Talk of the Bay, December 6th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org
Ron Swenson, Director of “Solar Skyways” and “Solar Nations”
Can you be an environmentalist ‘activist-builder?’
Community visionary, climate activist, and solar housing developer Ron Swenson will be Chris Krohn’s guest on the first half of this week’s,“Talk of the Bay.” Swenson is an environmentalist and self-described “Nurture Capitalist” who has been developing housing and solar projects in California for more than 25 years. Swenson is also and a strong advocate in the fight to mitigate climate change.
Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Emeritus Professor of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught from 1990 to 2020, and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz (https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/). He received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He teaches and writes 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. His most recent book, with Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, is Environmental Politics for Changing World—Power, Perspectives and Practices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019).