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EcoRadio KC
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.
EcoRadio KC brings 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.
On EcoRadio KC, please tune in to hear a discussion between host Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski about the capitol incident that happened on January 6th, 2024.
With President Trump’s recent election victory, the United States faces a shifting policy landscape. The potential negative repercussions for climate and environmental action are gargantuan.
We’ve seen this before: In his first term, Trump gutted federal climate initiatives while attempting to roll back 125 environmental protections critical to safeguarding people and the planet. While many of those attempts were overturned or halted in the courts, a second Trump presidency will likely be more successful in undermining laws and regulations designed to protect the climate, air, water and vulnerable communities.
Some of the major setbacks we can expect include massive cuts to climate-focused agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior, expanding oil and gas production; limiting clean energy development; rescinding billions in unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and reallocating them toward dismantling environmental justice initiatives.
Now, more than ever, is a time to come together, to focus on what unites us rather than what divides us, to be focused on what we can accomplish together, even if different people come at it for different reasons.
We need to lean into collaborations and partnerships and solutions that have multiple wins for both people and the planet. For too long, we’ve worked in silos, and now we don’t have time for single wins. We need multiple wins. We need partners that are in it for multiple reasons, and the more we focus on what we can accomplish together, the more positive outcomes we’re going to see, and the more allies we’re going to gain, especially at the local to regional level.
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
