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An SN! Revisit: Solar Dividends
In this SN! Revisit from 2019, host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Robert Stayton, physicist and author of Solar Dividends: How Solar Energy Can Generate a...
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That’s the Last Straw! with Jackie Nuñez, founder of The Last Plastic Straw
Plastic is ubiquitous: it rains down on us, it fouls land, streams and oceans, it even turns up in our bodies. And the big...
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Give Me Land, Lots of Land in the Santa Clara Valley
Host Ronnie Lipschutz speaks with Andrea Mackenzie, General Manager of the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority. For more than 25 years, Ms. Mackenzie...
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Fighting Fire with Fire
California is dry, dry, dry and that probably means we are in for a wild wildfire season. Since the beginning of January, there have...
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Making Solar Law and Solar Sausages: How It’s Done in California
There is an old saying attributed to the 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck: “Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion...
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Finding the Mother Tree with Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia
Join host Ronnie Lipschutz as he speaks with Dr. Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forestry and Conservation Sciences about the social life of trees. Her...