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, September 15th: How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Sep 12, 2024

How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown on Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 15th, 2024 How should we speak with children about...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 1st, 2024: Protect San Benito County!

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 29, 2024

Protect San Benito County! with Andy Hsia-Coron, Chris Wilmers, Seth Adams and Valentine Lopez San Benito County is one of the unsung jewels of the Central California Coast. Most people know of...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 18th: Is it Curtains for Glaciers? Slowing Down Polar Melting, with Professor John Moore, University of Lapland

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 18, 2024

Is it Curtains for Glaciers? Slowing Down Polar Melting with Professor John Moore, University of Lapland on Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 18th As the Earth gets warmer, the world’s glaciers get...

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 4th: Let’s go Fishin’! with Melissa Mahoney of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 2, 2024

Let’s go Fishin’! with Melissa Mahoney of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust on Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 4th, 2024, 5-6 PM, KSQD 90.7 FM, KSQT 89.7 FM, K207FE(FX) 89.5 FM and KSQD.org The...

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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.