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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.
Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission.
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! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for millennia to come.
EcoRadio KC will play a webinar which was presented on October 14th by the Office of Sustainability in the city of San Antonio, Texas: Innovative Rooftop Solar Development for Municipal Properties. San Antonio recently announced they will install 42 rooftop and parking canopy solar photovoltaic systems on their city-owned buildings in the next two years. As part of this effort, San Antonio’s Energy Manager, Golda Obinzu, will discuss this distributed approach as an integral part of their city’s goal of net-zero energy for municipal buildings by 2040 and carbon neutrality by 2050.
Not only is this one of the largest multi-site on-site solar deals in the country, but San Antonio will also be one of the first cities to take advantage of the direct pay mechanism of the Inflation Reduction Act, allowing tax credits to reduce upfront project costs. This groundbreaking project will increase carbon-free energy for residents and businesses, and in turn reduce the energy consumption for San Antonio’s municipal buildings.
Cities can install solar panels on their property to reduce energy costs, generate revenue, and support local jobs. Solar panels on government buildings can also educate the community about renewable energy and encourage them to adopt solar. Many cities have adopted a policy of 100 percent renewables for city operations by 2040 and there is much we can learn from examples like San Antonio, Texas.
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. This will be a great radio hour!
“The whole world is one neighborhood.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
