The UCLA Farmers’ Market is a biweekly farmers’ market held in Bruin Plaza for UCLA students, staff, faculty, and community to enjoy. Our team further champions sustainability, community, and education through our events and workshops. Come join us and support your local LA farmers! Please email uclafarmersmarket@gmail.com or visit them on Instagram at @uclafarmersmarket for...
Join us for an informed discussion with local leaders on everything there is to know about the use of wood as a construction material! From mass timber design and embodied carbon calculations to the latest updates on wood-related code issues, we will unpack the sometimes complex issues around one of our most important renewable resources...
To promote UCLA’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative, the CNI ambassadors will organize a speaker panel on week eight to share environmental topics. Titled “Watch Your Step! Assessing Personal Carbon Footprint”, the panel will focus on low-carbon transportation on campus, sustainable eating habits, and carbon footprint assessment. We have invited Professor Millard-Ball from Luskin School of Urban...
Register Here Since its debut in a United Nations report in 2006, ESG—the acronym for environmental, social, and governance issues—has captivated the attention of businesses, governments, and academics. Today, ESG is the most widely accepted measure of firms’ sustainability and social impact. The ESG movement is creating a new incentive for companies to collect and...
Join the USGBC-LA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Emerging Professionals, and Women in Green Committees for a panel discussion about entering the sustainability job market and furthering your career if you’re already here! Hear from our expert panelists, connect with them directly, and learn more about insights and best practices for navigating a career in sustainability....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
