On this week's edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a deep dive into the recently released 2018 State of Metropolitan Housing Report with the report’s co-authors from UofL: Dr. Lauren Heberle – Associate Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Environmental Policy & Management; and Dr. Kelly Kinahan, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs; as well as Cathy Hinko - Executive Director of the Metropolitan Housing Coalition. MHC is made up of over 300 member organizations and individuals, has educated and advocated for fair, safe and affordable housing and increased housing choices for all people in Louisville for over 25 years.

More information & reports are available at http://www.metropolitanhousing.org

The focus of this year’s report is on involuntary displacement - i.e. vulnerable populations being forced out of their homes due to evictions, foreclosures, and gentrification. Statewide, evictions are concentrated in Louisville. From 2000-2016, Jefferson Co. had just 21% of the state’s renter occupied housing, yet 67% of the eviction filings and 54% of evictions (judgments). 40% Louisville’s workforce does not earn a wage that would support the rent of a modest two-bedroom apt. Foreclosures sales are higher in western Louisville than in the rest of the city. Nearly three of every ten (29.5%) foreclosure sales occur in just three zip codes (40212, 40211, and 40216). Each of these zip codes account for more than 9% of total foreclosure sales in Louisville.

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

NAFTA is now 25 years old. Trump is trying to renegotiate it. We the people deserve to have our voices heard and our interests represented at the negotiating table. And yet we are told so little about this world changing agreement. Here's the lowdown. NAFTA is for multinational corporations. It hurts workers, the environment and local communities.

We will travel back to 1993, hear President Bill Clinton talk about NAFTA, and then we'll separate truth from fiction.

Dec. 10, 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But what are human rights? Where do they come from? Why do we have them? How do we get them? Can we get more? If something is a human right does that mean that it can't be for sale? To answer these questions Ethics Forward interviews Dr. Kristen Hessler, a philosopher of human rights at the University at Albany (SUNY). Prof. Hessler explains where human rights come from and the role of activism and advocacy in shaping the list of universal human rights.

Cover photo is "Human Rights Logo," by Predrag Stakić, released by http://humanrightslogo.net/ [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Embedded songs are "Sage" and "Cloud Nine" by Prismic, at https://soundcloud.com/prismicofficial/

Do you know much about the woman who first did research on CO2 as a greenhouse gas? Hear this fascinating history. And what is to be said about Donald Trumps tweets about California wildfires?

We continue to review the legacy of the 41st American President, George HW Bush. We review the speech he delivered before Congress in March of 1991, in the wake of the first Gulf War. We look at the expense and the tragedy of the American War Machine and how it is used in the world. We look at who benefits from the American War Machine. Hint: It is not the average American taxpayer.

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On this week's edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a break from holiday crafting to sit down for a chat with Cristi Smith, a health coach at Humana who graduated from UofL in 2016 with a degree in Public Health Education and a minor in Wellness Coaching. In recent years, Cristi has taken steps to reduce her own cognitive dissonance by truly living her values and seeking zero waste, sustainable solutions. Today we’ll talk about simple ideas to make the holiday season more sustainable, sane, and joyful - whether it is DIY gifts and decorations, crafting in community, cooking healthy meals, zero waste gifting, experiential gifts, or simply shopping local and buying in bulk. We’ll break it down for you and get you excited about new holiday traditions that support wellness - for you, your loved ones, and all the denizens of planet Earth.

Some of Cristi’s favorite blogs include: Trash is for Tossers; Going Zero Waste; Trading Waste for AbundaFor more ideas on sustainable giving and living, check out these great resources the Cristi recommends:

http://packagefreeshop.com

http://brushwithbamboo.com

http://lifewithoutplastic.com

http://zerowastehome.com

http://tinyyellowbungalow.com

http://zerowastedaniel.com

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

And, speaking of giving, FORward Radio fell short of our recent Pledge Drive goal of $10,000, but it is not too late to make a pledge and pick up on some of our exclusive thank-you gifts for a limited time at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/forward-radio-wfmp-lp-106-5-fm-louisville-ky#/

The music in this podcast is used by permission from the fantastic Louisville band, Appalatin. Explore their inspiring music at https://www.appalatin.com

NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is a little understood law that has profound impact on our lives and government. It gives huge amounts of power to secretive and unaccountable governing bodies, such as the WTO (World Trade Organization) and the "trade courts" that operate underneath that umbrella.

This episode is a preview of some of the more problematic and disturbing aspects of NAFTA and the WTO, such as their ability to eliminate health, safety and labor regulations in our sovereign country.

Like everything else in America today it seems, youth sports is stratifying: kids from wealthy families are playing more and at a higher level than ever before; kids from poor and working-class families are playing less. What's going wrong? Can youth sports still build community? Ethics Forward talks with Patrick Fitzgerald, director of Highlands Youth Recreation, about building a sports league that's about recreation rather than winning, and how sports can bring together kids who would not otherwise get to know one another.

Cover photo celebrates the partnership between Highlands Youth Recreation and Kentucky Refugee Ministries. More info at http://www.hyrsports.com/

Embedded music includes Carly Johnson, "Hit the Ground Running", from her sonaBLAST! EP Demons. More info at http://www.sonablast.com/artists/#/carly-johnson/

Also Emanuel Jal's "We Want Peace" from the free download "33RPM Voices of the Revolution," available at https://33rpmvoices.bandcamp.com/releases

and "Cloud Nine" and "Sage" by Prismic, available at https://soundcloud.com/prismicofficial.