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Patty and Brian discuss ways of dealing with tough topics and tough personalities at Thanksgiving or at any event.

A discussion with Michael Roberts on his and Guglielmo Carchedi's latest book, Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value.

This might be described as a post-2023 election venting session with host Ruth Newman and her occasional co-hosts Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson. In it, they call out disturbing national and global trends that they see as empowering and aligning Christian and Muslim fundamentalists with powerful corporate interests which, if left unchecked, will inevitably lead to authoritarianism and fascism. Victoria ticks off 14 characteristics of fascism, developed by political scientist and author Dr. Lawrence Britt, that she fears have taken hold in this country, especially within today's Republican Party.

This week is one of the funniest shows we’ve done simply because our guests are delightful. In fact this show may be just a tad longer than normal because we almost couldn’t bear to cut any of our conversation out. They are the author/illustrator and husband/wife team of Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr whose Cookie Chronicles books are a big hit among the 8-12 year old crowd, although, honestly, their stuff is good no matter how old you are.

They recently completed a year long cross-country trip called the Busload of Books Tour in a remodeled school bus with their four kids and grumpy dog to do school visits to Title I schools in the continental United States. They teamed up with a nonprofit to fund the trip and provide books for children. We talk with Matthew and Robbi about their cross-country trip, what “thing” they collected along the way, and Robbi’s favorite scent that you can’t buy.

Books Mentioned In this Episode:

1- Ben Yokohama and the Cookie of Doom (Cookie Chronicles series) by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

2- The Real McCoys by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

3- Babies Ruin Everything by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

4- Sunrise Summer by Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr

5- Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan

6- Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller

7- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russian Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders

8- Dirty Birds by Morgan Murray

9- Charm City Rocks by Matthew Norman

5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover-

Liltle Thieves by Margaret Owen recommended by Amber @amber.always.reading

Podcasts mentioned--

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast

Websites mentioned--

Fireball.imo.net

You can find our guests at their website https://robbiandmatthew.com/

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Dr. Sarah Moyer, chief medical officer for Humana's Medicaid Program discusses providing healthcare services to Kentucky's medicaid eligible population with doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, is excited to share with you some contemporary thoughts from his undergraduate mentor, Dr. David Orr, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies & Politics at Oberlin College. On September 19th, David presented an alumni talk on “Democracy (4.0) In a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation,” in which he discussed the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future.

David Orr served as editor for a newly released book entitled “Democracy in a Hotter Time,” which calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos, and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. The collection of essays proposes a new political order that will not only help humanity survive, but also enable us to thrive in the transition to a post-fossil fuel world. David is convinced that:

• Democracy will not likely survive global warming;

• We cannot deal with a hotter climate without fixing our democracy;

• Fixing democracy, however, requires fundamental changes in law, policy, and economy; and

• Reforms require educating a citizenry that understands the basic principles of Earth systems science and the fundamental civic principles of democracy and why they are related.

David Orr is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University where his current work is on the repair and strengthening of American democracy. David was a member of the Oberlin faculty from 1990-2017, and Counselor to the President, Oberlin College 2007-2017. He is the author of eight books, a columnist, and writer of articles, reviews, book chapters, and professional publications. He has served as a board member or adviser to eight foundations and on the Boards of many organizations, including the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and the Bioneers.

Currently, he is a Trustee of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado and Children and Nature Network. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees and numerous other awards and recognition. He headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin, which was named by an American Institute of Architects panel in 2010 as “the most important green building of the past thirty years.” He also was instrumental in the design and funding for the Platinum-rated Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center hotel & conference center in Oberlin.

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

SONI CASTLEBERRY and her husband, Brad, moved to Louisville just after they married over 50 years ago. The Fellowship of Reconciliation was one of the first groups in which they were involved while raising their daughters, Kendra and Kara.

Soni worked at The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times as a copy clerk, re-writer, and reporter in the court system in the 1970s. She resigned so she could advocate for justice issues of concern to her.

Using her educational background in journalism and public relations, Soni worked in non-profit organizations related to housing, homelessness, older adults, domestic violence, elder abuse and neglect, mental illness, children’s services, and fair trade. Soni spent her last five years prior to her 2020 retirement starting and working in Writing for You, primarily a grant-writing business she initiated with two friends.

Soni has been an active member of Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church since 1988 and served in a variety of capacities.

Since its origins in a youth Sunday school class in 2018, she has been involved in the Gun Violence Prevention Team which has grown to include people from various faith and community groups. Guns to Gardens Louisville is a part of that effort and Soni serves as one of its spokespersons.

CRAIG KAVIAR

Sculptor and Blacksmith, Craig Kaviar has been producing forged iron and bronze sculpture, architectural elements and furniture in Louisville, KY since 1985. Kaviar is an alumnus of Tufts University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and has studied at the Boston Museum School. Kaviar has been passionately making metalwork for over 30 years in the inferno of Kaviar Forge.

Craig not only works with glowing hot températures to shape unyielding materials, he also shares this mystical experience by teaching others. The primary forge where Craig heats metal to 3,000 degrees has been converted to run on waste vegetable oil. Neighborhood restaurants kindly provide him with fuel to help reduce the forge’s carbon footprint while allowing him to produce high quality work.

His public artworks include a bronze sculpture in front of the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts; five-foot-high bronze door handles at the entrance of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft; gates and grills at First Unitarian Church and Christ Church Cathedral; the Holocaust memorial at Temple Congregation Adath Israel Brith Sholom and pool gates at the Jewish Community Center; all in Louisville.

He is also represented in many private collections throughout the United States.

On this week's show, we bring you a vital community conversation about the 2023 Farm Bill that was recorded live on October 30th by Madison, Wisconsin's community radio station, WORT, during their weekday call-in program, "A Public Affair" hosted by Douglas Haynes. Learn more and find the original program at https://www.wortfm.org/whats-at-stake-2023-farm-bill/

Locally, the Food In Neighborhoods Community Coalition has produced a 2023 Eater’s Guide to the Farm Bill that is tailored to people in Kentucky at https://foodinneighborhoods.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2023-eaters-guide-to-the-farm-bill-kentucky.pdf

Every five years, law makers in Congress pass the “farm bill,” which is a set of legislation that creates nation-wide standards for agriculture and food systems. The current bill was passed in 2018 and will expire at the end of the year. Wendy Johnson and Lisa Held join host Douglas to talk about what is in the 2023 legislation, how the farm bill impacts farmers and the rest of us, and what’s at risk if congress doesn’t pass the bill.

Lisa is Civil Eats’ senior staff reporter and has been covering the Farm Bill at length (https://civileats.com/author/lheld/). We speak to her specifically about her piece, “This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. Here Are 10 Proposals at the Center of the Fight.” Wendy is a farmer based in Iowa. She joins us from her farm to talk about her recent op-ed for Civil Eats titled, “Farmers Want Climate Resilience, but GOP Lawmakers Want to Redirect Billions in Conservation Funds.”

Wendy Johnson is owner and operator of Jóia Food & Fiber Farm (https://www.joiafoodfarm.com/), a diverse perennial-based farm in northern Iowa growing perennial grains, grazing grassfed sheep and cows and humanely raising poultry and pigs. She started Counting Sheep Sleeping Company to add value to the fiber her 100 percent grass-fed sheep produce. Wendy also co-manages her family’s conventional corn and soybean farm. She often speaks and writes about the need for diverse enterprises and people on the land, the intersections of climate change and agriculture, food system inequality, ag policy, and the observations on the lands she cares for. Wendy is currently Climate Land Leaders co-policy lead and spokesperson and provides leadership on several boards and committees furthering the growth of a more diverse and resilient Iowa and Midwest.

Lisa Held is Civil Eats’ senior staff reporter. Since 2015, she has reported on agriculture and the food system with an eye toward sustainability, equality, and health, and her stories have appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Mother Jones. In the past, she covered health and wellness and was an editor at Well+Good. She is based in Baltimore and has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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

K.A. Owens interviews Shay Hellinger - Artist, about the upcoming Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase at the Mellwood Art Center on Saturday November 18 (10-5), 2023 and Sunday November 19 (11-4), 2023.

Recorded Wednesday November 8, 2023, 3PM.

This week we have a book recommendation episode. We hunker down for November and embrace fall. We call this our Free For F(all) episode because we each give you a recommendation in 5 November themed categories: Autumn, Native American Heritage Month, Diwali, Day of the Dead/ All Soul's Day, and No-Shave November.

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Books mentioned in this episode:

1- Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

2- We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

3- Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family by Catherine Newman

4- Love Deleted by Paul Indigo

5- An Event in Autumn by Henning Markell

6-Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

7-Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris

8- Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

9- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

10- A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian

11- The Orphan of Cemetery Hill by Hester Fox

12- The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

13- Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean

14- These Honored Dead (A Lincoln and Speed mystery) by Jonathan F. Putnam

15- Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky

16- Plight of the Living Dead: What Real Life Zombies Reveal About Our World and Ourselves by Matt Simon

A 5 star book recommendation by a fellow book Lover -

The Change by Kirsten Miller. recommended by Anne Persico @annother_bookstagram

Podcasts mentioned--

1- Ologies with Alie Ward

https://www.alieward.com/ologies/neuroparasitology

Movies mentioned--

1- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

2- Fargo (1996) - movie

3- Fargo - (2014 - present, FX) - TV series

Bookish news--

She challenges one book a week:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/28/virginia-frequent-school-book-challenger-spotsylvania/

1 parent is responsible for a book ban in North Carolina-

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198373620/1-parent-is-responsible-for-a-book-ban-in-north-carolina#:~:text=One%20school%20board%20in%20North,parent%20was%20behind%20the%20move.

Scholastic Book Fair Dilemna

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/scholastic-book-fair-race-gender.html

Erin Flanagan podcast episode episode:

https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s-7-ep-143-mind-games-with-guest-erin-flanagan-8-17-22/

Robert Sapolsky doesn't believe in free will

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/science/free-will-sapolsky.html