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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
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After the Floods--The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City, with Professor Ken Conca, American University
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The False Promise of Deep-Sea Mining, with Professors D.G. Webster and Susan Park
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation, with Hugh Warwick (rerun)
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Out, Out, Damned Carbon! with Dr. Barbara Haya & Dr. Stephen Lezak, Berkeley Carbon Trading Project
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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What's the Matter with California's Electricity System? with Loretta Lynch
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The Return of Wolves to California with Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity
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May 26, 2025 |
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Food Apartheid and Food Hubs A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem
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May 17, 2025 |
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The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism with Dr. Michael Maniates
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May 12, 2025 |
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Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz and Christine Barrington
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Titans of Industrial Agriculture With Professor Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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“To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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History of UC Santa Cruz
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Sustainability & Politics after Annus Horriblis 2020, with Kim Stanley Robinson
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Urchins in the Storm
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Climate Change, Heat & Birth Impacts
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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An SN! Revisit with Dr. Rupa Basu. Climate Change and Public Health
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Fighting Fires with Fire, with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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What Do You Do About a Problem Like PG&E?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Here Comes the Sun!
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Let's Go Ride our Bikes!
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Fighting Fires with Fire with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Let the Salmon Swim Freely--The Klamath Dam Removal project with Brook Thompson
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Fire, Fire at Moss Landing--Why the batteries burned and what that means
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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American Environmentalism, Then and Now (1965-2025) With Mark Dowie
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Life and Death Decision-making through Algorithms, with Professor David Rehkopf and Derek Ouyang, Stanford University
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture with Stephanie Anderson
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Will the U.S. Environment Survive Trump 2.0? With Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe?
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future with Dr. J. Mijin Cha
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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What Does the Chicken Know? And other Animal Stories with Sy Montgomery
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Disabled Ecologies--Lessons from a Wounded Desert, with Professor Sunaura Taylor, UC Berkeley
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Can Protection of Forests, Farms & Waters be Reconciled with Economic Development? with Larry Selzer of The Conservation Fund
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Protect San Benito County!
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Is it Curtains for Glaciers? Slowing Down Polar Melting, with Professor John Moore, University of Lapland
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Let’s go Fishin’! with Melissa Mahoney of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Bast from the Past! Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill--A Talmudic Exegesis
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Do We Dominate Nature because We Fear Death? with Professor James Rowe, University of Victoria
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May 27, 2024 |
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Is Solar Energy a Commons Belonging to Everyone or Private Property only for the Well-off? with Professor Kathryn Milun of the Solar Commons Project
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May 13, 2024 |
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What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Elephant Seals are Back! with Dr. Theresa Keates
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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California Against the Sea With Rosanna Xia of the LA Times
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Will Small Modular Reactors Save the Nuclear Industry? with Prof. Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Would the world beat a path to your door for a fully compostable plastic? with Raegen Kelly of Better for All
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Replanting Burned over Sequoia Groves in the Sierras, with Dr. Christy Brigham, National Park Service, and Dr. Chad Hanson, John Muir Project
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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“You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet” With Dr. Helen Caldicott
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future--Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation
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May 29, 2023 |
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Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
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May 15, 2023 |
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The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao
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May 02, 2023 |
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W(h)ither UCSC’s East Meadow? with Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Firepower & Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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What’s a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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“You’re going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet” with Dr. Helen Caldicott
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Transit Equity Week 2023 with Lani Faulkner, Michael Wool and Equity Transit
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Trees are Shape Shifters--Italian Landscapes and Human Interventions in the Anthropocene
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Report from the Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, with Professor Sander Chan and Andrew Deneault
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Funding for the Future! with Dr. Delton Chen and Renegade Economist Della Duncan
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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“Fire, Fire on the Mountain!” New Threats to Organic Farming in California
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Open Farm Tours is Back!
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us?
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone!
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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How a Republican Grandfather Helped Legalize Abortion
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia (rebroadcast)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds!
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Some of My Best Friends are Elephants! with USF Professor Matthew Liebman
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, with Tahra Goraya
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Science by the People! Biodiversity and Community Science with Rebecca Johnson & Alison Young, California Academy of Sciences
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May 17, 2022 |
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To be an Elephant Seal in the Spring! with Theresa Keates
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Electrify California!
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Nuclear Winter!
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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What are Seabed Mineral Nodules and Who Wants Them?
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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From Food Waste to Soil at Hard Core Compost
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Latinx Farmers’ Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Solar Panels and Solar Panics, with Dr. Ahmad Faruqui
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Foodware Beware! with Tim Goncharoff
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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W(h)ither Water? with Sierra Ryan, County Water Resources Manager
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Oil and Water Don’t Mix! with Fred Keeley
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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What’s slough? I don’t know, what’s slough with you? with Dr. Kerstin Wasson, Elkhorn Slough
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology, with Maya Elson of CoRenewal
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Sustainable Systems Research Foundation: Who are those guys?
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Clean Energy Now! with Shaina Nanavati of Reclaim Our Power
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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An SN! Revisit: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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That’s the Last Straw! with Jackie Nuñez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Making Solar Law and Solar Sausages: How It’s Done in California, with Allie Detrio, Chief Strategist of Reimagine Power
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia
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May 27, 2021 |
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“Are we the cows of the future?” The digital management of nature and humans with Professor Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University, London
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May 17, 2021 |
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What’s that bug up to, anyway? Insect socioecology in urban gardens, with Azucena Lucatero
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May 03, 2021 |
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The Green Business Program in California & the Monterey Bay Region, with Brooke Wright, Green Business Expert
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Water in California’s Future, with Dr. Ruth Langridge
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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There Otter be a Law! Will the Southern Sea Otter Survive? A conversation with James Estes
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Environmental Literacy for K-12 Students, with Amity Sandage, Santa Cruz County Office of Education
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Reconnecting with Nature through Ecospirtuality: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Merrill
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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W(h)ither California & the Nation? A Conversation with State Senator John Laird
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Are we Becoming “Plastic People of the Universe” Or, What does “biodegradable” really mean?
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Environmental Justice through Building Green, Healthy and Sustainable Communities
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Sustainability Now! Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture on a Small Farm
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Electric Vehicles on the Road and in Our Future
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Forests and species after wildfires & climate change
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Clean Water as a Human Right
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Healthy Eating and Economic Justice in the Pajaro Valley
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Accessory Dwelling Units in Our Backyards
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Environmental Art in Public Spaces
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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Sustainable Community Commons
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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Climate Changes & Black Lives
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Public Lands on Pacific's Edge
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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"The Wheels on the Bus"
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May 31, 2020 |
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Farmworkers Struggling to Survive
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May 17, 2020 |
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Protecting Sacred Lands
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May 03, 2020 |
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By the Beautiful Sea
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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No Place Like Home
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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Auto-Free Living in Hayward?
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Climate Justice in the Pajaro Valley
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Caring for the Prairie
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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A Conversation with Extinction Rebellion
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Is Bioethanol the Answer?
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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A Basic Income with Solar Energy
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Down on the Farm
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Zero Waste Living?
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Where the Mountain Lions Are
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Where Does Your Bottle Go?
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Green Architectural Design
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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Climate Action Now!
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Aug 25, 2019 |