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On this week's program, we bring you a highlight from the 7th annual Environmental Justice Conference that was hosted by the West Jefferson County Community Task and the Louisville and Kentucky Chapters of the NAACP on Saturday, September 30th, 7:30am - 6:00pm, at UofL's University Club. The conference returned as an in-person event this year with the theme of "Solutions and Outcomes," featuring local and national speakers on topics of critical environmental importance. At this conference, we delved into pressing environmental issues, exchanged innovative ideas, and fostered meaningful connections. Together, we explored ways to address environmental challenges and promote justice for all communities.

The conference opened with an Environmental Health Panel on the difficulties, possibilities or impossibilities of diagnosing and treating health issues as the result of community exposures and what can be done. Moderator: Dr. Wayne Tuckson, MD. Ted Smith, PhD, UofL's Envirome Institute; Dr. Natalie DuPre, UofL School of Public Health and Information Sciences; Dr. Rachael Keith, PhD, APRN, ANP-C; Dr. Swannie Jett, CEO of Park DuValle Community Health Center.

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 Kentucky Auditor candidate Kim Reeder. Candidate Reeder explains the purpose of the Auditor office and why she is running for the position.

Recorded Thursday October 5, 2023, 1PM.

Patty and Brian celebrate six years of Critical Thinking for Everyone!

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at perksofbeingabooklover.com. You can email us throught the contact button on the website.

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It is officially Halloween season so we’re talking all about witches this week. We’ll each share 5 bewitching books, 10 total, that you should put on your TBRs.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Leslie “F*cking” Jones by Leslie Jones

2- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

3- My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Goslar

4- Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Ari Folman

6- Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carriere

7- Circe by Madeline Miller

8- Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

9- Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher

10- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

11- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

12- Cackle by Rachel Harrison

13- Akata Witch–Nnedi Okorafor

14- Akata Warrrior by Nnedi Okorafor

15- Hester by Laura Lico Albanese

16- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

17- The Last Witch by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher series)

18- Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher series)

19- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

20- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

23- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown

24- Macbeth by William Shakespeare

25- Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott

26- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

27- My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood (Amaaon Original Story)

28- Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip

29- Loot by Tania James

30- Night watch by Jayne Anne Phillips

*5 Star Read Recommended by Book Lover Meghan Geary @biblioactivist203

Celine by Peter Heller

Movies and or TV series mentioned—

1- Ghostbusters (2016)

2- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

3- The Witcher (2019 - present, Netflix))

4- Discovery of Witches - (2018-2022 AMC)

Shows Mentioned—

Wicked (Broadway)

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a hike with Terrell Holder, Chair of the Greater Louisville Sierra Club, a proud community partner of Forward Radio. Catch up on what the Club has been working on lately, including:

• The Floyds Fork Development Overlay District revisions and development threats. Learn more at https://louisvilleky.gov/government/planning-design/floyds-fork-dro

• Daniel Boone National Forest Logging Plans

• Habitat for Humanity Solar project

• Solar for All w/ Metro Sustainability

• Louisville Earth Walk - Saturday, October 28th, 9am, Shawnee Park http://louisvilleearthwalk.org

• GLSC October Program: Michael Patton, Avian Biologist, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, on Tuesday, October 17th, 7 p.m. at United Crescent Hill Ministries building, 150 State Street, or online.

Learn more and get involved at https://www.sierraclub.org/kentucky/greater-louisville-group https://www.sierraclub.org/kentucky/political

Support the work of Kentucky Heartwood: https://www.kyheartwood.org/

The Save Bernheim Now collaborative is at https://savebernheimnow.org/

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

Louisvillians will be able to watch a partial solar eclipse on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Hear some details about the event, and tips on how to view the eclipse safely. Then, hear how the persecution of J Robert Oppenheimer (the 'father of the atomic bomb') in 1953 might have stifled political activism by scientists for 60 years. But did it?

Here is the link to the entire 'This is Science' podcast (produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists'): https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/destroyer-worlds

‘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

On this week's program, we bring you a vital community conversation on "Firearms in America: The most important test of our democracy," that was held at the Filson Historical Society (1310 S 3rd St) on September 12, 2023, when the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at UofL presented author Ryan Busse. No American freedom is more powerful or symbolic than our right to own firearms because no other freedom has the potential to so immediately impact the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of our fellow citizens. Hence, this immensely powerful freedom requires an equally immense responsibility, and how effective we are at balancing the two may well determine whether our democracy can survive.

This presentation by Ryan Busse, a former firearms industry executive and author of Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America, is an examination of the realities of guns in America by someone who is simultaneously a proud gun owner and very concerned with the ramifications of our current national imbalance. This Theodore Sedgwick Distinguished Lecture Series event was free and open to all.

Watch the presentation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXvoPGXIVbI

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 Buddy Wheatley, a candidate for Secretary of State in Kentucky. Wheatley is a former KY legislator, a former Fire Chief, and currently a labor lawyer.

Recorded Thursday, September 28, 2023, 2PM.

Born in Havre de Grace, Maryland at the mouth of the Susquehanna River, Mariel Gardner is from Louisville, Kentucky, another river city.

A graduate of the J. Graham Brown School and the University of Louisville, Mariel is from the Algonquin Neighborhood of Louisville’s West End. A haphazard farmer, knitter, and photographer, Gardner is a member of the West Louisville Women’s Collaborative where she creates and sustains peaceful, artistic spaces.

She does this in the West End of Louisville, alongside a group of multi-racial, multi-generational women from all parts of the city. She’s traveled Kentucky collecting stories of Black land dispossession and is especially interested in the study of her ancestral home of Christian County, Kentucky.

An interview and discussion with Dr. Michael Cunningham of the University of Louisville's Communications Department and President of the U of L AAUP (American Association of University Professors) Chapter on what is driving the rising costs of higher education in the US today. Of special interest is the book "The Fall of the Faculty" (2011) by Benjamin Ginsberg. Just why is college so expensive?