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Dee Pregliasco, former President of the Louisville League of Women Voters, former District Court Judge, attorney retired from practice and currently Mediator, explores ramifications of a rush of voter suppression measures being introduced or having passed in Republican state legislatures, as well as the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) which, as of this recording, has yet to be vote...

This is a talk given by Kyle Ellison on overcrowding in Kentucky's profit-driven county jail system and how county jails interface with ICE. Mr. Ellison is a retired parole officer, trainer for the prison/jail system in Kentucky and prison historian. He spoke at the St. James Episcopal Church in Oldham County on July 22, 2025.

This week, your Sustainability Now! host, Justin Mog, sits down with Robert LeVertis Bell, a JCPS teacher who has recently announced his candidacy for the open Kentucky House District 43 race. Bell’s experience includes social justice activism, teaching in JCPS, and leadership in the Shelby Park Neighborhood Association and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). In late July, Robert LeVertis...

Hear more bizarre science stories for our 7th birthday celebration! An alien spaceship (looking like a comet) traveling towards our sun? Popping noises produced by plants, and the insects that can hear it? Macaques who like to watch the same kind of videos that humans do? Meteor showers, planets, and constellations in our night sky? A rock on the edge of our solar system that 'dances' with Neptune...

On this week's program, we bring you a community conversation about the environmental impacts of Kentucky's aluminum industry brought to you by the Kentucky Chapter of the Sierra Club (https://sierraclub.org/kentucky). Because aluminum is lightweight, durable, and highly recyclable, it’s a key ingredient in solar panels and wind turbines, more efficient cars and planes, and construction and packag...

This week, your Sustainability Now! host, Justin Mog, puts on his overalls and gets in the fields with Stephen Bartlett, director of one of Forward Radio’s proud Community Partners, Sustainable Agriculture Louisville (SAL). Tune in for an update on SAL’s work cultivating community around Native American “Three-Sisters” plots of corn, squash, and beans. In addition to SAL’s annual plot out at Barr...

Timothy Eugene Findley, Jr. is a visionary pastor, seasoned leader, and lifelong advocate for justice and community transformation. He serves as the Senior Pastor of Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center & Kingdom Fellowship South Central, and is also the CEO of ElderServe, the largest senior center dedicated solely to senior services in the state of Kentucky. In addition, he is the founder of...

On this week's show, we bring you an informed community conversation about brownfield contaminants at the site of Perry Elementary School in the West End (755 Dixie Hwy, at Broadway). This conversation with Audrey Ernstberger of the Kentucky Resources Council was hosted by the West Jefferson County Community Task Force on July 15, 2025. Perry Elementary is located on property that was owned and op...

Patty and Brian learn, reflect and engage with participants who attended the annual International Conference on Critical Thinking in July 2025.

This week, we turn the tables on your Sustainability Now! host, Justin Mog, and put him in the position of guest on a podcast hosted by Noah Curtis, Founder of Pineal Gardens (https://pinealgarden.com/). Noah recently launched a new YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@PinealLiveDifferently) and asked if Justin would be a guest on it. On June 9, 2025, the University of Louisville's Assistant...

We are celebrating our seventh year on the air with these stories of 'bizarre science'. A tree that actually benefits from being struck by lightening? A broad spectrum anti-venom treatment from a man who allowed himself to be bit by poisonous snakes 200 times? Serendipitous videos of friendship between classic predators and prey? All on this week's show! ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a week...

Today’s Solutions to Violence program features the Civil Rights Attorney Bill Allison. Bill Allison was a cooperative ACLU attorney who began his law career with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), an organization closely connected with Carl and Anne Braden. SCEF was a Southern civil rights organization, and so, from the beginning of his career, Allison was involved in civil rights an...

On July 18, 2025, the Kentucky Resources Council hosted Laura Krauser, GIS Research Coordinator at the UofL Center for Geographic Information Sciences, for an engaging, beginner-friendly look at how mapping tools are helping researchers and communities understand — and respond to — a changing planet. This session, part of KRC's ongoing Kentucky Environmental Leadership Institute (KELI) series, exp...

K.A. Owens interviews local Community Activist Tom Ridge. They discuss The Rent Relief Act, The Raise The Wage Act, Political Education and Closing The Deal. Recorded Friday July 25, 2025, 2PM.

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes you to the forest with three friends on staff at Jefferson Memorial Forest! Join us for a conversation with Naturalist, Autumn Costelle, ECHO Mobile Program Lead, Rodney Perry, and Program Manger, David Grissom! In addition to discussing what is unique and special about Jefferson Memorial Forest, the largest urban park in the U.S., you...

On this week's Truth to Power, we feature a community conversation on the status and future of Nuclear Energy Development in Kentucky that was facilitated by Lane Boldman, Executive Director of the Kentucky Conservation Committee (https://kyconservation.org/) and featured Tim Judson, Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (https://www.nirs.org/). On July 10, 2025, the K...

On this week's Access Hour, we bring you a conversation with Gareth Dennis, a United Kingdom-based engineer and author, who was hosted by the High Speed Rail Alliance (https://www.hsrail.org) on July 11, 2025 for a discussion about his new book How the Railways Will Fix the Future. In it, he looks at the history of railways (including the role they have played in extraction and exploitation) but f...

Paul Hoppe, with cohosts Drs Michael Flynn, Gene Shively and their guest Dr Brende Lott, DNP, CNM (certified nurse-midwife) discuss Midwifery plus the effects of the draconian women's health laws in the State ok Kentucky.

Dr. Cate Fosl is a University of Louisville emeritus history professor, former director of U of L’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies department, former director of the University of Louisville Anne Braden institute and author of several books including Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the Cold War South. Cate Fosl’s address focused on the Civil Righ...

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, dives into the community discussion about the future of the Nia Center at 2900 W Broadway in the West End, with two guests who truly understand the value of the Nia Center and are working to implement a collaborative plan to save it from destruction and redevelopment. Shaun Spencer is a Nia Center tenant and owner of My HUB Print Center, and...

Hear the second half of a speech given by Dr. Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences. Her 'State of the Science' talk was given to the NAS assembly on June 3, 2025. On our show last week, Dr. McNutt discussed the threats to US leadership in research and development. This week she discusses what can be done to reverse these threats. To hear her entire talk (and see the graphs...

K.A. Owens interviews Maxwell Mitchell, a well known activist, live-streamer and broadcaster. They discuss Conflict Avoidance, the types of activism Max has seen during his travels across America, the consent decree as applied to the Louisville Metro Police Department and a sentencing hearing as applied to the Breonna Taylor case. Recorded Saturday July 12, 2025, 1PM.

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you an important conversation about the siting of utility-scale solar power plants in Kentucky! Tune in to hear from one of our Commonwealth’s most well-known environmental lawyers, Tom "Fitz" FitzGerald, on “Siting Solar Facilities.” This community conversation took place online on June 13th, and it kicked off the 2025 season of the Kentucky Environmental Lea...

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a deep breath with Jenna Riemenschneider, Vice-President of Advocacy and Policy at the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (https://aafa.org/). In addition to covering the causes of asthma, its connections to air pollution, and what listeners can do to help mitigate it, we take a look at current threats to federal funding to addre...

Today’s Solutions to Violence program is the first part of a 2 part series that features two extraordinary Kentucky civil right leaders. Bill Allison, a long-time attorney that has worked cooperatively with the Kentucky’s American Civil Liberty Union and Dr. Cate Fosl, University of Louisville emeritus history professor, former director of U of L’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies department,...