Sustainability Now!

Dec 07 2024 398 ep. 58 mins 14
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Sustainability Now! airs every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am & 10am on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, and livestreaming at http://forwardradio.org The program takes a deep dive into a wide variety of topics highlighting the ways in which citizens are taking action at all levels to advance environmental, social, and economic justice. Be inspired by conversations with guests who are living proof of the fact that we can all choose Sustainability NOW! Each week's program includes a community action calendar to inspire you to make that choice and get involved today. The show is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog, a car-free, TV-free, vegetarian, beekeeping, urban homesteading Quaker who seeks an Earth restored and lives his life accordingly as a concerned global citizen in Louisville, Kentucky. Justin serves as the sustainability coordinator for the University of Louisville.

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Sustainability Now! | Alex Otte | MADD | Impaired Driving Prevention Month | 12-9-24

Dec 07 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, sits down with Alex Otte, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Regional Executive Director and former National President. Alex is a Kentucky resident, who was hit by a boat driven by a drunk driver while sitting on a jet ski when she was 13 years old. Despite sustaining severe injuries — including a traumatic brain injury, broken n

Sustainability Now! | Jane Evans & Mateo Barnett | Common Earth Gardens | 12-2-24

Dec 01 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with Jane Evans & Mateo Barnett, from Common Earth Gardens, a program of Catholic Charities of Louisville (https://cclou.org/common-earth-gardens/). Like Forward Radio, Catholic Charities of Louisville is participating in Giving Tuesday on December 3rd and we hope you’ll consider chipping in to support the good

Sustainability Now! | Barbara Hurt | Dendrifund & Brown-Forman | Treeconomy | 11-25-24

Nov 24 2024 57 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, talks bourbon (for perhaps the first time on the program!) with Barbara Hurt, Executive Director of Dendrifund (https://www.dendrifund.org) and Sustainability Innovation Leader at Brown-Forman. Dendrifund is a non-profit seed fund created in partnership with the Brown family and Brown-Forman back in 2012 that is cultivating common gr

Sustainability Now! | Terrell Holder | Sierra Club | Sustainable Development for Louisville | 11-18-24

Nov 17 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a hike with Terrell Holder, Vice-Chair of the Greater Louisville Sierra Club and Chair of the Kentucky Chapter. Terrell is part of a group that will be lobbying the mayor to appoint a sustainable development expert to the board of the nascent Louisville Economic Development Alliance (LEDA). As it stands, the LEDA board has no o

Sustainability Now! | Shaun Harper | Climate Denial & Racism Denial | 11-11-24

Nov 10 2024 61 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, shares with you a major highlight from the recent annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, held in Anaheim, California from October 27-29, 2024. The keynote speaker on October 28th was Shaun Harper, one of America’s most highly respected diversity, equity, and inclusion experts

Sustainability Now! | Nico Phillips | Metro Parks Urban Ag Program | Shelby Park Community Garden | UofL Masters of Urban Planning | 11-4-24

Nov 02 2024 63 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, digs in the dirt with Nico Phillips, an organizer with the Shelby Park Community Garden since 2019, a UofL Masters of Urban Planning student, and now, as of July 1st, the new Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator for Louisville Metro Parks! Tune in to learn more about Nico, what drove her interests in urban agriculture and sustainabi

Sustainability Now! | Martina Kunnecke & Steve Wiser | Preservation | Urban Gov't Center | 10-28-24

Oct 27 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a stroll through Louisville’s historic downtown neighborhoods with Steve Wiser of the Louisville Historical League (https://louisvillehistoricalleague.org) & Martina Kunnecke from Neighborhood Planning & Preservation. We discuss the important role of historic preservation and neighborhood planning in shaping a more sustainabl

Sustainability Now! | Katelyn Johnston | UofL Student | STOP Fellow | Clean4ChangeKY | 10-21-24

Oct 21 2024 62 mins  
It’s Sustainability Week at the University of Louisville, and on this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, is in conversation with UofL Class of 2027 ASL Interpreting Studies Major, Katelyn Johnston! In high school, Katelyn co-founded the environmental non-profit Clean 4 Change KY, and the Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) recently named her as one of the Students Taking on

Sustainability Now! | Ellie Davenport & Colin Meadows | Louisville Grows | Tree Week | 10-14-24

Oct 13 2024 58 mins  
It’s a special Tree Week edition of the show! On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, grabs his shovel for a chance to catch up with the staff at Louisville Grows: Ellie Davenport, Community Engagement Manager & Colin Meadows, Urban Forestry Manager. Tune in to learn about all the ways to get involved in helping expand our urban tree canopy this fall! In addition to revi

Sustainability Now! | Eileen Shader | American Rivers | Floodplain Restoration | 10-7-24

Oct 06 2024 58 mins  
On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, comes in out of the rain for a discussion about sustainable floodplain management and recovery in the wake of disasters like Hurricane Helene. Joining us this week is Eileen Shader, Senior Director of Floodplain Restoration at American Rivers (https://www.americanrivers.org/), who shares the results of a new analysis of the nation’