On 4/6/20, Teresa Wilke will have a talk with Cara Schuster, licensed massage therapist and owner of Fox Den Folk Care.  Months ago, Cara contacted EcoRadio KC and offered to do a program about natural funerals.  What a timely subject this is! Cara began her career as a massage therapist in 2005. Her work is deep and intuitive. She creates her own herbal massage mediums to facilitate deep healing from within.  Cara Schuster started Fox Den Folk Care to provide people with certified massage therapy, home funeral guidance, and estate organization. Her journey in holistic end-of-life care came to her in 2013, when she became a certified death midwife. She is committed to continuing community outreach and educating folks on natural death care options. As a certified home funeral guide, it is her mission to provide folks with authentic, economical and environmentally-friendly alternatives to end-of-life care. http://foxdenfolkcare.com We quote Bob Dylan, “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.” Please stay tuned!

EcoRadio KC welcomes Kristan Chamberlain, Executive Director, and Heather Nevarez,  Director of Operations of KC Can Compost. KC Can Compost is an innovative social and environmental enterprise conceived by Shelter KC, a charity that provides homeless men and women with compassionate relief services, long-term recovery support, and green employment training. Together, they educate and employ once-homeless men and women, at a living wage, to collect organic waste from local area kitchens and divert it from the landfill for composting. Two goods, one solution. The average Kansas City resident produces 102 tons of garbage in a lifetime and up to 60% could be used to create soil instead of methane. By composting, people actively decrease our city’s methane production and contribute to a healthier Kansas City. Composting food waste puts nutrients back into the soil, so healthier food can be grown safely and efficiently. Because of its healthy microbial activity, compost serves as a potent fertilizer and natural pesticide - a sustainable alternative to chemical products.  Composting helps the soil retain water more efficiently which minimizes damaging runoff that contaminates our waterways and contributes to land erosion. Landfills are reaching capacity and contaminating our water and air with toxins in the…

Dorothy Barnett, Executive Director of the Climate + Energy Project joins hosts Brent Ragsdale and Dave Bennett Freeling to talk about climate and energy related legislation in Kansas.  We will play clips from the Clean Energy Business Council's 3rd Annual Policy Summit that took place on January 16th and WEALTH Day, (Water, Energy, Air, Land, Transportation & Health) which was February 10th. You can watch the entire WEALTH Coalition Comprehensive Climate Hearing you can click here (or just listen to this EcoRadio KC episode for the highlights!).  And while you're clicking around getting educated, find out more of what's goin on in the Sunflower State... Kansas Rural Center's weekly policy watch https://kansasruralcenter.org/category/legislative-policy-watch/ and Loud Light - brief Youtube updates during each week of the Kansas Legislative session https://www.loudlight.org/week-9-2020     ABOUT THE CLIMATE + ENERGY PROJECT It started when founder, Nancy Jackson was having a "dialogue” with her father-in-law, Wes Jackson (founder of The Land Institute) about a proposed coal plant under consideration in Western Kansas. Supporters of the plant badly needed jobs and wanted new transmission lines to carry wind energy. Opponents of the plant feared the impact of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and water use. A…

This week hear about all the issues that have impacted your environment over the past year and help us look toward a brighter future! EcoRadio KC has been broadcasting on KKFI for over 10 years.   We are one of the best local resources for information and advocacy on behalf of your environment.  This is a huge responsibility for us and we do not take it lightly!  Our 5 co-producers spend countless hours researching and connecting with people and organizations to bring you all the news, events, ideas and interviews that can fit into an hourly program each week.  This year, we have spoken with inspiring authors like Paul Hawken, Pam McElwee and Carey Gillam, featured exclusive talks by visionaries like Wes Jackson, Andres Bernal and Amory Lovins, and highlighted the work of Earth-saving organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, the Resilient Activist, Green 2.0, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Beyond Nuclear, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Friends of the Kaw, Compost Collective KC, After the Harvest, Metropolitan Energy Center, Climate Action KC, Mid-America Regional Council, the Kansas City Farm School, Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise Movement and so many more!  Your support and feedback are so valuable to keep…

As sea levels rise and the planet warms what effects should we anticipate in our region of the country? Patrick Marchman is a member of the Agenda Setters for the Climigration Network. He founded the Climate Migration and Managed Retreat Member Interest Group, at the American Society of Adaptation Professionals. Marchman has a Master’s degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a Certified Environmental Planner and he lives in Kansas City MO.