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, March 5th, 5-6 PM: Some of My Best Friends are Elephants! with USF Professor Matthew Liebman

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 2, 2023

Some of My Best Friends are Elephants, with USF Law Professor Matthew Liebman On Sustainability Now! March 5th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org streaming on the internet This is a...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 5th, 5-6 PM: What’s a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Feb 2, 2023

What’s a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen On Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 5th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Rachel...

Sustainability Now! Blast from the Past Broadcast, Sunday, December 25th, 5-6 PM: Latinx Farmers’ Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Dec 22, 2022

Blast from the Past Broadcast Latinx Farmers’ Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez December 25th, 2022, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 11th, 2022: Transit Equity Week 2023 with Lani Faulkner, Michael Wool and Equity Transit

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Dec 8, 2022

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Lani Faulkner, Founder and Director of Equity Transit of Santa Cruz County and Michael Wool, a transit activist and senior at UCSC. We’ll be...

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Ronnie D. Lipschutz

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.