Climate
Climate Impact Index Turns Up Heat on Kansas City
Kansas City ranks as one of the worst cities in the country in a new transportation climate impact index.
Kansas City Activists Rally Against Climate Change
Kansas City-area activists are staging a “Climate Strike” at noon Friday on the steps of City Hall.
Climate Change’s Serious Effects On Kansas Citians Disproportionately Affect The Poor
The discussion about climate change often centers on what increasingly extreme weather will mean for agriculture and the environment. But what about its effect on poverty?
Climate Summit Coming to Overland Park on Saturday
Climate Action KC, a group of elected officials and community leaders, is staging a Climate Action Summit on Saturday at Johnson County Community College.
Kansas City’s Connection to Patsy Cline’s “Last Photograph”
The “Last Photograph” of Patsy Cline taken by Mildred Keith.
A Q&A with Rockhurst University’s Chief Inclusion Officer
Get to know a Rockhurst’s first-ever Chief Inclusion Officer, Leslie Doyle.
Sympathetic Vibrations | Kansas City of Music
A few quietly celebrated last fall as Kansas City was officially designated a “Creative City of Music” by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And though the UNESCO announcement met little fanfare, that hasn’t dampened the spirits of an excited delegation from KC that traveled to Poland this week for the next phase…
To Preserve the Species, Eat It
A decade ago, Leawood native Amy Dunn was living in Kansas City, Missouri, and selling books at Barnes & Noble. And even though she was apprenticing as a horse trainer, she was no more country than a suburban horse. Her boyfriend, Michael Billings, wasn’t much different. He was a city-dwelling software engineer who also boarded…
‘We Know That There Are Some Choices That Are Better’
In advance of Earth Day, we hear from Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.” Kolbert warns in her book that unless we change habits soon, the Earth and climate will reach an irreversible point, creating conditions unsuitable for organic life on Earth and starting the sixth extinction. Although grim this tale…
‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ Backstory
Ruth Henning couldn’t find the one book she wanted to read. So, like a lot of writers before her, she wrote the book herself. That book, “The First Beverly Hillbilly: The Untold Story of the Creator of Rural TV Comedy,” is a newly published memoir of Henning’s husband, television producer Paul Henning, who grew up…