Best Ronnie Lipschutz Podcasts (2024)

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"What's in Those Plastics, Anyway?" with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara 56:45

2d ago56:45

56:45

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 the future. There is a lot of oil and natural gas in the world and, if and when we wean ourselves from fossil f…

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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 51:21

17d ago51:21

51:21

According to those who know, we are in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinction, this one brought on by the activities of human civilization that are resulting in a species extinction rate that is estimated to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates. So far, efforts to protect endangered plants, animals and insects hav…

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Blast from the Past! Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard 51:21

17d ago51:21

51:21

According to those who know, we are in the midst of the Sixth Great Extinction, this one brought on by the activities of human civilization that are resulting in a species extinction rate that is estimated to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than natural extinction rates. So far, efforts to protect endangered plants, animals and insects hav…

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Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill--A Talmudic Exegesis 53:03

1M ago53:03

53:03

You probably receive an electricity bill every month from your local utility and, after complaining about it, dutifully pay it. But do you ever stop to read your electricity bill? If you are a customer of PG&E and, maybe, a local community choice aggregator, you receive 6 pages of unintelligible, closely-spaced text, numbers, graphs and acronyms. A…

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Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill: A Talmudic Exegesis 53:03

1M ago53:03

53:03

You probably receive an electricity bill every month from your local utility and, after complaining about it, dutifully pay it. But do you ever stop to read your electricity bill? If you are a customer of PG&E and, maybe, a local community choice aggregator, you receive 6 pages of unintelligible, closely-spaced text, numbers, graphs and acronyms. A…

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Do We Dominate Nature because We Fear Death? with Professor James Rowe, University of Victoria 51:24

2M ago51:24

51:24

Why do humans dominate nature and why have they done so? Is it because of God told Adam and Eve to “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”? Is it because capitalism sees the world in terms of …

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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 1:04:23

2M ago1:04:23

1:04:23

The light and energy from the sun falls on us all, humans, animals and plants. That light is what sustains life on Earth. But that light can also be transformed into electricity by solar photovoltaics that are not cheap. Is solar energy the common property of everyone on Earth or is it the exclusive property of those who can afford the technology t…

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What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School 52:38

2M ago52:38

52:38

Students eat. But what do they eat? And where does that food come from? Both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Department of Food and Agriculture are trying to help small farms sell more of their organic produce to public schools, shortening the supply chain between farms and consumers and encouraging students to eat more salads…

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What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School 52:38

2M ago52:38

52:38

Students eat. But what do they eat? And where does that food come from? Both the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Department of Food and Agriculture are trying to help small farms sell more of their organic produce to public schools, shortening the supply chain between farms and consumers and encouraging students to eat more salads…

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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman 51:16

3M ago51:16

51:16

Bees are in danger; what can we do? Tune into a Sustainability Now! rebroadcast from 2021 to hear a conversation with Eve Bratman, an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bratman is a political ecologist with interdisciplinary training utilizing social science to explore conservati…

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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman 51:16

3M ago51:16

51:16

Bees are in danger; what can we do? Tune into a Sustainability Now! rebroadcast from 2021 to hear a conversation with Eve Bratman, an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Bratman is a political ecologist with interdisciplinary training utilizing social science to explore conservati…

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The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney 56:37

3M ago56:37

56:37

Solar electricity is the fuel of the future. But can we go solar without damaging the environment? Solar farms in distant places need transmission lines to get their product to the market. Storage batteries, and especially electric vehicles, require lithium and the stuff must be mined somewhere. And all the while, its seems that the solar enterpris…

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The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart 55:26

4M ago55:26

55:26

All of us—well, many of us—are backyard gardeners. And it’s planting season. Backyard gardens are not immune from the impacts of violent and unpredictable weather or the longer-term effects of climate change. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Kim Stoddart, editor of Amateur Gardening and author of The Climate Change Resilient Veget…

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Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland 51:32

4M ago51:32

51:32

We live in a Consumer Society. Rising consumption is good, since it makes the economy grow. At the same time, we face a Climate Crisis. Rising consumption is bad, since it makes carbon emissions grow. People across the Global North believe we must reduce emissions but they are reluctant to reduce their consumption. What can we do? Some advocate eco…

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Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland 51:32

4M ago51:32

51:32

We live in a Consumer Society. Rising consumption is good, since it makes the economy grow. At the same time, we face a Climate Crisis. Rising consumption is bad, since it makes carbon emissions grow. People across the Global North believe we must reduce emissions but they are reluctant to reduce their consumption. What can we do? Some advocate eco…

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The Elephant Seals are Back! with Dr. Theresa Keates 54:58

5M ago54:58

54:58

The elephant seals are back! The elephant seals have made their annual trip back to the California Coast! During the winter months, Elephant Seals turn to love...and fighting... and feeding... and laying around in the sun and rain. This is the prime viewing season at Año Nuevo State Park and Point Reyes National Seashore, where you can watch the tw…

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California Against the Sea With Rosanna Xia of the LA Times 54:36

5M ago54:36

54:36

Climate change is transforming what scientists call the land-sea interface, with crumbling cliffs, falling structures, tidal and storm flooding and loud homeowners demanding government action. Should that interface be buttressed and built up to prevent further coastal erosion or is managed retreat a better strategy? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a…

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The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins 49:31

6M ago49:31

49:31

Energy has been with us for a long time and, over the past 100 years, fossil fuels have been cheap and plentiful. Now we are going to have to pay the piper if we want to limit the future impacts of climate change. How could that happen. Tune in to hear Amory Lovins, cofounder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and long time energy policy analyst and a…

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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper 49:35

6M ago49:35

49:35

Monterey Waterkeeper is part of a coalition of organizations seeking to reduce nitrate pollution in the region’s groundwater. Nitrate contamination, the result of over-application of fertilizers, can cause the “blue baby syndrome” and various cancers in adults. The State Water Board recently issued rules that allow growers to continue over-applicat…

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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper 49:34

6M ago49:34

49:34

Monterey Waterkeeper is part of a coalition of organizations seeking to reduce nitrate pollution in the region’s groundwater. Nitrate contamination, the result of over-application of fertilizers, can cause the “blue baby syndrome” and various cancers in adults. The State Water Board recently issued rules that allow growers to continue over-applicat…

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Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby 58:20

7M ago58:20

58:20

According to Simon Dalby, Professor emeritus in the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, global politics over the past 70 years has been driven by an overabundance of "firepower," both nuclear and carbon-based. The first was used by Great Power to threaten incineration of the world, by intentio…

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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 53:14

7M ago53:14

53:14

Nuclear power is being touted as a way of providing clean energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and paving the way to a zero-emission future. There is talk of a “nuclear renaissance,” with small modular reactors (SMRs) replacing the gigawatt nuclear behemoths of the past, quickly and at much lower cost. But the United States’ experience with nu…

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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 48:38

8M ago48:38

48:38

Long-time listeners to Sustainability Now! know that we periodically turn to a focus on plastic, whose production is predicted to skyrocket over the next few decades, as fossil fuel companies look for ways to sell their product. Plastics are not forever, although they last a long time in the environment and are piling up across the world’s lands an…

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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 49:14

8M ago49:14

49:14

Sequoias are among the oldest living things on Earth, and most of the world’s sequoias are in Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks. Since 2020, according to the National Park Service, almost 20% of that iconic species have been destroyed by wildfires. The parks’ management is planning to repopulate the burned-over areas with thousands of sequoi…

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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 49:14

8M ago49:14

49:14

Sequoias are among the oldest living things on Earth, and most of the world’s sequoias are in Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks. Since 2020, according to the National Park Service, almost 20% of that iconic species have been destroyed by wildfires. The parks’ management is planning to repopulate the burned-over areas with thousands of sequoi…

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The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science 53:50

9M ago53:50

53:50

When you go out into the world and walk on the Earth, have you ever wondered what was beneath your feet? Animals and plants, of course, but mostly soil. Soil is a wonderful substance, an essential element in the riot of life that covers the planet’s continents. But soil is not without life of its own: a handful of fertile soil is home to more organ…

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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 47:08

9M ago47:08

47:08

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for this Blast from the Past with Dr. Helen Caldicott. According to Dr. Caldicott, the nuclear doomsday clock of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set at 100 seconds to Midnight, but 20 seconds is closer to the mark. Dr. Caldicott has devoted the last forty-two years to an international campaign to educate the publ…

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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 47:07

9M ago47:07

47:07

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for this Blast from the Past with Dr. Helen Caldicott. According to Dr. Caldicott, the nuclear doomsday clock of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is set at 100 seconds to Midnight, but 20 seconds is closer to the mark. Dr. Caldicott has devoted the last forty-two years to an international campaign to educate the publ…

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Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson 56:00

9M ago56:00

56:00

For uncounted millennia, the creatures of the world’s ocean have been hunted, captured and killed by human beings. For most of that history, however, this was done for subsistence purposes. Only over the last few centuries, was the slaughter of whales, seals, otters, turtles, sharks and other marine species justified in the name of capitalism and i…

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Hitman for the Kindness Club, with Captain Paul Watson 56:00

9M ago56:00

56:00

For uncounted millennia, the creatures of the world’s ocean have been hunted, captured and killed by human beings. For most of that history, however, this was done for subsistence purposes. Only over the last few centuries, was the slaughter of whales, seals, otters, turtles, sharks and other marine species justified in the name of capitalism and i…

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Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School 53:40

10M ago53:40

53:40

What do you know about CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, passed in 1970 and signed into law by then-Governor Ronald Reagan? For more than 50 years, CEQA has been used to inform decisionmakers and the public about the potential environmental impacts of proposed projects but, in recent years, it has been applied in situations for which …

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How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner 46:51

11M ago46:51

46:51

The Rights of Nature is one way to rethink the relationships between humans and Nature, but are there other ways to think about those connections? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Rosalind Warner, professor of political science at Okanagan College in British Columbia and Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project…

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Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News 54:34

11M ago54:34

54:34

More than 50 years ago, Christopher Stone, a UCLA law professor, wrote a groundbreaking book Should Trees Have Standing? in which he argued for the right of trees to be represented in courts of law. Since then, the Rights of Nature movement has taken the world by storm; some countries have encoded such rights into their constitutions. But what does…

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When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud 51:10

1y ago51:10

51:10

When is the safety, health and well-being of people a concern for homeland security? Jackie McCloud, Watsonville’s Environmental Sustainability Manager in Public Works, has been accepted into the Naval Postgraduate School’s MA program in Security Studies at their Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey. According to McCloud, “People mi…

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"What's in Those Plastics, Anyway?" with Professor Susannah Scott of UC Santa Barbara 56:45

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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 51:21

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Blast from the Past! Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard 51:21

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Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill--A Talmudic Exegesis 53:03

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Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill: A Talmudic Exegesis 53:03

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Do We Dominate Nature because We Fear Death? with Professor James Rowe, University of Victoria 51:24

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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 1:04:23

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What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School 52:38

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What do students eat? Salads! with staff and students from Esperanza Community Farms and Pajaro Valley High School 52:38

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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman 51:16

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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman 51:16

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The Green Energy Resource Rush and the American West with Professor Dustin Mulvaney 56:37

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The Climate Change Resilient Vegetable Garden With Kim Stoddart 55:26

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Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Scotland 51:32

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Can we square our need to consume with sustainability? with Dr. Jean Boucher, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland 51:32

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The Elephant Seals are Back! with Dr. Theresa Keates 54:58

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California Against the Sea With Rosanna Xia of the LA Times 54:36

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The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins 49:31

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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper 49:35

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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper 49:34

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Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby 58:20

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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 53:14

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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 48:38

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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 49:14

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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 49:14

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The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science 53:50

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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 47:08

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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 47:07

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Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson 56:00

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Hitman for the Kindness Club, with Captain Paul Watson 56:00

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Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School 53:40

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How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner 46:51

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Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News 54:34

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When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud 51:10

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