Reducing the carbon footprint for KCMO

Host Dave Mitchell talks to Dennis Murphey, recently retired Supervisor for the Kansas City Office of Environmental Quality. The interview includes the steps the city took during the last decade to reduce it’s carbon footprint 40% for city operations, and 21% for the city as a whole.

The discussion also includes his involvement with Climate Action Kansas City, a new and local organization comprised of local leaders, that has published the Climate Action Playbook in Dec., 2019. This playbook uses Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, as one of its sources for actions local leaders can take to reduce their community’s carbon footprint.


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