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EcoRadio KC is a magazine show, including live segments, prerecorded stories, and interviews. The weekly 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.
On EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale will speak with Douglas County Kansas Commissioner Karen Willey about agrivoltaics. Brent Ragsdale is a Mechanical Engineer who aspires to help address Earth’s ecological crisis and to minimize humanity’s biophysical impacts through energy transition and using less resources in general. He and his wife Patti live in a passive house type home they built on a small farm near Tonganoxie KS where they run a non-profit called Botanical Belonging which shares the love of local native plants with the greater Kansas City community. Karen Willey earned a BA in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Geography. During the past 29 years, Karen has served as a volunteer on more than a dozen community boards including the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
Industrial solar is in the news. According the USDA, agrivoltaics is the use of land for agriculture and solar power generation. We can treat them as complements to the other instead of as competitors. By allowing working lands to stay working, agrivoltaic systems could help farms diversify income.
Brent will provide a report from the first Solar Farm Summit which happened in Chicago in March, 2023. The 2024 Solar Farm Summit will happen, again in Chicago in July 2024.
Brent will share trends in solar PV (photovoltaics) within the context of the great energy transition. Brent has been very impressed by Jack’s Solar Garden in Colorado.
https://www.jackssolargarden.com/
Rest assured we will have more EcoRadio KC programs about the solar future.
EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! This will be a great radio hour!
We support the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe for human habitation for millennia to come.
This will be a great radio hour! https://kkfi.org/listen/
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can about the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
