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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.
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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.
Today on EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Dawn Buehler, the Kansas Riverkeeper and Executive Director of Friends of the Kaw. Dawn is also the Chair of the Kansas Water Authority and the Governor’s Appointee for the Oil & Gas Advisory Committee.
Friends of the Kaw is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit organization, which serves the Kansas River, known locally as the Kaw. The Kansas River is the largest prairie-based river system in the world. The river originates at the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican Rivers and runs 173 miles to meet the Missouri River at Kaw Point in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas River is also a drinking water source for over 800,000 Kansans. The Kansas River is often referred to as a working river, with such uses as agricultural, irrigation, industrial water supply, municipal water supply, electricity generation, sand mining and many more public and private uses. Friends of the Kay is dedicated to protecting the river from pollution sources including: municipal and industrial wastewater discharges, new pollution sources and in river commercial sand and gravel mining.
For almost thirty years, Friends of the Kaw water-focused friends’ group has been the only grassroots conservation group dedicated to protecting the Kansas River. Members come from rural, urban, and suburban areas and represent canoers, kayakers, fisherfolk, hunters, birdwatchers, and locals who love the river.
Their Mission:
To protect and preserve the Kansas River for future generations.
To advocate for the rehabilitation of the Kansas River’s environs, including its water quality and wildlife habitat.
To discover and promote compatible public recreational uses of the Kansas River and encourage the development of public access.
To educate the public about the importance, benefits, and beauty of the Kansas River.
To cooperate with other people, organizations, and public agencies in support of a healthy Kansas River ecosystem.
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
