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On April 24, 2024, the Louisville League of Women Voters hosted a Kentucky House District 41 Candidate Forum, featuring candidates Mary Lou Marzian and Rick Adams (both Democrats) at the Bon Air Library. They each answered questions posed by two moderators, Joe Sonka, a reporter with Kentucky Public Radio and Mark Vanderhoff, reporter for WLKY TV News.

Both Forward Radio and the Urban Agriculture Coalition are proud sponsors of the 11th annual How-To Festival coming up on Saturday, May 11th, 10am-3pm, at the Main Public Library (301 York St.). This is your chance to learn 50 things in 5 hours! This free, interactive learning extravaganza features more than 50 “how-to” sessions taught by local experts. Learn how to keep bees and raise livestock in the city, grow bananas and mushrooms, make a candle, maintain your bike, harvest rain water, convert your lawn into a “Yarden”, and so much more. Sessions include lessons in home improvement, gardening, crafts, dance, music, business, art, and more! Plus – goats, chickens, rabbits and a miniature horse will be featured in our three garden tents thanks to the Urban Ag Coalition. And Forward Radio will be live broadcasting the entire event and hosting a booth near the north entrance, where you can learn how to broadcast and podcast with community radio! A complete schedule of sessions, including times and locations, is posted at https://www.LFPL.org/how-to.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, dons his Derby hat for a conversation and spring growing with friends from Forward Radio’s proud Community Partner, the Urban Agriculture Coalition (http://foodinneighborhoods.org/grow). Tune in as we hear from two staff from the UK Jefferson County Extension office, Bethany Pratt & Susanna Diller-Yoke. Bethany is a big home gardener and chicken-raiser. Susanna helps coordinate the Nutrition Education Program for Extension in Jefferson County, offering hands-on nutrition and cooking classes for folks who are SNAP eligible! In addition, in her free time Susanna is a rocking gardener and maker of herbal teas. Access their trove of online resources with recipes, gardening guides, and more at https://www.planeatmove.com.

Both Forward Radio and the Urban Agriculture Coalition are proud sponsors of the 11th annual How-To Festival coming up on Saturday, May 11th, 10am-3pm, at the Main Public Library (301 York St.). This is your chance to learn 50 things in 5 hours! This free, interactive learning extravaganza features more than 50 “how-to” sessions taught by local experts. Learn how to keep bees and raise livestock in the city, grow bananas and mushrooms, make a candle, maintain your bike, harvest rain water, convert your lawn into a “Yarden”, and so much more. Sessions include lessons in home improvement, gardening, crafts, dance, music, business, art, and more! Plus – goats, chickens, rabbits and a miniature horse will be featured in our three garden tents thanks to the Urban Ag Coalition. And Forward Radio will be live broadcasting the entire event and hosting a booth near the north entrance, where you can learn how to broadcast and podcast with community radio! A complete schedule of sessions, including times and locations, is posted at https://LFPL.org/how-to.

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 film maker, and University of Louisville student Will Severson about streaming, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the current state of film making.

1st air date Friday June 23, 2023.

2nd air date Saturday April 27, 2024.

Patty and Brian discuss the new trends in happiness and how that relates to our thinking!

A discussion of the economic impact of Derby Week on the Louisville Metro Area and what it means for jobs, payroll, sales revenues, and tax revenues.

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This week we have a remix episode because we are attending the LA Festival of Books. We catch up with author Ellen Birkett Morris. We first spoke to her in 2020 about her short story collection, Lost Girls, and now she has recently published a novel Beware the Tall Grass. So we will hear a little something old and a little something new from her in that episode.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Beware the Tall Grass by Ellen Birkett Morris

2- Lost Girls by Ellen Birkett Morris

3- Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

4- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

5- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

5- Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken

6- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

7- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

8- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers by Mary Roach

9- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

10- Lake Life by David James Poissant

11- Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

12- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

13- The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate

14- Door to Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn translated by Melody Shaw - 5 Star Read recommended by Sarah Phillips @cosymidlifebooknook

Article mentioned in this episode:

https://lawnlove.com/blog/best-cities-for-book-lovers/

The Access Hour features Farah Mokhtareizadeh. Farah’s presentation is about the history of Iran, the struggles faced by the Iranian women and how the United States has at times intervened in Iranian domestic affairs.

In this edition, four panelists, moderated by Tony Curtis (Exec. Dir. of the Metro Housing Coalition), discuss issues, obstacles and progress made with regard to housing and effects from climate change and toxics in the air. Sumedha Rao (Mayor's Office of Sustainability), Dr. Brian Guinn (U of L Assistant Prof. of Public Health and Information Sciences), Richard Price (Metro Louisville Office of Code Enforcement), and Eboni Neal Cochran (Civic Activist with REACT) gave their vantages at the Louisville League of Women Voters Democracy in Action forum, held April 15, 2024.

The University of Louisville recently initiated the 'Air Justice Louisville' website to examine environmental racism in Western Louisville. The website focuses on the past and present problem of air pollution near the Rubbertown industrial area, and provides resources for what residents can do about it. The website is: https://www.airjusticelou.org/.

Here is the EPA 'Toxic Release' factsheet for the 40211 zipcode which is most affected by pollution from Rubbertown: https://enviro.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_factsheet.factsheet?pYear=2022&pzip=40211&pParent=NAT

Here is the public-domain video of Tom Lehrer singing his song 'Pollution' which he recorded in 1967, years before the Clean Air and the Clean Water Acts were even passed by Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdmWysEp5w

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

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