We record our first LIVE episode from the Forward Radio studio in the classic Heyburn Building in downtown Louisville as part of the Forward Radio pledge drive. We talk about the upcoming election and thinking through your candidate choices. It's some critical thinking goodness about the election season! We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our ability to think about our own thinking.

"Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Thursday at 5 pm EST and repeats Thursday at midnight and Friday at 11 am. Please listen live at www.forwardradio.org/. Find us on Facebook at "Critical Thinking for Everyone".

Our music is by Bensound, and it is free and available to anyone to use--www.bensound.com/.

This episode looks at social justice and its link to critical thinking. How can we think critically about our role in the social dynamics around us, both locally and globally? What is social justice anyway? Explore these questions with us!

We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our ability to think about our own thinking.

"Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Thursday at 5 pm EST and repeats Thursday at midnight and Friday at 11 am. Please listen live at www.forwardradio.org/. Find us on Facebook at "Critical Thinking for Everyone".

Our music is by Bensound, and it is free and available to anyone to use--www.bensound.com/.

We welcome media professional and UofL alum Michael Oghia into the studio! Michael is a media professional based in Europe whose work on Internet governance and and policy has global implications, as well as personal implications for all us thinkers and users of the Internet. And couldn't we all be better thinkers and more thoughtful consumers of digital media?

We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our ability to think about our own thinking.

"Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Thursday at 5 pm EST and repeats Thursday at midnight and Friday at 11 am. Please listen live at www.forwardradio.org/. Find us on Facebook at "Critical Thinking for Everyone".

Our music is by Bensound, and it is free and available to anyone to use--www.bensound.com/.

In this episode, we consider a Forbes article for business leaders on "The Seven Key Steps of Critical Thinking." How does the author define critical thinking? What does he think are the discrete steps are in a leadership setting, and how do these ideas align with the scholarship on critical thinking?

We discuss critical thinking in many different aspects during this hour-long conversation about a variety of topics. All of it comes back to our ability to think about our own thinking.

"Critical Thinking for Everyone" airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm and forwardradio.org, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Thursday at 5 pm EST and repeats Thursday at midnight and Friday at 11 am. Please listen live at www.forwardradio.org/. Find us on Facebook at "Critical Thinking for Everyone".

Our music is by Bensound, and it is free and available to anyone to use--www.bensound.com/.

Conservative-leaning Deborah Graham and Liberal-leaning Barry Zalph take on the issue of corrupt politicians, which was voted the #1 gripe by NuLu Festival goers.

Harry Pickens, celebrated Louisville jazz pianist, composer, and inspirational speaker, among other things, gives us spiritual pointers for staying sane and gaining evolutionary ground while living in an insane world.

This talk was a heartfelt search for ways to move us away from the tribalism, polarization and partisanship of today toward finding common ground with people we consider to be different from us. It introduced the concept of my fledgling program, at the time, Reach Out in the Darkness.

Whether myth or reality, America's origin story is that of pilgrims arriving in search of a better life and receiving an uncertain but generous welcome from the prior inhabitants. Is that what today's pilgrims can expect when they arrive?

It's the Thanksgiving episode of Ethics Forward, and host Avery Kolers speaks to University of Louisville Geography Professor Maggie Walker, an expert on Central America and the geography of borders, about what is driving the current migrants' caravan and how those who live in the US may be connected to the situation facing residents of the countries of the "Northern Triangle" -- Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. What responsibilities do North Americans have to Central Americans? What would a just policy with respect to migration and borders look like? What is a border, anyway?

Cover photo is "Migrantes cruzan frontera entre México y Guatemala," Voz de América [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Migrantes_cruzan_frontera_entre_M%C3%A9xico_y_Guatemala.jpg

Music selections are "Sage" and "Cloud Nine" by Prismic https://soundcloud.com/prismicofficial

Chef Kristina is a local vegan chef who was the first winner of Cutthroat Kitchen in 2014 that presented yummy vegan cooking, she is the owner of our FAVORITE food truck that serves up yummy vegan curbside specials and is now co-owner of the yummy brick and mortar V-Grits & False Idol restaurant.

Chef Kristina speaks with me about being an OG vegan, overcoming the stigma of being vegan and all things sustainable in the world of cooking.

Check out V-Grits & False Idols website:

https://www.vgrits.com/

Like their FB page:

https://www.facebook.com/vgrits/

Tweet at them:

@vgrits502

Heart their pictures on Insta:

vgrits

SEE BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE ON HOW TO BECOME INVOLVED AND MEET FELLOW VEGANS IN THE KENTUCKIANA AREA

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Vegan Information:

**Nutrition Facts-Vegan

---The China Study

---How to Die

---Carnism Debunked

-------https://www.carnismdebunked.com/

---ADAPTT

-------http://www.adaptt.org/

---Vegan 22

--------https://www.challenge22.com/challenge22/vegan-protein/

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Major Animal Rights Organizations:

*Most if not all of these organizations have options for activists

**Side Note— If you are not quite ready for street activism they offer leaflets and stickers you can paper the town with.

---Save The Movement

-----http://thesavemovement.org/

Anonymous For The Voiceless

-----https://www.anonymousforthevoiceless.org/

---PETA

-----https://www.peta.org/

-----PETA Petitions

------https://www.peta.org/?s=Petitions

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Kentucky/ Indiana

Ways to get involved within the vegan community:

^^^^Ask to join the FB groups

*Anonymous for the Voiceless Group (AV: Louisville, KY, USA)

-----https://www.facebook.com/groups/AVLouisvilleKY/

*Uplands PEAK Sanctuary (People, Earth, and Animals in Kinship)

-----https://www.facebook.com/uplandspeaksanctuary/

*Vegan Louisville KY

------https://www.facebook.com/groups/Vegan.Louisville.KY/

* Vegans Of the Ville (Louisville, KY)

-----https://www.facebook.com/groups/252188348854171/

*Vegans of Louisville, Kentucky

-----https://www.facebook.com/groups/273467019813358/

*Fort Wayne & NE Indiana Vegans & Vegetarians Group

------https://www.facebook.com/groups/fortwayneveg/

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VOLUNTEER

*Uplands PEAK (Freedom, IN)

-----http://uplandspeaksanctuary.org/

*Home at Last Animal Sanctuary (Salvisa, KY)

-----http://www.homeatlastanimals.org/

*Wild Earth and Sanctuary (Irvine, KY)

-----http://www.wildearthfarmandsanctuary.com/

^^^Interested in finding your animal sanctuaries?

-----https://www.vegan.com/sanctuaries/

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SIGN PETITIONS

*https://www.change.org/m/end-factory-farming

*Change the Animal Cruelty Laws in Kentucky

*Kentucky pig factory farm cruelty owned by Tosh Farms

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A few articles related to Louisville, KY:

*Inside the JBS Butchertown hog slaughter plant

*Over half a million people demand KFC does better for chickens

On this special Thanksgiving edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, steps away from the Fry Daddy for another chat with Todd Bluechel. You last heard Todd on this program talking about his work with Collective Sun to bring solar power to non-profits. Now he's working with a family-owned, locally run business called Oil-Tech to take the hassle out of vegetable oil disposal, cleaning grease traps and waste water disposal. This Thanksgiving, Todd will be frying a turkey for the first time and it got him thinking about the city-wide problem of families not having a way to properly dispose of and recycle used cooking oil. He estimates that in Louisville this Thanksgiving there will be some 120,000-600,000 gallons of used oil generated.

This holiday season, Oil-Tech is teaming up with their clients to offer free drop off locations around the city for families to bring their used oil. Simply call Oil-Tech at 502-424-1654, tell them your general location and they will tell you where to drop off your waste cooking oil.

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!

After that, we hear a short interview from UofL Today with Mark Hebert with two UofL students who have launched a Food Recovery Network chapter and are now rescuing leftovers from around campus and taking them to people in need. It's the perfect Thanksgiving story!

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 forwardradio.org

FORward Radio - The Cure for the Common 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 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 www.appalatin.com