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On this week's program, we bring you a vital update on what's happening in Frankfort with respect to legislation impacting the environment in our Commonwealth. This week, we listen in on the February Program of Forward Radio's proud community partner, the Greater Louisville Sierra Club, as they discussed the 2024 General Assembly with Audrey Ernstberger from the Kentucky Resources Council at United Crescent Hill Ministries on February 20th.

Audrey provides an overview of “the good, the bad, and the ugly," including analyses of legislation relating to environmental, conservation, consumer, energy, and general government bills and resolutions during this “long” 60-legislative day session. You'll also hear recommendations and tangible action items before the General Assembly adjourns sine die on April 15, 2024.

Audrey Ernstberger, associate attorney and lobbyist with KRC, graduated from Centre College and earned her J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2019. Shortly after law school, she pursued an LL.M. in Energy and Environmental Law from The George Washington University Law School, where she attended classes and worked as a research assistant to identify legal obstacles to pre-planning electric grid redevelopment after a natural disaster. Before joining KRC, she worked for the Legislative Research Commission as a Legislative Analyst for standing committees in both the House and Senate.

Learn more and stay connected at https://www.kyrc.org

And keep in touch with what's happening at the Greater Louisville Sierra Club at https://www.sierraclub.org/kentucky/greater-louisville-group

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

Patty and Brian discuss the circadian rhythms and everyone's natural sleep styles.

Solutions to Violence features Aukram Burton. Aukram became the Executive Director at the Kentucky Center for African American in 2015. The goals of the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage are to enhance the public's knowledge about African Americans' history, heritage, cultural contributions in Kentucky, and African Diaspora.

Aukram Burton worked as the Diversity and Multicultural Education Specialist in the Department of Diversity, Equity and Poverty Programs for the Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky. Burton's work as a media artist and producer focuses explicitly on Africa and the African Diaspora, illuminating Africa's descendants' common origin. For over four decades, he has documented people, places, and events in Barbados, Brazil, Benin, China, Cuba, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, South Africa, Tibet, and many places throughout the United States.

You can find Amy and the Gibson Girl review at https://www.gibsongirlreview.com/ as well as on Instagram at @gibsongirlreview

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As podcast people ourselves, we are always interested in checking out other unique book-related podcasts. You can find a podcast to fit any interest no matter how obscure; there is something for everyone out in the pod universe.

Our guest this week is Amy Drown, the founder, producer, and host of Gibson Girl Review, a podcast that focuses on novels from the Gilded Age and Progressive era, circa 1870-1920. Edith Wharton and Henry James are authors from this time you may have had to read in high school, but for the most part, novels from these time periods have mostly been forgotten among the general reading public. Amy likes to give them a fresh reading. She has found that many of the problems we deal with in 2024 are very similar to the ones people dealt with some 130+ years ago.

Amy is a historian herself with a vast collection of old books she inherited from her family. In the end, she just wanted to read them instead of have them languishing on a shelf, and The Gibson Girl Review podcast was born.

Books Discussed in This Episode:

1- The Passionate Epicure by Marcel Rouff

2- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

3- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

4- A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

5- The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

6- Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

7- Jan of the Windmill by Juliana Horatia Ewing

8- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

9 - Heidi by Johanna Spyri

10- Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

11- Poor Dear Theodora by Florence Irwin

12- The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

13- Her First Appearance by Richard Harding Davis

14- Five Star Book Recommendation from Nelwina @toallreaders - The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan

15- The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage edited by M. Elizabeth Weiser and others

16- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

17- Winterfrost by Michelle Houts

Movies and Shows mentioned—

1- The Taste of Things (2023)

2- A Room With a View (1985)

3- The Gilded Age (HBOMax, 2022- present)

4- Downton Abbey (Peacock, 2010- 2015)

In this edition, the push for Congressional Term Limits is explained by two proponents, Rachel McCubbin (Kentucky State Chair for U.S. Term Limits or USTL) and Calvin Leach, Republican candidate for KY State Senate, District 37. Listen as Ruth and her co-host, Victoria Strange pose questions and offer their own perspectives on whether they think Term Limits is all it's cracked up to be. Ruth suggests an alternative means of reducing the corrupting influence of money in politics, namely Clean Elections. Here are some helpful links: http://www.cleanelectionssandiego.org/faq/ https://www.azcleanelections.gov/what-is-a-clean-election https://www.seattle.gov/democracyvoucher/about-the-program

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, folds up his map for a conversation with Dr. Andrea Gaughan, Professor of Geographic & Environmental Sciences at the University of Louisville. Listen in as we discuss her collaboration with the Office of Sustainability at Louisville Metro Government to conduct a Regional Climate Action Plan Survey to collect information on residents living in the greater Louisville area about their climate and sustainability priorities. As you heard on the January 29th edition of this show (https://soundcloud.com/wfmp-forward-radio/sustainability-now-sumedha-rao-gianna-bennett-regional-climate-action-planning-1-29-24), we are looking for a diverse set of responses from all around the 11-county area and you can complete the survey now at: https://louisville.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dmYa3jp8EKAZU3A

We also discuss Andrea’s research interests, which include: Human-environment interactions; Earth observation and sustainable development; Land systems; Human population modeling; and Remote sensing and geospatial analysis. And we explore some of the courses Dr. Gaughan teaches, including:

- Earth Observation and Sustainability: The Human Planet (GEOG 525)

- Unmanned Aerial System Technologies (GEOG 545)

- Global Environment (GEOS 200)

- Global Environmental Change (GEOS 360)

- Remote Sensing (GEOS 355 and 655)

- Advanced Remote Sensing (GEOS 656)

Learn more about Andrea at https://louisville.edu/geogeo/about/profiles/andrea-gaughan

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

Dr's Gene Shively and Mike Flynn discuss Private Equity in Healthcare.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you a conversation with one of Forward Radio's newest programmers, Dr. Thomas Lambert (host of Economic Impact) who was the featured guest on the February 3rd, 2024 edition of the Association for Social Economics Podcast Series. Dr. Lambert is the most recent recipient of the Welch Award for the best paper published in the Forum for Social Economics for his work titled The Great Resignation in the United States: A Study of Labor Market Segmentation.

Dr. Lambert's work encompasses various areas of economics, including equine and labor economics. Join us for a fascinating discussion on pluralism in economics, labor market segmentation, the importance of healthcare and childcare, and much more! Learn more at https://business.louisville.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/thomas-e-lambert-phd/

Source: https://soundcloud.com/user-370389800/social-economics-season-3-episode-6-conversation-with-tom-lambert

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

To find out more about Minda, go to her website at www.mindahoney.com or find her on social media @mindahoney

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We have a remix episode for you this week on Valentine’s Day, and the book we discuss is all about love and the loss of it.

We first talked with author Minda Honey back in the summer of 2019 During that interview, she spoke about her book of essays tentatively titled “An Anthology of Assholes,” which was about her dating experiences from her mid-20s to age 30 as a single black woman. In October 2023, her book now titled The Heartbreak Years was published by Little A.

We catch up with Minda about her memoir. We then transition back to parts of our original interview which also focuses on the Toni Morrison documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. In the summer of 2019, Speed Cinema featured this film, but if you missed it then you can find it now on most streaming platforms, including Netflix and Hulu. When we discussed Morrison, she was still living but she died a few weeks later, in Aug 2019.

Books Discussed in this Episode:

1- The Heartbreak Years by Minda Honey

2- All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

3- Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett

4- What The Wind Knows by Amy Harmon

5- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

6- Sula by Toni Morrison

7- Beloved by Toni Morrison

8- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

9- The Mothers by Brit Bennett

10- Ruby by Cynthia Bond

11- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

12- How to Be Remembered by Michael Thompson - A Five star read recommended by Jessica Bearak @tonightsbookishfeast

13- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

14- Yinka, Where Is Your Husband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn; audiobook narrated by Ronke Adékoluejo

Shows mentioned--

1- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

2- Time Trap (2018, Netflix)

3- Dark (2017-2020, Netflix)

4- Will & Harper (2024)

5- Six Feet Under (2001-2005, Netflix)

6- Will and Grace (1998-2006, Hulu)

Holly Page, New Labels co-founder and senior advisor, discusses the origins of New Labels and current attempts to run a 3rd Party presidential candidate in the 2024 election. As of this initial airing, No Labels has succeeded in getting on the ballot in 15 states although they don't plan on announcing a candidate until after Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Listen to her explain, why the organization came into being in 2010, what they are trying to accomplish, and their reasons for entering the fray so late in the Presidential race.