Rancho Coyote Viejo–A Pilot Land Access Project for Farmers with Josefina Lara Chavez, Executive Director of RegenerationLA on Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 13th, 2026, from 5-6 PM Local food systems are of great importance to the Monterey Bay Region and, indeed, to California, and there is a growing number of small farms across the state […]

Speculations on Conjunctural Futures: What Might We Expect, What Must We Do? With  Kim Stanley Robinson author of The Ministry for the Future  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 30th, 2026, 5-6 PM on KSQD There are lots of dystopian futures floating around in the air and on the air.  Imagining the future is never really about […]

Trump’s War on California’s Environment with Jason Rylander & Hollin Kretzmann Center for Biological Diversity on Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 2nd, 2026  The Trump Administration has declared war on California and is hell-bent on eliminating any and all of the state’s environmental protections. As part of its “drill baby, drill” strategy, it is moving to open […]

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 California Coast, running from just south of San Francisco all the way down to the Salinas Valley.  The region has been […]

The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt  On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, July 5th, from 5-6 PM on KSQD Over the past four centuries, the transformation of the Greater San Francisco Bay Region has been extraordinary.  What was once a near paradise for a few hundred thousand indigenous First Peoples is now […]

Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, June 21st, 2026, from 5-6 PM on KSQD 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 […]

Everyone talks about climate, but no one does anything about it with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR & NCAR Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 7th, 2026 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 […]

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 demonstrated, among other things, the necessity of a rapid transition to renewable fuels, like solar and wind.  The technologies for capturing and converting […]

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 polyfluoroalkyl substances⁠—commonly known as ⁠PFASs⁠ and “forever chemicals”—have become ubiquitous in the environment and are being found almost everywhere […]

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. 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 […]