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, March 30th: Let the Salmon Swim Freely–The Klamath Dam Removal project with Brook Thompson

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 27, 2025

Let the Salmon Swim Freely--The Klamath Dam Removal Project with Brook Thompson Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 30th, 2025, 5-6 PM Until very recently, salmon and other fish attempting to spawn in...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 16th, 2025: Fire, Fire at Moss Landing–Why the batteries burned and what that means

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Mar 13, 2025

Fire, Fire at Moss Landing! Why the batteries burned and what that means on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 16th, 5-6PM On January 16th, 2025, a fire broke out at the Vistra plant in Moss...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 2nd, 2025: Food Apartheid and Food Hubs–A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Feb 27, 2025

Food Apartheid and Food Hubs A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 2nd,2025, 5-6 PM Food insecurity and food apartheid are a common challenge in many...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 2nd, 2025: American Environmentalism, Then and Now (1965-2025) With Mark Dowie

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Feb 27, 2025

American Environmentalism, Then and Now (1965-2025) With Mark Dowie Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 16, 2025, 5-6 PM Mark Dowie describes himself as “Cowhand, guitarist, investigative...

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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.