An interview with Debra Hamelback of the Ky Veterinarian Medical Association on Kentucky's vet shortage and its implications. Also, a discussion on the importance of different equine industries to Kentucky.

Medea Benjamin is the Co-Founder of CODEPINK, Women for Peace. Medea Benjamin is a long-time political activist and author of six books, her latest being War in Ukraine: Making Sense out of a Senseless Conflict. On October 31st, 2023, the nationally known Medea Benjamin spoke in Louisville about the war between Russia and Ukraine as well as the conflict between Palestine and Israel. Medea Benjam called for an end to the conflict in both of these wars and a return to peace.

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 Boo kLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. We interviewed Alix E. Harrow in the before times (2019) when her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, was published. We drove to Berea, Kentucky and recorded in Berea College’s library, where Harrow graduated from and where she lived for a time. In the years since her debut, Harrow has come out with several new and cool entries into the speculative fiction genre. Her most recent book, Starling House, is a NYT, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller. It is the October pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club. Books mentioned-- 1- Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 2- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow 3- The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe 4- Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 5- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 6- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher 7- Foundation by Isaac Asimov 8- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 9- The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnomes by Margaret St. Clair (short story) 10- Gideon the 9th by Tamsyn Muir 11- The City We Became by N. K. Jemesin 12- The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry 13- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Booklover Mackenxie @kenzathome- The Ever King by LJ Andrews Shows mentioned-- 1- The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix, 2024) 2- Foundation (Apple TV, 2021 - present)

In this edition (just prior to the Nov. 2023 election), Bonny Jean Feldkamp, Opinion Editor at the Courier-Journal, asked pre-selected questions of candidates for Family Court Judge, 5th Division. Candidates are: Emily Craddock, Mason Trenaman Sr., Judge Laura P. Russell (appointed by Gov. Beshear to fill that vacated seat), Jessica Stone, Allison Spencer Russell and Claudette W. Patton. This event took place at Seneca High School on Oct. 25, 2023.

Observations on the 2023 Ky Governor's race, local Ford strike, and shrinking cell phone usage in downtown Louisville.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, grabs his gavel for a conversation about Earthjustice, with Sharmeen Morrison, a Senior Associate Attorney with Earthjustice’s Biodiversity Defense Program, and Thomas Cmar, a senior attorney for Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program. Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. They wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. Learn more at https://earthjustice.org The Biodiversity Defense Program engages in national litigation to confront the major drivers of biodiversity loss, including habitat destruction and over-exploitation of wildlife. Sharmeen Morrison has worked on matters to protect Florida manatees, Mexican gray wolves, and golden-cheeked warblers of Texas Hill Country, among other species. Prior to joining Biodiversity Defense, she was a member of Earthjustice’s Northeast Regional Office, where she worked to protect public health from toxic chemicals in consumer products and contaminants in drinking water and participated in regional advocacy to promote a shift from fossil fuels to clean energy sources. Sharmeen received her J.D. from NYU School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern public-interest scholar and served as Diversity and Membership Editor on the NYU Law Review. She received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Thomas Cmar is a senior attorney for the Clean Energy Program, and is based in Cincinnati. Thomas first joined Earthjustice in 2012 after working for six years as an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he specialized in energy and water issues. Thomas was deputy managing attorney of the Earthjustice Coal Program from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, Thomas moved back home to Ohio and spent a year working in private practice before rejoining Earthjustice in 2022. Thomas has also worked as an adjunct lecturer in the Environmental Policy & Culture Program at Northwestern Univ., as an attorney with the International Labor Rights Fund in D.C., and as a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is a 2004 graduate of Harvard Law School and has a B.A. in Politics & Philosophy from the Univ. of Pittsburgh. Learn more: - Earthjustice's work at the PSC and on LG&E’s proposals: https://www.lpm.org/news/2023-08-31/fossil-fuels-failed-kentucky-utility-customers-during-winter-blackouts - Learn more about subsidies to cryptocurrency mining operations: https://earthjustice.org/feature/cryptocurrency-mining-kentucky - In August, the Commission rejected a proposed contract for a massive new facility in eastern KY: https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/kentucky-rejects-controversial-subsidies-for-cryptomining-company - But then, in Sept., this happened: https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/kentucky-utility-regulators-move-to-protect-kentucky-power-customers-from-footing-the-bill-for-a-cryptomining-company - How the biodiversity crisis impacts all of us: https://earthjustice.org/experts/timothy-preso/how-the-biodiversity-crisis-impacts-all-of-us - Great Salt Lake case: https://earthjustice.org/press/2023/lawsuit-targets-state-of-utah-for-failing-to-protect-the-great-salt-lake - Golden-cheeked warbler fight: https://earthjustice.org/article/meet-the-texas-bird-that-is-a-bulwark-for-biodiversity 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 Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. http://forwardradio.org The music in this podcast is courtesy of Appalatin and is used by permission. http://appalatin.com

This week we bring you a vital community conversation about affordable and sustainable housing held on October 17th during the 2023 Louisville Sustainability Summit on Livable Louisville: Addressing local climate risks through planning and design. Across the country Americans are facing the effects of a changing climate with increased extreme weather events like hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves causing poor air quality, dangerous forest fires, and flooding. Recent studies predict Kentucky’s risk of extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and inland floods will increase significantly. At the 2023 Louisville Sustainability Council Summit, we explored the risks and stressors our region is facing and how our buildings and cities can adapt to this new normal and address the problems. Learn more at http://louisvillesustainabilitycouncil.org/summit Today we'll listen back to the panel discussion on Housing for a Changed Climate. The impact of climate change affects all Louisvillians. Panelists discussed the need for and benefits of healthy, sustainable, and affordable housing. You'll learn about local and federal financial incentives, design strategies, and development approaches necessary to deliver healthy housing equitably while adding value to our city. The speakers include: Moderator, Cassia Herron is a leader in Kentucky’s local food movement and as a community organizer, urban planner, writer, community development consultant and social justice warrior has extensive experience working to improve urban and rural communities in Kentucky. Through the lens of racial justice, equity and community wealth creation, Herron spends her time holding accountable public sector officials, challenging philanthropic and private investors and inspiring her fellow citizens to envision and create a new economy in Kentucky based on cooperation and equity. She co-founded the Louisville Association for Community Economics and has led the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth to advance the state’s democracy and transition its energy economy. She is a graduate of UofL with a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Marilyn S. Harris is the Director of the Office of Housing and Community Development at Louisville Metro. She has previously served as the Director of Develop Louisville, and the Director of the Office of Housing. Marilyn is National Development Council Certified, and a Housing Development Finance Professional. She holds a B.S. in Sociology, and a Masters of Social Administration from Bellarmine. Ben Eilerman, is the Director of Real Estate Development for Over-the-Rhine Community Housing where he leads affordable housing development projects from initial concept, through funding, construction and occupancy, furthering the mission of the organization to “develop and manage resident-centered affordable housing to build inclusive community and benefit low-income residents”. Ben also brings professional experience as a LEED certified, licensed architect, having practiced in the Cincinnati region for over 10 years. Tiffany Broyles Yost is GBBN’s Director of Sustainability and Resilience, providing strategic leadership for sustainable design across the firm’s portfolio of projects and spearheading initiatives related to resilience and well-being, including the GBBN Sustainability Action Network. Her work includes sustainable design on projects from international supertall mixed-use to existing building renovations in 20+ countries. Tiffany is focused on creating low-carbon, healthy spaces at GBBN and advancing a circular economy regionally. She practiced architecture, worked as a sustainability consultant, and developed education for the green building industry, for over 15 years in New York City before returning to the Midwest.

K.A. Owens interviews Professor Dismas Masolo. Professor Masolo explains how Africa views the United States. Recorded Friday January 26, 2018, 2PM.

You can find Katrina Monroe on IG @katrinamonroeauthor or on her website https://katrinamonroe.com/ For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod loverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. If you would like to contact us, go to our website and click the Contact button. I happened upon the audiobook Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe on Libby and was riveted by how the horror novel explored the postpartum period while also bringing in supernatural elements. It totally sucked me back into the early weeks after delivering my first child and left me with that same sense of shellshock, and I thought, “OF COURSE having a baby is a horror story.” We reached out to Katrina to see if she would be interested in chatting with us, and we’re so glad she was. We talk with her about Graveyard of Lost Children and her first novel They Drown Our Daughters and about why motherhood and the mother-daughter relationship are perfect topics to write about because they are steeped in fear and confusion, and inspire terror at times. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2- They Drown our Daughters by Katrina Monroe 3- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe 4- Goosebumps series by RL Stine 5- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan 6- Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw 7- The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw 8- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle 9- The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine 10- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 11- Under an Outlaw Moon by Dietrich Kalteis 12-Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister 13- Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 14- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 5 Star Read Recommended by Fellow Book Lover Jen @bookedupgirl - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Movies/Shows mentioned-- 1- The Woman in Black (2012) 2- The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix - 2023) 3- Midnight Mass (Netflix - 2021) 4- The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix - 2018) 5- Goosebumps TV series (1995) 6- Goosebumps (Netflix - 2023) 7- The Changeling (Apple + - 2023) 8- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 9- A Monster Calls (2016)

Mark McKinley is a longtime advocate of a Single Payer Health Care system and the producer of Single Payer Radio. Single Payer Radio is an hour-long program that also airs on WFMP radio.