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 6th, 2022: What are Seabed Mineral Nodules and Who Wants Them? with Emily Jeffers, Center for Biological Diversity

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 6, 2022

What are Seabed Mineral Nodules and Who Wants Them? with Emily Jeffers, Center for Biological Diversity On Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 6th, 5-6 PM California Assembly Member Luz Rivas...

Sustainability Now!, Sunday, January 23rd, 5-6 PM: Solar Panels and Solar Panics, with Dr. Ahmad Faruqui

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jan 21, 2022

Solar Panels and Solar Panics, with Dr. Ahmad Faruqui January 2022 is Solar Energy Month on Sustainability Now! On Sunday, January 23rd, hosts Ronnie Lipschutz and Brooke Wright welcome Dr. Ahmad...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 9: Here Comes the Sun!

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jan 9, 2022

Here Comes the Sun! on Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 9th, 5-6 PM on KSQD January 2022 is Solar Energy Month on Sustainability Now! On Sunday, January 23rd, we will be welcoming Dr. Ahmad...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 12th: Foodware Beware! with Tim Goncharoff

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Dec 9, 2021

Join hosts Brooke Wright and Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Tim Goncharoff, who knows everything there is to know about waste management. He has had a long and distinguished career in...

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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.