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Posts Tagged ‘Sustainability’

Harvesting Change | Making a Local Meat Market

By | January 25, 2024 | 0
black cow in a feed lot

Cattle rancher Mike Callicrate is rethinking the food chain. He embraces a sustainable approach to raising, processing and selling meat directly to consumers.

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Kansas City-area Residents Plead with Missouri Lawmakers to Stop Landfill

By | January 16, 2024 | 0
Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, was joined by, from left, Sens. John Rizzo, D-Independence, Greg Razer, D-Kansas City, and Mike Cierpiot, R-Lee's Summit, at a news conference to discuss a moratorium on landfill development in Kansas City last spring.

Neighbors and nearby cities are opposing a landfill proposed by KC Recycle & Waste Solutions just south of Missouri Highway 150 in Kansas City.

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Kansas City Tapping Massive Vein of Sustainability Funding 

By | January 9, 2024 | 0
Clouds in the sky.

The Kansas City area, which is emerging as a national sustainability hub, is pursuing up to $200 million in federal funds for green projects. 

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Recycling Program Turns Plastic into Park Benches

By | December 13, 2023 | 1
The Kansas City Downtown Lions Club has collected and recycled enough plastic bags in the past three years to get six benches, which are located throughout the area including this one in front of Kansas School for the Blind in Kansas City, Kan. The group’s most recent bench was placed outside Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Kansas City.

Several cities in the Kansas City area have gotten park benches made out of recycled plastic bags, thanks to a program supported by Trex Co. Inc.

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New Exhibition Asks Crucial Question: Where Are the Birds?

By | November 22, 2023 | 0
Eric Ward, vice president for public programming for Linda Hall Library, standing between two of his three photographs shown at the ornithology exhibition. Ward is particularly fond of the Brown-headed Nuthatch reintroduction display next to his pictures. He describes their distinct call as “sounding just like a rubber ducky.”

The birds of North America are dying. A new exhibit at the Linda Hall Library documents their decline, and the reasons behind it.

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