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When Public Works is Homeland Security, with Jackie McCloud
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...
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Can Green Manure Cover Crops End Drought in Africa? With Roland Bunch
Join Host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Roland Bunch, who has worked in agricultural development for more than half a century in more...
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Santa Cruz, With Nada Miljkovic
We hear a lot these days about innovation, entrepreneurship and disruption of the status quo in pursuit of a better world. It sounds good...
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein in Conversation
Listen to a conversation between Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein on May 21st, part of UC Santa Cruz’s annual Deep Read, about Kolbert's 2021...
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Electrification of California & the Battle over Solar Farms in the Deserts, with Professor Dustin Mulvaney
In the face of climate change, jurisdictions across the country and the world have set ambitious electrification goals that will rely heavily on solar,...
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The Ideal River: How control of nature shaped the international order, with Dr. Joanne Yao
Rivers have long been the object of poems, songs, novels, studies, fishers, swimmers, sewage, engineers, farmers and salmon. In California, rivers and the water...