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, May 23rd: Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 27, 2021

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...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 16th: “Are we the cows of the future?” The digital management of nature and humans with Professor Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University, London

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 16, 2021

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz and Dr. Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck University in London. “Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous connections of...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 2nd: What’s that bug up to, anyway? Insect socioecology in urban gardens, with Azucena Lucatero

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 3, 2021

“Gosh, I never realized there was a social ecology in my backyard!” Tune in to Sustainability Now! find out just what those bugs are up to in your garden, as host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Azucena...

Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 19, 2021

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 18th, 2021, from 5-6 PM UCSC’s Agroecology Farm is known around the world for innovation, training and inspiration. But before there was a Farm, there was a...

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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.