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Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare members discuss the birth of Medicare including its civil rights and medical care desegregation component, privatization efforts, Medicare drug policies and costs to patients

This week Carrie and I traveled to record at the Tompkins-Buchanan-Rankin Mansion, which is a Victorian era mansion built in 1871, with 12-foot ceilings, hand-carved wood balusters, and intricately designed colorful wallpapers. It has been preserved and enveloped by the campus of Spalding University and is the location of their School of Creative and Professional Writing and home base for today’s guest, debut novelist Katy Yocom.

Katy’s novel, Three Ways to Disappear, was published in 2019 and has won numerous awards including The Siskiyou Prize for Environmental Fiction. It has also been selected as a Barnes and Noble Indie Book Favorite.

Katy has vivid memories of as a child reading All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot out loud with her mother. It was a short leap to her writing her own book about the intricacies of animal conservation and family bonds.

Katy tells us how her obsession with a set of newborn tiger cubs at the Louisville Zoo 14 years ago started her on the path to write her book, how a suggestion from an astute editor changed the trajectory of her novel, and why she believes much of the riskier and cutting edge literature is being published by small independent presses and how important it is to support them.

Books Discussed in this Episode

1- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom

2- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

3- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

4- Severance by Ling Ma

5- The Road by Cormac McCarthy

6- Kindred by Octavia Butler

You can find us on FB, instagram (@perksofbeingabookloverpod) and on our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com

What is the science behind the first pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope? Why did the Geological Society of Kentucky recently name the Lower Howard's Creek Nature & Heritage Preserve as a distinguished geologic site? What's in the redacted letters between the last Queen of France (Marie Antoinette) and her purported lover? Finally, hear about the I Am A Scientist program that is working to enhance diversity and inclusivity in the sciences.

Here is a link to those Webb Telescope images: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Here is the original I Am A Scientist video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZFXUpZ0-Y. Here is the I Am A Scientist website: https://www.iamascientist.info/

‘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

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, brings you a preview conversation with Dr. Douglas Tallamy who will be the guest speaker at a special event on Friday in collaboration with UofL’s Sustainability Council and Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. Joining the conversation is Bernheim’s Director of Education, Kristin Faurest, Ph.D.

Doug Tallamy is the T. A. Baker Professor of Agriculture in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 106 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 41 years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His book Bringing Nature Home was published by Timber Press in 2007, The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, was published in 2014; Nature's Best Hope, a New York Times Best Seller, was released in February 2020, and his latest book The Nature of Oaks was released by Timber press in March 2021. In 2021 he cofounded Homegrown National Park with Michelle Alfandari. His awards include recognition from The Garden Writers Association, Audubon, The National Wildlife Federation, The Garden Club of America and The American Horticultural Association.

Dr. Tallamy will be speaking on Nature’s Best Hope on Friday, July 22nd, 6-7:30pm, in UofL's Humanities room 100.

General public: $25

Bernheim members: $20

University faculty/staff with valid ID: $10

Students with valid ID: free, but must register for the event

Purchase tickets at https://bernheim.org/event/natures-best-hope-with-dr-douglas-tallamy/

Presented by Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in partnership with the UofL's Sustainability Council. Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Dr. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can - and must - take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.

A spread of healthy farm-to-table appetizers from Bernheim’s Edible Garden and Isaac’s Cafe will be available starting at 5:30pm, and attendees will also have the opportunity to purchase Bernheim memberships.

Climate-resilient Gardening Takeaways: A walking tour by Bernheim Director of Horticulture and Sustainable Landscapes Renee Frith

Saturday, July 23, 10-11:30 a.m

This on-site tour highlights landscaping practices at Bernheim that are meant to be replicable in your own back yard. Renee will show you how you can make your yard a more natural and healthy place! Limit: 20 people. Meet in front of the Bernheim Visitor Center and you must pre-register here: https://bernheim.org/event/savor-the-season-positive-vibes-for-summer-2022-07-23/2022-08-27/

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

Forward Radio was proud to participate in and live-broadcast from the 2022 Bluegrass VegFest at the Melwood Art Center on Saturday, July 9th from 11am-6pm. The VegFest is a Louisville-based vegan food festival showcasing regional businesses and products, with over 50 exhibitors. Not just a cornucopia of delicious plant-based food, it also featured craft beer and summer cocktails, nationally renowned speakers, arts and crafts, kid’s activities, and much more. The festival attracted thousands of attendees who are passionate about food, health, animals, the planet, and socially/eco-conscious companies. It featured regional restaurants, fabulous food trucks, beverages, and expert chefs demonstrating how to prepare your own delish vegan dishes. Learn more at http://www.bluegrassvegfest.com

On Truth to Power each week, we gather Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! On this week's show, we bring you highlights from the live interviews we conducted with many vendors and participants at Bluegrass VegFest. It's a great community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

K.A. Owens interviews Community Activist Jeff Compton about the Sunday July 10 , 2022 incident in Shawnee Park at the Dirt Bowl where the Louisville Metro Police Department decided to serve a warrant in the middle of a crowd of women and children and gunfire ensued.

The Dirt Bowl is a summer basketball tournament, a community event that people have enjoyed for many years. Recorded Friday July 15, 2022.

This week we our joined by Alexa Quinter, who shares how a traumatic childhood experience has had a profound and lasting impact on her mental health. We talk about coexisting with trauma, dealing with anger, and accepting changes in yourself even when others don't.

Featured:

Original theme music by Neil Lucas

This week’s guest, Angela Jackson-Brown, is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright. She is also a professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana who completed her MFA at Spalding University in Louisville where she is also a member of the creative writing graduate faculty.

Her most recent novel, When Stars Rain Down, was published in 2021 and is a historical fiction story set in 1930s Georgia, and has been nominated for several awards. Angela also has a new novel coming out in July called The Light Always Breaks set in post WW 2 Washington DC that features political and romantic intrigue between a high powered interacial couple. These are stand alone novels but what is cool is that these books’ characters are in the same fictional universe so readers get a chance to reconnect with characters they may have met before.

Angela talks to us about how she uses fiction to write about experiences in her life she wished she’d had, why she started writing plays, and the first book she read as a child that made a big impression on her (and this will surprise you).

You can find Angela on Instagram at @angelajacksonbrownauthor and at her author website angelajacksonbrown.com

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- When Stars Rain Down by Angela Jackson-Brown

2- The Light Always Breaks by Angela Jackson-Brown

3- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl

4- Drinking From a Bitter Cup by Angela Jackson-Brown

5- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

6- Roots by Alex Haley

7- The Color Purple by Alice Walter

8- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

9- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood

11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

12- We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

13- Girl at War by Sara Nović

14- True Biz by Sara Nović

Movies mentioned

1- Child's Play (1988)

2- The Conjuring (2013)

I had a chance to speak with a group of Kenyans about farming. Here's what I had to say. It applies to the US, just as well.

If we farm regeneratively, and/or get our food from farmers who do so, then we will experience a range of benefits, in terms of nutrition, water quality, climate and community wealth building.

I recommend rotational grazing of livestock and practicing the principles of soil health in our crop fields and vegetable gardens.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with Connor Giffin, the new Courier-Journal Environmental reporter and Report for America corps member. We discuss some of his first impressions of Louisville and his recent coverage of pollution in Beargrass Creek, MSD and the city's efforts to reduce sewage overflow. We also discuss some of the under-reported sustainability stories in Louisville such as: 
1. Transportation and how Louisville is very lazy about that - intellectually and physically;

2. How racism is fueling climate change by allowing white leaders to ignore real transportation planning that serves those without cars and dense urban development and affordable housing;

3. The Land Development Code Reform Process and access to vacant land - which is disconnected from the Sustain Louisville plan;

4. Basic natural history and environmental education - what are the local species, urban wildlife, migratory species that pass through here? Threats to them and reasons to protect and value them, including invasives, and the new invasive species recently identified in Louisville by citizen scientists;

5. Indigenous peoples of our region (again, ignored due to racism) - who was displaced from these lands? what could we learn from them about sustainability? What are their ongoing struggles and successes? ; and

6. Reparations for indigenous and black communities who have suffered from environmental injustice.

• Check out Connor's staff profile https://www.courier-journal.com/staff/7467685001/connor-giffin/

• Report for America https://www.reportforamerica.org/

• Mississippi River Basin Ag and Water Desk https://agwaterdesk.org/

• Courier-Journal Mobile Newsroom information https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2022/06/15/courier-journal-mobile-newsroom-coming-your-neighborhood/7585572001/

The Courier-Journal is partnering with libraries to bring a newsroom to more neighborhoods. Starting July 5, the C-J Mobile Newsroom will set up in select libraries to embed journalists in that community for about a month. The goal is to listen and learn from the people who live in Shively, Russell, Okolona, Newburg, and Iroquois. The first stop is Shively. You're invited to come by and share your ideas in person. You can also reach out online now here.

C-J Mobile Newsroom Schedule (10am-5pm, weekdays):

• Shively Library, July 5-29

Meet the Editors Night - Tuesday, July 12, 6 p.m.

• Western Library, August 1-26

• South Central Regional Library, September 6-30

• Newburg Library, October 3-28

• Iroquois Library, November 1-18

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