IoES seminar series 2024-25 Focus on the Environment and Sustainability – “Managing the Mid-Transition from Fossil to Clean Energy,” Prof. Emily Grubert, University of Notre Dame

James West Alumni Center Founder's Room 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Emily Grubert Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Policy in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Emily Grubert is a civil engineer and environmental sociologist who studies how we can make better decisions about large infrastructure systems, particularly related to justice-centering decarbonization of the US energy system. Prof. Emily Grubert […]

Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Eudaimonia 2025 Award presentation

UCLA’s Semel Institute, B-floor Deck 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center at UCLA & the MindWell team invite you to its annual Eudaimonia Awards 2025 Ceremony! The HCI Eudaimonia Award is an annual recognition award given to a member of the UCLA community past or present who exemplifies a life full of purpose and meaning. This year, the theme […]

Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Bruin Dine for our food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement! Bring your utensils, containers, and appetite! Hit the follow button (https://www.instagram.com/uclabruindine/) to see what we’re serving up each week!

Grow LA Victory Garden Workshop 1: Planning Your Garden

jane b semel Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, 111 Easton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Led by Master Gardener James Bassett, learn all about how to plan your garden, perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. Explore the best plant choices for your space and growing conditions. Discover how to maximize productivity and sustainability in an urban setting. Get started on creating a garden that fits your lifestyle and goals. […]

AltaSea Open House: Urban Renewable Energy Summit and Conference

AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles 2451 Signal St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles for a day filled with insightful discussions, innovative ideas, and networking opportunities. Held in honor of Earth Day 2025, the Urban Renewable Energy Summit is a unique event dedicated to advancing climate resilience, energy equity, and sustainable innovation within Los Angeles County's urban marketplace. The Summit’s theme […]

FOR ADMITTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS – UCLA Campus Sustainability Tour #1

Wilson Plaza Los Angeles, CA, United States

https://bruinday.ucla.edu/first-years/home Find out everything you need to know about life at UCLA, take campus tours, connect with current and future Bruins, and get your questions answered. Bruin Day has no set agenda so you can choose which events you’d like to attend! Events take place throughout the day across campus. REGISTER HERE

FOR ADMITTED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS – UCLA Campus Sustainability Tour #2

Wilson Plaza Los Angeles, CA, United States

https://bruinday.ucla.edu/first-years/home Find out everything you need to know about life at UCLA, take campus tours, connect with current and future Bruins, and get your questions answered. Bruin Day has no set agenda so you can choose which events you’d like to attend! Events take place throughout the day across campus. REGISTER HERE

Family Flicks screening – Earth

Billy Wilder Theater 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. Earth revels in the beauty of the natural world while examining how climate change impacts species as far-flung as the Arctic polar bear, the African bush elephant and the humpback […]

Kelp Kulture Talk: Salty Gold: Kelp Forest Stewardship via Sea Urchin Butter

Online

featuring Max Diamond - Sea urchin (uni) butter is a blueprint forward to innovate how seafood can be consumed and produced more sustainably with the American end consumer in mind. Salty Gold sources purple sea urchins that threaten kelp forests – a key combatant of climate change. A healthy purple urchin full of roe, known […]

Luskin Summit 2025: Guiding an Equitable Recovery in L.A.

UCLA Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The seventh annual UCLA Luskin Summit will focus on the rebuilding and recovery of the Los Angeles region following the devastation caused by the wildfires in January 2025. UCLA Luskin experts, in collaboration with community groups and government agencies, will share their research intended to guide the effort to expedite equitable recovery. The Summit is […]

Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Bruin Dine for our food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement! Bring your utensils, containers, and appetite! Hit the follow button (https://www.instagram.com/uclabruindine/) to see what we’re serving up each week!

AI LA Earth Summit 2025

BLANKSPACES Venice 606 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

​Join AI LA for its landmark 6th annual Earth Summit, dedicated this year to building resilient communities in the wake of Los Angeles' devastating fires. ​We envision a Los Angeles that rebuilds faster, stronger, and more sustainably in the face of disaster—where foundations, NGOs, tech innovators, investors, and government agencies collaborate to implement innovative solutions. […]

Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Bruin Dine for our food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement! Bring your utensils, containers, and appetite! Hit the follow button (https://www.instagram.com/uclabruindine/) to see what we’re serving up each week!

One Bus, One Cause – Earth Fest ’25: Volunteer for a Day of Fun, Learning, and Making a Difference

El Rincon Elementary School 11177 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA, United States

Through One Bus, One Cause, the Volunteer Center aims to introduce the UCLA community to a wide variety of needs that Los Angeles faces and to the ongoing service organizations that address those needs. This program involves sending one bus of about 50 volunteers out to do community service work with a non-profit organization in […]

Lunch & Learn: Earth Day with Gerald Clarke

Fowler Museum

This Earth Day, Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke, featured in the Fire Kinship exhibition, will discuss traditional ecological knowledge as the foundation for an Indigenous understanding of the world, our relationship to fire, and his artistic practice. Gerald Clarke is a visual artist, educator, tribal leader, and cultural practitioner whose family has lived in the Anza […]

April Affinity Talk: Lifestyle Psychiatry with Dr. Gia Merlo and Dr. Melissa Sundermann

HYBRID: Semel B8-225 and Online 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Lifestyle Psychiatry – Harnessing the Therapeutic Benefits of the Great Outdoors explores how nature serves as a powerful tool for mental health and well-being. Lifestyle psychiatry is an emerging field that integrates evidence-based lifestyle interventions—such as physical activity, nutrition, sleep, stress management, and social connection—into psychiatric care to prevent and treat mental illness while optimizing […]

Live Webinar: From Procurement to Disclosure: How Healthcare is Advancing Sustainable Supply Chains

Online

Upcoming mandated climate disclosure regulations in the U.S. and globally are accelerating the need for transparent, data-driven greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting. These evolving requirements will impact a broad range of organizations—including healthcare institutions and their suppliers—making early engagement and readiness in sustainable purchasing and supplier disclosures not only a leadership opportunity but a compliance imperative. […]

Botany Brown Bag with Dr. Kate Eisen

UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA

Join a new Botany Brown Bag Public Lecture Series! The Botany Brown Bag series is continued by Dr. Kate Eisen, who will give a talk entitled “Clarkia Research Past, Present, and Future: An Evolutionary and Ecological Tour of One of California’s Most Charismatic Genera.” Make sure to bring your lunch!

Energy Transitions in Long Modernity (Day 1)

Online

Conference organized by Robert N. Watson (University of California, Los Angeles), Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis), and Todd Borlik (Purdue University) Co-sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UC Davis Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program Online event via Zoom To register, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/16-Z8Yv_S0y3k18NdEb-Ew The recent turn […]

Sand Acknowledgment in Action: Lazaro Arvizu Jr.

Fowler Museum

The second iteration of Sand Acknowledgment in Action with artist Lazaro Arvizu Jr. will focus on an artist-facilitated meditation and workshop centering on the creation of your own sand painting, in response to the exhibition Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art. Lazaro Arvizu Jr. is an artist, educator, musician, and researcher dedicated to […]