Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation Listen to a conversation between Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein on May 21st, part of UC Santa Cruz’s annual Deep Read, about  Kolbert’s 2021 book, Under a White Sky. Kolbert is a writer, observer and commentator on the environment […]

Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney   On Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 14th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org   In the face of climate change, jurisdictions across the country and the world have set ambitious electrification goals that will rely heavily on […]

The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order with Dr. Joanne Yao On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 30th, 5-6 PM Rivers have long been the object of poems, songs, novels, studies, fishers, swimmers, sewage, engineers, farmers and salmon.  In California, rivers and the water in them are the focus of near-eternal political […]

W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? With Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler    On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 16, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org   Many KSQD listeners may know that the UC Regents recently approved UCSC’s Student Housing West proposal, which includes relocation of Family Student Housing to the iconic East Meadow, on […]

Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 2nd, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join SN! host Ronnie Lipschutz and Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, in honor of Earth Day. Weiss is well-known in Santa Cruz as “The Singing Scientist” and […]

A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org SN! Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Marisa Gomez, Community Education and Collaboration Manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.  In that role, Marisa leads the Museum’s onsite school […]

Some of My Best Friends are Elephants, with USF Law Professor Matthew Liebman On Sustainability Now! March 5th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org streaming on the internet   This is a rebroadcast of a show originally aired on June 26, 2022. Are elephants people, too?  Do they have rights?  A recent ruling […]

What’s a CAP?  And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen   On Sustainability Now! Sunday, February 5th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org   Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Rachel Kippen about city and county “climate action plans.”  A CAP lays out a community’s roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas […]

Blast from the Past Broadcast Latinx Farmers’ Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez  December 25th, 2022, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Josefina Lara Chavez, Farm-to-Market specialist and Senior Manager, Latinx Farmer Program for the Community Alliance for Family Farmers in […]

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Lani Faulkner, Founder and Director of Equity Transit of Santa Cruz County and Michael Wool, a transit activist and senior at UCSC.  We’ll be talking about Transit Equity Week 2023, which will run from January 30-February 4th, 2023. Transit Equity Day is a National Coalition movement event […]

The world’s climate is changing and it is changing more and more rapidly.  What are we to do?  In two weeks, at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt.  This is the 30th such gathering since 1992 and there is not much to […]

Funding for the Future!  with Dr. Delton Chen and Renegade Economist Della Duncan  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 30th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org What if humanity could take a giant step forward towards a climate transformation? We are rebroadcasting Christine Barrington’s October 12, interview with Dr. Delton Chen, Founder of the […]

“Fire, Fire on the Mountain!” New Threats to Organic Farming in California On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 16th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Farming is tough enough as it is, but when farmers face the loss of organic certification due to climate-related disasters and wildfires, what can they do? Join Host Ronnie […]

Open Farm Tours is Back! On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 2nd, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Open Farm Tours is back and happening October 8th and 9th! Fifteen south county farms are participating and all are family owned, organic and sustainable. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz and his guests, Penny Ellis, Paul Towers […]

Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele on Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 18th, 5-6 PM   Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele who is coleader of an Expert Writing Group of natural scientists, social scientists and humanities scholars who have published a “Letter to Fellow Citizens of […]

In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us? with Filmmaker Eric Thiermann  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 4th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org  Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with filmmaker and media producer Eric Thiermann. During his 40-year career, Thiermann has filmed, produced and directed hundreds […]

Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone! with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 21st, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Chelsea Tu, the new executive director of a new local non-profit, Monterey Waterkeeper, which combines education, science-based policy advocacy and […]

How a Republican Grandfather Helped Legalize Abortion with Dr. Caroline Tracey On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 7th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org These days, one’s political affiliation is often a clue to one’s position on abortion (and vice versa).  That was not always the case.  During the 1950s and into the 1970s, […]

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz in this Blast from the Past (originally broadcast on May 23, 2021) as he speaks with Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry and Conservation Sciences about the social life of trees.   Her 2021 book, Finding the Mother Tree–Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, has just been published.  According to Simard, communication […]

In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds! with Renee Shepherd of Renee’s Garden On Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 10th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Have you procrastinated on planting a garden or been too busy?  Do you think it’s too late and you’ll have to wait until next […]

Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership with Tahra Goraya On Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 12th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Sustainability Now! co-host Brooke Wright speaks with Tahra Goraya, the new President & CEO of the tri-county Monterey Bay Economic Partnership (MBEP).  MBEP works on housing, broadband access, workforce development, renewable energy […]

Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist Sustainability Now! Blast from the Past! Sunday, May 29th, 5-6 PM Once again, California is dry, dry, dry and that probably means we are in for a wild wildfire season. Since the beginning of 2021, there have been 10,000 wildfires across the state, and […]

Science by the People! Biodiversity & Community Science  with Rebecca Johnson & Alison Young, California Academy of Sciences  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 15th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org   Join Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Rebecca Johnson and Alison Young, Co-Directors of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at […]

Let’s Go Ride our Bikes! with Matt Miller On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 17th, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Join Sustainability Now! hosts Brooke Wright and Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Ecology Action’s Matt Miller about bicycles, Bike Month, e-bike rebates and local transportation policies and practices, more generally.  Matt is […]

Electrify California! with Benjamin Eichert  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 3rd, 5-6 PM on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org Hosts Brooke Wright and Ronnie Lipschutz speak with Benjamin Eichert, Director of  Let’s Green California—an initiative launched by the Romero Institute in Santa Cruz to create a California Green New Deal and get the core legislation […]