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Are you concerned about the Earth's future? Are you interested in what is being done in Northern California and the world to address environmental issues? Do you want to act? Then tune in every other Sunday to "Sustainability Now!" on KSQD.org to hear interviews with scientists, scholars, activists and officials involved in the pursuit of sustainability. Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, California

Episode Date
What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School
Apr 29, 2024
Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
Apr 11, 2024
The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
Apr 01, 2024
The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart
Mar 18, 2024
Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland
Mar 04, 2024
The Elephant Seals are Back! with Dr. Theresa Keates
Feb 19, 2024
California Against the Sea With Rosanna Xia of the LA Times
Feb 05, 2024
The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins
Jan 22, 2024
What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
Jan 08, 2024
Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
Dec 25, 2023
Will Small Modular Reactors Save the Nuclear Industry? with Prof. Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Dec 11, 2023
Would the world beat a path to your door for a fully compostable plastic? with Raegen Kelly of Better for All
Nov 27, 2023
Replanting Burned over Sequoia Groves in the Sierras, with Dr. Christy Brigham, National Park Service, and Dr. Chad Hanson, John Muir Project
Nov 09, 2023
The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science
Oct 30, 2023
“You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet” With Dr. Helen Caldicott
Oct 16, 2023
Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson
Oct 02, 2023
Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School
Sep 17, 2023
How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner
Aug 21, 2023
Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News
Aug 07, 2023
Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Jul 24, 2023
When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
Jul 10, 2023
Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch
Jun 26, 2023
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic
Jun 12, 2023
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future--Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation
May 29, 2023
Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
May 15, 2023
The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao
May 02, 2023
W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? with Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler
Apr 17, 2023
Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar
Apr 03, 2023
A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez
Mar 20, 2023
Firepower & Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
Feb 20, 2023
What’s a CAP?  And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen  
Feb 06, 2023
“You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet” with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Jan 14, 2023
Transit Equity Week 2023 with Lani Faulkner, Michael Wool and Equity Transit
Dec 12, 2022
Trees are Shape Shifters--Italian Landscapes and Human Interventions in the Anthropocene
Nov 28, 2022
Report from the Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, with Professor Sander Chan and Andrew Deneault
Nov 14, 2022
Funding for the Future! with Dr. Delton Chen and Renegade Economist Della Duncan
Nov 01, 2022
“Fire, Fire on the Mountain!” New Threats to Organic Farming in California
Oct 17, 2022
Open Farm Tours is Back!
Oct 05, 2022
Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele
Sep 19, 2022
In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us?
Sep 05, 2022
Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone!
Aug 22, 2022
How a Republican Grandfather Helped Legalize Abortion
Aug 09, 2022
Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia (rebroadcast)
Jul 27, 2022
In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds!
Jul 11, 2022
Some of My Best Friends are Elephants! with USF Professor Matthew Liebman
Jun 27, 2022
Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, with Tahra Goraya
Jun 16, 2022
Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
May 30, 2022
Science by the People! Biodiversity and Community Science with Rebecca Johnson & Alison Young, California Academy of Sciences
May 17, 2022
Let's Go Ride our Bikes!
May 02, 2022
To be an Elephant Seal in the Spring! with Theresa Keates
Apr 22, 2022
Electrify California!
Apr 03, 2022
A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Nuclear Winter!
Mar 21, 2022
What are Seabed Mineral Nodules and Who Wants Them?
Mar 07, 2022
From Food Waste to Soil at Hard Core Compost
Feb 21, 2022
Latinx Farmers’ Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez
Feb 07, 2022
Solar Panels and Solar Panics, with Dr. Ahmad Faruqui
Jan 24, 2022
Here Comes the Sun!
Jan 09, 2022
Foodware Beware! with Tim Goncharoff
Dec 13, 2021
Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
Dec 01, 2021
W(h)ither Water? with Sierra Ryan, County Water Resources Manager
Nov 15, 2021
Oil and Water Don’t Mix! with Fred Keeley
Oct 31, 2021
What’s slough? I don’t know, what’s slough with you? with Dr. Kerstin Wasson, Elkhorn Slough
Oct 23, 2021
There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology, with Maya Elson of CoRenewal
Oct 04, 2021
The Sustainable Systems Research Foundation: Who are those guys?
Sep 20, 2021
Clean Energy Now! with Shaina Nanavati of Reclaim Our Power
Sep 06, 2021
An SN! Revisit with Dr. Rupa Basu. Climate Change and Public Health
Sep 06, 2021
An SN! Revisit: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton
Sep 06, 2021
That’s the Last Straw! with Jackie Nuñez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw
Jul 26, 2021
Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Jul 12, 2021
Fighting Fires with Fire, with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
Jul 01, 2021
Making Solar Law and Solar Sausages: How It’s Done in California, with Allie Detrio, Chief Strategist of Reimagine Power
Jun 14, 2021
Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia
May 27, 2021
“Are we the cows of the future?” The digital management of nature and humans with Professor Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University, London
May 17, 2021
What’s that bug up to, anyway? Insect socioecology in urban gardens, with Azucena Lucatero
May 03, 2021
Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
Apr 19, 2021
The Green Business Program in California & the Monterey Bay Region, with Brooke Wright, Green Business Expert
Apr 05, 2021
Water in California’s Future, with Dr. Ruth Langridge
Mar 24, 2021
There Otter be a Law! Will the Southern Sea Otter Survive? A conversation with James Estes
Mar 24, 2021
Environmental Literacy for K-12 Students, with Amity Sandage, Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Feb 24, 2021
Reconnecting with Nature through Ecospirtuality: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Merrill
Feb 08, 2021
W(h)ither California & the Nation? A Conversation with State Senator John Laird​​
Jan 25, 2021
“To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
Jan 11, 2021
Are we Becoming “Plastic People of the Universe” Or, What does “biodegradable” really mean?
Dec 28, 2020
Environmental Justice through Building Green, Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Dec 14, 2020
Sustainability Now! Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture on a Small Farm
Dec 01, 2020
Electric Vehicles on the Road and in Our Future
Nov 16, 2020
Forests and species after wildfires & climate change
Nov 02, 2020
Clean Water as a Human Right
Oct 20, 2020
As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
Oct 05, 2020
Healthy Eating and Economic Justice in the Pajaro Valley
Sep 21, 2020
Accessory Dwelling Units in Our Backyards
Sep 07, 2020
Sustainability & Politics after Annus Horriblis 2020, with Kim Stanley Robinson
Aug 24, 2020
Climate Change, Heat & Birth Impacts
Aug 09, 2020
Environmental Art in Public Spaces
Jul 26, 2020
Sustainable Community Commons
Jul 12, 2020
Climate Changes & Black Lives
Jun 22, 2020
Public Lands on Pacific's Edge
Jun 14, 2020
"The Wheels on the Bus"
May 31, 2020
Farmworkers Struggling to Survive
May 17, 2020
Protecting Sacred Lands
May 03, 2020
By the Beautiful Sea
Apr 19, 2020
Urchins in the Storm
Apr 05, 2020
No Place Like Home
Mar 22, 2020
Auto-Free Living in Hayward?
Mar 08, 2020
Climate Justice in the Pajaro Valley
Feb 23, 2020
Caring for the Prairie
Feb 09, 2020
A Conversation with Extinction Rebellion
Jan 26, 2020
Is Bioethanol the Answer?
Jan 13, 2020
A Basic Income with Solar Energy
Dec 16, 2019
What Do You Do About a Problem Like PG&E?
Dec 02, 2019
Down on the Farm
Nov 18, 2019
Zero Waste Living?
Nov 04, 2019
Where the Mountain Lions Are
Oct 21, 2019
History of UC Santa Cruz
Oct 07, 2019
Where Does Your Bottle Go?
Sep 23, 2019
Green Architectural Design
Sep 08, 2019
Climate Action Now!
Aug 25, 2019