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, September 3rd, 2023 Blast from the Past: Trees are Shape Shifters–Italian Landscapes and Human Interventions in the Anthropocene, with Professor Andrew Mathews

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 31, 2023

Have you ever wondered about the history of the landscapes around you, how they were shaped and by whom? UCSC Associate Professor of Anthropology Andrew Mathews has and he has studied landscape...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 20th, 2023: How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner of the Earth Systems Governance Project

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 17, 2023

How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner of the Earth Systems Governance Project The Rights of Nature is one way to rethink the...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 9th, 2023: When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jul 6, 2023

When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud When is the safety, health and well-being of people a concern for homeland security? Jackie McCloud, Watsonville’s Environmental...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 25th, 2023: Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jun 22, 2023

Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Roland Bunch, who has worked in agricultural development for more than half a...

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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.