Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio

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Are you concerned about the Earth’s future? Are you interested in what is being done in the Monterey Bay area to address environmental issues? Do you want to act? Then tune in every other Sunday to “Sustainability Now!” to hear interviews with local scientists, scholars, activists and officials involved in the pursuit of sustainability.

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Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 16th, 2026: 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
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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, August 16th, 2026, 5-6 PM on KSQD The United States is planning a $1.7 trillion overhaul of its entire nuclear arsenal, designing new warheads and investing […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 2nd: Trump’s War on California’s Environment, with Jason Rylander and Hollin Kretzmann from the Center for Biological Diversity
1mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 19th: The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager
1mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 5th, 2026: The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt
1mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 21st, 2026: Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology
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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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 7, 2026: Everyone talks about climate, but no one does anything about it with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR and NCAR
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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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 24th: Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism, with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College
3mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 10th: Is that Teflon in your food and water? Good for eggs, maybe, but probably not for you! with Dr. Faith Kibuye, Penn State University
3mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 26th: Microplastics: invisible, insidious, and…fixable with Dr. Myra Finkelstein and Dr. Steven Mentor
4mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 12th: “We think they’ll kill someone” indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation
4mo ago · 0:45
“We think they’ll kill someone” indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation On Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 12th, 5-6 PM 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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 29th: Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley
5mo ago · 0:55
Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley on Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 29th, 2026 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. What does this mean on […]
Sustainability Now! March 15th, 2026: The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer
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The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 15th 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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 1st: Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College
6mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! February 15, 2026: 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
6mo ago · 0:56
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 4, 2026: The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates
8mo ago · 0:54
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 21st: Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner
8mo ago · 0:52
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 7th: The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay
8mo ago · 0:53
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd: The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer
9mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th: The Omnivore’s Deception–What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
9mo ago · 0:56
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 […]
Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego
10mo ago · 0:55
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 […]
An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer–A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music
11mo ago · 1:05
An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music 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 to […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 28th: Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency
11mo ago · 0:55
Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency In October 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-82-20 which establishes a state goal of conserving 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030 – known as 30×30. The 30×30 goal […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 14: What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, USF School of Law
11mo ago
What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, University of San Francisco School of Law What’s up with climate change and climate law? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is going to cancel the “endangerment finding” of 2009 that provided the legal basis […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st: Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco and Dr. Michael Westphal
1y ago · 0:55
Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco & Dr. Michael Westphal On Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st, 5-6 PM Who knew there was a desert in the San Joaquin Valley inhabited by the “valley dragon,” aka, the “blunt-nosed leopard lizard.” The lizards have disappeared […]
Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 17th: “What’s in Those Plastics, Anyway?” with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara
1y ago · 0:55
What’s In Those Plastics, Anyway? with Professor Susannah Scott, Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara The world is awash in plastic. According to a study published in 2020, total production of plastics since 1950 is now over 10 billion tons, with more than half of that simply discarded. And the production of plastics will only increase in […]

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Sustainability Now! from KSQD Radio

Episodes 154

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 16th, 2026: 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

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 2nd: Trump’s War on California’s Environment, with Jason Rylander and Hollin Kretzmann from the Center for Biological Diversity

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 19th: The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 5th, 2026: The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 21st, 2026: Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 7, 2026: Everyone talks about climate, but no one does anything about it with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR and NCAR

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 24th: Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism, with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 10th: Is that Teflon in your food and water? Good for eggs, maybe, but probably not for you! with Dr. Faith Kibuye, Penn State University

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 26th: Microplastics: invisible, insidious, and…fixable with Dr. Myra Finkelstein and Dr. Steven Mentor

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 12th: “We think they’ll kill someone” indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 29th: Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley

Sustainability Now! March 15th, 2026: The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 1st: Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College

Sustainability Now! February 15, 2026: 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

Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 4, 2026: The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 21st: Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 7th: The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd: The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th: The Omnivore’s Deception–What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego

An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer–A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 28th: Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 14: What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, USF School of Law

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st: Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco and Dr. Michael Westphal

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 17th: “What’s in Those Plastics, Anyway?” with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara

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Episodes 154

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 16th, 2026: 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

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 2nd: Trump’s War on California’s Environment, with Jason Rylander and Hollin Kretzmann from the Center for Biological Diversity

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 19th: The Santa Cruz Mountains Stewardship Network With Dylan Skybrook, Network Manager

Sustainability Now! Sunday, July 5th, 2026: The San Francisco Bay Area—An Environmental History With David D. Schmidt

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 21st, 2026: Secret Sounds of Ponds and Other Animal Music with Professor David Rothenberg, NJ Institute of Technology

Sustainability Now! Sunday, June 7, 2026: Everyone talks about climate, but no one does anything about it with Dr. Daniel Swain, UCANR and NCAR

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 24th: Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism, with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College

Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 10th: Is that Teflon in your food and water? Good for eggs, maybe, but probably not for you! with Dr. Faith Kibuye, Penn State University

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 26th: Microplastics: invisible, insidious, and…fixable with Dr. Myra Finkelstein and Dr. Steven Mentor

Sustainability Now! Sunday, April 12th: “We think they’ll kill someone” indigenous resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico, with Anjan Sundaram, The Stringer Foundation

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 29th: Transformative Climate Communities in California With Nancy Faulstitch and Eloy Ortiz, Regeneración Pajaro Valley

Sustainability Now! March 15th, 2026: The Past and Future of Sustainable Communities with Peter Calthorpe, Architect & Urban Designer

Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 1st: Biologists Unite! The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services with Professor Daniel Suarez, Middlebury College

Sustainability Now! February 15, 2026: 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

Sustainability Now! Sunday, January 4, 2026: The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 21st: Microplastics in Lake Tahoe: What are They Doing There? What are they Doing? With Madison “Madio” Wallner

Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 7th: The Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC: What is it? Why is it there? With Professor Ingrid Parker and Center Director Chris Lay

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 23rd: The ABCs of California Native Bees with Krystle Hickman, Conservation Photographer and National Geographic Explorer

Sustainability Now! Sunday, November 9th: The Omnivore’s Deception–What We get wrong about meat, animals and ourselves, with Professor John Sabonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego

An Hour Wasted with Tom Lehrer–A KSQD Tribute to the Man and His Music

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 28th: Conserving California’s Lands and Coastal Waters: A Progress Report with Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency

Sustainability Now! Sunday, September 14: What’s Happening with Climate Law across the World, the United States and California? with Professor Alice Kaswan, USF School of Law

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 31st: Save the Valley Dragons! Restoring the Blunt-Notes Leopard Lizard to the San Joaquin Desert with Dr. Michael Telemeco and Dr. Michael Westphal

Sustainability Now! Sunday, August 17th: “What’s in Those Plastics, Anyway?” with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara