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! July 25, 5-6 PM: That’s the Last Straw! with Jackie Nuñez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw
Plastic is ubiquitous: it rains down on us, it fouls land, streams and oceans, it even turns up in our bodies. And the big oil companies are looking to plastic to keep up profits when fossil fuels...
Sustainability Now!, Sunday June 27th, 5-6PM: Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
California is dry, dry, dry and that probably means we are in for a wild wildfire season. Since the beginning of January, there have been more than 10,000 wildfires across the state. So, what are...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 13th, 5-6 PM: Making Solar Law and Solar Sausages: How It’s Done in California, with Allie Detrio, Chief Strategist of Reimagine Power
There is an old saying attributed to the 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck: “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” This show is...
Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 23rd: Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia
Join host Ronnie Lipschutz as he speaks with Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry and Conservation Sciences about the social life of trees. Her new book, Finding the Mother Tree--Discovering...
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