A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 8, 5-6 pm: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton

Posted by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Education, Politics, Science, Sustainability Now! | 0

A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 8, 5-6 pm: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton

Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio

Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio

A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 8, 5-6 pm: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton

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Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Robert Stayton, physicist and author of Solar Dividends: How Solar Energy Can Generate a Basic Income for Everyone on Earth. We’ll discuss the math, physics, economics and politics of his idea and proposal, and whether his utopian vision can be made real by the end of the 21^st century.

Previous broadcasts of Sustainability Now! are archived at KSQD.org and on Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation.

About The Author

Ronnie Lipschutz

Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught from 1990 to 2020, and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz (https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/). He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He teaches and writes 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. His most recent book, with Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, is Environmental Politics for Changing World—Power, Perspectives and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).

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