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Hosted by Ronnie Lipschutz · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 168 episodes
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Are you concerned about the Earth's future? Are you interested in what is being done in Northern California and the world to address environmental issues? Do you want to act? Then tune in every other Sunday to "Sustainability Now!" on KSQD.org to hear interviews with scientists, scholars, activists and officials involved in the pursuit of sustainability. Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, California
Ronnie Lipschutz hosts Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org, a science show with 168 episodes published.
The Santa Cruz Mountains cover more than 1,000 square miles of the Central California Coast, running from just south of San Francisco all the way down to the Salinas Valley. The region has been actively stewarded for tho
Who knew that ponds make music ? To the eye and ears, they seem silent and tranquil—except at night when, maybe, choruses of frogs serenade listeners. But ponds are much noisier than that: you have to be very quiet and h
Everyone talks about climate but no one does anything about it. In recent months, parts of Maui were nearly washed away by Kona Lows that dropped 60 inches of rain. An unusual trio of Pacific cyclones on both sides of th
The attack on Iran by the United States and Israel demonstrated, among other things, the necessity of a rapid transition to renewable fuels, like solar and wind. The technologies for capturing and converting them into us
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances—commonly known as PFASs and "forever chemicals"—have become ubiquitous in the environment and are being found almost everywhere in soil, water, plants and bodies. The Trump A
We’ve heard a lot about the problem of microplastics pollution. Just how bad is it? What are its causes? What are microplastics doing to us and the world? Is anything being done to stem the accelerating production and co
Indigenous peoples around the world are under threat, especially from massive development projects engineered by governments and corporations, which promise to destroy the lands, forests and waters on which those peoples
The State of California has created a program called “Transformative Climate Communities,” focused on making low-income, urban areas more resilient, efficient and responsive to housing, energy and climate challenges. Wha
The world’s cities are big and getting bigger. By 2050, 80% of the world’s people will live in cities. Can cities be made sustainable? Who is thinking about this? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Peter
Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort by biologists, economists and others to put a value on nature’s services: what would it cost, for example, to provide clean water the way nature does? Oxyg
The removal of four dams from the Klamath River in Northern California is rapidly becoming one of the great recent success stories in conservation and restoration. The riverbank habitat is returning to its former conditi
Who knew that ponds make music? To the eye and ears, they seem silent and tranquil—except at night when, maybe, choruses of frogs serenade listeners. But ponds are much noisier than that: you have to be very quiet and ha
Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years. There are fewer today than was the case at the height of the Cold War, but there are more countries with nukes than ever before. Some heads of state have been, of late, thr
Many listeners are probably familiar with the tags found in hotel bathrooms that read: “Save Our Planet,” followed by instructions about reusing and replacing towels, and concluding “Thank you for helping us converse the
Lake Tahoe is one of California’s natural jewels but it is under siege and increasingly awash in plastic wastes, as visitors carelessly dispose of bottles and packages and discarded items degrade into small pieces washed
The Kenneth S. Norris Center at UC Santa Cruz is one of the little-known jewels of the campus as well as the Monterey Bay Region. Ken Norris was an American marine mammal biologist, conservationist, naturalist, and co-fo
If you venture out into parks, farms and gardens with various flowering species, you are almost sure to see European honeybees flying about. When we think of bees, those are the ones that usually come to mind. But there
Millions of Americans see themselves as "conflicted omnivores," worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices only obscure the truth
Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, we heard warnings that humanity would be doomed to a future of famine, hunger and starvation unless industrial agriculture were unleashed to grow
Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist par excellence of the 1950s and 1960s, died this past July at age 97. Many listeners and their progeny grew up listening to and singing his compelling compositions: easy to remember, easy
Dr. Daniel Swain
climate scientist and Weather West blogger · University of California
1 appearance on this show
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
Amy Bowers Cordalis
former general counsel · Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
1 appearance on this show
David Rothenberg
musician, composer and professor of philosophy and music · New Jersey Institute of Technology
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Dylan K. Spaulding
Dr. · Union of Concerned Scientists
1 appearance on this show
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