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Beverly Kuhn was born into a religious family in Tecumseh Michigan to Caroline and Arthur Shaw. She is the youngest of 11 with 3 sisters and 7 brothers. Beverly Kuhn is married and has 4 children and 4 grandchildren. She retired as a case manager from Jewish hospital and Walgreens Infusion Pharmacy. Being retired, she has had the opportunity to travel and see places that was once only in her imagination. Beverly Kuhn is here today to tell us about her trip to India.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, digs into youth empowerment through gardening with Velvet Welch, Executive Director of Sacred Earth Community Garden, at 41st & Market, whose motto is ”Growing Food. Growing Leaders. Growing Hope." (https://www.sacredearthcommunitygarden.com/)

Velvet is a daughter of Shawnee. She moved to Shawnee when she was six years old. Her mother raised eleven children as a single parent, and Shawnee became the place that shaped her life. She attended Shawnee Elementary, Shawnee Junior High, and Shawnee High School. As a young girl, she even worked in the very building where Sacred Earth Community Garden now operates. Today, she has the privilege of giving back to the same community that invested in her.

Velvet served over 20 years in the United States Army and retired as a Sergeant First Class.

During her military career, she served in Administration, as an Inspector General, and in leadership positions that taught her organization, discipline, accountability, and how to care for people under pressure. Those experiences prepared her for the work she does today—leading youth, managing programs, solving problems, and building teams.

Sacred Earth Community Garden was born during COVID in 2022. What started as an anti-violence initiative became something much bigger. Velvet realized young people don't simply need someone to tell them what not to do. They need: someone to believe in them, somewhere safe to belong, something meaningful to build, and someone willing to walk beside them. The garden became that place.

The Mission is to use gardening as a tool to teach: A. Leadership, B. Responsibility, C. entrepreneurship, D. Food justice, E. Mental wellness, F. Conflict resolution, G. Environmental stewardship, and H. Community service. They’re not just growing vegetables. They’re growing healthy young people.

Sacred Earth continues to grow because of incredible community support. Some of their partners and supporters include: Metro’s Office of Violence Prevention; Ursuline Sisters; Sisters of Loretto; Metro United Way; Kroger; Home Depot; West End Women Collaborative; Unity East; Locust Grove; Christopher 2X; Tech Boss; and countless family members, volunteers, neighbors, and individual donors. Every donation—large or small—helps change a young person's future.

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

Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. Dr. Lieven is a visiting professor at King's College London, and is a senior fellow and the director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is currently based in Washington, D.C. Lieven is author of several books on Russia and its neighbors including The Baltic Revolutions: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence, also Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power? (Yale University Press, 1998), and Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry (US Institute of Peace, 1999).

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a community conversation entitled "Notes For Next Time: Surviving Trump and Reviving America." This online event was hosted by the Oberlin Club of Washington, D.C. on April 2nd, 2026 and it featured Oberlin College class of 1965 alumni, Bob Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine. For Bob and those of his generation, the arc of a lifetime can be described as a period when America made great progress toward social and economic justice, and then watched it get away. Why the great reversal? How did the failure to restore broad prosperity lead to political backlash and the rise of Trump? Moving forward, what lessons might be learned to prevail in winning the arguments and the politics? And how do we make sure there is a next time?

Tune in as Bob draws on his five decades at the center of progressive thought and action to share observations and ideas, and reads brief excerpts from his memoir 'Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America'. He revisits the pivotal moments when different choices could have led to a fairer economy and a stronger democracy, outlines a hopeful path forward, and assess how we may yet survive Trump if we restore decent life prospects for regular people.

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and is a Professor in Social Planning and Administration at Brandeis University’s Heller School. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post syndicate. He was a founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its board and executive committee. Bob has authored thirteen books, and his magazine writing, covering the interplay of economics and politics, has appeared in most major publications. His previous positions have included national staff writer on The Washington Post, chief investigator of the US Senate Banking Committee, executive director of President Carter’s National Commission on Neighborhoods, and economics editor of The New Republic. Bob earned a BA at Oberlin College in Government and holds an MA from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds honorary doctorates from Oberlin and Swarthmore.

Watch the full event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G2OHA9cOOU

Truth to Power 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 https://www.forwardradio.org

For the first time, antimatter gets transported by truck! The link between Virgin Olive Oil in the diet and cognition in older people. What we can see in the night sky in July. The propensity of humans to walk in the counterclockwise direction. And a final goodby poem for Rocky, the valiant three-legged horse. All on this week's show! Dave Robinson, Scott Miller and Leslie Moise reporting.

‘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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This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, turns his attention to the forgotten river flowing beneath us with Ben Frech from the National Ground Water Association (https://ngwa.org). NGWA members include groundwater scientists and engineers, water well contractors, geothermal professionals, environmental consultants, and others who work directly with groundwater every day. As the nation's largest professional association representing groundwater professionals, the NGWA has become increasingly engaged in discussions surrounding data center development and its impact on groundwater resources and local communities.

In March, NGWA released a position paper on data center development and groundwater resources. As communities across the country continue to evaluate new data center projects, NGWA is providing background information, expert perspectives, and interviews on how these facilities may impact groundwater supplies, as well as best practices that can help support responsible development.

Tune in as we discuss the policy/regulatory side of data centers and their impacts on groundwater. Including, site selection, financial incentives for data centers, policies in support/to regulate centers, and the broader trends going on in the industry.

Ben recommends the US Geological Survey's National Groundwater Monitoring Network at https://www.usgs.gov/apps/ngwmn/index.jsp

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

Annelle Sheline is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs (DRL/NEA), before resigning in March 2024 to protest the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza. She is a senior non-resident fellow at the Arab Center of Washington DC and a non-resident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. She holds a PhD in political science from George Washington University. She has written for Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and The New Republic, and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, CBS, and Al Jazeera.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a community conversation at the intersection of food & science! This Community Health Forum was held in Smoketown on June 11th at Bates Memorial Baptist Church. During the Food & Science forum hosted by UofL’s Envirome Institute, we celebrated community heroes and heard from an expert panel. The Envirome’s “& Science” series is a quarterly health forum and this fourth installment of the series focused on Food, featuring leaders from different agricultural and scientific backgrounds.

Together we: Explored key intersections of nutrition, health and wellbeing; Identified drivers of food insecurity in Louisville; Discussed overcoming barriers that promote access to healthy food; and Envisioned a food secure future for all of Louisville.

The evening began with a Community Block Party (Farmers Market+Community Fair) from 4:00 - 6:00 pm, followed by the presentation of the "& Science" Champion Award to Taylor Ryan, Founder and Executive Director of Change Today, Change Tomorrow. That was followed by the evening's panel, featuring:

Cassia Herron (Healthy Communities Fellow, Aspen Global Innovators Group)

Vincent James (President and CEO, Dare To Care)

Taylor Ryan (Founder and Executive Director, Change Today, Change Tomorrow)

Dr. Wayne Tuckson (Kentucky Health Host, Kentucky Educational Television, retired Colon and Rectal Surgeon)

Dr. Kim Williams (Chairman of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine; Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine)

About the Series:

The “& Science” series provides a community forum for conversations at the intersection of health, the environment & science. Topics explored throughout the first year of the series include communication, faith, history, food & science. For more information, please contact Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, [email protected] or (502)852-9354.

Watch a full recording of the evening at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va5aW6lYMlk&list=PL3EGWMSHI12ZdfU9-ZcWxBzPZT0kqtXiM&index=1

Truth to Power 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 https://www.forwardradio.org.

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Ed Harness is a graduate of Marquette University School of Law. Prior to law school, he was Police Officer in Milwaukee Wisconsin. he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Management of Criminal Justice Operations from Concordia University.

In 2015, Albuquerque’s Civilian Police Oversight Agency Board selected Ed Harness to be the first Executive Director of the Civilian Police Oversight Agency. Like his previous role in Albuquerque, he again is tasked here in Louisville with directing an agency to provide oversight of the police department. Mr. Harness is a member of the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE)

He is a Certified Practitioner of Oversight (CPO) holder. ED Harness was the 2023 recipient of the NACOLE “Achievement in Oversight Award” and was voted into a three-year term as a Member at Large to the NACOLE Board of Directors.

ED Harness is also a member of Association of Inspectors General (AIG). He became a Certified Inspector General in 2023.