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Hear our encore discussion of the natural cosmetics used during the Renaissance. We explore the case of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of King Charles I of England back in the 1600s who was described by her niece as being 'quite handsome' in spite of having a hunchback and buck teeth! Then Rob Weber, of Kentucky Academy of Science interviews Yvonne Garrison (Mason County High School, in Maysville, KY) about her Outstanding Science Teacher Award from the National Association of Geoscience Teachers in 2022.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, hops on his trusty two-wheeled steed for a conversation about bicycling in Louisville with Chris Butz who joined Louisville Metro Public Works Transportation Division as a Transportation Planner II in 2023. Chris began his career in land use planning for Hardin County (KY) while finishing his master’s degree in urban planning at UofL. After earning his degree, Chris took on a new role at TARC, where he developed a passion for transportation planning. As a Louisville native and avid cyclist, Chris brings a wealth of knowledge to his new position managing Bike Louisville, the city's bike and scooter program. His work focuses on bike infrastructure improvements, cycling education, and growing Louisville’s urban bike network. Learn more at https://louisvilleky.gov/government/bike-louisville

Listen in as we discuss:

• The revival of the Bike Louisville program (including a newsletter relaunch and website update)

• Bike to Work Day coming up on Friday, May 17th (https://louisvilleky.gov/government/bike-louisville/bike-work-day-2024). There will be four meet-and-ride locations departing at 7:30am for 4th Street Live! for coffee, donuts, and raffle prizes. Meet back at 4th Street Live! at 5:30pm for return rides. Register at https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/ba56e134432641f89f4c23728d47b6ed

• New bike facilities on Lexington Rd/Liberty (from Payne to Wenzel) and on Ellison in Germantown.

• The Bike Implementation Plan: Bike Louisville Public Works and Office of Planning partnering to produce a planning study of Louisville’s existing bike network and prioritize quick, implementable improvements for better connectivity and low stress facilities that encourage more people to bike. The first virtual kick off and community engagement meeting will be held Monday April 15, 6-7:30pm, it will be fully public. Those interested can find a link to the event on Bike Louisville’s webpage.

• Main Remade: In March, KYTC held a public meeting on planned improvements. Phase 1: convert Main St from one-way to two-way between Wenzel & 2nd St. with upgrades to crosswalks and intersections, a protected bike lane, dedicated left-turn lanes, and new traffic signals. Phase 1 to begin as soon as late 2024. Learn more at http://MainRemade.com

• Goals for the Future:


- Improved maintenance for existing network (refreshing striping/markings/signage)

- Expanding network with more protected bike lanes and shared use paths along major arterials

- Increasing bike parking (50 bike racks per year to be installed),

- Providing more community events, safety and education initiatives, continuing and expanding community partnerships to provide bike services to new bikers or underserved communities

- E-bike rebate pilot program

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

We broadcast live from Logan Street Market to bring you all the fun of Forward Radio's 7th Anniversary of broadcasting radio for the people, by the people! Listen-in to hear from our guest speaker, Charles Booker; a conversation across The Pond, with our friends at East Leeds Community Radio in Louisville's Sister City of Leeds, England; and interviews with a wide variety of WFMP programmers, volunteers, supporters, and community partners! Thanks to everyone who joined us to mark this momentous occasion and to support the station. If you haven't donated yet, go to https://forwardradio.org right now to help us reach our goal of raising $7000 in honor of seven years in your ears!

This week on Truth to Power, we go LIVE for the Pledge Drive and bring you a conversation about the vital role that community radio continues to play in protecting democracy and connecting people across all kinds of divides. Join Forward Radio hosts, Justin Mog (Sustainability Now!) and Tom Lambert (Economic Impact), for a conversation with friends from the Pacifica Affiliate Network: Manager, Ursula Ruedenberg; and Operations Coordinator, Stephanie Schubert, who is also the Producer of Sprouts (which you can hear on Forward Radio every week on Mondays at 7:30am, Wednesdays at 7:30pm, and Saturdays at 5:30pm). Learn more about the rich history of Pacifica at http://pacificanetwork.org

If you love programming like this, we need your support to stay on the air! Forward Radio is entirely independent, volunteer-powered and listener-sponsored. We are still a long way from our goal of raising $7000 by the end of the day on April 13th in honor of our 7th anniversary of bringing you voices and conversations you won’t hear anywhere else, so please go to http://forwardradio.org and donate today!

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

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You can find Judith Lindbergh at https://judithlindbergh.com/ and on IG @judithlindbergh.

This week’s episode is one that big history nerds may find fascinating. In fact, big nerd Carrie could have gone even further down a rabbit hole of Herodotus than she did with our guest Judith Lindbergh. If you feel like playing a drinking game with this episode, between the three of us, we say the word ‘fascinating” at least nine times. Judith’s second novel, titled Akmaral, will be published on May 7 and is a sweeping story of a nomadic woman warrior in Central Asia during the 5th century.

Judith tells us about her inspiration for the novel (and you can find more about the Ice Maiden she mentions in our interview on her website) and how the matriarchal community in which Akmaral lives has connections to the mythological Amazons. Judith relates the challenges of women during the Iron Age to those that modern women have through her story. A perfect saga story for fans of Madeline Miller.

Books Mentioned In This Episode:

1- Akmaral by Judith Lindbergh

2- Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

3- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

4- The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh

5- Histories by Herodotus

6- Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

7- The Fair Botanists by Sara Sheridan - A 5 star read recommended by fellow book lover Linda Lefler @lindalefler

8- This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships by Matthew Fray

9- The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

10- The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

11- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

12- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Movies mentioned--

1- White Noise (2023)

Documentary mentioned:

1- Secrets of the Dead: Amazon Warrior Women, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/amazon-warrior-women-episode/1464/.

2- NOVA: “Ice Mummies: Siberian Ice Maiden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYitmlS1YU.

Article mentioned--

1- The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late --https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/marriage-problems-fight-dishes/629526/

2- Tuvan Throat Singing - https://www.songlines.co.uk/features/essential-10/10-essential-throat-singing-albums.

This special Pledge Drive edition of Election Connection features John Balliet, Jazz DJ for WXOX 97.1 FM (the other low power community radio station in Louisville KY) and Victoria Strange, a regular on Election Connection. Together, we carry on a wide-ranging conversation getting into the history of how we got started in low-power, noncommercial community radio; how radio in general, and low power community radio specifically, got started; how publicly-owned radio frequencies were virtually all handed over to commercial interests; and what this means to our community, our democracy and our American values. We also talked about the growing collaboration among community radio stations across the country.

This special Pledge Drive edition of Election Connections features John Balliet, Jazz DJ for WXOX 97.1 FM (the other noncommercial community radio station in Louisville KY) and Victoria Strange, one of Election Connection regulars. Together, we carry on a wide-ranging conversation, getting into the history of how we three got started in low-power noncommercial community radio; how radio and low power FM radio got started; how publicly-owned radio frequencies were virtually all handed over to commercial interests and what this has meant to our communities, our democracy and our American values. Also discussed is the growing collaboration among low power community radio stations across the country.

Michael Nagler is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. Prof. Nagler has spoken and written widely for campus, religious, public and special interest groups on the subject of peace and nonviolence for many years,. He has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is President of the board of METTA: Center for Nonviolence Education and of PeaceWorkers, and on numerous other boards, and has recently co-founded Educators For Nonviolence ([email protected]). He has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970's and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce.

In addition to his many articles on peace and spirituality, he is the author of America Without Violence (Island Press, 1982), The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, 1987) and most recently The Search for a Nonviolent Future (Inner Ocean Publishing) which won the 2002 American Book Award and is being used in many courses as well as reading groups around the country (Italian translation appeared in 2005; pending in Korean and Arabic).

Michael Nagler is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the Center's ashram in Marin County since 1970.

On this special Pledge Drive edition of the program, your host, Justin Mog, digs deep into Extraction Politics with University of Louisville professor of Communication, Nick Paliewicz, author of the brand new book “Extraction Politics: Rio Tinto and the Corporate Persona” (Penn State Press - Series in Transdiciplinary Rhetoric). The book argues that Rio Tinto is a global extractive colonial actor that creates different place-based rhetorical personae to pass as a valued member of the public without having to settle in these communities and bear the costs of extraction.

Nick studies argumentation and public discourse with emphases on environmental rhetoric, public memory, and social movements. He is co-author of three previous books: 1. The Securitization of Memorial Space: Rhetoric and Public Memory; 2. Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching; and 3. Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities: New York, Charlottesville, and Montgomery. Catch up with Nick at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-paliewicz-13423224/

Two hardcopy versions of Nick’s new book, Extraction Politics, will be available for bidding at the Silent Auction taking place during Forward Radio’s 7th Birthday Party on Saturday, April 13th from 5:00 to 8:00pm at Logan Street Market! Don’t miss this chance to take home a copy of Nick’s thought-provoking text while supporting the station that made you aware of it!

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