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, April 14th: Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 14, 2024

Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman on Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 14th 5-6 PM on KSQD Bees are in danger; what can we do? Tune into a...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 31st: The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 28, 2024

The Green Energy Resource Rush & the American West With Professor Dustin Mulvaney Solar electricity is the fuel of the future. But can we go solar without damaging the environment? Solar farms...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 17th, 2024: The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 14, 2024

The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 17th, 2024, 5-6 PM KSQD 90.7 FM, KSQT 89.7 FM, K207FE(FX) 89.5 FM and KSQD.org All of us—well,...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 3rd: Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Feb 29, 2024

Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland On Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 3rd, 5-6 PM We live in a Consumer...

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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.