With immigration and world trade always in the news, we need to look at NAFTA and see what world trade is all about and how it impacts our lives, profoundly, and for the worse.

This audio episode features 15 little known facts about NAFTA, as well as a review of President Bill Clinton's speech upon the signing of NAFTA in 1993.

This is the third part of a series on Latin America. Immigration is in the news, as always. Trump is threatening to shut down government if he doesn't get funding for his border wall.

If we are to properly understand Latin America, and immigration, we have to understand what we have done to these countries south of the border. That's what this episode is all about.

The United States has been incredibly violent, for decades and even centuries. If Americans would truly understand this situation, we will better understand what has plagued the middle class and the poor in our own country. We are being ruled by a tiny elite that are positively homicidal and suicidal.

I hope you will listen.

The final part of my four part conversation with Ruth Newman.

Part 3 of my four part conversation with Ruth Newman.

Ruth Newman and I continue our conversation about what we would like the world to be in the future. Also, what are the main problems in the world today? And what are the solutions?

Part 1 of my dynamic and multifaceted conversation with Ruth Newman.

On this special New Year's edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, sets down his rock hammer to have a chat with Dr. Kate Bulinski about the concept of Deep Time. As a geologist and paleontologist, Kate is able to perceive time on a completely different scale and to contextualize our modern environmental challenges in geologic time.

Kate Bulinski is an Associate Professor of Geosciences in the School of Environmental Studies at Bellarmine University. She received her B.S. in Geoscience from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Geology from University of Cincinnati in 2008. In addition to teaching classes for undergraduate students each semester, she pursues paleontological research often involving her students. Her current research efforts are focused on the paleoecological relationships at the Devonian Falls of the Ohio coral fossil beds in Clarksville, Indiana. Most recently, she completed a sabbatical including two months of intensive field work there in the fall of 2017. She regularly conducts public outreach, particularly through paleontology education workshops for K-12 teachers and through Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light, a non-profit working with faith communities to respond positively to the environmental crisis before us. As a product of these efforts she was awarded the Kentucky Academy of Science Excellence in Science Education and Outreach Award in the fall of 2017.

As always, our interview is followed by an up-to-date community calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action to make sustainability happen NOW!

Sustainability Now! 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 used by permission from the fantastic Louisville band, Appalatin. Explore their inspiring music at https://www.appalatin.com

This episode is all about native plants and how they support our ecosystems. We will talk about questions like these...

Why are native plants important?

What are services provided by ecosystems?

How can trees help combat climate change?

How can we support bees?

Why should we support pollinators?

What are pollinators?

Are pollinators specialized?

What are native bees?

How can we support butterflies?

What is a host plant?

Scott describes the December night-sky, and Dave tells us about a new strategy for identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder in children. It seems to work!

This episode is the first in a series on how to choose the best trees (and plants) to support our local ecosystems.

If you're wondering how to create a backyard habitat or how to make our public parks a friendlier place for bees, butterflies and birds, listen in.

Locally and worldwide, we have experienced an alarming decline of insects, which are the foundation of our ecosystems. Native plants are the key to supporting our insects, such as bees and butterflies. But how do you know how to choose the best native plants?

This episode will introduce you to a whole world you might not have been aware of before now.