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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.
January 13, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
HOME WORKS USA
On EcoRadio KC, we will replay our dynamic show from August, 2022 when host Brent Ragsdale spoke to Frankie Foster-Davis about tiny houses being built to assist youth aging out of foster care in Kansas. Frankie works with Homeworks USA which is affiliated with the Bassuk Center.
ListenJanuary 6, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
NEW FROM CLIMATE HOUR – CLIMATE ANXIETY AFFECTS MENTAL HEALTH
EcoRadio KC will play the most recent Climate Hour produced by Bob Grove: The Growth of Climate Anxiety Impacts World Mental Health.
Many people are experiencing climate-related disasters on a regular basis. This can lead to climate anxiety; a type of emotional anxiety which may express itself as distress about future climate disasters, or even distress over the long-term existence of humanity and the survival of our friends and family.
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December 30, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
LET’S NOT CONFUSE PROJECT 2025 WITH THE YEAR 2025
Host Richard Mabion will speak with his co-host, Richard Gutowski, and their guests, Zack Pistora, Kansas Sierra Club Chapter Director and Billy Davies, Senior Kansas City Conservation Program Coordinator of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club. We share the same planet overall, but there are some differences. Will Kansas and Missouri laws line up with what is proposed in Project 2025?
Read MoreDecember 23, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
THE KIND OF CONVERSATION AMERICANS NEED
Host Richard Mabion speaks with his co-host, Richard Gutowski. Please tuned in for their 2025 Here We Come show...
Let’s think about the kind of Conversation Americans need to begin having with each other and within their circle of friends and associates. This is where the anger we need to address needs to start its dialogue.
December 16, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
FOOD SYSTEMS, FOOD ACCESS, NUTRITION FOR ALL
Host Terri Wilke speaks with her guest, Maxfield Kaniger, CEO of Kanbe's Markets, founded in an effort to bring fresh, healthy and affordable food to low-income neighborhoods where it is lacking, otherwise known as "food deserts." #FSF #FoodSystems #Grocery4AllSummit #FoodAccess #NutritionForAll
We support the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere.
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.
Read MoreDecember 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/
Read MoreNovember 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.
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