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.
February 10, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
WE NEED TO CREATE LOCALLY CONTROLLED JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Host Richard Mabion speaks with Rich Gutowski. They are going to tell us what they see needs improvement, offer ideas on how those improvements can be attained and encourage us to work together to make that change.
ListenFebruary 3, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
NOURISH THE BODY AND MIND
Food and ecology are inextricably linked, both in producing domesticated food through agriculture and livestock and in harvesting wild plants and animals. Let’s consider, are we creating food and preparing it in a way that sustains our best health outcomes? Is healthy food easily available to each of us?
ListenJanuary 27, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
GLOBAL ENERGY INCREASE IS A CHALLENGE, NOT A BARRIER, TO THRIVE
On EcoRadio KC, host Richard Mabion will speak with Richard Gutowski and Jeffrey Severin. Richard Gutowski is an advisor to Richard Mabion so that they can help us all map our way through global energy increase. Jeffrey Severin is Associate Director with Heartland Environmental Justice Center, a Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center, which, together with their partners, works with frontline communities for social mobility, environmental and energy justice, and climate resilience.
ListenJanuary 20, 2025 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
MAKE MONEY YOUR METHOD, RATHER THAN YOUR REASON, FOR SURVIVAL
On EcoRadio KC, host Richard Mabion will speak with Richard Gutowski and they will introduce Rich’s income-producing ideas. It’s time to assure everyone has privilege.
ListenJanuary 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.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
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