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, June 9th: Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill–A Talmudic Exegesis

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Dec 5, 2024

Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill A Talmudic Exegesis On Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 8th, 2024, 5-6 PM on KSQD You probably receive an electricity bill every month from your...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 24th: A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future with Dr. J. Mijin Cha

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Nov 21, 2024

A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future with Dr. J. Mijin Cha Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 24, 2024, 5-6 PM To avert the worst impacts of...

Sustainability Now! Sunday October 27th: Disabled Ecologies–Lessons from a Wounded Desert, with Professor Sunaura Taylor, UC Berkeley

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Oct 24, 2024

Disabled Ecologies--Lessons from a Wounded Desert, with Professor Sunaura Taylor, UC Berkeley on Sustainability Now! October 27th, from 5-6 PM Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr....

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 29: Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death, with Katrina Spade of Recompose

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 26, 2024

Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose What happens to your corporeal body, if and when it is buried in the earth? According to...

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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.