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Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona hosts a series of monthly presentations on the science of climate change and landscape architecture solutions. Join the event during your lunch break. It starts at 12pm and ends at 1pm on the first Friday of each month, between October 2021 and June 2022 (except April […]
2 events,
Cities and Global Climate Justice
Cities and Global Climate Justice
As climate change becomes increasingly urgent, cities around the world are making ambitious plans to mitigate its causes and adapt to its impacts. Too often these plans are unjust. Plans meant to adapt to climate change impacts or protect the city might do so only in unequal ways, or threaten to displace marginalized residents in […]
3 events,
Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
ESN and Environmental Science Alumni are hosting Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age. This event will bring together environmentally-oriented students and alumni to socialize and connect with each other, learn how to network in the current COVID-era, and learn a little about career development and ES pathways. There will be a panel of three […]
ESN x ES Alumni: Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
ESN x ES Alumni: Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
During the event our panelists will introduce their current role and then discuss the networking opportunities involved in that role. The panelists will also discuss how they may have used networking techniques to obtain their current position. Following a presentation from each panelists, there will be a Q&A session and two short networking breakout sessions […]
3 events,
Adaptation and Community Resilience
Adaptation and Community Resilience
Hosted by the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s Housing as Health Care Initiative, UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions and the Center for Impact@Anderson. REGISTER HERE With an increasingly urgent need to adapt to our changing climate, the built environment offers unique opportunities for programs and new practices that can protect and improve human […]
Climate Lyricism with Min Hyoung Song
Climate Lyricism with Min Hyoung Song
In Climate Lyricism, Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O’Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with […]
2 events,
Virtual Screening of “The Ants & the Grasshopper” + Discussion of Environmental Equity
Virtual Screening of “The Ants & the Grasshopper” + Discussion of Environmental Equity
About The Film Anita Chitaya has a gift. She can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: Persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling […]
2 events,
Restoring The Ancient Tongva Village Of Kuruvugna in West Los Angeles
Restoring The Ancient Tongva Village Of Kuruvugna in West Los Angeles
Welcome to the UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden's 2021-2022 public lecture series, Transplanted: Examining Contexts of Plants, People, & Place. In modern day Los Angeles, there are few remaining places where people can put their hands in the earth and connect with the land and plants that sustain us. The ancient Gabrielino/Tongva village site of Kuruvungna […]
2 events,
Food Relatives: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Global Food System
The term “Food Relatives” signals to the alternative and Indigenous food systems that view food as more than a commodity. As a generative category and notion, Food Relatives gives insight into how various actors can decolonize and indigenize their respective Food Systems by attuning to the more-than-human as part of economic, social, and political lives. […]