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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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The Team
Brent Ragsdale is a Mechanical Engineer who aspires to help address Earth’s ecological crisis and to minimize humanity’s biophysical impacts through energy transition and using less resources in general. He and his wife Patti live in a Passive House type home they built on a small farm near Tonganoxie KS where they run a non-profit called Botanical Belonging sharing the love of local native plants with the greater Kansas City community.
Craig Lubow is a criminal defense and family law attorney in Kansas. Craig has been a progressive activist since the early 1970s, starting in the War Resisters’ League. Craig previously served on the executive committee of the Kansas Sierra Club.
Richard's main objective in the urban arena is to find more ways for people of color to truly understand their Environment. As a grass-roots environmental activist in Kansas City, Kansas, he is presenting his philosophy of environmental organizing to neighborhood groups in low income communities by recounting his experiences with ongoing projects on energy efficiency and conservation.
He is also searching for ways to teach mainstream America another perspective of being being black in America and loving it!
He is available for speaking engagements....
"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.' A Leopold "Let's do what we can about that." T Wilke
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EcoRadio KC is a magazine show, including live segments, prerecorded stories, and interviews. The show is being created by a collective of local community organizers and activists. The group chooses a theme for each show which is then produced and hosted by someone from the team. In addition, we draw upon other members of the community as well as area organizations for their knowledge, experience, and ideas.
EcoRadio KC 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. As a result, we plan to cover a wide range of topics, including local & regenerative agriculture, energy conservation & efficiency, justice, eco-villages, alternative medicine, indigenous peoples, clean energy, local food systems, biofuels, the need for multicultural participation in social change, global warming & climate disruption, extinction, green building and chemistry, and consumerism. If you have any questions or comments about the show or would like to get involved with the team that produces it, please send an email to [email protected]. Teri Wilke is the executive producer.
May 19, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HOW TO SURVIVE THE HARD TIMES AHEAD WITHOUT LEAVING ANYONE BEHIND
Host Richard Mabion will speak with guests Richard Gutowski, friend and advisor, and Zack Pistora, Environmental Champion and Director of the Kansas Sierra Club. We can have a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel inequity, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our democracy. Richard and his guests will discuss the effects of the Trump administration on our Kansas legislators and their environmental concerns.
ListenMay 12, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
PULL UP TO THE TABLE!
EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. It will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. EcoRadioKC will broadcast podcasts from Aunt Lainie’s kitchen. Food is connection and our show is broadcast during the dinner hour, what a perfect fit! During this hour, host Lainie Renee, a volunteer at KKFI, will talk about Mother’s Day Memories and Kitchen Herb Garden, Food Quests and Food News in Kansas City.
ListenMay 5, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE WILL NOT JUST GO AWAY
Host Brent Ragsdale talks with staff at KC Farm School on Gibbs Road, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 2018. They steward a 14.5-acre urban education and production farm in southern Wyandotte County. Their mission is to inspire people of all ages, ancestries and abilities with on-farm, hands-on opportunities to connect to land and soil, food, community, and opportunity.
Read MoreApril 28, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
FIRE, A PHENOMENAL TECHNIQUE TO A SHARED END
EcoRadio KC is proud to broadcast the second of two special programs created by University of Kansas Environmental Studies students. Their topic is Fire Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Lesson on the Role of Fire as a Natural and Anthropogenic Process in Ecosystem. You will hear from Bronwyn Combs, Kassie Crotchett, Hailey Smyly, Quinn Franken, Raegan Danley, and Shamiqua Nez, who are all students of the University of Kansas Environmental Studies program under Associate Teaching Professor Ali Brox.
ListenApril 21, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
A REVIEW OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPERATIVE
EcoRadio KC is proud to broadcast the first of two special programs created by University of Kansas Environmental Studies students. Their topic is Environmental Justice, both what it is and an understanding of the historical context of Environmental Justice. You will hear from Kathryn Keefe, Samuel Kaufman, Tayler Mahoney, Olivia Phipps, Alex Perez, Janie Lauberth and Alexsa Mehmedovic, all students of the University of Kansas Environmental Studies program under Associate Teaching Professor Ali Brox.
ListenMarch 31, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
DO WE NEED A FARM BILL? YES, WITH CHANGES
Host Terri Wilke will speak with Paul Johnson, Policy Analyst and Advocate for the Kansas Rural Center. They will talk about the federal Farm Bill and how the Farm Bill can be changed to protect the land and improve nutrition.
Read MoreMarch 24, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
SAVE THE WAKARUSA RIVER VALLEY!
Host Terri Wilke will speak with Michael Almon and Melinda Ball who are both involved with a group called Save the Wakarusa River Valley, or SWRV, for short. Save the Wakarusa River Valley, or SWRV, is hosting an event on March 29th, 2:30 PM at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium.
ListenMarch 17, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
AUNT LAINIE IS BACK TO TALK ABOUT FOOD!
EcoRadio KC is playing from Aunt Lainie’s podcasts. Aunt Lainie is a Kansas City Missouri based Auntie who loves cooking, exploring new restaurants/cafes, and chatting about all things food and drink. You can find her podcast each week. We are lucky she shares a monthly hour on EcoRadio KC.
Read MoreMarch 10, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
FROM CLIMATE HOUR: GenZ Perspectives on The World Of Climate Change
EcoRadio KC is playing the most recent production of Climate Hour, GenZ Perspectives on The World Of Climate Change.
Please tune in to hear host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss GenZ Perspectives on The World Of Climate Change.
March 3, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HONEST CLIMATE JOURNALISM ISN’T JUST REPORTING – IT’S A PUBLIC SERVICE
KKFI relies on listener support to broadcast our show. Please know that when you give, you will receive more good radio with information that will make your life enriched. Monday, March 3rd, EcoRadio KC is broadcasting during KKFI’s Winter Pledge Drive. Special for that date, we have invited our crew of volunteers to replay highlights from shows they have created. We are all volunteers and we prepare a radio hour each Monday because we believe it is important for us all to know more information about actions that occur. EcoRadioKC tries to provide a balance of good news and alarming news, but always, we try to deliver honest reporting.
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