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On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, talks cooperatives with Charley Miller, originator and steward of Maybe It’s Fate, a member-owned community center in Butchertown, located at 1425 Story Avenue. The 1st floor is a curated art gallery open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm, while the 2nd and 3rd floors are for members, with an open space, meeting room, co-working...

Host K.A. Owens shares a message for American allies overseas, discusses a future for fired Federal employees, discusses Europe and the Ukraine and congratulates retiring Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Polio. Recorded Friday February 28, 2025, 3PM.

On this week's show, we bring you Lessons from the Foothills: Berea College and Its Unique Role in America, an address by author Gretchen Dykstra given to the Filson Historical Society in Old Louisville on January 28, 2025. In 1859, a mob of sixty-five prominent armed men rode into Berea, Kentucky, and forced the closure of its integrated one-room schoolhouse. Founded by Kentucky-born abolitionist...

To end Black Futures Month on a high note, we're sharing with you today a presentation by Dr. Thomas Wayne Edison from the University of Louisville's Spanish Department about his research as a Fulbright Scholar into the rich history and culture of black Uruguayans. Titled "BLatinX: Uruguay" this Fast Class took a deep dive into Uruguay, a South American nation with a rich cultural heritage that is...

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, is delighted to be in conversation with retired (recovering) engineer and environmental advocate, Barry Zalph. It may come as a surprise that we are in the midst of the United Nations Decade of Ecological Restoration. Barry wonders what might happen if we took that global mandate seriously and began to envision pathways for restoring degra...

Dr. Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT, won a 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on economic and political inequities across the globe. Why are some nations (that were former colonies) doing quite well, while others are struggling with poverty and political repression? Dr. Johnson discusses colonization in the context of resource exploitation, tropical diseases, immigration by European...

Our guest today is George Beebee, the director of the Grand Strategy Program at the Quiency Institute for Responsible Statecraft as well Monica Taft, Michael Kimmage, and Thomas Graham. Today’s Solutions to Violence program features a panel discussion focused on ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Patty and Brian discuss some contemporary uses and relevant concerns about generative artificial intelligence in our lives.

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, in the wake of Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9th, your host, Justin Mog, tackles the issue of sports gambling addiction with Dr. Christopher Tuell, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and clinical director of addiction services at UC Health's Lindner Center of HOPE (https://lindnercenterofhop...

Lyndon Pryor began his career as a Student Development Specialist at Texas A&M University, where he worked to assist students in their personal growth and build their professional competencies and leadership skills. Mr. Pryor provided critical leadership, supporting students by creating programs that effectively merge academic and practical experiences. Lyndon Pryor was selected as permanent Presi...

On this week's show, we bring you final highlights from the 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. Tune in to learn more about energy and environmental issues facing our Commonwealth with two expert speakers. First we'll hear from Liz Natter, former General Counsel for Kentucky...

On this week's show, we bring you more highlights from the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. This week's focus is on outdoor recreation and wildlife and you'll hear from: - David Wicks from the Kentucky-Ohio Regional Recreation Authority - Gerry James, Board President of KCC and...

A talk on the classical economic concept of the labor theory of value and what it means for AI. The morality of AI regarding labor and human creation is also discussed.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by three researchers who used artificial intelligence to predict the three-dimensional shapes of proteins based on their amino acid sequences. In this episode, we hear from one of them, Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind. His AI program, AlphaFold, curates the 3D-structures of more than 200 million naturally-occurring proteins (https:...

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, we bring you to he heart of the woods to join the struggle to protect southern Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest from the extractive economy. Your host, Justin Mog, welcomes back to the program Kari Nolan, an herbalist, educator, and therapist and spokesperson for Save The Hoosier National Forest, and Heartwood (https://heartwood.org); and we also have Heartwood...

K.A. Owens interviews Teresa Lee- Site Supervisor/Volunteer Coordinator of The Landing, Farnsley Moremen, a historic antebellum home on the Ohio River in Louisville, KY. She describes the mission vision and purpose, and shares upcoming events. She describes the focus on enslaved people who worked the land that is part of the programming. Recorded Saturday February 8, 2025

Riviera Sun is the author of several social protest novels, The Dandelion Insurrection, Steam Drills, Treadmills, Shooting Stars, and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She has also authored nine theatrical plays and a book of poetry. In 2020, her novel The Lost Heir was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Rivera co-hosts Occupy Radio with David Sierra Lupe, and co-founded the nationwide...

Patty is interviewed by Brian Buford for The UofL Employee Success Podcast

On this week's show, we bring you the keynote address from the 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. This year's featured guest was Alice Driver, author of “Life and Death of the American Worker.” Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, the book is an explosive...

The Louisville League of Women Voters, in collaboration with the Louisville Urban League and the NAACP, hosted an evening with members of the Jefferson County Legislative delegation (including Joshua Watkins, House District 42; Cassie Armstrong, Senate District 19; Julie Raque-Adams, Senate District 36, Nima Kulkarni, House District 40; Karen Berg, Senate District 26; David Yates, Senate District...

We’re talking holistic health and healing on this week’s Sustainability Now! Your host, Justin Mog, is excited to reconnect with a dear old friend, Emily Kicklighter, who will share her story of radical remission - healing from stage 4 breast cancer without chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery! Her life-changing experience of healing led Emily to become a Health Coach, Speaker, and Writer, founding...

Get caught up with what's before the Kentucky Legislature this session with respect to the environment! On this week's show, we bring you highlights from the first hour of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (KCC) 2025 Legislative Summit and Annual Meeting that was held at Kentucky State University in Frankfort on January 26th. You'll hear from: - KCC Director, Lane Boldman, and Board President, G...

An interview with Dr. Wayne Meaux of Simmons College of Kentucky who is the Chair of the Entrepreneurship program there. We talk about the past, present, and future of Louisville's only HBCU and how it is helping educate future leaders and helping with community development throughout Louisville and especially in Western Louisville. Here is the link for Simmons College: https://simmonscollegeky.ed...

A conversation with Dr. John Komlos, Professor Emeritus of the University of Munich, who has edited and contributed to the book, Neoliberal Economic Policy and The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in which I have written a chapter. Dr. Komlos discusses how past economic policies have given rise to working class discontent and the rise of far-right ideas and policies. This book has a message and warning...

Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare members, Kay Tillow, Charlie Casper, and Paul Hoppe join their guest, union organizer, Tamara Bell in a discussion about unionized Starbucks workers trying to gain a contract from their employer which would include fair wages and other benefits including affordable and accessible health care.