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! April 4th: The Green Business Program in California & the Monterey Bay Region with Brooke Wright, Green Business Expert

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 5, 2021

These days, we are hearing a lot about plans to transform the country’s energy infrastructure from one based on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy resources. President Biden appears to...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 21st: Water in California’s Future, with Dr. Ruth Langridge

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 23, 2021

It’s beginning to look as though California is headed into another multi-year drought. The snowpack is meager and contracted water supplies through the state’s delivery systems are likely to be much...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 7th: There Otter be a Law! Will the Southern Sea Otter Survive? A conversation with James Estes

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 23, 2021

The southern sea otter is a keystone species in kelp forest communities, acting to increase the species diversity and providing ecosystem services. Despite federal protection since 1977, the...

Sustainability Now! on February 21st: Environmental Literacy for K-12 Students, with Amity Sandage, Santa Cruz County Office of Education

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Feb 20, 2021

Sunday, February 21st: Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with Amity Sandage, environmental literacy coordinator for Santa Cruz County Office of Education. Sandage leads a countywide effort to build...

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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.