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Drones, remote sensing, and kelp forests in the California Bight
Drones, remote sensing, and kelp forests in the California Bight
Drones, remote sensing, and kelp forests in the California Bight with Kate Cavanaugh (UCLA Geography) Admission is free, and refreshments/snacks will be served. Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, they will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a […]
Loreta Castro Reguera and José Ambrosi, “RETROACTIVE”
Loreta Castro Reguera and José Ambrosi, “RETROACTIVE”
José Pablo Ambrosi was born in Mexico City in 1979. He studied Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the ETSAB in Barcelona. He holds an MBA from IPADE in Mexico. He was project architect from 2004 to 2008 at Fabric, a Mexican architecture firm, until he started his own real estate […]
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UCLA Activist-in-Residence Welcome Reception
UCLA Activist-in-Residence Welcome Reception
With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and cityLAB-UCLA are pleased to announce Steve Diaz, Melissa Acedera, Josiah Edwards, and […]
The Common Experience: Upcycle Fair
The Common Experience: Upcycle Fair
The Common Experience invites you to attend our inaugural Upcycle Fair! Join us as we gather well-loved, secondhand clothing pieces and breathe new life into them. You will have an opportunity to donate old attire, then peruse our second-hand closet for some FREE fresh pickups. Our multiple upcycling stations will be available to give your […]
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The Making of Environmental Law Continues: Emmett Institute Book Talk with Richard Lazarus
The Making of Environmental Law Continues: Emmett Institute Book Talk with Richard Lazarus
The first edition of The Making of Environmental Law was a foundational book that surveyed the first 30 years of modern environmental law. Since then, the landscape of environmental protections in the face of global warming has continued to change in dramatic ways. At this UCLA Emmett Institute book talk, Richard Lazarus will discuss the […]
2023 California Water Career Fair
2023 California Water Career Fair
Join this virtual career fair using the online platform Brazen. After signing in, you'll be able to explore the available information and opportunities, and participate in 1-on-1 text- or video-based chats with representatives from environmental and water organizations. Share your background and experience, and get all your questions answered. REGISTER HERE This online platform offers […]
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UCLA February First Thursdays: Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and Evening Block Party
UCLA February First Thursdays: Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and Evening Block Party
UCLA First Thursdays has two parts: daytime activations at the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and evening block parties with different thematic experiences. We invite you to discover something new in Westwood! REGISTER HERE Westwood Village Farmers' Market 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. Mentorship Cafe | February 2, 2023 Your journey with UCLA Alumni doesn’t have to […]
Richard Dicker on Vanuatu’s Fight for a Climate Change Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice
Richard Dicker on Vanuatu’s Fight for a Climate Change Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice
The Pacific island state of Vanuatu risks disappearance as sea levels rise. Hear from international law advocate Richard Dicker as he recounts Vanuatu's effort to obtain an advisory opinion from the ICJ on climate change. Richard Dicker Lecturer, UCLA School of Law, Founding Director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch Introduction by […]
Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis
Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis
A real climate breakthrough requires nothing short of a radical imagination and a profound cultural shift. In this University of California Regents’ Lecture, nationally recognized sustainable development practitioner Denise Fairchild will introduce her new Climate Breakthrough project, funded by a $3 million award aimed at advancing transformative solutions to the climate crisis. Fairchild calls for […]
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ClimateCap x Terra.do MBA Job Fair
ClimateCap x Terra.do MBA Job Fair
ClimateCAP has partnered with Terra.do to organize a virtual job fair, exclusively for MBA students who are interested in climate tech & clean energy careers. There is no cost to participate and any currently enrolled MBA student is welcome to attend. REGISTER HERE Note: This job fair is open to registrations from MBA candidates only. […]
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February Botanical Garden Tour – First Saturday
February Botanical Garden Tour – First Saturday
*RSVP REQUIRED* Explore our living museum featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join our Garden Educators for a free guided tour of the garden. We’ll hear the stories of a selection of plants in the garden, and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. We will meet at the La Kretz […]
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Listening By Moonrise
Listening By Moonrise
Clockshop’s quarterly Listening By Moonrise program, in collaboration with Earth Sessions, returns to LA State Historic Park, featuring performances and immersive sound experiences with leading multi-disciplinary sound artists. On the eve of the full moon (or as close to it), this program offers listeners moments of reflection, connection, and joy while experiencing music and sound […]
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Climate Investment Challenge: Information Session & FAQs
Climate Investment Challenge: Information Session & FAQs
Climate Investment Challenge hosts a webinar to provide students with information about the competition. REGISTER HERE The Climate Investment Challenge calls on students to develop and describe creative financial solutions and innovations addressing the defining challenge of our time – climate change.
Fowler Talks: Destination Crenshaw X UCLA
Fowler Talks: Destination Crenshaw X UCLA
To celebrate Black history and creativity in LA, Destination Crenshaw—a $100-million, transformative, revitalization project—will develop a walkable commercial corridor defined by public artworks, tranquil green spaces, and beautiful storefronts along the 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard. Once finished, Destination Crenshaw will serve as an epicenter of Black American culture, as well as the most significant […]
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Biking while Black Documentary Screening
Biking while Black Documentary Screening
In a 30-minute documentary, BIKING WHILE BLACK: CONTINUING TO RIDE THROUGH DECRIMINALIZATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION incorporates narratives to dig deeper into solution-based storytelling and features the actions being taken by some of our leading Black bicyclists and BIPOC community-based organizations. Cast members are paving new roads to tackle the myths, the community safety conditions in […]
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Galvanize x Terra.do Climate Job Fair
Galvanize x Terra.do Climate Job Fair
Join this Job Fair and meet rising portfolio companies working on groundbreaking solutions. REGISTER HERE Terra.do hosts action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them. Galvanize is a climate-focused global investment firm built to deliver capital and integrated expertise to […]
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Sustainable Careers 101: What are Green Jobs?
Sustainable Careers 101: What are Green Jobs?
Learn all about green jobs in the current market, brought to you by the Emerging Professionals Committee! *Register below! About this event Want to learn more about the basics of a career in sustainability? Join us for a discussion about green jobs that will cover all your questions! The USGBC-LA Emerging Professionals Committee is bringing […]
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Zero Waste Basketball Game – UCLA Athletics x BELT (Bruin Environmental Leadership Team)
Zero Waste Basketball Game – UCLA Athletics x BELT (Bruin Environmental Leadership Team)
UCLA Athletics is hosting its third annual Zero Waste game on the evening of February 10th, as the UCLA Women's Basketball Team takes on the Oregon State Beavers, and volunteers and clubs are needed. As part of the game, we will be sorting all waste produced by the event in Pauley Pavilion – last time […]
Free Food from the Dining Halls
Free Food from the Dining Halls
Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE. Bring your own containers and enjoy some delicious food! Every Tuesday and Thursday, you can come get hot & untouched food from the #1 dining hall in the nation would have otherwise gone to waste! Everyone is welcome! Bruin Dine […]
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Parks and Housing Together: A Win for Communities and the Environment
Parks and Housing Together: A Win for Communities and the Environment
Please join this panel on "Parks and Housing Together: A Win for Communities and the Environment,” hosted by the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Topics will include the barriers and challenges to building parks and affordable housing joint development projects, how these projects can improve extreme heat resiliency in Los Angeles, and […]
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind: Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind: Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series
Rebeca Méndez (UCLA DMA) and Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA English) in conversation about the oceanic humanities and the aesthetics of submergence. Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, we will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a public art living […]
High Impact Tea Panel: Sustainability in the Professional World
High Impact Tea Panel: Sustainability in the Professional World
Join this High Impact Tea with an impressive panel to discuss the current sustainability landscape and forecasts for the evolving space. From the built environment to movie screens, it will cover how various industries address sustainability via innovation, measurement, reporting, and more - exploring today's most challenging questions, including: How do firms define sustainability and […]
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Strategies to Accelerate Electric Micromobility
Strategies to Accelerate Electric Micromobility
Creating an affordable multimodal system: accessible electric micromobility The cost of e-bikes and scooters prevents access. This webinar on accelerating electric micromobility will explore the various models for expanding access to e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds. Electric micromobility has evolved from a niche transport mode and gained popularity among commuters across the world. And, shared electric […]
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CLEANR & Newkirk Center for Science & Society Speaker Series
CLEANR & Newkirk Center for Science & Society Speaker Series
Charles Lee U.S. EPA’s Emerging Cumulative Impacts Framework: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice The UCI Law Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR) and UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society welcome environmental justice pioneer Charles Lee. REGISTER HERE Lee will present key concepts associated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s emerging framework […]
How Businesses Are Making a Social Impact in Hollywood
How Businesses Are Making a Social Impact in Hollywood
The 2022-2023 Jacobson Family Sustainable Impact Lecture Series addresses the topic “How Businesses are Centering Community in Social Impact.” We are excited to be back in person for a free panel discussion and Q&A on How Businesses Are Making a Social Impact in Hollywood on February 15th! Join us on February 15th at 12 pm […]
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Fixing the Climate: Rethinking Climate Policy in an Uncertain World
Fixing the Climate: Rethinking Climate Policy in an Uncertain World
5:30 - 7:00pm; Reception to follow Global climate diplomacy is stalling thanks to the same top-down approach used since the Kyoto Protocol. That’s the argument made by David Victor (UC San Diego) and Charles Sabel (Columbia Law School) in their book “Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World.” Hear them discuss how policymakers should […]
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T.R.E.E. Talks: Can Art Save Nature?
T.R.E.E. Talks: Can Art Save Nature?
Join TreePeople for an insightful conversation on how the arts are being used to invoke inspiration as a means to address this dire need. REGISTER HERE While scientists, government, tech and business leaders are typically those called upon to address environmental issues, artists are the ones that help express, inspire, and creatively educate about the […]
Healthy Campus Initiative Seed Saving Workshop
Healthy Campus Initiative Seed Saving Workshop
Join this Seed-Saving workshop taught by a pair of visiting Master Gardeners! in this workshop, you’ll learn how to save seeds from your garden and discover the value of building your own heirloom seed library! REGISTER HERE
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Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind: Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind: Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series
Knowledge in environmentally-situated AR with Francesca Albrezzi (UCLA OARC). Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, we will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a public art living sculpture, and an offering to birds. Join us to explore how […]
After the Storms – A Timely Update on California’s Water Supply
After the Storms – A Timely Update on California’s Water Supply
Join State water leaders as they share an update on the status of drought and water supply after the recent set of fierce winter storms. How has our water supply improved? What are we doing to capture large volumes of snowmelt this spring? How are fish and wildlife faring? When will the drought be over? […]
Electrifying the Nation: Promoting Uptime in EV Charging
Electrifying the Nation: Promoting Uptime in EV Charging
The EV charging industry is poised to evolve rapidly in the upcoming decade, especially given the recent $5B investment in the NEVI Program following funding as part of Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. However, as EV charging technology scales, issues of system downtime have provoked increasing concern. This event focuses on centering discussion around […]
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Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action – Methane
Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action – Methane
Methane accounts for around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, behind only carbon dioxide. As methane is both more potent and shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, near-term efforts to reduce emissions of methane could slow the increase in global temperature in the next few decades. Rebecca Leber (Vox) will moderate a conversation between Fiji George (Cheniere […]
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Environmental Justice and Community Organizing with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Environmental Justice and Community Organizing with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. Since 1993, APEN has built a membership base of Laotian refugees in Richmond and Chinese immigrants in Oakland. Together, they’ve fought and won campaigns to make our communities healthier, just places where people can thrive. […]
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Environmental Consequences of Colonialism
The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Environmental Consequences of Colonialism
This talk presents a view of the Salton Sea and its surrounding Sonoran Desert ecosystem that destabilizes hegemonic, settler colonial perspectives on the sea and the desert, exploring the ways that different kinds of human communities have encountered and made meaning out of this complex place. Ultimately, this story of sea, desert, and people is […]
Taxonomic and functional diversity of xeric alpine plant communities in a changing climate
Taxonomic and functional diversity of xeric alpine plant communities in a changing climate
Kaleb Goff, PhD Student, North Carolina State University and 2022 WMRC Mini Grant recipient Kaleb will discuss findings that demonstrate climate change’s affects on plant diversity and functionality within the xeric alpine ecosystems of the White Mountains, California. His work is also in collaboration with GLORIA Great Basin, which has been monitoring plant communities in […]
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Environmental Justice Series at the IoES Event #2
Environmental Justice Series at the IoES Event #2
REGISTER HERE Cynthia Babich Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee Cynthia Babich serves as the Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee. The DAAC is a grassroots community-based environmental justice organization concerned about DDT contamination and related health problems in the unincorporated Los Angeles Harbor Gateway neighborhood. The Del Amo area includes […]
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Explore the L.A. Zoo with Family Nature Club
Explore the L.A. Zoo with Family Nature Club
Family Nature Club is back! Join the Los Angeles Zoo for FREE nature play on the last Saturday of every month, from 9AM to 10:30AM. Family Nature Club participants will spend the morning enjoying loosely structured outdoor play – exploring nature through art and building, observation and imagination. Families, caregivers, and children of all ages […]
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Stepping Toward Sustainability
Stepping Toward Sustainability
Have you heard about the food-waste program that LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) just rolled out to households they serve? Join the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance to learn about the new food-waste program, and then for a conversation with Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky. REGISTER HERE James Roska, acting environmental engineer with LASAN, and Daniel […]
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey at the Counterforce Salon
Elizabeth DeLoughrey at the Counterforce Salon
Salon #5: Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Rebeca Méndez This fifth and final lecture in the series will feature Prof. Rebeca Méndez, the Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts and director of the Counterforce Lab, in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability […]
Beyond The Pail: A Virtual Organics Recycling Town Hall
Beyond The Pail: A Virtual Organics Recycling Town Hall
Join LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Monday, February 27th, from 6pm-7:30pm via Zoom for a virtual town hall. Learn more about the organics recycling process, and what the new requirements for food scraps and food-soiled paper are. Hear from local climate organizations and experts from LA Sanitation and the California Climate Action Corps about […]
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Two Years of Justice40: How the Initiative is delivering solutions to the climate crisis
Two Years of Justice40: How the Initiative is delivering solutions to the climate crisis
President Biden has made addressing environmental injustices a priority by centering justice in his actions to address the climate crisis in the U.S. and abroad. A central pillar of the environmental justice agenda is the Justice40 Initiative, the first-ever federal environmental justice commitment attached to the goal of directing at least 40% of benefits to […]
Vital Matters: Jainism and Ecology
Vital Matters: Jainism and Ecology
Drawing inspiration from the sacred landscapes depicted on devotional textiles presented in Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings, Venu Mehta will discuss intersections of ascetic principles, spirituality and sociocentric environmentalism in the twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism. Highlighting nonviolence as the path to liberation, Jain principles offer an important worldview of environmental activism. REGISTER HERE This […]
GRID Talks: Going Beyond Black History with Jacqui Patterson
GRID Talks: Going Beyond Black History with Jacqui Patterson
GRID Talks is a new webinar series that brings together leaders from the environmental justice movement to discuss issues related clean energy access and to community-centered solutions. The webinars seek to amplify the voices of GRID's communities and share the stories, experiences, and work that are creating mission impact and systemic changes. Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, […]
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Winter 2023 Labor Speaker Series (+ Reception) | “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA” Book Talk
Winter 2023 Labor Speaker Series (+ Reception) | “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA” Book Talk
Join Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount, for a conversation about her book that examines race, class, gender, and citizenship with respect to the growing social phenomenon of marginalized and unauthorized immigrants – especially women and youth. The hybrid event will be held on March 1, 2023, from 3:30-5 PM with a reception […]
Electric Vehicles: Can They Deliver on Their Promise?
Electric Vehicles: Can They Deliver on Their Promise?
Please join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. to hear Dr. Dan Sperling talk about the impact of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on carbon reduction in California. Learn about what it will take for EVs to make a measurable difference in greenhouse gas reduction. Register for free […]
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UCLA March 1st Thursdays – Farmers Market & Block Party: Game On | American Red Cross
UCLA March 1st Thursdays – Farmers Market & Block Party: Game On | American Red Cross
Join us on Broxton Ave. every first Thursday to connect with each other, celebrate the moment, enjoy tasty food and free entertainment! UCLA First Thursdays has two parts: daytime activations at the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and evening block parties with different thematic experiences. REGISTER HERE Westwood Village Farmers' Market 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. American […]
Free Food from the Dining Halls
Free Food from the Dining Halls
Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE to all UCLA students, and is also looking for volunteers to help run these events (sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11skt8Eys4hfeP4IKQFncG4Ct8ECivES6bjPjAfu20qE/edit#gid=1001346100 -- UCLA email login required). If the sign-up list is full, please place your name on the waitlist; if the waitlist […]
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Clothing Swap w/ USAC FAC Bruin Bazaar & Student Vendor: Charming x Garden
Clothing Swap w/ USAC FAC Bruin Bazaar & Student Vendor: Charming x Garden
A clothing swap is a type of swap meet wherein participants exchange their valued but no longer used clothing for clothing they will use. It is an opportunity to revamp your wardrobe by exchanging your old clothing pieces for new ones! This event - co-hosted by Good Clothes Good People and Bruin Bazaar - is […]
After the Green New Deal
After the Green New Deal
Join UCLA AUD's Critical Studies program for a symposium on the changes and research that have proliferated from the Green New Deal. Join in on the conversations with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Billy Fleming. REGISTER HERE
Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden Mulch Workshop
Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden Mulch Workshop
Join the jane b semel HCI Community Garden in its third workshop of the quarter with UC Master Gardeners! The Mulch Workshop will be taught by UCLA's Master Gardener Dr. James Bassett! Learn about the benefits, how-tos, and and dirty details of mulching! Plotholders are highly encouraged to attend this workshop! There will be FREE […]