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This is taken, by permission, from an episode of Us and Them, "White Bubble" produced & narrated by Trey Kay, in which listeners follow along with a bus ride of mostly white passengers as they visit various landmarks and cultural icons of several Southern states and learn about slavery and its legacy of racism and discrimination.

Teach-in sponsored by National Single Payer - Marianne Pizzitola , lead organizer for retirees of New York city public employees unions shares her playbook for resisting forced enrollment into Medicare Advantage healthcare programs.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, is thrilled to have the studio filled with the amazing co-visionaries behind Social Work Day taking place at the Muhammad Ali Center on December 4, 2023 from noon to 2pm. This event seeks to explore art, research & design that illuminates Medical Racism, Human Erasure & Women's Rights, while helping participants understand place and the people erased from it, in honor of Mrs. Ada Doss Campbell. It’s an event where social work, public health, and public art collide. Guests on today’s show include:

1. Dr. Renee Campbell, Executive Director of the Phoenix Global Humanitarian Foundation (https://www.phoenixglobalhumanitarian.org/our-executive-leadership) and a recent Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Center for Nonprofit Excellence! Her work includes teaching experience at numerous Colleges and Universities, and she served as the Coordinator and Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky for two years.

2. Dr. Lynetta Mathis, Director of the DSW program at the University of Louisville's Kent School of Social Work and Family Science (https://louisville.edu/kent/about/faculty-1/bios/lynetta-mathis). Dr. Mathis is a clinical social worker with 17 years of practice experience in medical social work, therapeutic foster care and adoptions, and clinical supervision. Her scholarship focuses on postsecondary student mental health and social work field education. The overall goal of Dr. Mathis’ scholarship is to remove barriers and increase supports to foster student success.

3. Tony Helm, Professor and Director of Campus Field Education at Spalding University's School of Social Work (https://spalding.edu/social-work/meet-social-work-faculty/). Professor Helm earned his MSSW from the University of Louisville, Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work and Family Science. His areas of interest include child welfare, LGBTQIA+, diversity and inclusion, and effective teaching. Professor Helm currently serves on the Diversity Consciousness Action Group (DCAG) and on local organizational boards.

4. Dr. Mindy Brooks-Eaves, Kentucky State University's Chair for School of Social Work (https://www.kysu.edu/directory/faculty-staff/mindy-brooks-eaves.php). Formerly worked at Louisville's Ujima Neighborhood Place. Dr. Eaves’ passion is equity, teaching, and sustainability of social workers with specific attention to disparity, blackness, identity, cultural inclusivity, and practicing radical self-care as a guiding principle. In 2021, she co-edited “The A to Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and other Helping Professionals” and published “Self-Care as Sociopolitical Liberation for Black Women” in The New Social Worker.

5. Marlesha Woods, Interdisciplinary Artist and Co-Curator for Social Work Day. Her work is still on display in the Ali Center's temporary "We Don't Wither" exhibit through December 18, 2023 (https://alicenter.org/muhammad-ali-center-announces-new-temporary-exhibit-featuring-louisville-area-artists/).

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

Did you know that horses that interact closely with humans modulate their heart rates with those humans? Leslie Moise (a long-time rider) reports on recent research about this, and reads a poem she wrote for this occasion! Then, J. Scott Miller tells us what we can see in the night sky during the month of December. Finally, Rob Weber interviews Dr. Jeremy Gibson (Kentucky Wesleyan College) and two of his students, Shannon Ruble and Jenna Burns about their fascinating research on behavior in native wolf spiders.

‘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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Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODE PINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, and the Peace in Ukraine Coalition. Medea is the author of 6 books including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control and Ukraine: Making Sense out of a Senseless War. In 2010 she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the 2012 Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial. She is a former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization.

Patty and Brian discuss ways to make your holiday traditions more sustainable.

An interview with Dr. Jason Brennan of Georgetown University on his book "Why It's OK to Want to be Rich."

This week we chat with our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller, from Carmichael’s Bookstore. Each November we let her do the heavy lifting and share books that have come out and might be good choices for your holiday shopping.

If you would like to check out Carmichael’s Bookstore Holiday Book Gift Guide, you can find it online at https://www.carmichaelsbookstore.com/

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Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

2- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

3- Foster by Claire Keegan

4- So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan

5- Let us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

6- Fraud by Zadie Smith

7- Armor of Light by Ken Follett

8- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

9- Julia by Sandra Newman

10- 1984 by George Orwell

11- Reformatory by Tananarive Due

12- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

13- A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

14- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

15- West Heart Kill by Dann Mcdorman

16- The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

17- The Appeal by Janice Hallett

18- The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett

19- Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee

20- They Flew by Carlos Eire

21- Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire

22- Wild Girls by Tiya Miles

23- The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl

24- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

25- Watership Down (graphic novel) by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin

26- Watership Down by Richard Adams

27- Energy Follows Thought by Willie Nelson

28- World Within a Song by Jeff Tweedy

29- Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

30- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

31- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

32- Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

33- Legend & Lattes by Travis Baldree

34- World Central Kitchen Cookbook by Jose Andres

35- Every Cook, Every Kitchen by Feed Louisville

36- Oldest Louisville by Kevin Gibson

37- Always Moving Forward by David Jones and Bob Hill

38- Back Page by Byron Crawford

39- Fathers by Richard Taylor

40- From the Heads of the Hollers by Shelby Lee Adams

41- Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkinson

42- Lewis Sinclair and the Gentlemen Cowboys by DMS Fick

43- Rabbit Heart by Kristine S. Ervin

44- My Dark Places by James Ellroy

45- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

46- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

47- The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

48- The Man who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Rescued his Career and Revived our Holiday Spirits by Les Standiford

49- Mr. Dickens and his Carol by Samantha Silva

5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Casey @Caseys_reads

12 Months To Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Movie and Series Mentioned:

- CODA (2021) - Apple +

- Bodies (2023) - Netflix

Pat Murrell, past President of the Louisville League of Women Voters, moderates a panel of experts discussing issues that affect Kentucky's ability to offer young pre-K children quality universal early childhood education. Panelists are: Cori Gadansky, Executive Dir., 4-C for Kids; Brenda Brunner, Pres. Child Care Advocates of KY; and Dr. Jill Jacobi-Vessels, Exec. Dir. Early Learning Campus, Univ. of Louisville.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, pulls up a chair at the potluck table with two friends from the Louisville TimeBank, Linda Erzinger & Thomas Edison. Linda is the current Chair of the TimeBank, and Thomas joined just a couple years ago. With over 600 members and over 28,000 hours exchanged, the Louisville TimeBank seeks to create a network of individuals and organizations that support and empower each other, which builds a social safety net that moves us towards being a more interdependent and resilient community. It is a place where everyone’s work is of equal value and we can all support each other in community. Learn more and get involved at http://LouisvilleTimeBank.org

The Louisville TimeBank will be hosting its annual HOLIDAY PARTY and potluck this Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at KFTC (Kentuckians for the Commonwealth), 735 Lampton St. in Smoketown. In addition to great food and community, expect some fun games and music. If you'd like to take part in the White Elephant gift exchange then bring a wrapped (old or new) gift valued at $20 or less. Bring extra food if possible to share with those who don't have as much. Also bring friends so they can learn about the timebank. Please enter through the back fence area. Bring a dish to share, a reusable plate and utensils if you have them (we are trying to reduce waste). Anyone attending the pot luck will get 1 timedollar for a dish, 1 to set up and 1 to clean up. So the potential to earn 3 timedollars for having a fun connected evening. There will also be a Give-Away table, so bring anything you want to offer up to others. In order to foster inclusion the Timebank is now FREE to all members, with no background checks.

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