Sustainability Now! on KSQD.org
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, CaliforniaPodcasts
The Path to an Energy Efficient, Electric Future, with Amory Lovins
Published: Jan. 22, 2024, 2 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds
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What's in Your Water? Nitrate Pollution on California's Central Coast, with Chelsea Tu of Monterey Waterkeeper
Published: Jan. 8, 2024, 7:01 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 35 seconds
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Firepower and Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
Published: Dec. 25, 2023, 2:05 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
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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
Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 2 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 14 seconds
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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
Published: Nov. 27, 2023, 2 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 38 seconds
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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
Published: Nov. 9, 2023, 4 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds
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The Life Beneath Our Feet, with Dr. Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science
Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 50 seconds
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Hitman for the Kindness Club with Captain Paul Watson
Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes
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Why are some people so up in arms about CEQA? with Professor Deborah Sivas, Stanford Law School
Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 7:49 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 40 seconds
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How Kinship Practices Could Foster New Relations between Humans and Nature, with Prof. Rosalind Warner
Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 1:01 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 51 seconds
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Does Nature have Rights? with Katie Surma of Inside Climate News
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 1:01 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 34 seconds
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Nature's Best Hope with Professor Douglas Tallamy A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Published: July 24, 2023, 1:14 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 21 seconds
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When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
Published: July 10, 2023, 4:52 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 10 seconds
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Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch
Published: June 26, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 8 seconds
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic
Published: June 12, 2023, 1 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future--Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation
Published: May 29, 2023, 4:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 28 seconds
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Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
Published: May 15, 2023, 5:22 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 3 seconds
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The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao
Published: May 2, 2023, 2:04 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 48 seconds
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W(h)ither UCSCs East Meadow? with Nadia Peralta and Bob Majzler
Published: April 17, 2023, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 56 seconds
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Songs for Earth Day, with Dr. Peter Weiss, the Singing Scientist, and His Guitar
Published: April 3, 2023, 9:52 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 33 seconds
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A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez
Published: March 20, 2023, 6:10 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds
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Firepower & Global Security: Past, Present and Future, with Professor Simon Dalby
Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 6:57 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 20 seconds
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Whats a CAP? And what does it do? With Rachel Kippen
Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 9:37 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds
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Youre going to have to change the priorities of your life if you love this planet with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 7:07 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 4 seconds
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Transit Equity Week 2023 with Lani Faulkner, Michael Wool and Equity Transit
Published: Dec. 12, 2022, 5:43 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds
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Trees are Shape Shifters--Italian Landscapes and Human Interventions in the Anthropocene
Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 7:16 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 35 seconds
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Report from the Climate Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, with Professor Sander Chan and Andrew Deneault
Published: Nov. 14, 2022, 9:35 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds
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Funding for the Future! with Dr. Delton Chen and Renegade Economist Della Duncan
Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 3 seconds
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Fire, Fire on the Mountain! New Threats to Organic Farming in California
Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 51 seconds
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Open Farm Tours is Back!
Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 9:22 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 41 seconds
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Letter to Fellow Citizens of Earth, with Dr. Sharachchandra Lele
Published: Sept. 19, 2022, 11:50 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 49 seconds
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In the Shadow of Climate Change: What can the Children Tell Us?
Published: Sept. 5, 2022, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 29 seconds
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Well, Well, Well! Clean Water for Everyone!
Published: Aug. 22, 2022, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 8 seconds
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How a Republican Grandfather Helped Legalize Abortion
Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 2:26 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 9 seconds
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In Santa Cruz, July is Not too Late to Plant Seeds!
Published: July 11, 2022, 9:19 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 20 seconds
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Some of My Best Friends are Elephants! with USF Professor Matthew Liebman
Published: June 27, 2022, 1:37 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 25 seconds
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Meet the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, with Tahra Goraya
Published: June 16, 2022, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 48 seconds
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Science by the People! Biodiversity and Community Science with Rebecca Johnson & Alison Young, California Academy of Sciences
Published: May 17, 2022, 1:47 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds
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Let's Go Ride our Bikes!
Published: May 2, 2022, 4:37 p.m.Duration: 39 minutes 12 seconds
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To be an Elephant Seal in the Spring! with Theresa Keates
Published: April 22, 2022, 4:07 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 17 seconds
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Electrify California!
Published: April 3, 2022, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 58 seconds
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A Spectre is Haunting Europe: Nuclear Winter!
Published: March 21, 2022, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 31 seconds
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What are Seabed Mineral Nodules and Who Wants Them?
Published: March 7, 2022, 1:24 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 1 second
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From Food Waste to Soil at Hard Core Compost
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 6:29 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 44 seconds
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Latinx Farmers Survival in the U.S. Agricultural System, with Josefina Lara Chavez
Published: Feb. 7, 2022, 5:44 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 22 seconds
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Solar Panels and Solar Panics, with Dr. Ahmad Faruqui
Published: Jan. 24, 2022, 5:36 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 59 seconds
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Here Comes the Sun!
Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 8:59 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 36 seconds
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Foodware Beware! with Tim Goncharoff
Published: Dec. 13, 2021, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 6 seconds
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Being in the World with Bees (or, What is it to Be a Bee?) with Professor Eve Bratman
Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 11:56 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 16 seconds
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W(h)ither Water? with Sierra Ryan, County Water Resources Manager
Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds
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Oil and Water Dont Mix! with Fred Keeley
Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 24 seconds
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Whats slough? I dont know, whats slough with you? with Dr. Kerstin Wasson, Elkhorn Slough
Published: Oct. 23, 2021, 5:09 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 1 second
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There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology, with Maya Elson of CoRenewal
Published: Oct. 4, 2021, 7:46 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 26 seconds
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The Sustainable Systems Research Foundation: Who are those guys?
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 10:17 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 38 seconds
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Clean Energy Now! with Shaina Nanavati of Reclaim Our Power
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 6:47 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 53 seconds
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An SN! Revisit with Dr. Rupa Basu. Climate Change and Public Health
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 6:34 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds
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An SN! Revisit: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 6:18 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 39 seconds
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Thats the Last Straw! with Jackie Nunez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw
Published: July 26, 2021, 6:57 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 48 seconds
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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
Published: July 12, 2021, 6:46 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds
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Fighting Fires with Fire, with Dr. Sasha Berleman, Wildland Fire Scientist
Published: July 1, 2021, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 3 seconds
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Making Solar Law and Solar Sausages: How Its Done in California, with Allie Detrio, Chief Strategist of Reimagine Power
Published: June 14, 2021, 9:21 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 48 seconds
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Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia
Published: May 27, 2021, 7:18 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 31 seconds
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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
Published: May 17, 2021, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 33 seconds
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Whats that bug up to, anyway? Insect socioecology in urban gardens, with Azucena Lucatero
Published: May 3, 2021, 8:20 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds
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Getting Back to the (Alan Chadwick) Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
Published: April 19, 2021, 6:21 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 11 seconds
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The Green Business Program in California & the Monterey Bay Region, with Brooke Wright, Green Business Expert
Published: April 5, 2021, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds
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Water in Californias Future, with Dr. Ruth Langridge
Published: March 24, 2021, 10:33 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 36 seconds
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There Otter be a Law! Will the Southern Sea Otter Survive? A conversation with James Estes
Published: March 24, 2021, 10:16 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 16 seconds
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Environmental Literacy for K-12 Students, with Amity Sandage, Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 12:40 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 6 seconds
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Reconnecting with Nature through Ecospirtuality: A Conversation with Dr. Michelle Merrill
Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 8:46 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 57 seconds
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W(h)ither California & the Nation? A Conversation with State Senator John Laird
Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 6:02 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 34 seconds
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To Say Nothing of the Dog* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 5:58 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds
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Are we Becoming Plastic People of the Universe Or, What does biodegradable really mean?
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 5:42 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 5 seconds
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Environmental Justice through Building Green, Healthy and Sustainable Communities
Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 6:35 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 43 seconds
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Sustainability Now! Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture on a Small Farm
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 8:26 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 59 seconds
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Electric Vehicles on the Road and in Our Future
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 7:31 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 23 seconds
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Forests and species after wildfires & climate change
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 10 seconds
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Clean Water as a Human Right
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 37 seconds
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As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice
Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 9:38 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds
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Healthy Eating and Economic Justice in the Pajaro Valley
Published: Sept. 21, 2020, 8:58 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 seconds
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Accessory Dwelling Units in Our Backyards
Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 6:04 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 2 seconds
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Sustainability & Politics after Annus Horriblis 2020, with Kim Stanley Robinson
Published: Aug. 24, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 56 seconds
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Climate Change, Heat & Birth Impacts
Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 4 seconds
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Environmental Art in Public Spaces
Published: July 26, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 55 seconds
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Sustainable Community Commons
Published: July 12, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 22 seconds
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Climate Changes & Black Lives
Published: June 22, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 25 seconds
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Public Lands on Pacific's Edge
Published: June 14, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 50 seconds
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"The Wheels on the Bus"
Published: May 31, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 34 seconds
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Farmworkers Struggling to Survive
Published: May 17, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 2 seconds
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Protecting Sacred Lands
Published: May 3, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 20 seconds
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By the Beautiful Sea
Published: April 19, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 23 seconds
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Urchins in the Storm
Published: April 5, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 47 seconds
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No Place Like Home
Published: March 22, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 55 seconds
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Auto-Free Living in Hayward?
Published: March 8, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 26 seconds
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Climate Justice in the Pajaro Valley
Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 29 seconds
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Caring for the Prairie
Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 21 seconds
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A Conversation with Extinction Rebellion
Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 27 seconds
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Is Bioethanol the Answer?
Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 1 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds
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A Basic Income with Solar Energy
Published: Dec. 16, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 29 seconds
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What Do You Do About a Problem Like PG&E?
Published: Dec. 2, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 13 seconds
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Down on the Farm
Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 56 seconds
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Zero Waste Living?
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 2 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 52 seconds
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Where the Mountain Lions Are
Published: Oct. 21, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 31 seconds
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History of UC Santa Cruz
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds
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Where Does Your Bottle Go?
Published: Sept. 23, 2019, 1 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 59 seconds
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Green Architectural Design
Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 59 minutes 51 seconds
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Climate Action Now!
Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 49 seconds
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