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Sumedha Rao, Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability, explains at length where the City of Louisville is headed in its efforts to transition to a cleaner, more resilient economy and culture by the year 2040 -- the deadline called for in a 2020 Resolution made by the Metro Council when Louisville should have converted to 100% clean energy. Listen as Ms. Rao lays out the different strategies, projects, and networking with scores of cities, regional authorities, businesses and other entities to implement best practices for achieving this ambitious goal.

Dr. Cate Fosl, Professor emeritus, former director of the University of Louisville Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies and founder and former director of the University of Louisville Anne Braden Institute. In addition to being a University of Louisville professor, Cate Fosl has been an active member of the Civil Rights movement in Louisville and the author of the book Subservice Southern: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South.

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, connects across The Pond with fellow community radio hosts at East Leeds Community Radio in Louisville's Sister City of Leeds, England. Rachael Unsworth & Clarrie Ramsden are heard each month on the program "Think Global, Act Local" on East Leeds Community Radio / Chapel FM (https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/archive/?_sf_s=climate). Rachael is the host of the show, as well as a professional geographer, seasoned tour guide, and presenter (https://www.leedscitywalkingtours.co.uk/). Clarrie is a regular reporter on the program, and also does some amazing local activism, running a group called Climate Action Seacroft.  It's part of Climate Action Leeds, a 5 year program across Leeds, funded by the UK National Lottery (https://www.climateactionleeds.org.uk/).

Listen in as we compare notes about our respective communities, how we are acting locally to combat climate chaos, and how we each use radio to engage our communities in the process of transition toward a more sustainable future. Leeds has an aspiration to go carbon neutral and Louisville has just released a Priority Climate Action Plan for the 11-county

region (https://louisvilleky.gov/government/sustainability/climate-action-and-resilience-plans) after Louisville Metro Council set goals in a February 2020 Resolution for Clean, Renewable Energy:

• 100% clean renewable electricity for Metro government operations by 2030

• 100% clean energy for Metro government operations by 2035

• 100% clean energy community-wide by 2040

This is the first program co-produced by sister stations, Forward Radio and Chapel FM. We invite you to join us for some live dialogue with our new friends at East Leeds Community Radio during Forward Radio's 7th Birthday Party on Saturday, April 13th 5-8pm at Logan Street Market, 1001 Logan St.

This program would not have been possible without the talented dedication of Think Global, Act Local's Producer Lucy Smickersgill and Engineer Phil Driscoll. Many thanks to them!

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 https://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at https://appalatin.com

Dennisha Rivers has been a healthcare provider for 20 years. She is currently the President of Vision Of Life Outreach Ministries, a tax exempt 501c3 nonprofit organization. Their mission is to help homeless families and homeless youth to help restore and rebuild their lives from homelessness to self independence through educational workshops, mentoring programs, life skills training, entrepreneurship, environmental justice, financial literacy and transitional housing, and emergency assistance.

Dennisha's goal is to provide a safe healthy place for youth and to bring families together in a positive safe environment and safer neighborhoods. Dennisha Rivers is currently running for Jefferson County metro council from District 4.

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This week we’re talking about linked short story collections. What are linked short stories, though?

These are stories that are collected and somehow linked to each other. That link can be very explicit or very subtle. They can be linked by one character who threads her/his way throughout every one or who is only mentioned marginally. They can be linked by several characters. They can be linked by the setting–if they are set in a certain town or state or country.

But they can also be linked by theme or symbol or a common experience of characters. They could all be about a shared experience, like parenthood or death or

love. Or a combination of these things.

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

1- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar

2- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

3- Good Taste by Caroline Scott

4- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

5- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

6- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio

7- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

8- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

9- Dubliners by James Joyce

10- Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

11- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

12- Birth Canal by Dias Novita Wuri

13- There, There by Tommy Orange

14- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

15- What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better by Jody Hobbs Hessler

16- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

17- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

18- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

19- Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan

20- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

21- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelly Jo Ford

22- Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

23- Gwen and Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

24- Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J. Maas

25- The Bone People by Keri Hulme

26- The Extinction of Irina Rey by Jennifer Croft

Podcasts mentioned--

Ologies with Alie Ward - https://www.alieward.com/ologies/oikologyencore

NPR's Book of the Day - https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1196979329/nprs-book-of-the-day-the-extinction-of-irena-rey-jennifer-croft

Movies mentioned--

Oppenheimer (2023)

Spaceman (2024, Netflix)

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, goes looking for the good stuff with Katie Harvey, CSA Marketing and Outreach Program Manager for the Organic Association of Kentucky (https://www.oak-ky.org). Tune in for an exploration of the why’s and how’s of adding more fresh, local, seasonal foods to your plate this spring! We’ll help you navigate the many possibilities from foraging, to growing your own, to farmers markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm subscriptions!

Katie Harvey is a Louisville native who joined the OAK team in June 2018. She manages the Kentucky Farm Share Coalition Program and works to increase outreach for community supported agriculture (CSA) participation. Prior to joining the OAK team, Katie spent several years working on Kentucky vegetable farms, facilitating nonprofit education programs for healthy eating, and working in sales with a cosmetic brand focused on sustainability and the environment. Katie graduated from the University of Kentucky’s Natural Resource and Environmental Science program with a minor in Sustainable Agriculture and has a long-time commitment to growing the local food economy and raising awareness for organic agriculture in Kentucky. She manages the farm share voucher programs, organizes and presents at community events, builds programming for the Kentucky Farm Share Coalition members and advocates for local, organic food to reach people around the state.

Learn more with these resources:

- Eating with the Seasons postcard: https://www.kyfarmshare.org/_files/ugd/0d9875_f74aee0e4cbf47ae8f556235dccaaf6b.pdf

- 2021 Louisville FM Guide: https://ediblekentucky.ediblecommunities.com/sites/default/files//media/ckeditor/46/summer-2021/farmers-markets/kentucky-farmers-markets-map.pdf

- Phoenix Hill Flower Farm offers bouquet CSA subscriptions: http://Phoenixhillflowerfarm.com

- OAK Find-a-Farm Directory: https://www.oak-ky.org/find-a-farm-directory

- Kentucky Proud CSA Week - https://www.facebook.com/groups/kycsafair

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

On this week's program, we bring you a vital community conversation about Legislating Gender. On March 7th, the University of Louisville presented its 2024 Minx Auerbach Lecture featuring Paisley Currah, Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and Political Science at the City University of New York (CUNY), and author of the book, "Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity."

The legislative assault on transgender people in the United States seems new, but governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades. Outside of trans communities, few were aware of the Kafkaesque web of regulations that trans people find themselves in. Now that policing of the gender binary has been transformed from an unremarkable aspect of bureaucratic policymaking to a weapon in the culture wars, everyone is paying attention. In this talk, Paisley Currah will explore the connections between contemporary conflicts over trans issues and the history and persistence of gender and racial hierarchies in American society.

Truth to Power brings you conversations you won't hear anywhere else on the airwaves. The program 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 http://forwardradio.org

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This week we chat with Kari Heggen, a bookstagrammer from Iowa who set herself a goal to read all the Newbery Award winners from the past 102 years. Originally she had planned to read 10 a year but she ultimately decided to just get her done. She read 49 of the winners in 2023 and got a jump start on 2024 by reading this year’s winner, The Eye and the Impossible by Dave Eggers.

Kari talks about the highs and lows of her Newbery Award challenge. Books from the early days of the award were decidedly not great. But by the 1960s, Kari got into a better groove and found herself enjoying books for the first time and often the second time which brought back some childhood nostalgia.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Erasure by Percival Everett

2- Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

3- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

4- Holes by Louis Sachar

5- The Giver by Lois Lowry

6- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

7- The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loom

8- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

9- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

10- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

11- The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

12- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman

13- A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

14- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

15- King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

16- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

17- Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

18- Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

19- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

20- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

21- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

22- The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson

23- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson

24- The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers

25-Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

26- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

27 - Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Hope @lifewithhopeann- Divine Rivals Duology by Rebecca Ross

28- Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack

29- The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

30- Starter Villain by John Scalzi

31- Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen

32- Morgan is My Name by Sophie Keetch

33- The Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson

34- The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Movies and TV Series mentioned:

1- Oppenheimer (2023)

2- American Fiction (2023)

3- Poor Things (2023)

4- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023, Netflix)

5- Peaky Blinders (2013-2022, Netflix)

Article about Serving on the Newbery Awards committee-

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/what-it-takes-choose-newbery-medal-winner

Researchers have identified seven lifestyle factors that are most correlated with depression. We review them on this show! And did you know that the official state 'mineral' in Kentucky (coal) is actually a 'rock', and the official state 'rock' (agate) is actually a 'mineral'? Hear about the move in the KY Legislature to fix this geological error. Finally, hear about the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony which humorously celebrates out-of-the-ordinary research.

‘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.

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

Many thanks to Kentucky Educational Television for permission to rebroadcast a portion of their Feb. 22, 2024 episode of 'Kentucky Edition' with Renee Shaw: https://ket.org/program/kentucky-edition/state-rock/

Many thanks to the Ig Nobel Prize folks for permission to rebroadcast part of their 2023 ceremony: https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/#Ig-Ceremony-2023

Dr. Christopher Mitchell is Professor Emeritus, at George Mason University in Fairfax County, Virginia near Washington, D.C. He is director of the Jimmy & Roslan Carter Center at George Mason

He has served in higher educational institutions as a Research Associate, Research Officer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor of International Relations in the Department of Systems Science of the City University, London.

Most recently his teaching responsibilities have been as Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolutions and Drucie French Cumbie Professor of Conflict Analysis at George Mason University.