Tag - Global Warming

Climate Hour: Sustainable Living – How To Reverse Global Warming

Join Climate Hour host Bob Grove, and guests as they discuss Sustainable Living: How to Reverse Global Warming.  Speakers will talk about how different aspects of our daily lives impact the environment and discuss the choices we can make to live more sustainable. Guests will include: Philip Fracica, Renew Missouri Ken Riead, Heartland Renewable...

Climate Hour: Sustainable Fashion – The Environmental Impact of What We Wear

The industrial sector accounts for 21% of global warming. And a single industry – the fashion industry – accounts for 39% of all industrial emissions and an even larger amount of industrial pollution. Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to learn how fast fashions are devastating our environment,...

Climate Hour: Sustainable Mobility – The Environmental Impact of How We Get There

Nothing is more American than the personal automobile, trucking, and the interstate highway system. Yet, our cars and trucks produce 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions and significant amounts of air pollution, and are directly responsible for millions of injuries and deaths annually. Modern electric vehicles have zero greenhouse gas...

Climate Strike in KC, Sept. 20, 2019

September 20 began an international "Climate Strike", called in part by Extinction Rebellion (XR), which started in the UK, the US-wide Sunrise Movement, and other groups in Kansas City. At 6:30 in the early morning, some 40 people with the Kansas City chapter of Extinction Rebellion held rally in front of...