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 […]