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EcoRadio KC
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.
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. Host Teresa Wilke met them at a recent Drive Electric Week electric automobile show sponsored by Sustainability Action Network. Increasingly, anyone can reliably drive an electric car anywhere, anytime, at a significant cost savings to the pocketbook and the environment.
Calendar events for week of 10/1/18:
10/1 7 PM Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming: Village Presbyterian, 6641 Mission Rd, 66208. Sponsored by Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition and 350KC. Encourage a change in how we think about and respond to the threat of global warming and climate change.
10/2 7 PM Sierra Club free screening of documentary The True Cost. This film is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. 4501 Walnut Kansas City MO
10/6 5 – 8 pm Visit Urbavore Farm and tour the passive solar, net-zero home and farmstead built by two urban, organic farmer homesteaders who live a diverse, sustainable lifestyle on 13.5 acres in Kansas City, MO. Farmers Brooke Salvaggio and Dan Heryer invite the public to see what a truly sustainable lifestyle looks like at their Hogs at Sunset party at their farm, 5500 Bennington Ave., Kansas City, MO. kid-friendly event, visitors are invited to bring a potluck dish to share and their own plates and utensils.
10/6 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Lawrence Electronic Recycling Event. The City of Lawrence Solid Waste Division will host its Electronic Recycling Event in the University of Kansas Park & Ride Lot at Clinton Parkway and Crestline Drive.
10/7 3:30 – 5 PM Kansas Biological Survey invites us to Creating Connections: How do Science and Education Help us understand Water Quality in KS River? Amy Burgin, Survey Scientist and Associate Professor of Ecology, and Dawn Buehler, Kansas Riverkeeper, Friends of the Kaw, will present at KU Field Station’s Armitage Education CTR, 350 Wild Horse RD, Lawrence 66044 Questions: [email protected]
