Engage the Community to Live Sustainably – the Way to Thrive

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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 June 7th, 2021, host Richard Mabion speaks with Paula Console-Soican, Asst Professor of English and Joe Multhauf, Asst Professor of Biology, both of Donnelly College, a private Catholic college in Kansas City, Kansas. The college offers bachelor’s, associate degrees, and Nursing certifications. It is the only college or university in the state to be federally designated as a Hispanic and Minority-serving institution.

https://www.donnelly.edu/

All three are involved in Donnelly’s Environmental Ethics class.  They will lay out their introduction to community engagement.  They put together a program getting students involved with working with citizens in senior housing.  Students may be on the show!  Community engagement is an overlooked area.  This group is using community engagement to empower people living in community to live more sustainably.

An ambitious set of interrelated strategies will help to mitigate climate change by achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Please tune in to hear their discussion of how great change is made.

We at EcoRadio KC are glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. We can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future!

It is understandable to freak out over climate change, but the challenge is to work hard on this crisis while still enjoying life on what is still a beautiful planet.

This will be a great radio hour!

We hope you tune in!

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC!

Environmental news for the week of 6/7/21:

 

Democracy Now reports:

 

  • The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were issued in the final weeks of the Trump administration. At the same time, the Biden administration defended a massive oil and gas project in northern Alaska known as the “Willow Master Project”, a multibillion-dollar deal with ConocoPhillips, which was approved last year by the Trump administration.

 

New York Times reports:

 

  • Trail cam footage shared by state agencies on social media shows one wild creature after another traverse over bridges and through tunnels designed to let them cross highways safely. A bipartisan Senate version of the transportation bill that is being hammered out in Congress includes $350 million for wildlife crossings and corridors. Although officials stress that these structures were built to keep humans safe, they are critically important for animals – especially with climate change making it more urgent than ever for them to be able to move in search of new habitat.

 

  • Highways tore through cities across America in the 1950s and ’60s, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods, dividing communities and increasing car dependence for decades to come. Now, as those mega-roads reach the end of their working lives, many cities are asking a question that could reshape urban life again: Should we rebuild highways or remove some of them?If rebuilding cities is done right, highway removal projects could make life better for local residents as well as the planet, because denser, less car-centric neighborhoods are important to reduce greenhouse gases that are causing climate change. Many lower-income, Black and minority communities, which were targeted by highway construction, fear removal could invite gentrification and more displacement.

 

Inside Climate News reports: 

 

  • June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience. Activists expect thousands of people to join the protests along the route in northern Minnesota.

 

  • After a lull in construction, workers are now returning to Minnesota to complete the Line 3 oil pipeline. For Native women, the return of construction also means an increase in sexual violence along the pipeline’s route. Two Line 3 contract workers have already been charged in a sex trafficking sting.

 

  • A new study published in the journal Nature found oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes over the last four decades. And the authors said declining oxygen could lead to increased fish kills, algal blooms and methane emissions. Researchers examined the temperature and dissolved oxygen – the amount of oxygen in the water – and found that declines were widespread. The researchers said their findings suggest that warming temperatures and decreased water clarity from human activity are causing the oxygen decline.

 

 

E & E News reports:

 

  • The Interior Department announced an expansion of the National Trails System, designating an additional 160 miles of recreational trails across eight states. Interior secretary Deb Haaland announced plans to spend $2.8 billion on maintenance of national parks.

 

  • Fixing 123 relatively small leaks in the Permian Basin oil field in Texascould go a long way to reducing the region’s climate-warming methane pollution, according to new research from NASA.

 

  • Ford Motor Co. nearly tripled its electric vehicle sales when an electric Mustang was released.

 

Bold Nebraska reports:

 

  • Nebraska landowners who sued Costco won a victory in court when a judge rejected the corporation’s permit to operate a gigantic new chicken factory (CAFO) within close distance of a town. The order stated the poultry barns would more likely than not have negative effects on health, safety, and general welfare.

 

Calendar of events for the week of 6/7:

 

 

 

 

  • TUES, June 8th, 7 PM, “KC Farm School at Gibbs Road – Growing the Future of Food in KC” zoom program of the Kanza Group of the Sierra Club, online http://kansas.sierraclub.org/calendar

 

  • TUES, June 8th, Nature Book club (via Zoom) Lawrence Public Library You can join to talk about books connected to the natural world (fiction and nonfiction). Share your recent reads and hear recommendations from others. Contact: Shirley Braunlich [email protected] 785-843-3833 (x. 130)

 

  • THURS, June 10th, Gardening for Pollinators • Johnson County Master Gardeners Zoom Event More info at https://www.kansasnativeplantsociety.org/event_detail.php?evt_id=1294With the shrinking natural habitat outside of our control, it’s now more important than ever to make more room in our home landscapes for the plants and trees that our native wildlife depend on.

 

 

  • THURS, June 10th, 6:30 PM, 2021 Grant-Bradbury Jaunt 6600 SW Westview Rd • Topeka, KS You can join other prairie enthusiasts to discuss native plants while walking through a remnant prairie on the edge of the city. No plant knowledge required; come learn and enjoy the great outdoors. Wear sturdy shoes and bring bug spray and water. Contact: Mick Delfelder [email protected] 785-357-1465 Sponsored by the Kansas Native Plant Society

 

  • THURS, June 10th, 6:30 PM MO Environmental Legislation Update, Organized By Missouri Chapter of Sierra Club on zoom, contact Michael Berg at [email protected] or call 314-644-1011

 

 

 

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