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Are you concerned about the Earth’s future? Are you interested in what is being done in the Monterey Bay area to address environmental issues? Do you want to act? Then tune in every other Sunday to “Sustainability Now!” to hear interviews with local scientists, scholars, activists and officials involved in the pursuit of sustainability.
ksqd.org hosts Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio, a society show with 152 episodes published.
The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager On Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 19th from 5-6 PM   The Santa Cruz Mountains cover more than 1,000 square miles of the Central Cal
Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College on Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 24th, from 5-6 PM The attack on Iran by the United States and Israel demo
Is that Teflon in your food and water? Good for eggs, maybe, but probably not for you! with Dr. Faith Kibuye, Penn State University On Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 10th, 5-6 PM on KSQD Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroal
Microplastics: invisible, insidious, and…fixable with Dr. Myra Finkelstein & Dr. Steven Mentor on Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 26th on KSQD We’ve heard a lot about the problem of microplastics pollution. J
“We think they’ll kill someone” indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 12th, 5-6 PM Indigenous peoples around the world
Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 29th, 2026 The State of California has created a program called “Tran
The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 15th The world’s cities are big and getting bigger. By 2050, 80% of the world’s people
Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 1, 2026 Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort by
The Water Remembers—My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life with Amy Bowers Cordalis Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group On Sustainability Now, Sunday, February 15th, 2026 The removal o
Plutonium Pit Production–The Risks and Costs of US Plans to Build New Nuclear Weapons with Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding of the Union of Concerned Scientists On Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 18th, 2026, 5-6 PM on KS
The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 4th, 2026, 5-6 PM Many listeners are probably familiar with the tags found in hote
Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: How did They get There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner on Sustainability Now! December 21st, 2025, 5-6 PM on KSQD FM Lake Tahoe is one of California’s natural jewels but it
The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay On Sustainability Now! December 7th, 2025, 5-6 PM on KSQD The Kenneth S. Norris Cente
The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer on Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd, 2025, 5-6 PM If you venture out into parks, farms and gard
The Omnivore’s Deception What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves With Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute On Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th, 5-6 PM Millions of Americans see t
The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 26th, 5-6 PM Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, we
An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music     Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist par excellence of the 1950s and 1960s, died this past July at age 97. Many listeners and their progeny
Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued Exe
What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law What’s up with climate change and climate law? The U.S. E
Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco & Dr. Michael Westphal On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st, 5-6 PM Who knew there was a des
Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Science · Providence College
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Faith Kibuye
Dr. · Penn State University
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Myra Finkelstein
Adjunct Professor in the Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Department at UC Santa Cruz · UC Santa Cruz
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Steven Mentor
Santa Cruz climate activist and long-time environmentalist · Santa Cruz
1 appearance on this show
Anjan Sundaram
mathematician turned climate war reporter · The Stringer Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Eloy Ortiz
Special Projects Manager · Regeneración Pajaro Valley
1 appearance on this show
Nancy Faulstitch
Executive Director · Regeneración Pajaro Valley
1 appearance on this show
Peter Calthorpe
architect and urban designer · HDR
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Suarez
Professor · Middlebury College
1 appearance on this show
Amy Bowers Cordalis
former general counsel · Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding
Dr. · Union of Concerned Scientists
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Michael Maniates
Dr.
1 appearance on this show
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