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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
Bob Grove is a civil rights and climate activist, performer and political organizer. He grew up among northern Missouri farmers where he developed a passion for the rights of people and for healthy environments in which those rights can live.
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 serves on the executive committee of the Kanza Group 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....
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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.
November 27, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
SOLAR FOR ALL
Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will speak with their guest, Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. We will learn more about the future of solar energy to provide electricity in Kansas. The Kansas Legislature has 3 solar-related bills that are being followed by the Sierra Club.
ListenNovember 20, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
OPEN A TRENCH IN THE GROUND
Marty Kraft joins host Terri Wilke. Marty Kraft is a local man who has worked as a Gardener, Environmental Educator, and Helper at Self for many years.
ListenNovember 13, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
The Aluminum Paradox
Nadia Steinzor joins host Craig Lubow to discuss "The Aluminum Paradox", a book written about the environmental hazards of manufacturing aluminum. Aluminum Paradox also provides recommendations for alternatives and alternative methods of production. Aluminum is a key component in solar panels, wind turbines, more efficient cars and planes and more. Nadia is from the Environmental Integrity Project.
ListenNovember 6, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
OCEAN WARMING AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST ECOSYSTEM
Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and Dr. Greg Asner, Director of the Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University and the Founder of Asner Labs, to discuss ocean warming and the survival of the world’s largest ecosystem.
ListenOctober 30, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HERE ARE SOME MORE ACRONYMS FOR YOU TO KNOW!
Host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski will speak with their guests, Jeff Severin of the Heartland Environmental Justice Center and Mark Hillenbrand, who is with Hedge Gate Hill. Their topic is the EPA's Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (EJ TCTACs) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy that will receive $177 million to help underserved and overburdened communities across the country.
ListenOctober 23, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HOW TO MAKE THE IRA PUT TAX DOLLARS TO WORK FOR US!
Host Terri Wilke speaks with Tony Mendoza, Senior Attorney with the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program. Tony Mendoza is the Sierra Club’s senior attorney who advocates for clean energy in the central United States. Tony Mendoza addressed the KCMO Environmental Management Commission on July 12, 2023. His topic is the Inflation Reduction Act: Opportunities for Local Governments.
ListenOctober 16, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
PLANNING FOR THE RESULT WE WANT!
Host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski speak with Mark Hillenbrand, Founder of Hedge Gate Hill. Hedge Gate Hill was created to leverage the years of experience in nonprofit, for-profit and governmental organizations of Mark Hillenbrand.
ListenOctober 9, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
IT’S TIME FOR THE IRA
Let's come together to support the beauty of community radio. EcoRadio KC is a weekly locally created hour intended to inspire action towards protecting our planet. Host Terri Wilke speaks with her guest, Dave Mitchell. Dave has resided in Kansas City, MO. since 1988 and many listeners will recognize that he has been a regular contributor to KKFI. In hope for an ever widening and growing environmental movement, Terri and Dave Mitchell will discuss the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant action Congress has taken on clean energy and climate change in the nation’s history. We are all in this together..
ListenOctober 2, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
IS THE DECLINE OF OIL IN SIGHT?
Host Brent Ragsdale speaks with his guest, John Peach who has started a blog, Wild Peaches, with his colleague, Jan de Wilde. Brent and John Peach will discuss peak oil. The oil age may be coming to a close much sooner than most people realize, and there is a growing gap between expectations and the thermodynamic reality of renewable energy.
ListenSeptember 25, 2023 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
DRIVE ELECTRIC!
Electric vehicle shows are happening because of National Drive Electric Week, Sept. 22 – Oct. 1, 2023, a nationwide celebration to raise awareness of the many benefits of all-electric and plug-in hybrid cars, trucks, motorcycles, and more. Are you considering going electric? Host Terri Wilke speaks with her guests, Michael Almon and Mike Wasikowski, both electric car owners.
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