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, September 19th, 5-6 PM: The Sustainable Systems Research Foundation. Who are those guys?

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 20, 2021

The Sustainable Systems Research Foundation: Who are those guys? On Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 19th, 5-6 pm Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 5th: Clean Energy Now! with Shaina Nanavati of Reclaim Our Power

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 6, 2021

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Shaina Nanavati, a research organizer for the Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Campaign and staff member of the Local Clean Energy Alliance....

A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 22nd, 5-6 PM: Climate Change and Public Health with Dr. Rita Basu

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 22, 2021

Planetary heating and climate change are in the news more and more, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just issued a very pessimistic report on humanity’s and the world’s...

A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 8, 5-6 pm: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 5, 2021

Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Robert Stayton, physicist and author of Solar Dividends: How Solar Energy Can Generate a Basic Income for Everyone on Earth. We’ll discuss the math, physics,...

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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.