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! 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,...

Sustainability Now! April 16th: W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? with Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 13, 2023

W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? With Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 16, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Many KSQD listeners may know that the UC...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 2nd: Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 30, 2023

Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 2nd, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join SN! host Ronnie Lipschutz and Dr....

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th: A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History with Marisa Gomez

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 16, 2023

A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez On Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org SN! Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Marisa Gomez,...

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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.