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, June 11th, 2023: Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jun 8, 2023

Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic We hear a lot these days about innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption of the status quo in pursuit of a better...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 28th, 2023: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future–Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 25, 2023

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation Listen to a conversation between Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein on May 21st, part of UC Santa Cruz’s...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 14th: Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 11, 2023

Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney On Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 14th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org...

Sustainability Now! April 30th: The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 27, 2023

The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order with Dr. Joanne Yao On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 30th, 5-6 PM Rivers have long been the object of poems, songs, novels,...

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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.