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! Blast from the Past, Sunday, July 24th: Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jul 21, 2022

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz in this Blast from the Past (originally broadcast on May 23, 2021) as he speaks with Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry and Conservation Sciences about the social...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 10, 5-6 PM: In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds! with Renee Shepherd of Renee’s Garden

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jul 7, 2022

In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds! with Renee Shepherd of Renee’s Garden On Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 10th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Have you procrastinated on...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 12th: Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, with Tahra Goraya

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jun 9, 2022

Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership with Tahra Goraya On Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 12th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Sustainability Now! co-host Brooke Wright speaks with Tahra...

Sustainability Now! Blast from the Past! Sunday, May 29th, 5-6 PM: Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 29, 2022

Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist Sustainability Now! Blast from the Past! Sunday, May 29th, 5-6 PM Once again, California is dry, dry, dry and that probably...

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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.