Podcast - Eco Radio KC

This podcast tracks the audio archives for “Eco Radio KC” show. EcoRadio KC explores our interdependence with the rest of the world, showing the connections between the ways we choose to live and the health of the whole community of life.

After the Harvest

This week, Natural E talks to the good folks at After the Harvest, an organization that ensures that fresh food does not rot on the ground and gets onto the tables of those who need it most.

Support the Clean Power Plan!

An August 1st, environmentalists from both sides of the state line, gathered at Berkley Riverfront Park to celebrate the Clean Power Plan and the study that asserts that it will save 120 lives per year in Missouri alone.  KKFI was on hand to record the various speakers,

Save Our Neighborhoods and Academy of Cultural Arts

Susan Huntoon of Save Our Neighborhoods explains the groups efforts to prevent a landfill from replacing a wilderness area in Independence and QueenMa Nuta Beqsu Moses Amen-Ra (aka) Adenike Amen-Ra talks about the Academy for Cultural Arts and STEMM. On July 24, Save Our Neighborhoods, a citizens group, filed “Intent to...

Keystone XL Resistance March

South Dakota Public Utilities Commision will be holding the FINAL hearings to decided whether or not to re-certify Trans Canada's permit to put SD lands and waters the KXL through South Dakota. Be it on horse back, bike, or on foot concerned citizens from across the state and the region...

The D.A.R.K. Act and Local Teacher Makes Good

House bill 1599, which opponents have dubbed the DARK (Denying Americans the Right to Know) Act, would prohibit states to implement their own food labeling laws.  Activists visited Congressman Sam Graves office last week with some questions.  We'll hear how that visit went.  Also, Dr. Michael Hotz just got back...

The Pope’s Encyclical on Climate Change

Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland , the president of Donnelly College in KCK, will be giving us a summary of the Pope's Encyclical on Climate Change, along with what it is he wants to accomplish environmentally at Donnelly in the coming years..    http://www.donnelly.edu/about/president.cfm Also,  25 activists gathered in the sweltering heat on Sunday at...

Argentine Air Pollution & Wilderness in Independence under Assualt

Host Richard Mabion welcomes back Eric Kirkendall of the MoKan Clean Air Coalition and Laticia and Ryan DeCaigny to discuss serious air quality concerns in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. Here's a link to the article in today's Kansas City Star: http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article25735729.html Also, Jill Erickson of Heartland Conservation Alliance brings...