep up with his work at http://drsamuelgoodman.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-m-goodman/ and on Twitter @GoodestSam

Beyond Carbon Neutral presents a complete strategy for averting climate disaster with the tools we have right now. The book covers all the critical pieces: making a completely renewable power grid, permanently sequestering carbon, and overcoming the social and political barriers that block progress. Dr. Goodman teaches the ins and outs of climate change and its solutions in an understandable way while maintaining a feeling of levity in the face of an overwhelming problem. He shows readers there is hope, if they are willing to take collective and systemic action to build a better future.

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 edition of Election Connection starts out with a candidate forum for Metro Council District 25, held 9/29/22, put on by the Louisville League of Women Voters and moderated by League member Maureen Welch. Amy Holton Stewart is the Democrat and Khalil "Charlie" Batshon is the Republican. Then, Victoria Strange, co-host along with Ruth Newman, reports on her findings and conclusions regarding the Republican incumbent U.S. Senator Rand Paul and his Democrat challenger Charles Booker.

This week's episode of Single Payer Radio is a conversation with doctors Garrett Adams and Mike Imburgia. Both have worked for decades providing care and have witnessed patients denied care in our current system that requires insurance, co-pays, and unaffordable out-of-pocket expenses. Both doctors have established clinics to address the need. Dr. Imburgia established the Have a Heart Clinic in downtown Louisville. Dr. Adams established the Beersheba Clinic in Beersheba Springs,TN a small rural community in Warren County TN on the Cumberland Plateau. More info http://www.haveaheartclinic.org http://www.beershebaclinic.org