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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 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....
"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.
December 9, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
MONGOL ZURAG: THE ART OF RESISTANCE
Host Terri Wilke speaks with her guest, Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem, a curator and leading Mongolian art expert whose latest exhibition features four of Mongolia’s most renowned artists who are using their platform to address environmental crises.
ListenDecember 2, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
THE END OF FIRE
On EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with his guest, Brett Holverstott of Brilliant Light Power’s SunCell. He is an explorer of ideas. He is a licensed architect in the state of Washington. He is the author of Profane Science blog. https://kkfi.org/listen/
ListenNovember 25, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
UNDERSTANDING THE PAST TO PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE
On EcoRadio KC, host Richard Mabion along with Rich Gutowski, will speak with their guests, Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club and Billy Davies, Senior Field Organizer for the Missouri Sierra Club. They will provide listeners with an end of the year overview of environmental accomplishments that happened in 2024.
Read MoreNovember 18, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WHAT’S NEXT? WE GOTTA LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER
Pease 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.
Read MoreNovember 11, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HOW CAN YOUR CITY MEET THEIR CLIMATE GOALS? BUILD AND USE SOLAR!
EcoRadio KC will play a webinar which was presented October 14th by Golda Obinzu, Energy Manager in the Office of Sustainability in the city of San Antonio, Texas: Innovative Rooftop Solar Development for Municipal Properties. San Antonio recently announced they will install 42 rooftop and parking canopy solar photovoltaic systems on their city-owned buildings in the next two years.
Read MoreNovember 4, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WOMEN’S VOICES
EcoRadio KC will play the most recent Climate Hour: The Opportunities Women’s Voices Offer in World Climate Actions, hosted by Bob Grove. Bob Grove speaks with his guest Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, and author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis, to discuss the opportunities women’s voices offer in world climate actions.
Read MoreOctober 28, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
PEOPLE ON THE RIVER ARE HAPPY TO GIVE
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.
ListenOctober 21, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
THE INTERSECTION OF DISABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Terri Wilke speaks with Sunaura Taylor, an artist and writer. She is the author of "Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation".
ListenOctober 14, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
THE END OF SUMMER IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. HERE’S TO OCTOBER!
Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We feature another episode of Aunt Lainie’s Kitchen podcast. Produced each week by KKFI volunteer, Lainie Renee, listeners can gather round the table to hear interviews and conversations centering around food and beverage in the Kansas City Metro area. This will be a great radio hour!
ListenOctober 7, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WE’VE GOT THEM – LET’S REUSE THEM!
Host Terri Wilke will speak with her guest, Linda Klinker about her brainchild, Cans for the Community. Cans for the Community was formed in the belief that recycling aluminum cans could benefit the community in more than one way. Recycling aluminum can save valuable resources AND it generates funds for the good of the community. It is a simple idea with powerful results!
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