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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.
Upcoming Episodes
October 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!
Read MoreOctober 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!
ListenSeptember 30, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
IT IS DRIVE ELECTRIC WEEK!
Host Terri Wilke will speak with her guests about upcoming electric vehicle (EV) shows. The Lawrence Kansas EV Showcase will be on Sunday, Oct. 6th from 11 AM through 3 PM at South Park on Massachusetts ST. Bill Steele and Mike Wasikowski are her guests. Next, representatives of Metro Energy Center and Orange EV will talk about an EV show in Kansas City KS on Oct. 4th 6 PM, at the Kansas City Kansas Community College Technical Education Center.
ListenSeptember 23, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
RECYCLING IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN NOT GENERATING WASTE IN THE FIRST PLACE BY REDUCING CONSUMPTION
Host Richard Mabion and his co-host Rich Gutowski, are talking with Michelle DeHaven, Program Manager with Heartland Environmental Justice Center and Darren Beck, the Founder of Ingenuity LLC. They are going to discuss CIRCULAR ECONOMY.
Read MoreSeptember 16, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
BE A CHAMPION FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT
Host Richard Mabion and his co-host Rich Gutowski, are talking with the Sierra Club of both Kansas and Missouri. Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for Kansas Sierra Club and Billy Davies, Senior Field Organizer for the Missouri Sierra Club will speak about issues concerning our climate and environment.
Read MoreSeptember 9, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
LET’S TALK ABOUT CLIMATE ISSUES
Tune in to hear the Climate Hour - Reframing The Climate Conversation Now - produced by Bob Grove. This will be a great radio hour!
Read MoreSeptember 2, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
THE WHOLE WORLD IS ONE NEIGHBORHOOD
Host Richard Mabion and his co-host Richard Gutowski will recap the recent hours they have broadcast concerning community connections. A neighborhood is an area where people live and interact with one another.
When people band together in this way, it strengthens their sense of community and preserves cultural traditions.
August 26, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
SIT DOWN IN THE KITCHEN, FIGURE SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT
Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! For August 26th, we have more of the Aunt Lainie’s Kitchen, a podcast created by Lainie Renee, a volunteer with KKFI. Food is connection and we are broadcasting during the dinner time - what a perfect fit!
ListenAugust 19, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES, DO OUR SAFETY NETS NEED REPAIR?
The Heartland Environmental Justice Center is a resource that can help. They offer free support for grassroots organizations in a five-state area and adjoining tribal nations to help make your communities safer, healthier, and greener.
ListenAugust 12, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
SOW THE SEEDS OF INNOVATION
Host Brent Ragsdale will speak Dr. Jennifer Ifft, Agricultural Economics Department Associate Professor at Kansas State University. She has an integrated research and extension program that covers policy and regulatory issues that affect the viability of U.S. and Kansas agriculture. Their topic will be Extreme Heat and Kansas Farm Income.
ListenAugust 5, 2024 Local, News & Public Affairs, Podcast
REAP MORE THAN YOU SOW
Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We will talk with Jane Fletcher, Adm Director of After the Harvest. After the Harvest gives fresh healthy food directly to agencies feeding hungry people. This will be a great radio hour!
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