Sustainability Now! | Doug Scott & Kristin Faurest | Origin Park | March 6, 2023

This week on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes you on a hike through our region’s newest park with Doug Scott, and Kristin Faurest who are part of the team working to develop Origin Park, a unique urban park set in over 400 acres on the north shore of the Ohio River, located on the Indiana side. This new park will celebrate and embrace the unpredictable Ohio River and the floods that come from it. It’s a forgotten landscape that will be restored so the over 1.2 million people who live in the area can come, relax, explore and enjoy its raw beauty filled with large green fields, bike and walking paths and much more. Learn more at http://originpark.org

Doug Scott is the Director of Development for River Heritage Conservancy. He has 25 years of business advancement, fundraising and non-profit leadership. As an avid outdoorsman, helping to create Origin park is the perfect intersection of personal and professional experience.

Kristin Faurest is a member of the River Heritage Consultancy team working to make Origin Park everyone's next favorite destination. She is a public garden professional and an adjunct lecturer in landscape architecture who is author or co-author of several books, most recently ""Community Built: Art, Construction, Preservation and Place. She is also a proud returned Peace Corps volunteer.

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