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Tapping Tax Credits to Fuel Alternative Energy

By | June 25, 2024 |

The morning light reflects off rooftop solar panels in the Lakewood subdivision.

Tax credits are helping more people adopt alternative energy sources such as solar panels and electric vehicles. But raising awareness is still a challenge.

Can Panasonic Help Kansas be Saudi Arabia of Clean Energy?

By | June 21, 2024 |

Panasonic Energy's electric vehicle battery plant is under construction in De Soto, Kansas.

The new Panasonic facility in DeSoto will be the world’s biggest battery plant, raising the question of whether Kansas can be the Saudi Arabia of clean energy.

Harvesting Change | Making Local Food Connections in the Heartland

By | June 20, 2024 |

A woman looks at a bundle of drying flowers on a lettuce stalk in a hoop house.

Meet the people who are making Kansas City’s increasingly interconnected local food system more sustainable on multiple fronts.

‘Time for a Reckoning.’ Kansas Farmers Brace for Water Cuts to Save Ogallala Aquifer

By | June 13, 2024 |

Sprinklers irrigate a field in Hamilton County, Kansas, where some farmers have petitioned to be removed from a local groundwater management district. State lawmakers are pressuring the district to do more to conserve water in the Ogallala Aquifer.

After decades of local inaction, Kansas lawmakers are pushing for big changes in irrigation to conserve water and save the Ogallala Aquifer.

Parched in the Panhandle: Town Frets About Water

By | June 11, 2024 |

A water tower in Guymon, Oklahoma, which relies on the Ogallala Aquifer for drinking water.

How Seaboard Foods rebuilt the Oklahoma panhandle’s economy, which ushered in a new era of groundwater depletion from the Ogallala Aquifer.