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 biologists, economists and others to put a value on nature’s services: what would it cost, for example, to provide clean water […]

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 of four dams from the Klamath River in Northern California is rapidly becoming one of the great recent success stories in […]

Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology On Sustainability Now!  Sunday, February 1st, 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 […]

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 KSQD Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years.  There are fewer today than was the case at the […]

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 hotel bathrooms that read: “Save Our Planet,” followed by instructions about reusing and replacing towels, and concluding “Thank you for helping us […]

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 is under siege and increasingly awash in plastic wastes, as visitors carelessly dispose of bottles and packages […]

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 Center at UC Santa Cruz is one of the little-known jewels of the campus as well as […]

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 gardens with various flowering species, you are almost sure to see European honeybees flying about.  When we think of bees, those are the […]

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 themselves as “conflicted omnivores,” worrying about the ethical and environmental implications of their choice to eat animals. Yet their attempts to justify their choices […]

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 heard warnings that humanity would be doomed to a future of famine, hunger and starvation unless industrial agriculture were unleashed […]