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 6th: Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation with Hugh Warwick (rerun from 2024)

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jul 3, 2025

Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation with Hugh Warwick on Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 6th, 2025, 5-6 PM Do you remember the Northern Spotted Owl, icon of the old-growth...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 28th: Out, Out, Damned Carbon! with Dr. Barbara Haya and Dr. Stephen Lezak, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Jun 19, 2025

Out, Out, Damned Carbon! with Dr. Barbara Haya & Dr. Stephen Lezak, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 22nd, 5-6 PM Carbon is a boon and a bane. It is at the core...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 25th: The Return of Wolves to California with Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity

by Ronnie Lipschutz | May 22, 2025

The Return of Wolves to California with Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 25th Gray wolves were once ubiquitous across California but the state’s last...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 27th: Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz and Christine Barrington

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Apr 24, 2025

Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz & Christine Barrington Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 27th, 2025, 5-6 PM Tariffs are in the air and on the news....

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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.