Latest Episodes
48

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...
47

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...
46

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...
45

“Are we the cows of the future?” The digital management of nature and humans with Professor Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University, London
Join host Ronnie Lipschutz and Dr. Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck University in London. “Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous...
44

What’s that bug up to, anyway? Insect socioecology in urban gardens, with Azucena Lucatero
“Gosh, I never realized there was a social ecology in my backyard!” Find out just what those bugs are up to in your garden,...
43
Getting Back to the Garden, with Orin Martin, Master Gardener, Horticulturalist and Teacher
UCSC’s Agroecology Farm is known around the world for innovation, training and inspiration. But before there was a Farm, there was a Garden: the...