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On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, scrubs your aural environment of all toxins with two colleagues from the University of Louisville’s Center for Integrative Environmental Health Science (CIEHS): Cat Aiton, MSW, is the Community Resource Coordinator for the Community Engagement Core of CIEHS, and Sarah Jump is the Communications & Marketing Specialist. Learn more about the Center at https://louisville.edu/ciehs

On the show, we discuss what environmental health is and how we all play a role in either advancing it or detracting from it. We share some practical tips for keeping yourself, your family, and your entire community healthy in the face of a world of dangerous toxins and pollutants. We talk about how the Center is working to reach young people with empowering messages and walking the talk with more sustainable give-aways. You’ll also learn about an upcoming Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences and the importance of Report Back strategies for sharing findings with communities in a language that is meaningful to them.

We’ll also tell you all about the upcoming Environmental Health Youth Academy that the Center is organizing this summer (https://events.louisville.edu/event/2025-ciehs-cec-environmental-health-summer-youth-academy). The deadline to apply for this free summer series in June 16th and it is open to all high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. CIEHS will host a two-week Youth Academy focused on environmental health in Louisville, July 14-24! At the end of the academy, participants will receive a certificate and a letter of completion (plus some free sustainable swag), making this a valuable addition to college or job applications. We have limited spots available—only 20 students will be accepted for this exclusive summer program, where you will learn directly from environmental health experts. Applications must be submitted by June 16th! Learn more and apply at https://louisville.edu/ciehs. The schedule for the Youth Academy is as follows:

July 14 (In Person with lunch): Introduction to Environmental Health

Banrida Wahlang, PhD, UofL Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Lu Cai, MD, PhD, UofL Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, and Pharmacology & Toxicology

July 15 (Virtual): Air Quality and Health

Petra Haberzettl, PhD, UofL Medicine, Diabetes & Obesity Center

July 16 (Virtual): Water & Health

Mayukh Banerjee, PhD, UofL Pharmacology & Toxicology

July 17 (In Person with lunch): Community-Led Science

Ted Smith, PhD, UofL Medicine and Pharmacology/Toxicology

Rachel Neal, PhD, UofL Biology

Luz Huntington-Moskos, PhD, RN, CPN, FAAN, UofL School of Nursing

July 21 (Virtual): Energy & Health

Sumedha Rao, Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

July 22 (Virtual): Mapping the Issues

Charlie Zhang, PhD, UofL Geographic & Environmental Sciences,

DJ Biddle, Director and Senior Lecturer, UofL Center for Geographic Information System

Laura Krauser, UofL’s Geographic Information Sciences Research Coordinator

July 23 (Virtual): Communicating Sustainability

Brent Fryrear, UofL Sustainability Council

July 24 (In Person with lunch): Policy Advocacy and Storytelling

Dr. Tony Arnold, UofL Law, Urban and Public Affairs, Resilience Justice Project

Angela Story, PhD, UofL Anthropology and Director of Anne Braden Institute

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

This week we bring you highlights from the first hour of our live broadcast from the 12th annual How-To Festival! Forward Radio was thrilled to once again partner with the Louisville Free Public Library as the media sponsor of the How-To Festival held at the Main branch of the Public Library on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Listen in for a sampling of some of the 50 things we learned in 5 hours!! In this hour, we learned:

- How to identify fossils and understand deep time (with Maria Tori, Louisville Metro’s Office of Sustainability)

- How to grow vegetables from seed to harvest (with Laura Bungura, Common Earth Gardens)

- How to blend your own tea leaves (with Soo Young Cho, Kiwa)

- How to capture storm water with barrels and gardens (with Sarah Beth Sammons, Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District)

- How to raise chickens for their eggs (with Bethany Pratt, Urban Ag Coalition)

- How to grow a tree that lives 100 years (with Morgan Grubbs, TreesLouisville)

Find the full schedule at https://www.lfpl.org/how-to

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://www.forwardradio.org

During a trip to S.W. Colorado in April of 2025, I discovered KSUT Public Radio in Ignacio, which operates as a tribal service and also serves anyone living in the Four Corners region, including Durango, Silverton, Cortez, Mancos, Pagosa Springs and parts of New Mexico, Arizona and S.E. Utah. It is an affiliate of NPR, the BBC, American Public Media and Public Radio International. Tami Graham, its Executive Director, sat down with me and explained the essential services KSUT provides, the threat to its existence if federal funding is withdrawn and the impact this would have on people living in its coverage area.

Also on the program is an interview with Mac Thompson, founding member of Heartwood Cohousing (not far from Ignacio), established in the year 2000 and about to expand from 24 to 38 households. Listen and learn about cohousing in general and Heartwood Cohousing in particular.

On this week's Access Hour, we bring you a major highlight from the 12th annual How-To Festival at the Main branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. Not only was Forward Radio a proud media sponsor of the Festival, providing wall-to-wall live coverage of the entire five-hour event, but at 11am, we hosted our own workshop on "How to Podcast, Broadcast, and Do Citizen Journalism" with Ruth Newman, Bob Cline, and Justin Mog. Today we bring you the full workshop followed by a sampling of some of what was happening mid-day during the Festival. Those interested in getting involved in Forward Radio should get in touch with us at https://www.forwardradio.org/pitchashow

The Access Hour airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Wednesday at 2pm and repeats Thursdays at 11am and Fridays at 1pm. Find us and please donate to support this work at https:/forwardradio.org

If you’ve got something you’d like to share on community radio through the Access Hour, whether it’s a recording you made or a show you’d like to do on a particular topic, community, artistic creation, or program that is under-represented in Louisville’s media landscape, just go to https:/forwardradio.org, click on Participate and pitch us your idea. The Access Hour is your opportunity to take over the air waves to share your passion with the world!

Our guest today is Kentucky State Legislator Lisa Willner. Lisa Willner has a

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, and she is a licensed psychologist. She is the past Executive Director of the KY Psychological Association, and she taught in Bellarmine's Psychology Department for 20 years. She is a former member of the Jefferson County Board of Education where she also served as vice-chair. Currently she is serving in her fourth term in the Kentucky House of Representatives, where she represents Kentucky House District 35.

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, explores the social side of sustainability by connecting across an entire generation with a young man walking a very similar path 30 years later! Max Julius grew up in the same neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia (Arlington Forest) and is now finishing his sophomore year as an Environmental Studies major at Oberlin College in northeast Ohio, exactly as Justin did 30 years ago! As you’ll get to hear in the program, Max is passionately interested in all things natural and sustainable, as an advocate with the Sunrise Movement.

Learn about his fascinating Winter Term experience working on Ohio’s first “earthship” called Blue Rock Station (https://bluerockstation.com/); his passion for birdwatching and invasive plant removal; his lived experience of community resilience at Camp Celo (https://campcelo.com/) after the hurricanes ravaged North Carolina; his love of biking, bike repair, and the non-profit which introduced him to that world, Arlington’s Phoenix Bikes (https://www.phoenixbikes.org/); and his thrill at finding a college where the cooperative spirit still lives strong through Oberlin’s many Co-ops (https://www.osca.coop/)

The common thread between all these experiences is the "Social Side of Sustainability." Each of these sustainability topics entered Max’s life as part of a social connection, including his brother, Oberlin’s Keep co-op, his summer camp community, Norther Virginia Bird Alliance, and others!

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

Dr Jeff Bumpous, Dean of the University of Louisville Medical School in a discussion about UofL Healthcare, it's recent remarkable transformation from private to non-profit , the challenge of coming Medicare and Medicaid funding cuts, AI's future in medicine and several other related issues .

Forward Radio was thrilled to once again partner with the Louisville Free Public Library as the media sponsor of the 12th annual How-To Festival held at the Main branch of the Public Library on Saturday, May 10, 2025. Listen in for a sampling of some of the 50 things we learned in 5 hours!! We learned:

- How to identify fossils and understand deep time (with Maria Tori, Louisville Metro’s Office of Sustainability)

- How to grow vegetables from seed to harvest (with Laura Bungura, Common Earth Gardens)

- How to blend your own tea leaves (with Soo Young Cho, Kiwa)

- How to capture storm water with barrels and gardens (with Sarah Beth Sammons, Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District)

- How to podcast, broadcast, and do citizen journalism (with Justin Mog, Ruth Newman, Bob Cline - Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP)

- How to raise chickens for their eggs (with Bethany Pratt, Urban Ag Coalition)

- How to grow a tree that lives 100 years (with Morgan Grubbs, TreesLouisville)

- How to start seeds at home (with Jeff Masters, UofL Biology)

- How to improvise on a musical instrument (with Stephanie Nilles, Louisville Academy of Music)

- How to write an op-ed (with author Bonnie Jean Feldkamp)

- How to do American folk dance (with Greer Hannan, Louisville Country Line Dancers)

- How to garden when you don’t have a yard (container gardening) (with Terry Gibson, Master Gardener)

- How to care for fruit trees (with Mateo Barnett, Common Earth Gardens)

- How to design a food forest (with Matt Robertson)

- How to save seeds & cultivate native plants for future generations (with Jody Dahmer & Mariah Corso, Louisville Seed Bank)

- How to grow the most delicious tomatoes (with Terry Gibson, Master Gardener)

- How to pickle & ferment your harvest (with Emily Coleman & Amanda Fuller, Urban Agriculture Coalition)

- How to travel alone (with Emily Koenig)

- How to become a circus performer (with Turner Circus)

Find the full schedule at https://www.lfpl.org/how-to

On April 9, 2025 Theater of War Productions presented its third installment of a new long-form journalism series at WNYC. The acclaimed actors Oscar Isaac (Dune, Ex Machina), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Oz), and Bill Camp (The Queen's Gambit, The Night Of), performed “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network, written by Max Blau for ProPublica, to frame a powerful conversation about health insurance, ghost networks, and the challenges many Americans face accessing mental health care when they need it most. More information and a video recording are at https://www.wnyc.org/story/i-dont-want-die

Theater of War Productions presents community-specific, theater-based projects that address pressing public health and social issues. They work with leading film, theater, and television actors to present dramatic readings of seminal plays—from classical Greek tragedies to modern and contemporary works—followed by town hall-style discussions designed to confront social issues by drawing out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in the plays.

Since its founding in 2009, Theater of War Productions has facilitated events for more than 500,000 people, presenting over 20 tailored programs to serve diverse communities across the globe, reaching over 100 countries.

https://theaterofwar.com/

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https:/www.forwardradio.org

An interview with Dr. Ken Chilton of Tennessee State University on his research into how large real estate firms and financial corporations, sometimes known as private equity firms, are buying up residential housing in different metro area markets throughout the US. Many of these homes are being resold to upscale buyers or rented out to those of a middle income class. Louisville falls into a category where most are rented due to certain characteristics that make Louisville different from cities such as Nashville or Atlanta. In many cities, large corporations can own a substantial portion of the local housing stock.