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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.
Dr. J. Drew Lanham is on a mission to diversify the ornithology community. Hear him talk about his passion for nature, birding, conservation ethics, and what happens when a black man goes birding in rural American woodlands. He will speak at Lawrence Public Library Thursday evening and lead a birding outing at Baker Wetlands Discovery Center on Friday morning. He will join us on the phone, and Candice Price and Wayne Hubbard of Urban American Outdoors TV will join us in the studio.
Lanham is intrigued with how culture and ethnic prisms can bend perceptions of nature and its care. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature and Sparrow Envy, a book of poetry. The Home Place was named a 2017 Nature Book of Uncommon Merit, the first time in the Burroughs Association history such a designation was awarded. The Home Place was also recently named the 2018 winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Environmental Writing Award.
