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, November 13th: Report from the Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, with Professor Sander Chan and Andrew Deneault

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Nov 10, 2022

The world’s climate is changing and it is changing more and more rapidly. What are we to do? In two weeks, at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 16th: “Fire, Fire on the Mountain!” New Threats to Organic Farming in California

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Oct 13, 2022

“Fire, Fire on the Mountain!” New Threats to Organic Farming in California On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 16th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Farming is tough enough as it is, but when...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 18th: Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 15, 2022

Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele on Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 18th, 5-6 PM Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Sharachchandra...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 4th: In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us? with Filmmaker Eric Thiermann

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 1, 2022

In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us? with Filmmaker Eric Thiermann On Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 4th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join Host Ronnie...

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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.