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Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org

Ronnie Lipschutz
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Human Composting
Funeral Industry
Klamath Dam Removal
Sustainability
Environmental Sustainability
Donald Trump
American Environmentalism
Indigenous Rights
Salmon
Cremation
Natural Burial
Yurok Tribe
California
Washington State
Animal Rights
Environmental Policy
Regenerative Agriculture
Water Rights

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 ... more

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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 are much noisier than that: you have to be very quiet and have the right equipment to real... more

Nuclear weapons have been with us for 80 years. There are fewer today than was the case at the height of the Cold War, but there are more countries with nukes than ever before. Some heads of state have been, of late, threatening to use them. If you’v... more

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 converse the Earth’s vital resources.” Reu... more

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 and discarded items degrade into small pieces washed into the lake. What happens t... more

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Lina Ghanem
Co-founder of the Saba Grocers Initiative, focused on supplying fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods.
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Episode: Food Apartheid and Food Hubs A Visit with Saba Grocers and co-founder Lina Ghanem
Ronnie Lipschutz
Staff analyst for the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation and Emeritus Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz
Sustainable Systems Research Foundation
Episode: Are Tariffs Good for the Environment? Bad? Or What? With Ronnie Lipschutz and Christine Barrington
Jennifer Clapp
Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability
University of Waterloo
Episode: Titans of Industrial Agriculture With Professor Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo
Orin Martin
Manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz
Episode: Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
Jeffrey Downing
Ceramic artist and professor of art at San Francisco State University.
San Francisco State University
Episode: “To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Lecturer in American Indian Studies and author
California State University, San Marcos
Episode: As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
Andrea Mackenzie
General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Episode: Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley with Andrea Mackenzie of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Jim Clifford
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in History of Consciousness and Humanities at UC Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Episode: History of UC Santa Cruz
Kim Stanley Robinson
Renowned science fiction author known for his works tackling environmental issues, including The Mars Trilogy and The Ministry for the Future.
Episode: Sustainability & Politics after Annus Horriblis 2020, with Kim Stanley Robinson

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Ronnie Lipschutz
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Life and Death Decision-making through Algorithms, with Professor David Rehkopf and Derek Ouyang, Stanford University
Q: How could an internal actor intentionally manipulate the results of an algorithm like CalEnviroScreen?
An internal actor could preferentially select model specifications that favor certain communities, effectively designating funding to locations aligned with their constituents, which underlines the necessity for transparency in algorithm processes.
Life and Death Decision-making through Algorithms, with Professor David Rehkopf and Derek Ouyang, Stanford University
Q: Can you give us a sense of how an algorithm operates?
An algorithm provides a set of instructions for processing inputs to yield outputs; it can be compared to a recipe, detailing specific steps and quantities needed to achieve a desired result.
Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose
Q: What did you do to get the legislation for composting passed?
She details having coffee with a senator and leveraging public interest to turn human composting into a bipartisan bill.
Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose
Q: Was there something in your background that peaked your interest in what you're doing now?
Katrina reflects on her time in graduate school for architecture and a personal awakening to mortality that drove her to explore alternatives to conventional burial practices.
Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose
Q: Why don't we start with having you tell us about natural burial and the process that Recompose uses to compost bodies?
Katrina explains that human composting is different from natural burial because it involves a managed process of decomposition that transforms bodies into soil.

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4. Orin Martin
5. Jeffrey Downing
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