Sustainability Now! | Kyle Kramer | Earth & Spirit | July 25, 2022

On this week’s show, your host, Justin Mog, turns the mics on Kyle Kramer, a local podcaster and Executive Director of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center over on Newburg Road (http://earthandspiritcenter.org). Kyle is host of the Earth & Spirit podcast (https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1004504654/earth-and-spirit) from Louisville Public Media, and Justin had the delight of being on Kyle's podcast (https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20211103115745-EarthSpiritPodcast2021-11-2-ARestoredEarth-QuakerEnvironmentalistJustinMogonOpeningOurHeartstoRightRelationships.mp3), and featured in lovely documentary that Kyle produced with Bernheim called "Grounded: Conversations on Nature and Climate Change" (https://youtu.be/fL_rHzS3rcQ). You can hear the full conversations that went into that documentary at https://lpm-od.streamguys1.com/earthspirit/20220713131117-EarthSpiritPodcast2022-7-15-Grounded.mp3?sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer

Kyle has served as the Executive Director of the Earth & Spirit Center since 2014. In addition to his administrative responsibilities at the Center, Kyle also teaches courses on Thomas Berry. Prior to coming to the Earth & Spirit Center, Kyle was the director of graduate theology programs and ministry formation for Saint Meinrad, a Benedictine monastery and Roman Catholic school of theology. Kyle and his family spent fifteen years as organic farmers and homesteaders in Spencer County, Indiana. Kyle currently serves as a Catholic Climate Ambassador for the Catholic Climate Covenant and is the author of A Time to Plant: Life Lessons in Work, Prayer, and Dirt (Ave Maria Press, 2010) and Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction Through Simple Living (Franciscan Media, 2021). He is a former columnist and essayist for America magazine and a current columnist for Franciscan Media’s St. Anthony Messenger magazine. He speaks across the country on issues of ecology and spirituality. Kyle was a Herman B. Wells Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington and holds a double BA in Religious Studies and Germanic Studies, having spent a year at the Universität Hamburg in Germany. He earned a Master of Divinity, Honors Diploma, from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta. Kyle is a trained singer and guitarist and he enjoys rock climbing.
Connect with Kyle at
https://www.facebook.com/kyle.t.kramer.9
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-kramer-6b341529/

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