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Tom Joseph, business owner, social activist and innovator, believes he has come up with a legal and user-friendly method for removing money and outside influence from the candidate selection process. In this interview, Mr. Joseph explains his model for using the Internet to offer a "free and equal system for nominating members to Congress."

We continue our story on Roundup, the Monsanto company's best-selling herbicide. We discuss the evidence linking Roundup exposure with cancer (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma). In 2017, the 'Monsanto Papers' were released showing that the company was trying to conceal the real health risks of their flagship product, Roundup. We discuss ghostwriting, and how corporate-written research papers about the drug Vioxx contributed to the death of at least 38,000 people. And when it comes to the health risks of Roundup, why do some research papers emphasize its safety, while others highlight its risks of cancer?

‘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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Our guest today is Kay Tillow, Kay Tillow is currently the chair for Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare. Kay Tillow was the keynote speaker at the Louisville Fellowship of Reconciliation “Third Thursday Lunch event. The Third Thursday Lunch event that featured Kay Tillow occurred February 19th, 2026, at Hotel Louisville before a live audience. We would like to thank the Louisville Fellowship of Reconciliation for helping to produce today’s presentation that features Kay Tillow

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, mounts up for a rolling conversation with Taylor Nichols & Nick Richert, co-hosts of the national program on the Pacifica Network, Bike Talk, now airing on Forward Radio on Thursdays at 12am (premiered 1/29/26). https://biketalk.org/

Nick Richert founded Bike Talk in 2008 on Killradio.org to amplify the growing bike movement in Los Angeles. The show moved to KPFK and has expanded along with the movement.

Taylor Nichols became a bicycle advocate when his two daughters started to roam the neighborhood on two wheels. He was appointed to the West Hollywood Bicycle Task Force in 2011. Since then he has worked as the co-chair of the Mid City West Neighborhood council’s Transportation committee where he has been responsible for promoting safe streets in and around West Hollywood. Currently he serves as the CD-5 Representative to the Los Angeles Bicycle Advisory Committee. He has a Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and a degree in Journalism from the UCLA specializing in Broadcast Journalism. In Taylor’s real life he is an actor, having recently starred in the Emmy nominated Pen 15 and Perry Mason for HBO as well as many other films and tv shows. Taylor's whole family is from Louisville. https://www.instagram.com/taylor.nichols7/

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 https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com

Join psychotherapist Dr. Michael Eiden as he explores the critical issue of screen addiction in this insightful episode. He examines how viewers are intentionally manipulated through revenue-driven business models that employ advanced algorithms. Dr. Eiden discusses the significant effects of screen addiction on young, developing brains, particularly concerning socialization skills, while highlighting potential risks. He also provides valuable insights for navigating the digital landscape and addresses the implications of screen addiction for adults.

Forward Radio’s proud community partner, the Greater Louisville Sierra Club (https://sierraclub.org/kentucky)organized this February program, focused on Central Appalachia as a central site of mass incarceration. Called "Cages in the Coalfields: Development, Criminalization, and Incarceration in Central Appalachia," it was held Feb 17, 2026 at 7:00pm at Crescent Hill Community Ministries (150 State St.) Central Appalachia is home to 16 prisons; there are 8 prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky, where full and overcrowded jails extend the expansive carceral geography to the local level. While these institutions reflect our national and state investment in criminalization and punitive sentencing policies, they also serve as rural development projects bound in various ways to the decline of coal. From calls for rural jobs in corrections to prisons built on mountaintop removal sites to jails as revenue strategies, the carceral expansion in the region must be understood as a response to multiple crises.

This talk, by justice studies scholar and Sierra Club Executive Committee member Judah Schept, examines both the crises and the ways that prisons and jails have responded, as well as the work of the "Building Community Not Prisons" coalition to stop the construction of FCI Letcher (Federal Correctional Institution), the newest prison planned for the region.

Judah Schept is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (New York University Press, 2022) and Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion (New York University Press, 2015). He is co-editor of The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration (Verso Books, 2024).

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a 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 https://www.forwardradio.org

Patty and Brian discuss the concept of climate anxiety.

Dustin Pugel is Policy Director at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, where he focuses on economic security, health policy and safety net programs while providing strategic support for all of the organization’s policy campaigns. He joined the staff in 2015. Dustin previously worked for BUILD in Lexington, Kentucky where he trained congregations to identify, research and advocate for policy solutions on a local level. He also spent two years providing policy research assistance for the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities. He has a BA in History from Asbury University and a master’s in public administration from the University of Kentucky.

Dustin Pugel is Policy Director at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, where he focuses on economic security, health policy and safety net programs while providing strategic support for all of the organization’s policy campaigns. He joined the staff in 2015. Dustin previously worked for BUILD in Lexington, Kentucky where he trained congregations to identify, research and advocate for policy solutions on a local level. He also spent two years providing policy research assistance for the Commonwealth Council on Developmental Disabilities. He has a BA in History from Asbury University and a master’s in public administration from the University of Kentucky.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, fills the studio with Green for a discussion about parenting in the age of climate chaos! Our guests this week are Megan Green, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Woven Nest Counseling and Coaching; and longtime local sustainability advocate, Jackie Green. Though unrelated, they are co-facilitators of a new free monthly workshop series coming up called “The Parent, Child and Climate Change.” It kicks off this weekend and will be held on third Saturdays, beginning February 21, 2026 from 2pm til 3pm at Highlands Community Ministries, 1228 E Breckinridge St (at Barret).

Earth Home 40202, an initiative you heard about on this program back in October, is launching this supportive, empowering, health based, community building program for parents and older children. The program is free, but please let us know if you plan to attend by emailing [email protected].

Learn more about Earth Home 40202 at https://www.bikecourier.org/earth-home-40202/ or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/people/Deep-Ecology-Louisville/61581836699217/

Parenting today happens in the context of constant uncertainty—climate change, social instability, economic stress—and our nervous systems are taking that in whether we name it or not. Climate anxiety isn’t a disorder; it’s a nervous system response to ongoing, unresolved threat. Our bodies are designed to detect danger, and climate change is a chronic, future-oriented stressor. Many parents are quietly carrying fear and grief about the world their children are inheriting. That often shows up as burnout, urgency, irritability, or feeling like they’re never doing enough.

Children sense the state of the adults around them. They don’t need all the information, but they feel the regulation—or dysregulation—of the nervous systems caring for them. From a nervous-system lens, anxiety and behavioral struggles aren’t signs of weakness or bad parenting; they’re signals that the system is overwhelmed. Our mental and emotional health are deeply connected to our environment. Humans regulate better with access to nature, sunlight, rhythm, and sensory safety—we are not separate from the natural world.

Environmental degradation impacts mental health not just psychologically, but physiologically. When the environment feels unsafe, nervous systems stay on high alert. A nervous-system perspective shifts the question from “What’s wrong with parents or kids?” to “What has their nervous system been asked to carry?” Regulation and connection are foundational—not luxuries. When nervous systems are supported, people have more capacity for hope, care, and meaningful action. Slowing down, repairing relationships, and spending time in nature are not passive responses; they are stabilizing acts that support both individual well-being and collective resilience.

Hope doesn’t come from denying reality. It comes from feeling safe enough to face hard truths while staying connected to one another. Supporting parents’ nervous systems is a form of future care—for children, communities, and the planet.

Learn more about Megan at https://www.wovennest.net/woven-nest-therapy-team-louisville/megan-green-meyerhoffer

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 https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com