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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...

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

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...

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

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...

Restoring The Ancient Tongva Village Of Kuruvugna in West Los Angeles

La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...

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....

Good Clothes, Good People Free Refill Station

Bruin Plaza 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Come to Bruin Plaza to refill your personal hygiene products for free! Don't forget to bring your own containers. Available products include: - Shampoo - Conditioner - Laundry liquid - Dr. Bronner’s liquid soap - Hand sanitizer - Body wash - Facial cleanser - Dishwashing liquid *Note: This event is for UCLA students only and...

Luskin Lecture: Mary Nichols’ Bold Roadmap to Cleaner Transportation

Environmentalist Mary Nichols helped lead California’s internationally recognized efforts to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions during four terms as chair of the California Air Resources Board. Her legacy includes support for policies to cut emissions from the transportation sector — the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the state and nation. Learn...