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Patty and Brian discuss some contemporary uses and relevant concerns about generative artificial intelligence in our lives.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, in the wake of Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9th, your host, Justin Mog, tackles the issue of sports gambling addiction with Dr. Christopher Tuell, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and clinical director of addiction services at UC Health's Lindner Center of HOPE (https://lindnercenterofhope.org/) 4075 Old Western Row Rd. Mason, OH 45040 (1-888-536-HOPE).

Sports gambling is one of many socio-cultural forces that drive us toward unsustainable lifestyles, and on today’s program we’ll explore some of the negative impacts, especially here in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley:

• Risk of addiction: “Sports betting can become highly addictive due to the thrill of winning and the urge to chase losses, leading to compulsive gambling behaviors,”

• Financial losses: “Many bettors underestimate the odds and overextend themselves financially, resulting in significant debt, bankruptcy or long-term financial harm.”

• Emotional distress: “Losing bets can lead to anxiety, depression, guilt and frustration, creating a cycle of emotional and mental health struggles.”

• Relationship strain: “The financial and emotional toll of sports betting often causes conflicts, secrecy and loss of trust in personal and family relationships.”

• Normalization and youth influence: “Widespread advertising and marketing of sports betting normalize gambling and may encourage younger audiences to participate, increasing the risk of long-term gambling problems. Gambling is additionally surfacing in video games for youth.”

For help, call the National Problem Gambling Hotline 1-800-GAMBLER or the Suicide Prevention Hotline 9-8-8. Ohio sites that have been created to assist with problem gambling (maybe path for KY?) include:

Pause Before You Play: https://pausebeforeyouplay.org/

Time Out Ohio: https://timeoutohio.com/

Change the Game Ohio: https://changethegameohio.org/

https://GamblingHelpOhio.org

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

Lyndon Pryor began his career as a Student Development Specialist at Texas A&M University, where he worked to assist students in their personal growth and build their professional competencies and leadership skills. Mr. Pryor provided critical leadership, supporting students by creating programs that effectively merge academic and practical experiences. Lyndon Pryor was selected as permanent President and CEO of the Louisville Urban League December 20, 2023. Before Lyndon Pryor became president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League he was Chief Engagement Officer and led projects like “A Path Forward for Louisville.” Mr. Pryor works with community members and engages staff, partners, and government officials to find innovative approaches to serve the community’s needs through programmatic and policy efforts. When he arrived at the League in 2015, Mr. Pryor created and led its community health program, “It starts with me!” and helped build and grow Louisville’s network of community health workers. Since then, he has helped to establish policy positions, internal data systems, and critical infrastructure support for the League’s work.

On this week's show, we bring you final highlights from the 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. Tune in to learn more about energy and environmental issues facing our Commonwealth with two expert speakers. First we'll hear from Liz Natter, former General Counsel for Kentucky's Energy and Environment Cabinet. She'll be bringing us up to speed on recent discussions on nuclear energy. Then we'll hear from Josh Bills, Sr. Energy Analyst for Mountain Association (https://mtassociation.org/). He'll touch on recent developments in energy and how it impacts state advocacy.

Watch a full replay and see the slides at https://vimeo.com/1051505067?share=copy

Full details are at https://kyconservation.org/legislative-summit-2025

Helpful Additional Energy Resources:

Nuclear:

KCC Backgrounder on Nuclear in Kentucky https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dcUpB_1h7-7oG8pbECXcF6wDsoZBuklZ/view?usp=sharing

KCC Nuclear Webpage https://kyconservation.org/nuclear-energy

Solar:

Kentucky Conservation Committee Citizen’s Resource Guide on Large-Scale Solar https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z2PrCOU2G5StQJ90HSanVPxrPuJYLR0U/view?usp=sharing

Cleantech Resources:

RMI Decarbonizing Data Centers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IcntgcxkDAWhf9zdMlZ0FujymA1vjY5y/view?usp=sharing

Inside the Cleantech Race https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Dt8MnOqbP2Lz0zrt7n9qkC5VKvyKHrc/view?usp=sharing

KCC web pages on Artificial Intelligence https://kyconservation.org/intelligence

Data Centers https://kyconservation.org/data

Cryptocurrency Mining https://kyconservation.org/cryptocurrency

Music used by permission in this podcast is by the Kentucky Bluebells and Ben Sollee.

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://forwardradio.org

On this week's show, we bring you more highlights from the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. This week's focus is on outdoor recreation and wildlife and you'll hear from:

- David Wicks from the Kentucky-Ohio Regional Recreation Authority

- Gerry James, Board President of KCC and also Deputy Director of the Sierra Club Outdoors for All program.

- Cassondra Cruikshank, an Environmental Biologist with the Kentucky Department of Transportation speaking about their Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program.

Full details and links to the resources mentioned are at https://kyconservation.org/legislative-summit-2025

Watch a full replay at https://vimeo.com/1051505067?share=copy

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 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.

A talk on the classical economic concept of the labor theory of value and what it means for AI. The morality of AI regarding labor and human creation is also discussed.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by three researchers who used artificial intelligence to predict the three-dimensional shapes of proteins based on their amino acid sequences. In this episode, we hear from one of them, Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind. His AI program, AlphaFold, curates the 3D-structures of more than 200 million naturally-occurring proteins (https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/). This database is available to the public for free! After a brief introduction to the topic, we hear Dr. Hassabis's Nobel lecture on how he got involved in this groundbreaking research, and how he sees AI impacting biology in the future. Here is the link to the full public-domain lecture (with slides and charts): https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/hassabis/lecture/

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly radio 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.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, we bring you to he heart of the woods to join the struggle to protect southern Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest from the extractive economy. Your host, Justin Mog, welcomes back to the program Kari Nolan, an herbalist, educator, and therapist and spokesperson for Save The Hoosier National Forest, and Heartwood (https://heartwood.org); and we also have Heartwood's founder, Andy Mahler, who also co-founded the 40-year old organization Protect Our Woods.

In 2025, Kari will be moving back into the forest permanently, after 40 years of living there periodically between travels; and the efforts of this small group have been going on for 40 years, among friends who have lived in the forest even longer, some for many generations. This rich and diverse area, and the people working to protect it, exist in deep connection with the air and water quality of our entire Ohio Valley & beyond, globally.

The escalation of some National Forest Service practices, designated as a current "Buffalo Springs Restoration Project,” after nearly 30 years of relative peace in the forest include: commercial logging of old growth timber, unwarranted burn cycles (not native forest cycles in this region) and clear-cutting (often without leaving a mother tree in place, leading to no forest regeneration in clear-cut areas); air quality & watershed destruction is also a huge cascading issue for the Louisville & Southern Indiana regions, from these practices.

Basically, the group is asking only for cessation of these few practices, as a change in Forest Service management policies, "letting the forest be, and regenerate itself,” to align with what is needed now, in our present era of climate & forest change.

You can donate to support this work at https://heartwood.org/support/donate/

Or send checks to:

Protect Our Woods

P.O. Box 352

Paoli, Indiana 47454

Heartwood encourages listeners to contact MIke Braun, Indiana's new governor, with a message to protect our public lands by stopping the Buffalo Springs project until an inclusive study of potential significant impacts can be completed through an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), and a new updated Forest Management plan can be created for the Hoosier National Forest:

Mike Braun

200 W Washington St

Indianapolis IN 46204

317.232.4567

To send an email, go to http://www.in.gov/gov/ then select "Ask Mike"

Governor Braun is aware & listening: https://www.wishtv.com/news/politics/gov-mike-braun-urges-withdrawal-of-buffalo-springs-forest-project/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIUSX1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSsibnCnFuHfk6M3tkcYREB_JVo84ipYn5nKP2Xjp9Ce-eVG9bp8Vk0Ahw_aem_WTT__HSZQ82tyRtAz8wa1w

Find updates on this work at:

Protect Our Woods Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/209054591368266/

Heartwood Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/34815829952

For more, listen to this 2022 podcast with Andy: https://greenrootpodcast.podbean.com/e/exposing-the-buffalo-springs-restoration-project-with-andy-mahler-of-protect-our-woods/

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

K.A. Owens interviews Teresa Lee- Site Supervisor/Volunteer Coordinator of The Landing, Farnsley Moremen, a historic antebellum home on the Ohio River in Louisville, KY. She describes the mission vision and purpose, and shares upcoming events. She describes the focus on enslaved people who worked the land that is part of the programming. Recorded Saturday February 8, 2025

Riviera Sun is the author of several social protest novels, The Dandelion Insurrection, Steam Drills, Treadmills, Shooting Stars, and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She has also authored nine theatrical plays and a book of poetry. In 2020, her novel The Lost Heir was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Rivera co-hosts Occupy Radio with David Sierra Lupe, and co-founded the nationwide nonviolent study and action group network, the Love-in Action Network and is the founding editor of the prize-winning Nonviolent News. After six years working as a professional playwright. Rivera Sun serves on the board of the Backbone Campaign and the advisory board of World Beyond War.