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This week we’re going “boldly where no man has gone before.” Yes–that’s right into space.

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg

2- The Paris Affair by Maureen Marshall

3- A Five Start Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Stephanie Affinito @affinitolit - The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

4- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

5- Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey

6- The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe) by Mary Robinette Kowal

7- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

8- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

9- Orbital by Samantha Harvey

10- The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm

11- A Rovers Story by Jasmine Warga

12- Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

13- Bright Objects by Ruby Todd

14- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

15- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz

Media mentioned--

1- Constellation (Apple+, 2024)

2- Zone of Interest (HBOMax, 2023)

3- Cat Video Fest--http://www.catvideofest.com

4- For All Mankind (Apple+, 2019)

5- The Expanse (Prime Video, 2015)

6- Spaceman of Bohemia (Netflix, 2024)

7- Literature as an Olympic Sport - https://lithub.com/did-you-know-that-poetry-used-to-be-an-actual-olympic-sport/

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, sharpens his pencils for a Back To School special with Erin McClish, mother of three, middle school teacher, and environmental educator! Erin does Kentucky-focused Eco-Ag Education through Wild Commonwealth LLC. Learn more at https://wildcommonwealth.com  Or find her on social media at https://facebook.com/wildcommonwealth  or  https://instagram.com/wildcommonwealth

Tune in for a great conversation about urban environmental education in Louisville; how amazing birds and snakes are; and kids, their phones, and the adults who love to complain but don't step in!

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 Barry Zalph, retired engineer and founding director of Bicycling Louisville. Mr. Zalph also worked on Sustainability Energy and Transportation issues for the Louisville KY, Air Pollution Control District. Mr. Zalph discusses the recent 10 year reunion of the Network Center For Community Change. Recorded Sunday August 4, 2024, 6PM.

Hosted by Paul Hoppe, Doctors Mike Flynn and Eugene Shively with their guests. Doctors Timir Banerjee, Doris Mann, and Mark Hudson from SPAVA (Society for the Prevention of Aggressiveness and Violence Among Adolescents)

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you more 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 http://bluegrassvegfest.com

In this fifth hour of our broadcast, we gave you a sample of the many plant-based treats on offer and shared with you the Panel discussion on Raining Plant-Powered Kids! It’s one thing to choose to eat plant-based yourself, but what about raising kids on just plants? Vegucated documentary filmmaker and vegan family cookbook author Marisa Miller Wolfson moderates this panel of fellow vegan mom panelists from the region to help answer all your questions about the ins and outs of vegan parenting.

Marisa Miller Wolfson is a Kentuckiana native who grew up on the banks of the Ohio River in Evansville, Indiana before moving to New York City, where she became a vegan over 20 years ago. She is the writer-director of Vegucated, an award-winning documentary that has screened at over a dozen film festivals worldwide and won several awards, including best documentary at its worldwide premiere at the Toronto Independent Film Festival before becoming a digital bestseller and running on Netflix. The mother of two vegans since birth, she co-wrote The Vegucated Family Table, the first mainstream cookbook and guidebook for raising vegan littles. She lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband, children, three rescued cats and rescued goldfish.

THE PANELISTS

Chef Kristina J. Addington owns Louisville vegan restaurant, V-Grits, and is mom to 5 year old Andrew, a proud vegan kiddo and hero for the animals since birth.

Nancy “Sultra” Smith is a vegan mother, chef, entrepreneur, and hip hop artist. Her passion for vegan cuisine led her to open two former beloved local vegan cafes - Flora Kitchenette and Café Zinho. She and her husband have raised four vegan children into adulthood, imparting their knowledge and love for plant-based living to the next generation.

Christine Beyer has been vegan for 12 years. She and her husband are raising two vegan children and together they manage Vegans of Evansville Indiana on Facebook. She is a passionate activist for animals and encourages others through her advocacy to go vegan.

Quiana Counts' family has been vegan for almost nine years. She has four children, aged 14, 9, 7, and 3. Her youngest two have been vegan since birth. Finding new vegan dishes to make is something they love and enjoy doing as a family.

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

Patty and Brian discuss some ideas about critical thinking expertise and examine three popular thinkers who claim to possess critical thinking expertise.

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You can find Jean Duffy at her website www.jeanduffy.com or on IG @soccergranniesbook.

Sarahlyn Bruck can be found at her website www.sarahlynbruck.com or on IG @saralynbruck.

If you can’t get enough of sports and global camaraderie watching the Paris Summer Olympics on your TV screens, we have an interview for you today to scratch that itch even more; books that include women’s soccer.

In Season 10, we did a dual-interview with two authors who wrote Jane Austen-inspired books: AH Kim and Melodie Edwards. It was so much fun, we thought we would do it again. This time, though, we’re pairing two women who wrote books related to soccer.

Sarahlyn Bruck is the author of several novels; her most recent is titled Light of the Fire, which is about two adult women who were connected by soccer in high school. Jean Duffy’s debut nonfiction book is titled Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World, about older women who play recreational soccer. These two writers, who both have an abiding love of the game, were down with joining each other and us to chat about their respective books.

While these books on the surface deal with soccer, they ultimately address friendship and teamwork, the elements of the game that change lives for the better.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Light of the Fire by Sarahlyn Bruck

2- Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World by Jean Duffy

3- The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Ervick

4- A Five Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover, Patricia @patriciapluggedin - Funny Story by Emily Henry

5- I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

6- Anna Bright is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall

7- Invisible Women: Exploring Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

8- Magonia Wu Unfolds It All by Chanel Miller

9-Know My Name by Chanel Miller

10- Starter Villain by John Scalzi

11- Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Media mentioned—

1- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

2- Trying (2024, Apple+)

3- Catastrophe (2015, Amazon Prime)

4- The Dropout (2022, Hulu)

Our Episode with Kelcey Ervick about her graphic memoir, The Keeper -https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s9ep200-creativity-keeper-with-guest-kelcey-ervick-121323/

Sadly, this will serve as the final program of Veterans For Peace Radio Hour on Louisville's Forward Radio. Thanks for all of your support over the years and please keep listening to all the other excellent programming on the station that addresses issues of war, peace, and justice! Tune in at 106.5fm and http://forwardradio.org

In the leadup to a presentation by renowned author David P. Gushee at the Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Jordan Conley (co-pastor) and church member Grady Throneberry discuss the origins and current expressions of Christian nationalism in the U.S. and globally. This is the subject of Dr. Gushee's book "Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies" and will be the subject of his talk on Aug. 17th 2024.

Dr. Camara Douglas, acquired his PhD, from the University of Louisville. His Ph.D. is in Pan African Studies (2022). He holds a BA from UofL in Sociology. His research focuses on the disproportionate education achievement levels for African Americans in K-12 public schools with a focus on teacher bias. Additional research includes an examination of the historic trends of redlining which caused generations of African American students to live in under developed communities, attend under developed school, leading them to receive disproportionate educations when compared to their white counterparts.

Dr. Camara Douglas has also had the pleasure of conducting JCPS professional development panel sessions. Each session discussed civil rights in the south with specific interest on the movement's association with Louisville, KY.

Prior to Dr. Camara Douglas' acceptance as a full professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, he was a Community Outreach Specialist at the Russell community; A Place of Promise with a focus on homeownership and community collective ownership As a part of Cities United which does national Community integration.