Eco Radio KC

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! The problems that result from global energy increase are frequen...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! The problems that result from global energy increase are frequen...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! The problems that result from global energy increase are frequen...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. The problems that result from global energy increase are frequently brought to our attention. We move to the future and it will take all of us to make the world habitable for mille...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! The problems that result from global energy increase are frequen...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. The problems that result from global energy increase are frequently brought to our attention. We move to the future and it will take all of us to make the world habitable for mille...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world. The problems that result from global energy increase came to everyone’s attention during the 20th century.  It will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  It will take all of us to make the world habitable for millennia to come. The problems that follow excess global heat came to the minds of all during the 20th century.

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for mi...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for mi...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for mi...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for mi...

EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for mi...

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - On Monday’s show, host Richard Mabion and his co-host Rich Gutowski,

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - For our hour on July 29th, host Richard Mabion will speak with Jeff Severin,

Food is connection and we are broadcasting during the dinner time, what a perfect fit! - During this hour, host Lainie Renee, a volunteer at KKFI, will interview Troy and Vanessa Apostol of "KCs Kozy Coffee Shops" about their adventures exploring coff...

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - For our hour on July 15th, host Richard Mabion will bring us a panel on neighborhood...

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - For our hour on July 1st, host Richard Mabion speaks with his guests,

Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - For our hour on June 24th, host Richard Mabion will speak with his guest,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - For our hour on June 17th, host Richard Mabion will speak with his guests, Emily Miller,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - On June 3rd, host Richard Mabion will speak with his guests about the Neighborhood Roundtable - Learning to Become a Coll...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - On May 27th, host Richard Mabion will speak with Zack Pistora, State Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. -

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - On May 20th, host Craig Lubow will speak with Tom Pelton, Director of Communications for the Environmental Integrity Proj...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - On May 13th, host Terri Wilke will speak with Benjamin Reed, Assistant Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sc...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission.  Thanks to all our supporters! - Today, host Richard Mabion will speak on neighborhood groups with Emily Miller of MARC,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - Thanks to all our supporters! - For our show on April 29th, host Terri Wilke is lucky to speak with Jill Stein,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - Thanks to all our supporters! - For our show on April 22nd, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski speak with Kathryn Per...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission.  Thanks to all our supporters! - For our show on April 15th, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Pantaleon Florez, a farmer,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - Today, Terri Wilke will speak with Sheridan Foster, Founder of Elemental Green, on the topic of what makes a building,

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - Today, rather than hearing Richard Mabion talk to us about a guest, we are going to talk to Richard about his work for a ...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. - Today, host Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will speak with Jeffrey Severin, Sr.

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission.  Thanks to everyone who gave during our recent winter fund drive! - Today, host Richard Mabion will speak with Zack Pistora...

We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission.  Thanks to everyone who gave during our recent winter fund drive! - EcoRadio KC will play a radio production we broadcast i...

IT IS KKFI’s FUND DRIVE!!! We are asking you to support KKFI, YOUR Community Radio Station. We bring you music and vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. - KKFI is supported by our listeners who share our mission.

For Feb. 26th, 2024 on EcoRadio KC, IT IS KKFI’s FUND DRIVE!!! We are asking you to support KKFI, YOUR Community Radio Station. We bring you music and vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. - KKFI is supported by our listeners,

On EcoRadio KC for February 19th, please tune in and listen as host Terri Wilke will speak with Carl Stafford, Founder/Visionary of My Region Wins!   Born and raised on the west side of Kansas City’s 5th District,

On EcoRadio KC for February 12th, please tune in and listen to host Richard Mabion speak with Zack Pistora, State Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. - The Kansas Legislature is in session and on the table are issues of vital importance to the protec...

On EcoRadio KC, please tune in and listen to the most recent Climate Hour produced by Bob Grove - How to Make Higher Education Work for Climate Change - with his guests - Sarah Johnson, Founder, Wild Rose Education, Shannon O’Lear,

On EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale will speak with Douglas County Kansas Commissioner Karen Willey about agrivoltaics.  Brent Ragsdale is a Mechanical Engineer who aspires to help address Earth’s ecological crisis and to minimize humanity’s biophysica...

On EcoRadio KC, host Terri Wilke will speak with Matt Riggs, Planner II in the Solid Waste Management Dept. at Mid America Regional Council (MARC). - Food loss and waste hurts us all. Our community, economy and the environment all suffer as over 30 pe...

On EcoRadio KC, host Richard Mabion and his co-host Rich Gutowski will speak with their guests, Dianna Bryant, MARC Solid Waste Management District Program Manager and Mark Hillenbrand, Founder of Hedge Gate Hill. - https://www.marc.org/ -

On EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale Brent Ragsdale will speak with Ben Postlethwait, Kansas State Director of The Nature Conservancy.  The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

On EcoRadio KC, host Terri Wilke will speak with Timmon Wallis, Co-Founder and Executive Director of NuclearBan.US. He holds a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University.  He has served as executive director of Nonviolent Peaceforce,

On EcoRadio KC, Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will discuss end of year eco-generation concerns with Karan Gupta. Karan comes from a background in the utility industry and a decade of experience in on-site and off-site construction.

EcoRadio KC recorded a panel discussion, Perennial Agriculture with The Land Institute, on Oct. 14, 2023 at the Lawrence Public Library.  Kernza is a perennial wheat grain showing promise as a viable food crop that requires less tillage. -

Host Brent Ragsdale visits the University of Kansas' Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science to interview Assistant Teaching Professor Dr. Qinjian Jin about his contributions to the recent paper by Dr.

On EcoRadio KC host Terri Wilke will speak with her guest Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Director of the documentary Common Ground which is showing in the Kansas City area.  Rebecca and her husband, Josh Tickell, are founders of Big Picture Ranch,

Host Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will speak with their guest, Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club.  We will learn more about the future of solar energy to provide electricity in Kansas.

On EcoRadio KC, Marty Kraft joins host Terri Wilke.  Marty Kraft is a local man who has worked as a Gardener, Environmental Educator, and Helper at Self for many years. - Listeners may recall the last time Marty was on EcoRadio KC,

Oceans cover 70% of our planet’s surface. Oceans absorb 90% of the heat from global warming. They absorb 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels. Oceans drive our planet’s weather and oceans feed much of the world.

Nadia Steinzor joins host Craig Lubow to discuss "The Aluminum Paradox", a book written about the environmental hazards of manufacturing aluminum.  Aluminum Paradox also provides recommendations for alternatives and alternative methods of production.

Host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski will speak with their guests, Jeff Severin and Mark Hillenbrand.  Jeff Severin was on EcoRadio KC a few months ago in September of 2023.  He is presently Sr. Program Manager for the Heartland Environmental Justice ...

On our show for October 23rd, host Terri Wilke speaks with Tony Mendoza, Senior Attorney with the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program. He is based in California. - Tony Mendoza is the Sierra Club’s senior attorney who advocates for clean energy in...

On our show for October 16th, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski speak with Mark Hillenbrand, Founder of Hedge Gate Hill. Hedge Gate Hill was created to leverage the years of experience in nonprofit, for-profit and governmental organizations of Mark...

On our show for October 9th, it’s time for the KKFI Pledge Drive!  Let's come together to support the beauty of community radio.  EcoRadio KC is a weekly locally created hour intended to inspire action towards protecting our planet.

On our show for October 2nd, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with his guest, John Peach.  John Peach is an applied mathematician who spent two decades in a research position at MIT working on problems at the intersection of math and physics.

On our show for September 25th, host Terri Wilke speaks with her guests, Michael Almon and Mike Wasikowski. - Electric vehicle shows are happening because of National Drive Electric Week, Sept. 22 – Oct. 1, 2023,

On our show for September 18th, host Richard Mabion speaks with Jeffrey Severin, presently Sr. Program Manager for the Heartland Environmental Justice Center, which is part of the Environmental Finance Center at Wichita State University.

On our show for September 4th, host Terri Wilke speaks with Margaret and Thad Kramar, owners of Hidden Hollow Farm, a local organic food producer.  Both are environmental activists.  Not only do they talk the talk,

On our show for August 28st, host Richard Mabion will again speak with Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. Richard and Zack began this episode last week and there was no way they could discuss all the environmental issues in one hour!

On our show for August 21st, host Richard Mabion will speak with Zack Pistora, Lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club. Kansas is poised to benefit big-time from the billions of dollars Congress allocated for upgrading American infrastructure with the Infl...

On our show for August 14th, host Terri Wilke will speak with Patti Ragsdale, owner, along with her husband and EcoRadio Host, Brent Ragsdale, of Happy Apple’s Farm; which in 2022, became a new endeavor called Botanical Belonging.

Today on EcoRadio KC, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski will speak with Karan Gupta, who is principal at Elemental Consulting, based in Kansas City, KS.  Karan comes from a background in the utility industry and a decade of experience in on-site an...

On our show for July 31st, host Richard Mabion will speak with Kent Rowe and Jennifer Connelly.  Kent is an Executive Committee member of the Kansas Chapter of Sierra Club, State Energy Chair, and Conservation Chair of the Wichita Chapter.

On our show for July 24th, we will play the recording from a presentation by local Ecologists Courtney Masterson and Frank Norman on the topic of how you can restore a bit of native prairie to your own backyard. -

On our show for July 17th, we will play the latest edition of Climate Hour produced by Bob Grove: Climate Science and Renewable Technology. - Science has now demonstrated that there’s enough wind energy globally to supply the energy needs of the entir...

On our show for July 10th, host Terri Wilke will speak with Mavrick Knoles, President and Co-Founder of Legacy EV, which is located in Tempe, AZ.  By now all our listeners should be aware that “EV” is shorthand for “electric vehicles”,

Peter Fiekowsky joins host Craig Lubow to discuss climate restoration.  He will discuss all aspects of Climate Restoration--what it is, how it works and why it's so vitally important to the survival of the planet.

On our show for June 19th, host Richard Mabion and his co-host, Rich Gutowski, will speak with Maureen Mahoney, a lifelong resident of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.  A lawyer by training, she is a former prosecutor and spent the majority of...

We rebroadcast an earlier show hosted by Richard Mabion.

On our show for May 15th, host Terri Wilke will speak with her guest, Courtney Masterson, ecologist and executive director of Native Lands Restoration Collaborative, AKA Native Lands LLC. -   - Courtney Masterson will reflect on her path to creat...

On our show for May 8th, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski will speak with guests, Alicia F Smith and Michelle Ramaker of F&S Building Innovations, Inc. which is in Roanoke, VA. - Alicia Smith is currently Vice President/ Chief Operations Officer ...

On our show for April 24th, host Brent Ragsdale will speak with his guest, Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at Post Carbon Institute and the author of 14 books, including POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL,

On our show for April 17th, come celebrate Earth Week live on KKFI 90.1 FM Community Radio’s EcoRadio KC. - Join us on-air through our Earthweek Live! webinar link or call KKFI 90.1 FM’s studio line to share your questions and comments on the “Future ...

On our show for April 3rd, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski will speak with John Michael, a local businessman. John Michael was born and reared in Kansas City KS until his sophomore year in high school (1988) when his family moved to Shawnee, KS.

On our March 27th show, EcoRadio KC will broadcast the work of five University of Kansas Environmental Studies students on the topic of food insecurity.  You might wonder what food insecurity has to do with environmental issues but the students will ex...

On our March 20th show, host Terri Wilke will speak with Bryce Meeker, President, Northeastern Biochar Solutions, LLC.  Bryce lives in the Kansas City area and he reached out to EcoRadio KC because he wants us all to know about Saratoga Biochar Solutio...

On our March 13th show, EcoRadio KC will broadcast a very interesting Climate Hour produced by Bob Grove: The Carbon Almanac.  The Carbon Almanac is both a book and a global community; an easily understood source of climate knowledge and an amazing exa...

On our March 6th show, EcoRadio KC will broadcast the most recent Climate Hour produced by Bob Grove: How to Lobby for Climate Solutions.  Making sustainable choices in our personal lives is our first responsibility if we want to live a healthy life an...

For February 27th, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with his guest, Stan Cox, Research Fellow for Ecosphere Studies with The Land Institute.  The Land Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization based in Salina, Kansas,

For February 20, host Terri Wilke speaks with her guest, Bill Moore, Editor of EV World. Human selected and curated; EV World has been bringing us the future in motion for over 25 years. - https://evworld.com/ -

Bob Eye, an Environmental law attorney, joins host Craig Lubow to discuss recent landmark Supreme Court cases relating to the environment.  In West Virginia vs. EPA, the Court rejected the EPA's Clean Power Plan,

For February 6th, host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski continue their discussion of ecological improvement in the lives of inner-city low-income residents.  Afterall, “ecological” means the relation of living beings to one another and to their physica...

For January 30th, we will talk about Kansas Senate Bill 47 (SB 47), a proposed law scheduled to be heard by the Kansas Senate Commerce Committee on January 31, 2023.  If passed, SB 47 would disallow any municipal government from restricting the consume...

For January 23rd, please tune in to hear host Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski talk with guests Dr. Pamela Talley and Karan Gupta, as they move forward with the 2nd step of designing the caliber of strategy needed to provide Job Training and Workforce ...

For January 16th, please tune in to hear from a presentation recently shared by the Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition (SSC).  They are a 501(C)3 interfaith nonprofit begun in 2005 in the Kansas City area for the purpose of fostering earth care in congreg...

On January 9th, host Brent Ragsdale talks with his guests, Nathan Klein, and Terri Wilke about politics – the Green Party in Missouri and as it exists in Kansas.  What's the Green Party? The word "Green" means more than just the environment - it means ...

On January 2nd, host Richard Mabion talks with his guests, Paul and John Grahovac who, along with Rich Gutowski, will continue a conversation about energy retrofits of buildings and homes in the inner city. -

Ty Gorman joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the lack of transparency at the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas, including the lack of affordable water in Kansas City, Kansas and related cut-offs.

On December 19th, host Terri Wilke talks with her guests about the Keystone Pipeline spill that occurred on December 8, 2022 in Washington County, Kansas.  You will learn the most recent press release from EPA Region 7 Public Information Officer,

On December 12th, you can hear the latest podcast from Climate Hour, called Teaching Children about Climate Change.  Host Bob Grove speaks with his guests: - Beth Sarver, President and Vision Keeper, Kansas City Restoration School - Briana Paxton,

For our show on December 5th, tune in to hear host Richard Mabion speak with his friend and colleague Rich Gutowski.  Rich is Founder of Alveare Foundation and Alveare PBC which are focused on regionally placed based community development using Public ...

Host Craig Lubow attended a Water Affordability Conference on November 12, 2022, presented by the Water Sentinels Committee of the Sierra Club . We are playing a segment of that conference that featured Molly Codding who did a presentation on Lead Cont...

For our show on November 21st, tune in to hear host Terri Wilke speak with representatives of a partnership between a housing nonprofit, Tenants to Homeowners, and Build SMART, a Lawrence, Kansas based company that manufactures and ships the components...

For our show on November 14th, tune in to hear host Craig Lubow speak with Abel Russ, Senior Attorney with The Environmental Integrity Project and co-author of the report “Poisonous Coverup: The Widespread Failure of the Power Industry to Clean Up Coal...

It’s time to scale way back, redesign how we’re living and roll up our sleeves to restore our ecosystems, soil, biodiversity and connections with our neighbors. As we learn and take action on how to live within the Earth’s limits,

For Monday, October 31th, we will play the most recent Climate Hour podcast and hear host Bob Grove will speak with his guests on the topic of the Inflation Reduction Act. - The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is the successor to the House-passed Buil...

We are celebrating KKFI – it’s the pledge drive! Listeners are aware that EcoRadio KC is produced every week by volunteers, and we need to ask you to support KKFI, YOUR Community Radio Station. - If you would like to own an hour of EcoRadio KC,

For Monday, October 17th, 2022, host Terri Wilke will speak with her guest, Bo Brown, on the topic of foraging.  Bo is a truly knowledgeable person who has experience actually finding, harvesting and cooking wild plants. -

For Monday, October 10th, 2022, host Brent Ragsdale will speak with his guest, Amber Dunn.   Amber says she’s behind a lot of tables at a lot of events.  Her family lives on a 40-acre building-toward-permaculture farm.

Elaine Giessel and Debbie Neustadt will join host Craig Lubow to discuss water issues.  Elaine and Debbie serve on the Water Sentinels Committee of the Sierra Club.  We will talk about Kansas water policy, a Corp of Engineers study of water flow and no...

For Monday, September 26th, 2022, host Terri Wilke will speak with her guests Michael Almon and Mike Wasikowski about electric car shows happening because of National Drive Electric Week, Sep 23-Oct 2, 2022.

During our show on September 19th, host Richard Mabion will speak with Rich Gutowski.  Rich is Founder of Alveare Foundation and Alveare PBC which are focused on regionally placed based community development using public benefit corporations (PBCs) as ...

During our show on September 12th, host Terri Wilke will speak with Billy Davies,  who is with  the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club. Listeners will learn about the recently approved Kansas City, Missouri Climate Protection and Resiliency Plan. -

During our show on September 5th, you can hear the most recent Climate Hour podcast, Impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Labor’s Climate Movement, produced by Bob Grove. - Over the past few months, we’ve seen a massive realignment of global alliance...

For our show on August 22nd, we introduce listeners to the Step by Step Project.  Filmmaker and clinical psychologist Stephen Lerner and fellow filmmaker Jim Jewell have teamed up for several documentary films in the past,

For our show on August 15th host Brent Ragsdale speaks 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. -

For our show on August 8th host Richard Mabion speaks with three of the staff at Metropolitan Energy Center, Mary English, Program Manager, Building Performance, Brittanie Giroux, Building Performance Associate and Emily Wolfe, Sr.

This time it's energy!! What is hydrogen energy. What is the difference between green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, and gray hydrogen? What role should it play or will it play in replacing coal and gas? Is it safe?

For our show on July 25th, host Craig Lubow will speak with Hannes Zacharias.  Hannes Zacharias has some 40 years of experience in administering government at the Federal, State, County and local level.  Hannes’ career in public service began in 1979 a...

For our show on July 18th, host Richard Mabion will speak with Bart Maffrey.  Bart Maffry founded Outside the Box Developers with the hope of adding solar to housing developments. It has become much more as solar, energy storage,

For our show on July 11th, host Terri Wilke will speak with several local purveyors of bulk household products so that consumers can simply refill the empty containers we already have. - Zero waste is a set of principles focused on waste prevention th...

For our show on July 4th, we bring you the most recent Climate Hour episode produced by Bob Grove. - The clothing you are wearing right now has a surprisingly large impact on our environment and climate systems.

Host Craig Lubow will talk to Steve Melton about climate change. The discussion will include carbon tax and dividend, economic impact of climate change, and the impact of climate change on human rights and global conflict.

For our show on June 20th, host Richard Mabion will speak with Elnora Quintelle Tellis Easley Jefferson, who defines herself as a civic activist.  In 2012, along with thirteen other presidents of Northeast KCK area neighborhoods,

For our show on June 13th, are going to play the podcast from Climate Hour. The New Deal enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression and led to decades of American prosperity.

For our show on June 6th, we are celebrating KKFI – now is the pledge drive! Listeners are aware that EcoRadio KC is produced weekly by KKFI volunteers, and we need to ask you to support KKFI, YOUR Community Radio Station.

For our show on May 30th, host Terri Wilke opens the hour with a short update on the current status of the monarch butterfly from Orley R. “Chip” Taylor, Founder of the Monarch Watch, a nonprofit education, conservation,

For our show on May 23rd, host Richard Mabion will speak with his guests Andrew Robinson and Rich Gutowski about entrepreneurship.  Andrew is active with the Benton Harbor Area Entrepreneur Support Organization and Mosaic Christian Community Developmen...

For our show on May 16th, we will play the most recent Climate Hour podcast, Urban Permaculture produced 5-1-22 by Bob Grove. - Permaculture is an approach to land management that incorporates principles found in healthy ecosystems.

For our show on May 8th, Richard Mabion and Rich Gutowski return to speak about their KCK-Paterson NJ conversation with George Riley and Regana Bracey, two Paterson, New Jersey cohorts.   This show will be all about Paterson,

For the show on 4-25, we will play from our recording at the 2022 Climate Action Summit April 9th.  First, you will hear Ulysses “Deke” Clayborn, Region 7 Administrator of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development introduce U.S. Rep.

For our show on Monday April 11th, four University of Kansas students, Sophia Pascente, Kaci Zarek, Lauren Stallings and Neal Niceswanger, have prepared our episode about our depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer – water essential to agricultural,

For our show on Monday April 4th, we are honored to play the latest Climate Hour podcast, In the Midst of Crises, The Importance of Earth Day which has been produced by Climate Council of Greater KC and hosted by Bob Grove.

For our show on Monday March 21st, host Terri Wilke speaks with Jamie Hofling, Food Waste Reduction Specialist within the Lawrence-Douglas County Sustainability Office and Umut Bayramoglu, newly hired Program Manager for Common Ground,

For our show on Monday March 21st, host Richard Mabion speaks with Matt Bunch, Horticulturist for the Giving Grove Program of Kansas City Community Gardens. The Giving Grove’s mission is to provide healthy calories, strengthen community,

For our show on Monday March 14th, host Terri Wilke speaks with Rachael McGinnis Millsap, Director, Farm to Institution programming for KC Healthy Kids. - https://www.kchealthykids.org/ - There is an upcoming event Rachael will tell us about: The Eat...

Billie Davies is the conservation coordinator for the Ozark (Mo) Chapter of the Sierra Club. Billie joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the regional climate action plan, which is a collaborative effort between Climate Action KC,

The Green Party is the fourth-largest political party in the United States. Its platform is based on Four Pillars – Peace, Ecology, Social Justice, and Democracy. - Join host, Bob Grove, and guests as they explore the Green Party of the United States....

For our show on Monday February 21st,  host Richard Mabion has Zack Pistora, lobbyist for the Kansas Group of the Sierra Club, back on our program to explain the issues and inform us about  bills are under consideration in the Kansas Legislature.

For our show on Monday February 14th, host Terri Wilke brings you a SWEET topic – bees and the nectar, HONEY, they bring from nectar.  First, she speaks with Marty Hansen, an apiarist (beekeeper), from Belton Missouri.

Environmental hazards are consistently placed in poor communities and policies aimed to improve the environment often spread costs and benefits unevenly across different populations. Experts acknowledge that Climate Change will disproportionally affect...

For our show on Monday January 31st, 2022, host Brent Ragsdale interviews two founding members of the Planetary Limits Academic Network (PLAN) - Dr. Melody LeHew, Professor in the Department of Interior Design and Fashion Studies at Kansas State Univer...

Al Davis, lobbyist for the Nebraska chapter of the Sierra Club, joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the toxins contaminating the seeds used to produce ethanol and how the waste byproduct known as "wetcake" is contaminating farmland in Nebraska,

For our show on Monday January 17th, 2021, host Richard Mabion will speak about the Kansas Legislature with Zack Pistora, lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club.  The Kansas Legislature consists of a 125-member House of Representatives and a 40-member Sen...

For the show on Monday January 10th, 2021, host Terri Wilke will speak about the proposed West Gardner Solar Project with Michael Almon, Author at Sustainability Action Network. - https://www.sustainabilityaction.net/ -

Our homes are the single largest investment most of us will make in our lives. They not only have a huge impact on our finances and our lifestyle, but collectively they have a huge impact on the planet. - Join host, Bob Grove,

The political economy of global warming will be discussed by Spencer Graves and Stephen Melton, interviewed by host Craig Lubow. This includes a discussion of bills currently before the US Congress with various proposals for "Carbon Fee and Dividend",...

For the show on Monday December 20, 2021, host Brent Ragsdale has done a farm tour at KC Farm School on Gibbs RD in Kansas City KS. - We wish this hour could be only good news of this remarkable place, but recently their greenhouse sustained damage fr...

Facing the twin existential threats of the human-induced Sixth Mass Extinction of Species and global warming, humanity increasingly recognizes the necessity for transformations.  Beyond all the science, models, and policy proposals,

On EcoRadio KC for 11-29-21, host Terri Wilke has prepared a show about Albert Bates, a member of the intentional community and ecovillage movements. - We wish this hour could be a real time interview with Albert Bates, however, he can't zoom,

On November 22, 2021, EcoRadio KC will feature host Brent Ragsdale bringing Michael Dowd, American progressive Christian minister, author, and eco-theologian known as an advocate of Big History, religious naturalism, sustainability, climate activism,

This last year has been a bellwether for climate issues. We’ve had a new federal administration changing the direction of U.S. climate policy. The United Nation’s IPCC has published it’s first climate assessment report since 2014.

On November 15, 2021, EcoRadio KC will feature host Richard Mabion speaking with John Hickey, the Missouri coordinator for Clean Energy for America, which works to amplify the voice of the clean energy workforce to advocate for just,

On November 8, 2021, EcoRadio KC will feature host David Mitchell speaking with Sherry Ellms, MA, of Naropa University in Boulder Colorado. - Sherry is an Associate Professor at Naropa University, and she has taught in the Resilient Leadership,

Citizen lobbying provides ordinary people with the opportunity to make a profound difference on big issues. Whether writing letters to editors, calling your elected representatives, or meeting officials in person or on zoom,

Host Craig Lubow will talk to Zack Pistora, Sierra Club Lobbyist and environmental activist, about solar energy. We will explore the economics of solar energy and advantages and disadvantages of each type of solar energy,

October 18, 2021 is going to feature a piece produced by KHOI FM in Ames, Iowa which aired on Sprouts, a program featuring radio programs produced at community radio stations. - We will play parts from Mike Murphy’s interview with Jessica Reznicek,

October 11, 2021 is our show during the KKFI fall 2021 pledge drive.  Please do not use that information as an opportunity to forgo our program, please tune in and use the opportunity to show your support for EcoRadio KC! - We are going to feature,

Lisa Ousley, Executive director of After the Harvest, and Max Kanbe from Kanbe Markets join Craig Lubow to talk about Hunger Action Month and new partnerships that After the Harvest has formed. - https://aftertheharvestkc.org/home/contact-us/ -  

In 2013, David Henry walked 1000 miles from Boston, MA to Dayton, OH. He did this to raise awareness of Climate Change; to talk to people along the way and listen to their climate concerns ... and/or why they were NOT concerned. -

On September 20, 2021, EcoRadio KC host Richard Mabion speaks with his friends Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz from Orcas Island, WA.   Sharon Abreu is Executive & Artistic Director and Michael is President of Irthlingz Arts-Based Environmental Educat...

EcoRadio KC host Terri Wilke speaks with John Fish Kurmann.   John is employed with Bridging the Gap and actively involved with 350.org. - 350.org is an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world...

Join host, Bob Grove, and guests for a look at Climate Change through the lens of the labor movement. Guests include: - • Joseph Uehlein – President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Union ...

On August 30, 2021, EcoRadio KC, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Larry Davis and Michael Almon, both fully electric vehicle (EV) owners.   Both can be described as local EV enthusiasts.  Larry Davis is a member of the Mid America Electric Auto Associat...

The Half-Earth Project was co-founded by E.O.Wilson, one of America's most pre-eminent biologist, whose purpose is to save half of the oceans and land for the preservation of most of the biodiversity on Earth.  In his book, The Creation (2006), E.O.

Host Craig Lubow speaks with Ty Gorman and Zack Pistora of the Kansas Group of the Sierra Club about the Beyond Coal Campaign.  To fight climate change, improve public health and reduce pollution, we have to stop burning fossil fuels.

Host Jon Honsaker speaks with Clint Brauer of Greenfield Robotics, a company located in Cheney Kansas which provides robots to eliminate weeds from agricultural row crops.  Mowing down weeds stops their growth.

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 s...

Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guest, Brigadier General Wendell Chris King, to discuss the Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change. - General King, U.S. Army (Retired), served our nation for 45 years.

For over a decade, New Roots for Refugees has empowered families from the refugee community to start farm businesses by growing and selling produce through farmer’s markets, wholesale, and the New Roots Farm Share.

On our show for 7/12/21, we will hear from Mary English, Energy Program Manager, Building Performance, and Miriam Bouallegue, Project Manager, Sustainable Transportation, both with Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC). - https://metroenergy.org/ -

This episode of Eco-Radio will explore regenerative agriculture and the critical role it will play in saving our Living Earth.  The global food system is responsible for up to one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions.  The book, Drawdown,

The electrification of transportation is well underway.  Electric cars, trucks, and trains are increasingly common and electric commuter flights are in the air.  With carbon-emission issues being addressed,

On our show for 6/28/21, we will hear from Jason Manuel, who is the founder of the Kansas City alternative podcast collective and co-host of KC caffeine, a podcast about "what's happening now and how we got here featuring some of Kansas City's brightes...

On EcoRadio KC, we will share the story of and teachings of Aldo Leopold, an American author, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best ...

On June 7th, 2021, host Richard Mabion speaks with Paula Console-Soican, Asst Professor of English and Joe Multhauf, Asst Professor of Biology, both of Donnelly College, a private Catholic college in Kansas City, Kansas. The college offers bachelor's,

On May 31st, 2021, host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Tom Jacobs, Environmental Program Director with the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), along with Hillary Thomas, Councilmember Ward 1 of Mission KS and Damien Boley, Mayor of Smithville MO.

On May 24th, 2021, host Richard Mabion speaks with Neil Brown, PhD, Director of Community Education and Engagement at UrbanKind Institute and Rich Gutowski of Stonegate Brokerage who is now affiliated with Philantrophic Life. -

Sometimes called Active Mobility or Active Travel ... Active Transportation is any form of transport that moves people or goods around without using a motor. The best know examples are walking and biking. Others types of Active Transportation are runni...

On May 10th, 2021, host Terri Wilke speaks with Lori Trojan, a herbalist who owns Wild Ivy Herb Farm, a 3-acre spot of beauty in Lawrence, Kansas where a vast variety of culinary and medicinal herbs are grown.

Host Jon Hokenson speaks with guests Brien Darby, NEW Executive Director with Cultivate KC. - Brien Darby relocated to Kansas City from Colorado with her husband and young daughter. She worked for the Denver Botanical Gardens.

Host Craig Lubow speaks with guests about People2People Inc. (P2P Inc.) which makes efforts to give a hand-up, one community at a time. Chris Roesel, Executive Director of P2P Inc, is a former PeaceCorp volunteer, and Jeff Morgan,

Kansas City Community Gardens (KCCG) is one of the only gardening organizations in the country dedicated to helping home gardeners have successful gardens. KCCG helps people grow food for themselves in backyards,

Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and the people behind EF21 to discuss Kansas City’s 2021 Earth Festival.

Four students currently enrolled in KU's Environmental Studies Capstone course, Madisen K. Hane, Eleanor Read Walsh, Hannah Nuest, and Sloan M. Sprau have chosen to fulfill their Capstone by creating their own show and we are lucky to broadcast that sh...

On March 22nd, we will replay our show from 4/20 when host Terri Wilke discussed the dicamba drift lawsuit with Paul Johnson and Rob Faux.  Paul Johnson is an organic farmer and the lobbyist/policy analyst for the Kansas Rural Center (KRC) which is wor...

For our show for March 8th, host Richard Mabion speaks with Zack Pistora,  state lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club.  March 5th  was Turnaround: the last day for non-exempt bills in a house of origin.   That means no more new bills,

Join Climate Hour host, Bob Grove, and guests to discuss U.S. Climate Policy under the new Biden administration. Guests include: - • Winston Apple – Author and former member of the Democratic National Committee

For our show for March 1st, host Jon Hokenson speaks with Brian Schath of CleanAirNow.  Brian wants listeners to know of their campaign to ask Evergy to retire the Lawrence Coal Plant early. Right now, Evergy is meeting to develop its Integrated Resour...

For our show for February 22nd, host Richard Mabion speaks with the Founders of Urban American Outdoors (UAO),  Candice Price and Wayne Hubbard. - Urban American Outdoors (UAO) is the first African American owned and produced adventure-sports reality ...

Our show for February 15th is during the KKFI 2021 Winter Fund Drive.  We truly appreciate your support for EcoRadio KC and we are happy for the opportunity for listeners to phone KKFI and show us your love! - For our program,

On our show for February 8th, host Jon Hokenson speaks with Mattie Bell of the Sunrise Movement Lawrence. Sunrise Movement Lawrence is a local hub of the national Sunrise Movement organization. The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate c...

Host Craig Lubow talks to Jill Erickson, Executive Director of Heartland Conservation Alliance about issues and projects the organization is currently working on. - Heartland Conservation Alliance is an urban land trust so that we can protect lands id...

On Jan. 25, 2021, Eco-Radio will have as our guest Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich'in - Steering Committee, a coalition of Gwich'in people seeking to preserve one of America's last great wildernesses, -

Elaine Giessel, marine biologist and chair of the Conservation Committee for the Kansas Chapter of the Sierra Club, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the Monarch Butterfly and its proposed listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species...

On our January 4th show, host Terri Wilke speaks with Alicia Ellingsworth, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Daniel Robinson, Farm Manager, and Jennifer Thomas, Co-Founder and Board Chair, from the KC Farm School on Gibbs RD.

You can tune in to hear Loretta Craig’s presentation at the KC Farm School conference, Let’s Grow! an event that occurred recently in November.  Loretta Craig speaks on Linking Human Health to Soil Health.  Loretta Craig’s years of research and hands-o...

Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations,

On our December 21st show, host Richard Mabion, our own community activist,  speaks with his friend Norman Anderson.  Norm has over 35 years of environmental public health experience.   He lives in Maine.  He and Richard met at an NAACP conference in P...

On our show before Veteran’s Day, host Richard Mabion, a proud Veteran, speaks with Nova Clarke, the new Visitor Services Manager for the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (NWR).  True to a veteran’s core leadership values,

Overpopulation puts a strain on Earth’s resources, food systems, and increases pollution and carbon emissions. Join Climate Hour host Bob Grove as his guests explore ethical ways to reduce population growth and shift to sustainable resources. -

In Kansas, it is now legal to hunt coyotes at night using lights and thermal-imaging equipment. They can be hunted openly all year long with motor vehicles and at night. Only the use of this thermal-imaging equipment and lights is new.

Host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Dr. Ye Tao, Faculty and Principle Investigator from the Rowland Institute at Harvard about a solution to the climate change crisis - MEER:ReflEction,  a grand, versatile, and comprehensive engineering project rooted in t...

Host Jon Hokenson speaks with Jacob Carter, a research scientist for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). In this role, Dr. Carter investigates how science is used in the policy-making process,

Host Teresa Wilke speaks with Bob Jurgens, the Bureau Director of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Bureau of Environmental Remediation, and John Jurgensmeyer, Environmental Remediation Program Director with the Missouri Department of Nat...

Ty Gorman started in May as the Sierra Club Campaign Representative with the Beyond Coal Campaign in Kansas.  Ty grew up in East Tennessee fighting coal plants in the mountains near his home and has worked on climate change mitigation and adaptation pr...

  - On Oct. 26, Eco-Radio will have as our guest, Mr. Mark Hague, who retired after a decades long career at the Environmental - Protection Agency, culminating in his appointment as the Administrator of the Region 7 office of the EPA in Lenexa, Ks.

Marty Kraft, local biochar enthusiast,  works with Tracy Garden, a no-till community garden that showcases biochar and carbon smart gardening. Host Brent Ragsdale will speak with Marty about the assets of biochar. - http://tracygarden.org/ -

Host Teresa Wilke speaks with Chef Michael Foust about how to dine with the planet in mind. - http://www.blacksheepkcmo.com/ - EcoRadio KC airs each week at the dinner hour – it’s time to talk about food.

Albert Ettinger joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the Clean Water Act and recent developments. Albert is an environmental law attorney and has represented various environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club,

This week's edition of Eco-Radio, with host, Dave Mitchell, will interview Dr. Richard Cruse, Professor in the Agronomy - Department at Iowa State University, and Dr. Timothy Crews, Director of Research at The Land Institute in Salina, Ks. -

Host Teresa Wilke speaks with Nick Godfrey, Principal and National Program Manager- Due Diligence at Environmental Works, Inc. and Andrew Brought, Environmental Attorney with Spencer Fane LLP,  about environmental cleanup,

Breathe, breathe in the air, don’t be afraid to care! - Host Richard Mabion speaks with activists with Clean Air Now, including Eric Kirkendahl, Rachel Jefferson and Beto Lugo Martinez, Co-Director.  The CleanAirNow Coalition is dedicated to improving...

Host Brent Ragsdale speaks with Davis Hammet, President of Loud Light.  Loud Light is a Kansas organization which fosters a culture of citizen participation. - Davis Hammet began organizing across Kansas on a variety of issues and turned his attention...

Climate change is a topic we hear every day, in all areas of our lives.  Public controversy swirls around the topic, however, the scientific consensus on climate change is solid. In a recent Pew Research Center survey,

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.

Host Richard Mabion will talk with the Chairman of the Equity Committee for the Climate Action KC group, Karan Gupta.  They will be defining what Equity really means.  Karan Gupta has been a Project Manager with BuildSmart and he is a leader dedicated ...

Bob Sommer, environmental activist and Fundraising director for Sierra Club-Kansas Chapter, talks to host Craig Lubow about the environmental grants program by the Sierra Club-Kansas. This program gives grants to educators in Kansas for special environ...

Host Brent Ragsdale will discuss the Why and How of Carbon Removal from the Atmosphere with Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock and also with Giana Amador from Carbon180.org. - Our old model was: if humans double the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmospher...

Dr. Jay Portnoy and Craig Volland join host Craig Lubow to discuss air quality in the Kansas City region and the impact of poor air quality on health. We will discuss the air quality from the annual Flint Hills burning, diesel transportation,

EcoRadio KC will have a round table discussion on gardens with Dennis Patton, Johnson County Kansas Horticulture Agent.  Dennis specializes in Ornamentals, Turf and volunteer management of Extension Master Gardeners, but don’t worry,

On this show we have in-studio two distinguished professors from the University of Kansas, Dr. Leonard Krishtalka, Director of the Biodiversity Institute and Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Dr. Jorge Soberon,

Join hosts Richard Mabion and Dave Bennett Freeling as they sit down with young people who have been learning and teaching others about water quality in the KC area through the Kids About Water program (KAW).

Join hosts Richard Mabion and Dave Bennett Freeling as they sit down with young people who have been learning and teaching others about water quality in the KC area through the Kids About Water program (KAW).

This week we get an update on the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule that have been changed to weaken our health protections over the past year.  It’s been a year since EPA held its only public hearing in KC, KS on proposals to change the rules.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) issued permits to the operators of four hog operations on two sites in Phillips and Norton Counties in Kansas and the Kansas Sierra Club filed for judicial review of that permit. - On 12/6/19,

John Hickey, Chapter Director of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club will call our studio to discuss negative effects of gerrymandering with our live guest Kevin Grooms of the Thomas Hart Benton Kansas City Missouri Sierra Club group.

First, Coco Castle and Meredith McAllister join host Craig Lubow to discuss composting on behalf of Compost Collective KC. Second, Annie Speicher Joins Craig for a discussion of her film, "Right to Harm". The discussion will include adverse impacts of ...

In the first half, John Kurman joins host Craig Lubow to talk about plastic bag bans. Do they work? What are the unintended consequences? What are the alternatives? John is a long time environmental activist.

On today’s show, Matt Riggs, Outreach Coordinator with Mid-America Regional Counsel (MARC) comes to the KKFI studio to discuss recycling plastics with our host, Teresa Wilke. MARC is a nonprofit association of city and county governments and the metrop...

This week host Brent Ragsdale brings Frank Jakob into the studio to discuss all aspects of transitioning our energy sources off of hydrocarbon fuels. Frank E. Jakob, PMP, P.E. is a Technology Manager specializing in Energy Storage with Black & Veatch.

Richard's guest this week is Huldah C Blamoville, M.D. Dr Blamoville is a pediatrician in St Louis and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital-St. Louis University and St.

Please tune in this week when Host Teresa Wilke talks live to Carey Gillam, a journalist, author, and a public interest researcher for US Right to Know, a not-for-profit food industry research group. Hear more about her book,

This week, we speak to Garrett G. Sullivan MD, a physician practicing integrative, functional, and biophysical medicine about the impacts and implications of Sunlight on our health and ecological well-being.  In addition,

The owners of Champlin Tire Recyling, Inc. were well aware that mountains of plastic and rubber waste are brought to our landfills and they decided to turn that waste into usable product.  BackAtcha Outdoor Furniture was created.

In the Summer of 2017 Andrés Bernal began supporting the Congressional campaign of former colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a policy advisor and organizer.  His work facilitated the incorporation of the Federal Jobs Guarantee policy onto the offici...

Sami Aaron of TheResilientActivist.org joins hosts Brent Ragsdale and Dave Bennett Freeling in the studio to discuss the growing need for "ecopsychology" as a response to emotional and psychological distress that often accompanies awareness of the unfo...

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 com...

It's a buggy summer and this week we are here to teach you practical ways to manage insects in and around the home and those surrounding the plants you maintain.  Learn types of pest management strategies that are commonly used.

The environment we are passing down to our children is becoming less hospitable every day.  While there are many positive actions we should take as caregivers of our youth and our resources, one of the most vital is to provide enriching educational opp...

For this program, Eco Radio KC airs an interview with Pamela McElwee.  She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, at Rutgers - the State University of New Jersey.

Hosts Brent Ragsdale and Richard Mabion recap an event that took place on April 30th 2019 at the Metropolitan Energy Center’s new home in the Nonprofit Village 31 West 31st street.  The event was a launch party for a music video called the Fuel Change ...

In the first segment, Julie Koppen joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the "Historic Green Restoration Home Tour." Julie is the publisher of Greenability Magazine. In the second segment, Craig Wood, Solid Waste Management Coordinator for Johnson County,

EcoRadio KC is pleased to present Daniel Clark Reuman, University of Kansas Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Scientist, Kansas Biological Survey. Earlier this year, Daniel offered a class to his community: "Climate Change and W...

On today’s show: Our programmer, Richard Mabion, will host a discussion with Althea Moses from EPA, Amy Roberts from KCMO Heath Dept and Christina VanCleave from Wyandotte County Health Dept. They will be discussing lead poisoning,

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 com...

On EcoRadioKC, host Brent Ragsdale welcomes guests Lee Gum and Russell Gray.  Both are active with the KC Extinction Rebellion Movement.  Lee and Russell will give us a history of the XR Movement and explain their actions on a global, national,

The post Glyphosate Roundup appeared first on KKFI.

Things are growing here in the Midwest and it is a great time to seek out locally grown foods.  This week's episode will provide you with up-to-date information about where you can go to get fresh, sustainably grown food.

First, Brent Ragsdale interviews Jack Vandeleuv Hub Coordinator for Sunrise Movement KC. We will be discussing what the Sunrise Movement is about and particularly their support for the Green New Deal. Their website says: "We're building an army of youn...

Join host Craig Lubow for a discussion of the Endangered Species Act with Heather Navarro, Executive Director of Missouri Coalition for the Environment. Discussion will include an overview of the act, reasons for the act, successes and failures,

The second part of our glyphosate roundup series reveals the science behind the harm caused by the most popular herbicide in history.  Learn the details of the inside information that Monsanto has been keeping from the public about the many diseases li...

The second part of our glyphosate roundup series reveals the science behind the harm caused by the most popular herbicide in history.  Learn the details of the inside information that Monsanto has been keeping from the public about the many diseases li...

On today’s show, we will hear our recording of events at the Extinction Rebellion in Kansas City and other Earth Day comments.  Then, host Richard Mabion will have a talk with Vann Jones.  After that, Richard and Teresa will have a live interview with ...

On today’s show, host Brent Ragsdale interviews Dorothy Barnett of the Climate Energy Project about the Kansas Energy Fairness Act and other energy transition (fossil fuel to renewable) related legislation in Kansas.   Next,

Host Richard Mabion speaks with Beth-Hannes Zacharias of the Metro Kansas City Climate Action Coalition along with Kristin Riott of Bridging the Gap.

Kevin Kamps, Director of Beyond Nuclear, joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the environmental problems presented by nuclear energy, including radioactive contamination caused by the transportation and disposal of nuclear waste.

When Pat Elder was in town on February 21st to kick off his tour of military bases contaminated with Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), Craig Lubow had a chance to interview him. We bring you that recording.

EcoRadio KC hosts KC Food Circle friends, Emily Akins and Brandi Schoen.  They will show us where and how we can get the tastiest, freshest, healthiest food around.  We'll be learning about what's new and exciting in local agriculture and how we can su...

On Dec. 11, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) released a new proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) definition to replace the 2015 rule issued under the Obama Administration.

Join hosts Richard Mabion and Dave Bennett Freeling as they sit down with young people who have been learning and teaching others about water quality in the KC area through the Kids About Water program (KAW).

We feature some recordings of activist Pat Elder regarding PFAS contamination at military bases including Richards-Gebhaur. And Bob Grove updates Craig Lubow on the newly formed Climate Council of Greater Kansas City.

Leaders of the Kaw Valley Native Plant Coalition: Courtney Masterson from Native Lands, LLC and Patti Ragsdale from Happy Apple's Farm, join host Brent Ragsdale to discuss how to identify and conserve, or even re-create, native prairie,

On today’s show, our guest is Elaine Giessel, a Marine Ecologist by training, has taught biology, geology, microbiology and environmental science at community colleges in both Kansas and Texas. She is a seasonal Park Naturalist at Ernie Miller Park in ...

Marty Kraft is a member of the Kansas City Missouri Environment Commission, whose purpose is to give policy direction to the Mayor concerning issues of environmental planning, management, and compliance with regulations and programs.

Our guest, Zack Pistora, is the Kansas Sierra Club Lobbyist. He and host Richard Mabion will provide listeners with an overview of legislation expected and legislation needed as well as his perspective on the possible reception of the Kansas House and ...

On this edition of EcoRadio KC we look at the representation of people of color within the ranks of those working for a cleaner environment.  We'll find out where some of the widest gaps are and look at ways we can all succeed in our efforts for enviro...

How can we get fresh food locally grown in the cold Midwestern winters?  On this EcoRadio, we learn about extending the growing and harvest seasons through the months with "r' in them.  Discussing beneficial techniques like row covers,

It’s a new year!  Time to look at our good ol' days so that our future can be even brighter!  Teresa Wilke will talk with two historians about the electric trolley boom in the early part of the 20th century.

For our final program of 2018, we feature some encouraging work that has been done this year in the KC metro around educating the next generation of environmental stewards.  Guests Alicia Ellingsworth of The Farm School at Gibbs Road and the Kansas Cit...

Lindsey Constance, Shawnee Councilwoman, joins host Craig Lubow to discuss evidence-based solutions to climate change. Lindsey helped organize Advancing Climate Solutions, a local workshop for area politicians and environmental activists to initiate lo...

Our guest, Robert Rosenberg, will speak on the availability and advantages of solar generated electricity.  Robert is a co-director of the Flint Hills Renewable Energy Cooperative (FHREEC) which is based in Manhattan, KS.

On today’s program our guest is Steve Mann, Owner, PrairieEcosystems Mgmt, who will speak with Richard Mabion about the environmental movement in the KC area since 2008.  Steve Mann has a volunteer history w/EcoRadioKC, Cultivate KC,

Ben Kjelshus, founder of the KC Food Circle and an organizer for the Green Party,  gave great ideas to our community.  His work toward building community enriched all our lives.  He was a contributor to KKFI for many years and on many topics.

Judith Wells joins host Craig Lubow to discuss the problem of the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) in failing to consider public input when issuing permits for injection wells, widely believed to be contributing to earthquakes in Kansas.

Mark Manning joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the KCK Organic Teaching Gardens. Mark is the coordinator of the program, which workshops for students in K through 12th grade in KCK classrooms. The mission of the program is to make connections with...

Dave Bennett interviews guests Rebecca and Tom from Fair Share Farm in Lawson to discuss the concept of "Natural vs Artificial" foods. Rebecca and Tom each have over 20 years of experience in sustainable agriculture and are involved in educating farme...

Teresa Wilke and Craig Lubow hosts candidates from the Missouri 5th District and Kansas 3rd District for an environmental "forum" in which they will discuss their environmental vision for the country. Chris Clemons joins us from the Kansas 3rd Distric...

Stan Slaughter is Kansas City's own Eco-Troubadour. Today he entertains the troops with a recount about his songs for a sustainable environment.  Stan is also an internationally famous expert on the process called composting,

The issue of an underground gasoline leak at the midtown corner of 31st ST and Cleveland, Kansas City MO, is a historic example of the great power of community involvement. Joseph Jackson will be the guest of Richard Mabion.

Today's program will be discussion with Al Pugsley of the Mid-America Electric Automobile Association (MAEAA) and Brian Girten, electric automobile owner, about the advantages derived from driving electric cars.

On today’s program, we talk with Lisa Ousley and Mariah Friend from the stellar non-profit program After the Harvest. After the Harvest rescues nutritious fruits and vegetables missed by commercial harvests and saves the food from going to waste in the...

Zack Pistora represents the Sierra Club and Kansans on issues such as water conservation, hydraulic fracturing, energy efficiency, clean energy and other environmental topics which are addressed by the Kansas Legislature in Topeka, KS.

350KC, The KC Climate Coalition and others sponsored a march in downtown Overland Park on Saturday morning. KKFI was on hand to record the proceedings. The following is taken from the Facebook event page: On September 8,

Tabitha Schmidt, CEO of Powell Gardens, joins host Craig Lubow. Tabitha talks about the impact on Powell Gardens, surrounding areas, and nearby centennial farms that would occur with a proposed expansion of a cattle feedlot if it is approved.

The http://www.heartlandconservationalliance.org/ checks in with us to bring us up to speed on all of their current endeavors. - And on World Ocean Radio: "The Earth Has One Big Ocean With Many Features."

At this past weekend's Kicking the Koch Habit Conference there were two workshops that were expressly environmental in nature. We bring you excerpts from The Climate emergency- The Case For Immediate Action,

Julie Stutterheim of Preserve the Line Creek Forest brings us up to speed on the struggle.

We welcome Dr. Seiglinde C. Othmer to the program to discuss her new book, Adventure New Zealand: Beneath the Totaras, a children's book which focuses on environmental issues. - In this sequel to "Whims, Wits, and Whiskers,

Amanda Graor, Principal Planner/Air Quality Program Manager for the Mid America Regional Council joins us to discuss air quality and ozone alerts in Kansas City.

Richard Mabion welcomes folks from project rally. - Also, an update on the last KC Forest.

Bob Groves, Sierra Club - Mo Chapter Legislative Chair, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about Environmental issues being confronted by the Sierra Club in Missouri. And, on This Week in Water... The interim head of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler,

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Help protect the Line Creek Forest, some of the last remaining original woodland forest within Kansas City in Platte County, from development. This is 800 acres of forest that surrounds the Line Creek Trail,

The Sierra Club's Zack Pistora returns with updates for Kansas.

Representatives of Cultivate KC join host Craig Lubow to talk about the recent Urban Farms tour, Juniper Gardens, and training refugees to be farmers.

Attorney Robin Martinez brings us up to speed on pipeline issues.

Craig Volland joins host Craig Lubow to talk about current developments involving CAFOs.

Dr. J. Drew Lanham is on a mission to diversify the ornithology community. Hear him talk about his passion for nature, birding, conservation ethics, and what happens when a black man goes birding in rural American woodlands.

Ecology Must Be the Heart of Theology - Reverend Michael Dowd checks in with EcoRadio KC in advance of his appearances at Wakarusa Wetlands and All Souls Forum. Michael Dowd brings a unique and compelling perspective into issues of faith,

Barry Dicker, President of Decent Energy, Inc. joins Richard Mabion.

Patrice Townsend, Director of BPU Utility Services Department, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about solar and other renewable energy available to BPU customers in Kansas City, Kansas. bpu.com/solar

Neighbors in KCK's Argentine district suffered from extreme flooding on several occasions last year. Will it happen again?

Evan Smalley returns to the program to bring us up to speed on water issues, particularly around the Blue River, and tell about some of the most important changes which might be happening with Government to protect our local Parks for 20 years! -

Donnelly College President, Msgr. Swetland returns to EcoRadio KC to discuss The Papal Encyclical on Climate Change and where the environmental movement is going.

Richard Mabion talks with Maurice Copeland, Retired Nuclear Weapons Worker and whistleblower at Bannister Federal Complex about how things have progressed in the past ten years.

DaRon McGee, Missouri's State Representative from the 36th district talks about environmental issues in Missouri, and member of the Historic Northeast Assocation discuss Galrand Park in Wyandotte County.

Emily Akins and Brandi Schoen from Kansas City Food Circle will join us to talk about the Kansas City Food Expo on March 31, 2018, to be held at the Johnson County Community College. They will also talk about the environmental benefits of eating orga...

D. Jensen Adams, Energy & Sustainability Manager for Kansas City Public Schools discusses sustainability in the schools. - Mrs. Anita Metoyer and Tiffany Dixon, the Lead College and Career Coordinator at Washington High School in KCK ,

The Kansas Sierra Club's Zack Pistora returns to KKFI to update us on all things environmental in the Kansas Legislature. Also, the Climate Energy Project updates us on their latest endeavor.

Richard Mabion hosts students from Wyandotte and Harmon High Schools who have been learning about water testing.

Victoria Cherrie from Nourish KC and Mariah Friend from After the Harvest KC join Craig Lubow to talk about food waste, including free area screenings of the movie "Wasted". Additionally, Kim Noble and Kerene Taylor from Dream Corp USA,

The EPA is having "listening sessions" in four cities across the United States on repealing the Clean Power Plan, one of which will be in Kansas City on February 21, 2018. It is open to the public and you can register to attend or to speak in favor or...

The Sustainability Action Network held its annual meeting on Friday, including a panel discussion on water in Kansas. We bring you that discussion. - Dawn Buehler - Friends of the Kaw: Kansas Riverkeeper Craig Volland - Kansas Sierra Club