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A discussion with Dr. Karl Besel of St. Joseph University on his paper "Racial Justice in the Nonprofit Sector: Addressing Nonprofit Sustainability in Diverse Communities." Interesting findings for nonprofits at the local level.

This week's show is all about birds and our role in protecting them! Listen in as we sit down to discuss the Lights Out Louisville campaign (http://www.lightsoutlouisville.org/) with four members of the Louisville Audubon Society Board: President Brandon McQueen, and three members of the Conservation Committee: Retired UofL Biology professor, Margaret Carreiro, Mary Beth Nevulis & Mary Yandell.

The Louisville Audubon Society (https://www.louisvilleaudubon.org/) reminds you that peak Fall Bird Migration occurs from August to October. Please consider participating in LIGHTS OUT LOUISVILLE to make your home, neighborhood, and our city more bird-friendly; and join us for the Louisville Audubon Society's launch event of Lights Out Louisville at the Main Branch of the Louisville Free Public Library at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (The event is free, but space is limited; so register at https://www.lfpl.org/events/23463)

WHAT IT IS: Lights Out Louisville is a Louisville Audubon conservation program intended to minimize light pollution in our city to protect migrating birds during key months and times every spring and fall.

WHY IT MATTERS: Millions—even billions—of birds are killed each year in the U.S. due to collisions with artificially lit buildings as they migrate over cities, including Louisville. By minimizing light pollution from residential and commercial structures, our city joins the growing international effort to reduce these numbers.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: Creating bird-friendly communities by going Lights Out benefits us all, from commercial real estate owners/operators to local businesses and residents. Benefits include energy cost savings, contributions to Louisville’s sustainability and conservation goals, and more.

AT THE EVENT: Attendees will learn more about this initiative, view a short documentary about a Lights Out success story, and have the opportunity to ask a panel of Kentucky-based experts questions on light pollution and energy efficiency.

→ CAN’T MAKE THE EVENT? YOU CAN STILL SHOW SUPPORT!

• Your organization can join this local conservation effort—it’s as easy as flipping a switch.

• Pledge to go Lights Out from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., every night in April and May, and in September and October. Individuals and Homeowners pledge at https://www.lightsoutlouisville.org/residents-homeowners-pledge-to-go-lights-out/ Businesses and Organizations pledge at https://www.lightsoutlouisville.org/buildings_commercial-pledge-to-go-lights-out/

• Contact the Louisville Audubon Society ([email protected]) for more information or to discuss future partnerships and events.

With your support, we can make a difference in our city, and the world, by minimizing needless bird injuries and deaths, reducing energy use, and protecting views of the night sky.

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

Patty and Brian think about and collaborate with AI!

Did the Trump administration purposefully target international Muslims during the COVID pandemic? Should gain-of-function research on microorganisms be outlawed? What did the pandemic reveal about the American healthcare system? And do these things (and other issues) warrant a non-partisan congressional commission to investigate the US response to COVID? Then, we review the state-of-the-climate. Are we going to be able to limit global warming to only 2 degrees? And what is the 'global climate tipping-point' that we might surpass as early as 2032?

‘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

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This week we chat with Sierra Hollabaugh, one of the co-owners and founders of Bookery Cincy, an independent bookstore located in Cincinnati, OH. When Amy went to Cincinnati recently, she met Sierra so we thought it would be nice if everyone got to know a little more about the bookstore as well as a cool October event, the Cincy Bookstore Crawl, which includes 16 small bookstores in the area. Cincinnati is a great place for a weekend visit, and the bookstore crawl just makes it an even more appealing location.

We talk about the resurgence of the independent brick and mortar bookstore, what it’s like running a small business when you have young kids, and what visitors can expect if they come to Cincy for the Bookstore Crawl which is the weekend of Oct 4-6.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Orbital by Samantha Harvey

2- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

3- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

4- Sociopath by Patric Gagne

5- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

6- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

7- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

8- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

9- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

10- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

11- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

12- Trust by Hernan Diaz

13- In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

14- The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt

15- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Elias Eells @eliaseells - The West Passage by Jared Pechaček

16- Cocktails and Consoles by Elias Eells

17- All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby

18- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby

19- Sandwich by Catherine Newman

20- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

21- Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

22- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney

Media mentioned--

1- American Psycho (2000, Netflix)

2- Catastrophe (2015-2019, Prime Video)

3- Art is Not a Luxury with Ethan Hawke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCuqtFKLHI

4- Utah Book Ban -Utah recently banned 13 books by 7 authors from all public schools in the state. https://apnews.com/article/utah-school-book-ban-d7345be6a89cfa6cd2cb5ddd25fca700

In this episode, Victoria Strange (my occasional guest and co-host) reports on what she has uncovered about V.P. Harris's running mate, Tim Walz. Next, I discuss with Victoria the current state of our nation's election officials, who have been leaving in droves after the traumatic events of 2020 that they experienced first hand in the wake of Trump's disproven claims of election fraud. Finally, we make appeals to listeners to sign up to become poll workers for the Nov. 5th, 2024 election and to donate during the one-day Give4Good extravaganza happening on Sept. 12.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, puts on his overalls for a chat with Purdue University professor of agronomy, Laura Bowling. Laura is the hydrologist working in collaboration with others at Purdue’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education (ACRE) (https://ag.purdue.edu/department/agry/acre/index.html). The team is addressing an issue that Midwestern farmers are increasingly facing with climate chaos: drought tolerance. Adequate rainfall has spared most of the Midwest from drought conditions (https://www.drought.gov/) so far this summer. However, in the future, farmers must be prepared, placing an importance on tools that manage dry periods throughout the growing season.

Purdue’s Drainage Water Recycling project (https://transformingdrainage.org/), based at (ACRE), works to capture drainage water to prevent downstream flow and redirect it back to fields during drier conditions later in the growing season. Through drip irrigation–lines that run directly beneath crop rows–water and fertilizers are placed precisely as needed.

Laura Bowling, professor of agronomy, estimates that the program will reduce nitrate going downstream by 30-40%. While Shaun Casteel, professor of agronomy, notes that soybean production has increased around four to six bushels since the project’s beginning.

This collaboration has resulted in major developments for the reutilization of runoff, the moisture stability of corn and an increase in crop production. The Purdue team, Bowling, Casteel, Daniel Quinn (assistant professor of agronomy specializing in corn production), Keith Cherkauer (direct of the Indiana Water Resource Research Center and professor of agricultural and biological engineering) and Juan Sesmero (professor of agricultural economics) is continuing to refine their system to maximize the water recycling and nutrient supply, as well as benefit Midwestern farmers throughout drought seasons.

For more information, please view Purdue College of Agriculture’s story: https://ag.purdue.edu/news/2024/06/maximizing-midwest-drought-resilience-through-sustainable-solutions.html

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 on Truth to Power, we bring you the final highlights from our live broadcast from the 5th Annual Bluegrass VegFest held on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Forward Radio was a proud media sponsor of this year’s VegFest, providing wall-to-wall live coverage. Tune in for a sample of Kentuckiana’s Largest Vegan Food Festival - a free public event produced by Bluegrass Veg, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, featuring 30,000 sq ft of marketplace halls at the Mellwood Art Center. Learn more at https://bluegrassvegfest.com

In this sixth hour of our broadcast, we spoke with Forward Radio volunteers who were enjoying meeting people at VegFest and we shared with you the final keynote and cooking demo, featuring Adriena Dame, the former owner of LOVAFARE, a vegan cafe that once nestled in the Highlands, serving up scrumptious plant-based delights (healthy, gluten-free, soy-free, low-glycemic, primarily oil-free). Hearty bean-based LOVApatties and sandwich spreads/sauces were their specialties. Desserts became neighborhood favorites, and they made a mean Sassy Kale Salad and Nacho Feast. Her lively talk is titled “Sexy Systems + Lemon Blondies: A Healer’s Quickie Guide to Scrumptious Self-Care Solutions.”

Adriena is the founder of HighVibe Mettaverse, where people come for deep and abiding expressions of loving kindness through bodywork, energy healing, intuitive readings, and vitality coaching. HVM is also home to Louisville’s only Thai Metta Bodywork Academy; HighVibe School of Integrative Massage & Bodywork, which is a pre-licensure program for aspiring massage therapists, and a variety of continuing education and personal growth workshops. The company serves a national and international audience using virtual platforms.

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org

Shameka Parrish-Wright (Democratic Party) is a member of the Louisville City Council in Kentucky, representing District 3. She assumed office on November 13th, 2023. Her current term ends on January 4, 2027. An article published by Louisville Public Media titled “From activist to lawmaker: Shameka Parrish-Wright is the newest Metro council member and penned by Roberto Roldan Dec. 26, 2023 states “Wright came to public prominence as a leader in the 2020 racial justice protests in Louisville that followed the police killing of Breonna Taylor. She was already serving on numerous nonprofit boards. She’s currently the executive director of VOCAL-KY, an advocacy group focused on ending mass incarceration, homelessness and the War on Drugs.

Ruth is joined by Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson to flesh out 2024 Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance. They also tackle the two proposed Constitutional amendments up for a vote in this election on the Kentucky ballot.