Sustainability Now!

Sustainability Now! was launched on KSQD in 2019 by Ronnie Lipschutz. The show features interviews with activists, scholars, scientists, authors, philosophers, and others on a range of topics and issues that address the relationships among humans and nature, including life, death, taxes, biodiversity, energy, electricity, climate change, nuclear matters, animal rights, environmental activism, books, articles and many others. If you have a question, we have a podcast for you! SN! is broadcast on KSQD every two weeks, on Sundays, from 5-6 PM. Archives for shows beginning in 2019 are here and other podcast sites.

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 7th: The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Dec 4, 2025

The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay On Sustainability Now! December 7th, 2025, 5-6 PM on KSQD The...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd: The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Nov 20, 2025

The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer on Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd, 2025, 5-6 PM If you venture out...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th: The Omnivore’s Deception–What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Nov 10, 2025

The Omnivore’s Deception What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves With Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute On Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th, 5-6 PM...

Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Oct 23, 2025

The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 26th, 5-6 PM Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The...

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Ronnie D. Lipschutz has been host and producer of Sustainability Now! since August 2019. He is a recovering academic as well as President of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation ((https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/), a green project incubator in Santa Cruz, founded in 2015, and Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught from 1990 to 2020. AT UCSC, he taught and wrote about energy, resources and social sustainability, foreign policy, global politics and sociology, politics and popular culture, and surveillance society. He is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of numerous books and articles on international and global environmental politics, energy and resources, civil society and popular culture. Ronnie He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978.