From The Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture With Stephanie Anderson Sustainability Now! On KSQD.org podcast

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Mark Dowie describes himself as “Cowhand, guitarist, investigative historian, poet” and journalist. He’s probably best known as cofounder, editor and staff writer for Mother Jones , but during his more than 50-year career, over his he’s also written for many other magazines, newspapers and publications, written eight books and received no less than 19 journalism awards. In 1995, Dowie published Losing ground: American environmentalism at the close of the twentieth century . Thirty years later—and 70-odd years since the beginning of that movement, join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dowie about the U.S. environmental movement, then and now.…

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Life and Death Decision-making through Algorithms, with Professor David Rehkopf and Derek Ouyang, Stanford University 53:55

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Over the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about artificial intelligence and the algorithms that support public policy, decision making and resource allocations. By processing reams of presumably neutral data, the algorithms are supposed to produce unbiased results. But we’ve also heard concerns about the algorithms themselves: what unrecognized assumptions go into their construction and how they can produce different outcomes depending on programmer choices about the data that goes into them. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Professor David Rehkopf of the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Derek Ouyang, Executive Director of City Systems and Senior Research Manager in Stanford University's Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab. We’ll be taking about what algorithms are, how they are used to promote environmental justice and guide public funding for disadvantaged communities, and why they can produce different results depending on what goes into them and what comes out.…

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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture with Stephanie Anderson 53:38

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What is regenerative agriculture ? Who is practicing regenerative agriculture? And what are its prospects? In two weeks, join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Stephanie Anderson , author of From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture , which explores how women are leading the movement to transform the U.S. agricultural system and inspiring hope in the face of environmental and social challenges.…

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Will the U.S. Environment Survive Trump 2.0? With Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, University of New Hampshire 53:41

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On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as President of the United States for his second term. There is considerable trepidation in the environmental policy and activism sectors across the country and, indeed, the world. Trump’s appointees are committed to deregulation across the board, especially where the environment is concerned, to gutting funding for renewable energy and rescinding the Inflation Reduction Act and increasing fossil fuel production and consumption. What his Administration might want to do and what it will be able to do are two very different questions. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a discussion on these matters with Dr. Andrew Rosenberg who, most recently, was director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and has had considerable experience in how policies are made and how they are implemented. That’s not as easy as many people believe. For more information on this topic, you can also watch "Navigating the Trump 2.0 Deregulatory Agenda webinar" from the Security & Sustainability Forum at: https://tinyurl.com/4e6ck2mn…

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Eco-utopia or eco-catastrophe? 56:27

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As California looks forward (!) to the beginning of a new Presidential Administration, there is growing trepidation about what it might mean for the state. Is it time to secede and join with other West Coast states to create a new country? Fifty years ago, Ernest Callenbach published Ecotopia , a vision of a new country dedicated to protecting people and the environment. In 2015, on the 40th anniversary of Ecotopia , UCSC held a conference called “Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of imagined futures in California and at UCSC.” Speakers included a number of academics, critics and dreamers. None of us, of course, imagined that Donald Trump might be the next President of the United States. Listen to three talks from the conference: a keynote by Kim Stanley Robinson , best-known today for The Ministry of the Future; a critique by UC San Diego Professor of Latin American Literature and Chicano Literature Rosaura Sanchez ; and an account of how Silicon Valley has become the generator of utopian and dystopian futures, by Fred Turner , Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. You can find videos of the complete conference at https://www.youtube.com/@ronnielipschutz8900 . And you can read an article on California eco-utopias at: https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ecotopia-or-ecocatastrophe.pdf.…

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A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future with Dr. J. Mijin Cha 52:14

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To avert the worst impacts of climate change, a transition away from fossil fuels is necessary. However, what this transition looks like and what would make a transition “just,” remain open questions. What workers are missing from “green” economy discussions? What role do workers play in the fight for a future without fossil fuels? How can workers and communities ensure the transition is “just”? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with UCSC Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies J. Mijin Cha , whose new book, A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future , will be published by MIT Press in December. Her research examines the intersection of inequality and the climate crisis in which the energy transition is leveraged to advance a more just future.…

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What Does the Chicken Know? And other Animal Stories with Sy Montgomery 54:09

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Frequent listeners to Sustainability Now! know that, from time to time, interviews focus on animals, mostly from the perspective of animal rights and whether animals are people, too. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Sy Montgomery , adventurer, naturalist and author, who has been engaging with and writing about animals since the 1980s. She asks questions like “what do chickens know? Does an octopus have a soul? And is it really “turtles all the way down?” She is the author of 38 nonfiction books for adults and children and has garnered numerous awards for them. Her 2023 book, Of Time and Turtles was a New York Times bestseller, and her new book, What the Chicken Knows , has just been published.…

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Disabled Ecologies--Lessons from a Wounded Desert, with Professor Sunaura Taylor, UC Berkeley 53:11

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Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Sunaura Taylor , Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor is also an artist , writer, activist and mother, who has just published Disable Ecologies—Lessons from a Wounded Desert . Her first book, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation , which received the 2018 American Book Award. Along with academic journals, Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets. Her artworks have been exhibited at venues such as the CUE Art Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution and is part of the Berkeley Art Museum collection. Among other awards, she has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, two Wynn Newhouse Award s, and an Animals and Culture Grant.…

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Can Protection of Forests, Farms & Waters be Reconciled with Economic Development? with Larry Selzer of The Conservation Fund 54:08

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A longstanding debate in the environmental and conservation movements is whether protection of natural resources can be reconciled with their economic development? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation about this question with Larry Selzer , President and CEO of The Conservation Fund , a Virgina-based nonprofit that buys land for conservation and promotes sustainable economic development. TCF works with public agencies to acquire land and hold it until the agencies are ready to purchase it back. And the organization focuses on protecting working forests and farms, which provide clean air, clean water, and jobs for rural communities.…

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Dust to Dust or Earth to Earth? Composting as an Alternative after Death with Katrina Spade of Recompose 53:44

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What happens to your corporeal body, if and when it is buried in the earth? According to Genesis in the Hebrew Torah, we come from dust and to dust we return. The original text, however, uses the word עָפָ֣ר ("apar"), which means “earth.” Most burials in the United States seek to protect the body from returning to the earth through containment, while cremation produces greenhouse gases and leaves behind heavy metals. Are there other ways to go? Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Katrina Spade , founder and CEO of Recompose , a Seattle-based green funeral home that composts human bodies, turning them into soil that can be spread almost everywhere. We talk about other end-of-life choices, too.…

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How should we speak with children about climate change? with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley of Project Drawdown 53:58

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How should we speak with children about climate change? Should young children be taught about climate change, and how? During the Cold War, the existential threat of nuclear holocaust was always present but there was, at least, a chance that the missiles would not be launched. Climate change is also an existential threat but it is already happening. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a thoughtful conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Bagley , managing director of Project Drawdown , who has written and spoken about these questions. She holds joint Ph.D.s in environment & resources and educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she studied how video games can encourage systems thinking about complex environmental topics.…

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Protect San Benito County! 54:56

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San Benito County is one of the unsung jewels of the Central California Coast. Most people know of San Juan Bautista and the Pinnacles, but there is much, much more. Two mountain ranges, broad valleys, rangelands, farmlands and biodiversity. But the Highway 101 corridor, which runs through a corner of the county, provides access to Silicon Valley and the SF Bay and people are moving south in search of cheaper housing. Malls and sprawls are not far behind. Now, a local movement is seeking to limit development with an initiative to require a public vote if agricultural, rural or range land is rezoned to residential, commercial or industrial use, a strategy already applied in several other California counties. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz to hear from Andy Hsia-Coron of Protect San Benito County , one of the activists behind the initiative, Chris Wilmers of UCSC , who studies cougars and bobcats that want to cross the road, Seth Adams from Save Mount Diablo , a land trust active across the County, and Val Lopez, Chair of the Amah Mutsun , whose ancestral lands cover much of the County.…

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Is it Curtains for Glaciers? Slowing Down Polar Melting, with Professor John Moore, University of Lapland 53:59

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As the Earth gets warmer, the world’s glaciers get smaller. Land-based glaciers in the Earth’s polar regions hold enormous quantities of water and, as they melt, the runoff is raising sea levels and disrupting ocean systems, such as the Gulf Stream. The obvious solution is for us to drastically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions but, even if we were to do that, the Earth would continue to warm and the glaciers would continue to melt. Is there anything we could do to slow the melt? There are a growing number of proposals to intervene in Earth’s systems—called “geoengineering” as a way to moderate climate change. Join Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Research Professor John Moore, who is a glaciologist in Rovaniemi, Finland at the University of Lapland’s University of the Arctic. His solution to slowing glacier melt is the construction of barriers at glaciers’ underwater bases in order to slow or prevent flows of warmer ocean water from carving away at the ice.…

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Let’s go Fishin’! with Melissa Mahoney of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust 53:02

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The Monterey Bay is the crown jewel of the Central California Coast. For well over a century, the Bay has been exploited for a myriad of purposes; today, it needs protection and conservation. This is especially the case with its fish and fisheries, which provide a vital source of food but are vulnerable to tastes and markets. Join Sustainability now! host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Melissa Mahoney , Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust , which seeks to ensure sustainable fisheries, resilient communities and a healthy Bay and ocean.…

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Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation, with Hugh Warwick 57:39

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