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We always enjoy chatting with people we find on Instagram who are doing bookish things, and Kristine Eckart is one of those folks. She is the creator of Gilmore Book Club, which offers all kinds of book blogs, discussions, videos, and lists associated with the show Gilmore Girls. As if that wouldn’t keep her busy enough, she also hosts a book club for people with chronic health conditions (and we’re including the link to it in our show notes) and is working on creating book-related content for other beloved shows, such as Gossip Girl and The Office.

You can find Kristine on Insta and Youtube at @gilmorebookclub and at her website www.gilmorebookclub.com. Her Chronic Illness Bookclub can be found at https://www.thechroniconcommunity.com/share/_diUtoUahFCq9gdJ?utm_source=manual

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Blacktop Wasterland by S.A. Cosby

2- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3- Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons From Russian Literature by Viv Groskop

4- Cujo by Stephen King

5- Tortall series by Tamora Pierce

6- Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

7- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

8- Moby Dick by Herman Melville

9- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

10- The Vampyre by John Polidori

11- Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw

12- Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakeable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness by Rick Hanson

13- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

14- The Paris Wife by Paula McClain

15- The President’s Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood

16- The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

17- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

18- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

19- The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover

1- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness recommended by Kim Layman @the_read_rat

Shows mentioned—

1- Gilmore Girls (Netflix, 2000)

2- Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Netflix, 2016)

3- Gossip Girl - (HBO Max 2007 - 2012)

4- The Office (2005-2013)

5- White Lotus - (HBO Max 2021 - present)

6- The Good Witch - (Netflix 2015-2021)

7- Anne with an "E" - (Netflix 2017 - 2019)

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, brings you along for an Urban Agriculture and New American Farmers tour of Louisville! On Friday, September 8th, a group of about 50 people boarded buses for one of two tours organized to kick off the inaugural People’s Food Summit! Listen in as we visit two projects of Common Earth Gardens (Catholic Charities of Louisville): The Common Table in Parkland and The Incubator Farm our on Millers Lane. Learn more at https://cclou.org/common-earth-gardens/

“Weaving the Food Web: The People’s Summit on Food Systems and Urban Agriculture” was organized September 8-9, 2023 by the Food in Neighborhoods community coalition and the Cooperative Extension Program of Kentucky State University.

The People’s Summit began with tours in the city to raise awareness about local food apartheid and grassroots efforts to increase healthy food access as well as spotlight the work of urban growers. On Saturday, the Summit featured workshop-style events involving popular education and in-depth political strategy discussions. These events addressed topics such as: food apartheid and environmental racism; youth leadership training; how to grow your own food; cooperative economics and Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs); urban and rural land access; New American success stories; and local food policy advocacy.

Weaving the Food Web is a transformative act of healing, solidarity, and collective action toward realizing food justice, human rights and dignified livelihoods for all. Exciting food justice initiatives were featured and the input of participants - through dialogue, art and celebration - were gathered during the day. Learn more at http://foodinneighborhoods.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

A discussion with activists Edward Burns and John Hartmann on Dr. Kate Raworth's book titled Doughnut Economics which looks at efforts and ideas geared toward transforming how our local, national, and international economies can work.

Another example of gender bias in the sciences. Mary Williams describes the career of Dr. Cecilia Payne, the first person to describe the composition of stars back in the 1920s. Payne's controversial results were criticized at first, so her career in astrophysics stalled. Eventually however, her conclusions were found to be correct, and her discovery seen as groundbreaking. She finally received the recognition she deserved in the 1940s and 1950s. Next, Amanda Fuller interviews Morghan McCool (University of Louisville) about McCool's research on the diversity of mosses that grow around the entrances to caves. Finally, J Scott Miller describes what we can see in the night sky during the month of September.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly radio 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

Community Control Now | The New Confederacy, Part 2 | Michael Tee | 9-7-23 by Forward Radio

A discussion on the economic power and importance of non-profits and philanthropy on the local economy by using a recent report on the economic impact of the University of Louisville as an example.

Community Control Now | The New Confederacy, Part 2 | 9-7-23 by FORward Radio

Ruth Newman, along with Co-Hosts Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson, discuss candidates running in the 2023 KY State Election: (1) Agricultural Commissioner - Jonathan Shell (Rep) & Sierra Enlow (Dem); (2) Attorney General - Russell Coleman (Rep) & Pamela Stevenson (Dem); and (3) Governor - Daniel Cameron (Rep) and Andy Beshear (Dem).

You can find Willie Carver on Instagram @williecarverjr or on his website at www.williecarver.com.

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Sometimes when people have experienced a loss or some kind of traumatic event, they are encouraged to write about it, which gives them an outlet for their feelings and a way to help them process the experience. Our guest this week, Willie Carver Jr. was the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year but he experienced loss and trauma when both he and his students were targeted because he is gay. He began putting his thoughts and feelings into poetic lines and stanzas.

The book of poems that resulted, Gay Poems for Red States published by University Press of Kentucky, helped him look back at prejudices he had experienced as a child living in rural Kentucky, as a gay man, and as a teacher offering a place of security for his students. The poetry served as an impetus for him to engage more as an activist, even testifying before the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights concerning the need for rights for LGBTQ students and educators. Book Riot has named Gay Poems for Red States one of the best of the year.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Gay Poems for Red States by Willie Carver Jr

2- The Awakening by Kate Chopin

3- Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer (audiobook)

4- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll narrated by Sally Field (audiobook)

5- The Eyre Affair series by Jasper Fforde (audiobook)

6- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

7- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

8- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

9- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

10- Theoretical Tiger Society by Brian Fuchs

11- With a Hammer for My Heart by George Ella Lyon

12- Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live by Dan Ahdoot

Five Star Recommendation by Fellow Book Lover Michael DeConzo, author of Welcome to the Arcade and Two Nickels

1- Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier

Podcast mentioned

1- Green Eggs and Dan

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, welcomes to the studio a citizens’ panel for a conversation about the concept of Doughnut Economics! In 2017, renegade economist, Kate Raworth, authored the influential book “Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist.” Imagine an economy that actually worked for everyone and did not lead to planetary collapse. Imagine an economy in which GDP growth is not the primary objective. What if economists used more meaningful metrics to gauge the success of an economy. What if we placed thriving rather than growth at the heart of our economy.

To discuss these issues and dive deep into the concept of Doughnut Economics, this week we sit down with John Hartmann, Edward Burns, Terrell Holder (from Forward Radio’s proud community partner, the Greater Louisville Sierra Club), and Forward Radio’s newest host, UofL Economist, Tom Lambert (host of Economic Impact - learn more at https://www.forwardradio.org/economicimpact).

Learn more about the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) at http://doughnuteconomics.org

Get connected with Kate Raworth and her broader body of work as a renegade economist at http://kateraworth.com

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