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Tariffs are in the air and on the news. Tariffs are up and down.  Tariffs are in and out. Who knows where they might go and what they might do. But what do tariffs mean for sustainability and the environment?  Will they help or hurt?  Do they matter either way?  Tune into Sustainability Now! to hear Christine Barrington and Ronnie Lipschutz discuss tariffs and what they might mean for the environment and the planet. Lipschutz is neither an economist or an expert on the design or history of tariffs but has had many opportunities to study and write about taxes and the environment.  He’s promised to keep economic jargon to the minimum and intelligibility to the maximum.

Big agriculture is Big!  And it appears to be getting Bigger, as the leading companies in four critical sectors—equipment, seeds, fertilizers and chemicals—consolidate in order to dominate their markets and the farmers who buy their products.  Join Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Clapp [https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/jclapp/home], who has just published Titans of Industrial Agriculture—How a Few Giant Corporations Came to Dominate the Farm Sector and Why It Matters [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551700/titans-of-industrial-agriculture/].  Clapp is Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security and Sustainability [https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/chairholders-titulaires/profile-eng.aspx?profileId=2993] at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. [https://ipes-food.org/]

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 Alan Chadwick Garden [https://casfs.ucsc.edu/visit/farm-garden.html], launched in 1967 on a steep, rocky clay hill side. It is still there today, although very few people know of its existence.  Join host Ronnie Lipschutz in a conversation with Orin Martin, who has managed the Chadwick Garden since 1977 and where he is widely admired for his skills as a master orchardist, horticulturalist, and teacher.  Tune in to hear about Orin’s role at the Chadwick Garden, as well as its origins and history since the 1970s.  You’ll be well-prepared to visit it when UCSC reopens. You can read Orin's oral history for the UCSC library here [https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/orin-martin-manager-alan-chadwick-garden-casfs].  A website dedicated to Alan Chadwick is here [http://www.alan-chadwick.org/index.html].  And oral histories of organic and sustainable farming on California's Central Coast are available here [https://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/cultiv/home]. Previous broadcasts of Sustainability Now! are archived at KSQD.org [https://ksqd.org/sustainabilitynow/] and on Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation [https://sustainablesystemsfoundation.org/].

Episode #36, Sunday, January 10th: Hear Jeffrey Downing, Professor of Art at San Francisco State University [http://jeffdowningart.com/] and Artist-in-Residence at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Ar [https://marinmoca.org/artist-in-residence/]t talk about how his work connects culture and nature. Downing was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle [https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/environmental-art-installation-measures-rising-tides-in-marin-county]a few weeks ago for his environmental sculpture in Richardson Bay, designed to mark today’s king tides, which will be swamped by rising sea levels in the future. [https://marinmoca.org/exhibitions/2020/] According to a website [http://www.mcpart.org/jeff-downing] describing his work: “Jeff Downing’s sculpture is informed by the humor and pop sensibility of the California artist Robert Arneson; by the stripped-down economy of Alberto Giacometti’s figures; and by the spontaneity and energy characteristic of the work of Pablo Picasso. Downing’s work with dog imagery depends on chance discovery of form but seeks to invoke feelings concerning the human condition and our varied relationship with the natural world. In Jeff Downing’s world view, studying the dog – with all of its expressiveness, intelligence and sensitivity - leads us to a better understanding of the connection between culture and nature.” You can hear previous broadcasts of Sustainability Now! at KSQD.org [https://ksqd.org/sustainabilitynow/] and on Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.  Check out Marisha Farnsworth [https://ksqd.org/environmental-art-in-built-natural-landscapes-sunday-july-26-on-sustainability-now/], an Oakland-based environmental artist, who appeared on the show on July 27, 2020. (* with apologies to Connie Willis, author of the eponymous book).

Radio Show, #29, October 4, 2020. Host Ronnie Lipschutz and guest Dina Gilio-Whitaker [https://thecoastnews.com/csusm-professor-probes-environmental-impacts-on-native-americans-in-new-book/] talk about indigenous environmental justice, environmental philosophy and the restoration of balance between humans and nature. Gilio-Whitaker is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes in the Pacific Northwest, a lecturer in American Indian Studies at California State University, San Marcos [https://www.csusm.edu/ais/aboutus/index.html] and Policy Director and Researcher at the Center for World Indigenous Studies [https://www.cwis.org/]. She is author of As long as grass grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock [http://www.beacon.org/As-Long-as-Grass-Grows-P1445.aspx] (Beacon Press, 2019) and co-author, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, of "All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans [http://www.beacon.org/All-the-Real-Indians-Died-Off-P1224.aspx] (Beacon Press, 2016). Professor Whitaker has just received a journalism award from the Native American Journalist Association for an editorial she published in High Country News, on indigenizing the Green New Deal [https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-how-to-indigenize-the-green-new-deal-and-environmental-justice].