UCLA Sustainability

Impact Week | Socially Responsible & Ethical Supply Chains
2019-04-22 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Denver) | CA
Socially Responsible & Ethical Supply Chains
The kickoff for Impact Week will feature a lunchtime seminar by Distinguished UCLA Anderson Professor Christopher Tang on socially responsible and ethical supply chains.
The annual Impact Week conference brings together thought leaders and founders of mission-driven businesses across a variety of industries to explore solutions to our world’s biggest challenges, share best practices and inspire social change. The week aims to spark ideas and catalyze partnerships that can disrupt the way businesses make a positive social, environmental and economic impact in the world.
For more information, check out the Impact Week Conference Website!
Date And Time

Mon, April 22, 2019
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
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Earth Month at UCLA: Earth Day Fair
2019-04-22 10:00 - 14:00 | Dickson Court North
Come celebrate Earth Day at E3’s annual Earth Day Fair! Meet UCLA student groups, faculty, and off-campus organizations working for a healthier, more sustainable tomorrow. There will be great people, great food, games, activities, art, giveaways, and … do we need to say more? RSVP now!
For tabling interests and inquiries, please fill out this form:
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THIS FORM WILL CLOSE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 8TH AT 5PM.
More announcements to come in the following weeks.
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Impact Hacks
2019-04-21 | CA
WHAT IS IMPACT HACKS?
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Impact Hacks is a one-day sustainability hackathon that brings together passionate students and professionals to develop solutions to sustainability problems prevalent in Los Angeles. If you are a student interested in public policy, sustainability, or social entrepreneurship, this is your chance to gain first hand experience in turning your ideas into reality!
Whether or not you come in with an idea, Impact Hacks will have workshops and mentors to get the ideation process started. You will have the opportunity to pitch your idea to a panel of judges comprised of professionals in which teams will earn a chance at prize money.
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When: Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Where: Bruin Reception Room, Ackerman Union – UCLA

EVENT ITINERARY (TENTATIVE)
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Sunday (April 21, 2019)
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9AM: Check-In and Team Formation
10AM: Breakfast & Networking (Meet the Mentors)
10:30AM: Opening Comments
10:45AM: Sustainability Keynote Speaker
12PM: Workshop #1 (SRC Office)
2PM: Lunch
2:30PM: Workshop #2 (SRC Office)
6PM: Dinner
7:15PM: Final Presentations
8:15PM: Judge Deliberations
8:30PM: Winners Announced!
8:45PM: Closing Comments

REGISTER NOW!
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You can register under a team name if you’d like to bring your own team to the event. If not, you can sign up without a team and find your perfect match at the event!
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We will provide any updates for Impact Hacks on our Facebook Event page!

Techstars Startup Weekend Los Angeles: AI For Sustainability
2019-04-18 08:00 - 21:00 | CA
Friday, April 19 – 21, 2019
Event starts at 6:00 pm

Soylent Innovation Lab
555 Mateo Street
Suite 227
Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Your idea in 54 hours to help save our planet!

The AI LA Community is proud to present Techstars Startup Weekend Los Angeles: AI For Sustainability.
We are living in a serious environmental crisis and we need your help! We are inviting cross-disciplinary teams to solve challenges in sustainability and climate change.
Keynote by: Christine Harada, President of i(x) investments. Ms. Harada has over 20 years of success in leading government and management consulting organizations. She previously served as the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer for the United States during the Obama administration. In this role, she provided oversight for all sustainability-related initiatives across the federal government in energy, fleet, and acquisitions-game-changing improvements that added to our nation’s clean energy future.

Do you have an idea you’d like to pursue or a problem you’d like to solve but don’t know where to start or who to start with?

Techstars Startup Weekend is the place to look for a team, create a prototype of your idea, validate your business idea, and receive feedback from experienced entrepreneurs, all in one weekend.

What do you need to bring?

Lots of energy! You’ll pitch your own idea or listen to others, then vote on the most interesting ideas and form teams with diverse skill sets. You can come with friends, but you’ll get the full experience if you participate in separate teams. Remember, it’s all about the team.

Your idea should be something you have not previously worked on. The idea you pitch and the problem you set out to solve can span social, educational, financial, environmental, or other issues. Over the course of the weekend you’ll be challenged to create a prototype of your MVP, or minimum viable product, that fits the needs of your target customer. You’ll get feedback, iterate, and likely pivot your approach entirely! Important: You cannot have worked previously on your idea.

Techstars Startup Weekend is a full weekend long experience. Your ticket includes:

7 full (and delicious) meals over the course of the weekend
Benefits and discounts from our global partners
One-on-one time with amazing mentors
A new network of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs eager, like you, to change the world.
All the internet and coffee you can consume.

Watch the video below to see what you can expect, and if you’re feeling inspired click on the “Buy Ticket” button now!

Still have questions, feel free to reach us at “losangeles@startupweekend.org”.

Don’t wait any longer and join the Techstars Startup Weekend movement!

No talk, all action!

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18th Annual Municipal Green Building Conference & Expo: Climate Change Solutions in the New Abnormal
2019-04-18 08:00 - 18:00 | CA
18th ANNUAL MUNICIPAL GREEN BUILDING
Conference & Expo
Climate Change Solutions in the New Abnormal
Mitigation. Adaptation. Resilience
Since its inception in 2001, MGBCE has become the longest-running and largest gathering of leading sustainability and green building advocates within both the public and private sectors in Southern California. Attended by over 600 persons annually, this conference and trade show provides cutting-edge thought leadership, education, and networking opportunities to inform local government agencies, building industry professionals, and the general public about the principles, practices, and products associated with green building.
Event Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019 – 8am-6pm
Energy Resource Center – Southern California Gas Company, Downey,CA
USGBC-LA MEMBERS SIGN UP FOR FREE!
Register today!
* If you are not a USGBC-LA member SIGN UP today and get free admission for MGBCE!

General public: $50
Students, non-profits, government employees: $25
Members of organizations partners of USGBC-LA: $25

* Registration fee includes full access to the conference, breakfast, lunch and networking mixer.

SPEAKERS CONFIRMED:
– Gary Gero – Chief Sustainability Officer, County of Los Angeles

– Tamara Wallace – Sustainability Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability, California State University
– Chuck Kutscher – Fellow and Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado-Boulder (Former Director, NREL Buildings and Thermal Sciences Center)

WANT TO EXHIBIT OR SPONSOR MGBCE?
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Sierra Club Zero Waste Fair
2019-04-13 10:00 - 14:00 | CA
Join the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter and Sierra Club Central Group for our Zero Waste Fair at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. This is a FREE event, so come learn and engage with us on great steps to lead a more sustainable lifestyle– for yourself and for the planet!
Bring your reusable bottles and mason jars! We will have refill stations for personal hygiene, cleaning supplies, and household items from Recontained, Sustain LA, and The Refillery L.A..
Ready to learn about how to reduce climate change and plastic pollution? Our friends from 5 Gyres, Greenpeace USA, Climate Reality Los Angeles, 1plasticlife, and Precious Plastic Los Angeles will be joining us, and 5Gyres ambassador Miles Lewis will be sharing his tips on how to make individual changes while becoming a part of a larger social change!
And just because you don’t have a backyard, doesn’t mean you can’t compost. Learn more about urban composing from Epic Renewal (IG @epic_renewal)!
Want a better way to keep your wardrobe up-to-date without contributing to fashion waste? Meet the folks from Swap Society to learn more about their community of clothing swappers!
Enjoy some solar powered tunes by The SYCONS and Feel Good Salsa will be serving delicious vegan Mexican food so don’t forget your plates and utensils!

Earth Month at UCLA: Spring Kickoff
2019-04-05 11:00 - 14:00 | CA
The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center and E3:’s Earth Month Campaign are collaborating to host a picnic social.
Whether you’re an environmental group, health & wellness student org, or a student looking for a good time, come stop by! There will be snacks, games & activities, networking activities, and more!
This is an opportunity for environmental, health, and wellness students/groups to network with one another and share our work.
Learn more about what other events Earth Month is hosting throughout April, job opportunities from the Semel HCI Center, and Semel HCI Center’s annual celebration in May!
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UCLA Anderson Net Impact High Impact Tea with Estelle Reyes
2019-03-07 16:30 - 18:30 | CA
Estelle Reyes, SVP, Enhancing Community, LACI
Estelle Reyes is the SVP, Enhancing Community at Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), where she is focused on ensuring that underrepresented groups are engaged in the cleantech and sustainability sector. Through her work on LACI’s Diversity & Inclusion initiative, she is building programming to recruit promising diverse cleantech entrepreneurs, as well as workforce development training to build a diverse talent pipeline for the rapidly growing green job market. Passionate about equity, she is also working with her team to launch cleantech pilots in disadvantaged communities. Prior to LACI, Estelle was the Executive Director at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Greater LA, where she played a central role in launching and growing the NFTE program to reach over 12,000 students locally. She also has experience as a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs’ Private Wealth Management Division as well as a First Grade Teacher. Estelle holds a Bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, and a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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UCLA CAEV (CONNECTED AUTONOMOUS ELECTRIC VEHICLE) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2019-03-05 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
Electric and Autonomous Transportation
UCLA CAEV (Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicle) Annual Conference
The trillion dollar a year automotive industry, after a century of its existence, is undergoing a radical and transformative change as a result of technologies that enable a vehicle to be fueled by electricity, be driven autonomously, to be Internet connected and be precisely located and tracked as it transports people or assets to its destination. This is resulting in the transportation sector being turned upside down with car owners, especially from the millennial generation, often opting to use shared transportation network services such as Uber or Lyft in lieu of vehicle ownership. Transportation companies such as Fair are looking into the future of on-demand leasing whereby an environment conscious passenger may in-fact request a specific electric vehicle for a short lease. With the aim of getting passengers to and from their last mile of destination, transportation sector is seeing yet a further level of innovation with the advent of micro-ride network services such as Bird, whose riders can connect to another Transit service for their longer range travel needs. Buses themselves are now becoming increasingly electrified especially in densely populated urban areas – which society is demanding by way of their regulators for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gases.
In addition to people movement, the fundamentals of transporting assets and goods are also being upended. Services such as Uber eats are delivering fully prepared meals economically to consumers as and when they want them. On the other hand, transportation of goods such as those shipped from China into the LA/Long Beach ports and from there on in 40 foot containers will in the future be performed by electric trucks instead of diesel-based trucks. We are seeing several electric truck startup companies offering products to the market – and these have the potential to soon become autonomous and be able to deliver goods to their destination without the need for a driver, use Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to reduce road congestion, and reduce green-house gases.
Fueling this change in the transportation sector is new technology in the Electric Vehicle (EV)/ Autonomous Vehicle (AV) space. A host of new companies such as Tesla, Uber, Google’s Waymo, and others, are innovating via advanced technology at a rate that has not been seen before in the field of transportation. Coupled with such innovations is the change in society’s demands towards clean and sustainable transportation by way of electricity as a fuel to reduce pollution (EVs such as Tesla), ride-sharing to reduce road congestion (Uber), and, autonomous vehicles to improve traffic safety and manage traffic more effectively (Waymo by Google, Cruise by GM). The optimized convergence of these three transportation demands coupled with advances in the relevant technologies such as communications, GPS and sensors have the potential to result in exponentially compounded progress in the automotive field.
While there is rapid innovation in automotive technologies, the infrastructure to support the above vision of sustainable transportation including automatic traffic light sensing by the vehicle, instantaneous traffic data, Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Communications, Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) communications, managing and delivering electric power wirelessly to EVs (including shuttles and people movers) while in motion, managing traffic dynamically based on real-time and historical data, detecting and avoiding pedestrians, and others, are in their early stages at best. This makes it challenging for vehicle manufacturers to innovate towards fully autonomous and all electric vehicles beyond a point. Innovations in the areas of communications, sensors, GPS, software, cloud computing, controls, energy storage, power management, battery technology, wireless EV charging during operation, cybersecurity, big data, AI, Machine Learning (ML), Data Science and Block Chains are paving the way to create the smart urban transportation infrastructure that would enable the above vision of a modern sustainable transportation future.
In UCLA, the Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicle (CAEV) Consortium is working with its stakeholders towards creating thought leadership in the field of electric and autonomous vehicles. To support this leadership activity, UCLA held its first workshop in June 2017 and a Round Table discussion with industry and government leaders in September 2018. The outcome of these two key events has propelled the need to host a technology-centric workshop on the subject which is being scheduled for March 5, 2019. At the event, UCLA faculty/researchers along with Industry and Government leadership will discuss the issues facing this fledgling field as it transitions to an industry. Topics discussed will include but not limited to:

EV and AV Technology and Policy considerations in the California and the United States
EV battery technologies and range considerations
Energy management in EV and EV charging
Advances in Autonomous Technologies
Role of AI, ML, and Blockchain in AV development
Advanced EV/AV product design paradigms
GPS and sensor technology for location tracking based services
EV charging infrastructure and relevant technologies
Vehicle-Grid integration technologies and applications and role of electric grid operators
Open Vehicle-Grid Communications and Controls Interface
New EV protocols such as ISO 15118 for mobility and payments
Using renewable energy for sustainable electric transportation
Variable transportation modalities such as e-scooter, e-bike, e-car, e-van, e-bus and e-truck
New models of car sharing in the context of EV and AV
Transportation policies, regulations and last mile services in urban settings
Technology advances and policy frameworks to keep up with such advances

In addition to creating Thought Leadership, CAEV is working to support pilot projects, proof-of-concepts, field studies and research and technology demonstrations in the California region. To support such activities, CAEV/SMERC has been developing a testbed in the campus and in the greater Los Angeles region. Plans for the development of this testbed will be shared with the event participants who will also be invited to provide input and feedback. The WINSmartEV (Wireless Internet Smart Electric Vehicle Network) testbed infrastructure developed by UCLA in the last decade with funding from U.S. Department of Energy and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (UCLA participated in the $120M DOE Smart Grid demonstration grant cooperative agreement that funded the city of Los Angeles) and deployed within the university campus and with subsequent funding outside of campus in the Port of Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Pasadena, and Pomona, will be presented. This testbed infrastructure will be used as a foundation platform to expand into the Smart City infrastructure field testbed to support autonomous and electric vehicles as they become more ubiquitous with our Smart Cities vision. Rapid deployment of such infrastructure in California would depend in part on progress made by policy makers at the local, state and federal levels and therefore this event would bring them together with industry stakeholders at UCLA.
Sponsorship:
If you would like to become a sponsor for this conference, please email: info@smartgrid.ucla.edu

Bryan Hansel
CEO
Chanje

Clayton Schoeny
Data Scientist
Fair

Dakota Semler
CEO
Thor Trucks

Joseph Osha
Managing Director
JMP Securities LLC

Katie Sloan
Principal Manager
SCE

Leon Kaunitz
Director of Body and Structural Engineering
NIO USA, Inc.

Rajit Gadh
Director
UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center

Stefan Krause
Founder
Evelozcity

Stella Li
Senior Vice President and President
BYD Company Limited and BYD Motors Inc.

Tsu-Chin Tsao
Professor
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace

Waqar Hashim
VLE and VP of Global Program Management
Faraday Future

Alexander Keros
Manager, Advanced Vehicle and Infrastructure Policy
General Motors

Andrea Linder
Customer Experience Specialist
Porsche Motorsport

Angelina Galiteva
Board of Governors
California ISO

Bernard Soriano
Deputy Director
California Department of Motor Vehicles

Bill Williams
Commercial Sales Director
Proterra, Inc

Carley Markovitz
Transportation & Land Use Planning Manager
AECOM

Colton Ching
Vice President, Energy Delivery
Hawaiian Electric Company

Dakota Semler
CEO
Thor Trucks

Dale Thompson
Engineer
LADWP

Doug Kim
Director, Advanced Technology
Southern California Edison

Eric Mika
Government, and Corporate Affairs
EVELOZCITY

Henrik Fisker
Chairman
Fisker Inc.

João Torres
CEO
EDP Distribuição, Portuguese Distribution System Operator

Kevin Dasso
Senior Director of Smart Grid & Technology Integration
Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Lee Krevat
Director – Smart Grid
San Diego Gas & Electric

Leon Kaunitz
Director of Body, Structural Engineering and Advanced Technology
NextEV/NIO

Livio Gallo
Chief Executive Officer
Enel Distribuzione

Mani Srivastava
Professor
UCLA Electrical Engineering

Mario Gerla
Professor
UCLA Computer Science

Mark McGranaghan
Vice President
Electric Power Research Institute

Marvin Moon
Director of Power System Engineering
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

Matt Mikio Miyasato
Assistant Deputy Executive Officer
Air Quality Management District

Michael Liu
Director, Energy Storage Business Development
BYD America

Michelle Bogen
Advanced Technology Engineer
BMW Group Technology Office

Nancy Ryan
Deputy Executive Director for Policy
CPUC

Nancy Sutley
Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer
LADWP

Pat Hoffman
Assistant Secretary
U.S. DOE

Rajit Gadh
Director
UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center

Ramanath Ramakrishnan
EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Eaton

Robert Weisenmiller
Chair
California Energy Commission

Ryan Harty
Manager of Connected and Environmental Business Development
American Honda Motor Co.

Sharmila Ravula
CCO and VP of Business Development
Bosch Building Grid Technologies

Stephen B. Wemple
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Con Edison

Steve Pazol
GM, Wireless Charging
Qualcomm Incorporated

Todd Petersen
Mobility 2.0 Product Manager
LADOT

Tom Doughty
Vice President, Customer and State Affairs
California ISO

Tsu-Chin Tsao
Professor
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace

Veronica Siranosian
Senior Project Manager
AECOM Ventures

Vibhu Kaushik
Director, Grid Technology and Modernization
Southern California Edison

Vijaya Ganugula
Manager, Demand Response Operations
NYISO

Vincent Poor
Professor of Electrical Engineering, & Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University

No Time to Waste Exhibition by Counterforce Labs
2019-03-04 10:00 - 17:00 | CA
NO TIME TO WASTE
Counterforce Lab and UCLA’s Zero Waste Initiative are excited to present the work of ‘Word & Image’ W19 class No time to waste! In this course, students designed meaningful messages through compelling sculptures using only UCLA’s institutional waste. Projects will be presented outside of Broad Art Center to bring awareness of the impacts of our trash on the environment.
Come check out the students’ work and join us for a mixer to learn about UCLA’s Zero Waste Initiative.
March 4th
Pop-up Exhibition: 10:00am-5:00pm
Mixer + Zero Waste Initiative Presentation: 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Broad Art Center Lawn
Directions to Broad Art Center
Free and open to the public.

The COUNTERFORCE LAB is a research and fieldwork studio based at Design Media Arts and the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, dedicated to using art and design to develop creative collaborations, new fields of study and methods to research, create and execute projects around the ecological impacts of Anthropocene climate change. The Counterforce Lab is an initiative of Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez.

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UCLA ITS Downtown Forum: From Public Transit to Public Mobility
2019-03-01 09:00 - 17:00 | CA
From Public Transit to Public Mobility
The 12th Annual UCLA Downtown Los Angeles Forum on Transportation, Land Use and the Environment
Friday, March 1
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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The 12th UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Downtown Forum grapples with the public sector’s response to the dual trends of emerging new mobility services and declining public transit ridership.
What does the increasing role of private mobility options in cities mean for transportation agencies, public transit providers, cities, and the traveling public? Should innovation be encouraged, quashed, or managed? Many regions in California are making big investments in public transit to create a viable alternative to driving; are these burgeoning new services a threat or opportunity for these investments?
The 12th Annual Downtown Forum will explore implementation of the strategies discussed at the October 2018 Arrowhead Symposium, a 3-day in-depth examination of what’s happening in urban mobility amidst an inundation of new options, to how public agencies are adapting to accommodate, manage, and incorporate, and compete with new options while continuing to serve the public interest. The Downtown Forum advances strategies to implementation in four areas seen as critical to the public sector’s response to new mobility:

Successful models for the public sector to partner with private companies providing public mobility service
How public agencies can effectively obtain and use data to manage public mobility
Identifying and implementing the most impactful, cost-effective incremental changes to streets and transit service in order to double public transit ridership in the next decade
Coordinating implementation of new technologies and mobility services to enhance equity and quality of life

UCLA ITS Downtown Forum: From Public Transit to Public Mobility
2019-03-01 08:30 - 19:00 | CA
DATE: Friday, March 1, 2019
LOCATION: Japanese American National Museum (Aratani Central Hall)
100 N. Central Ave., LA, CA 90012
REGISTRATION: 8:30AM – 9:00AM
EVENT PROGRAM: 9:00AM – 5:00PM
RECEPTION: 5:00PM – 7:00PM (Hirasaki Family Garden)

Grappling with the dual trends of emerging new mobility services & declining public transit ridership

Ryan Russo will discuss how one of the nation’s newest DOTs has been leading the way with progressive policies that formally recognize and aim to redress past injutices within its diverse city.
Seattle and King County Metro have put equity at the center of community engagement programs. Learn how Terry White has been creating more community participation and increasing transit service and ridership.

What does the increasing role of private mobility options in cities mean for transportation agencies, public transit providers, cities, and the traveling public?
Should innovation be encouraged, quashed, or managed?
Many regions in California are making big investments in public transit to create a viable alternative to driving. Are these burgeoning new services a threat or opportunity for these investments?
The 12th Annual Downtown Forum is a transit-accessible, implementation-focused follow-up to the highly successful 2018 Arrowhead Symposium on pulbic sector strategies for evolving mobilty. The March 1 forum will focus on four key areas:

Successful models of public-private partnerships providing public mobility services
How public agencies can effectively obtain and use data to manage public mobility
Identifying and implementing the most impactful changes to streets and transit service to double public transit ridership in the next decade
Coordinating implementation of new technologies and mobility services to enhance equity and quality of life

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Fri, March 1, 2019
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The mission of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, one of the leading transportation policy research centers in the United States, is to support and advance cutting-edge research, the highest-quality education, and meaningful and influential civic engagement on the many pressing transportation issues facing our cities, state, nation, and world today. UCLA ITS is a non-endowed research center housed in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and ITS faculty, staff, and students regularly collaborate with and receive support from the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. ITS is a proud partner in the Pacific Southwest Region 9 University Transportation Center, a federally-funded research network with seven other universities.
The transportation planning program at UCLA has been ranked second in the nation by Planetizen, due in no small part to ITS support of transportation faculty and students. Since its inception in 1992, ITS has supported hundreds of UCLA Luskin students with more than $2 million in scholarship funds, which is relatively unique among UCLA research centers in both scope and scale. ITS also has enhanced the SPA curriculum by regularly funding special topics courses in transportation studies. This support has helped the Departments of Public Policy and Urban Planning (each of which offers specializations in transportation) attract many of the best and brightest transportation students to UCLA. Not surprisingly, transportation policy and planning faculty and students have garnered an inordinate number of prestigious grants and awards, many of which can be found on the ITS awards page.
ITS also actively links transportation research with policy and planning practice. Each fall since 1991, ITS researchers co-host the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium, which brings leading transportation, land use, and environmental scholars together with top policy and planning practitioners from around the globe for a three-day retreat in the San Bernardino Mountains. In addition, ITS regularly hosts conferences and events in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C., along with dozens of public lectures on a wide variety of topics.

AIA: 2°C: A COTE|LA SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE
2019-03-01 07:30 - 16:00 | CA
The 2°C Symposium is an opportunity to learn essential technologies, strategies and tools that address climate change at a critical time for our collective future.
Climate Change is a reality; it is imperative that we educate, develop innovative strategies, and implement changes to mitigate its advance.
Organized by COTE AIA|LA, 2 °C is a unifying platform for the public, the architectural design community and the building industry to discuss and address the sustainability issues challenging our society today. 2°C will embrace current innovations in the industry and advance the dialogue occurring within these communities.
The symposium’s name references the Paris Climate Agreement which called for holding the increase in global average temperature to below 2 °Celsius above pre-industrial levels in hopes of preventing irreversible and damaging climatic patterns.

PREVIOUS YEARS

2°C in 2018

Keynotes include:
+ Kevin de León – Senate President pro Tempore Emeritus
+ Eric Corey Freed, RA, LEED Fellow – Sustainability Disruptor, Morrison Hershfield
+ David Hertz, FAIA LEED AP – Architect/Founder, S.E.A. – Studio of Environmental Architecture / Skysource.org
+ Dr. Chris Luebkeman – Fellow and Director of Global Foresight + Research + Innovation, Arup
+ Anthony Brower, AIA, LEED Fellow – Director of Sustainability, Gensler
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WHEN | WHERE
Friday, March 1, 2019
7:30AM-4:00PM
LA Department of Water & Power
DTLA

FULL SCHEDULE
See draft list of speakers and panels HERE

Our Shared Solar Future: Expanding Access through Community Solar hosted by Grid Alternatives
2019-02-28 09:30 - 14:00 | CA
GRID Alternatives GLA is proud to announce the fourth event in our Los Angeles Energy and Equity Policy Series (LEEPS), “Our Shared Solar Future: Expanding Access through Community Solar.”
Community solar has emerged across the country as a powerful policy strategy to encourage clean energy equity. The event will introduce attendees to the concept of community solar and its potential to expand solar access to our most vulnerable communities, including those households who face the greatest adoption barriers such as renters. Our panel of experts and advocates will review successful community solar case studies from around the country, with specific focus on programs that deliver benefits to low-income customers. Panelists will then turn focus to California and discuss our state’s recent community solar policy developments, as well as additional steps that must be taken to ensure significant utility bill savings for the households that need it most.
We’re honored to announce our lunch keynote: Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves from the California Public Utilities Commissioner.
Agenda
Coffee and Registration (9:30am)
Light breakfast will be served.
Welcoming Comments (10:00am)
Jeannine Pearce, Councilwoman, City of Long Beach

PANEL 1 (10:20am) – Community Solar Successes from around the Country
Throughout the country, community solar has emerged as a viable policy option for the expansion of solar access and energy equity. This panel will review the community solar successes from around the country, particularly as they pertain to low-income communities, and discuss what lessons can be learned as community solar begins to take root in California.

Marta Tomic, Program Director, Vote Solar
Tom Figel, Director of Community Solar, GRID Alternatives

Juan Parra, Community Solar Program Manager, Solar One
Jaimes Valdez, Policy Manager, Spark Northwest
Jake Levine, Associate and Policy Adviser, Covington & Burling, LLP

PANEL 2 (11:40am) – California’s Community Solar Policy Landscape: Now and Into the Future
In 2018, community solar policy developments occurred on multiple fronts throughout California. The California Public Utilities Commission passed the “Green Tariff Community Solar” program to establish a new statewide community solar tariff, the California Department of Community Services and Development released $5 million in grant funding for the implementation of low-income community solar pilot projects, and investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison (SCE) submitted for approval a suite of shared solar programs including SCE’s Community Renewables Program. This panel will review the year’s policy developments and look forward to a future community solar policy landscape that ensures solar access to the most vulnerable Californians.

Ted Bardacke, Executive Director, Clean Power Alliance
Anthony Hernandez, Principal Manager, Energy Procurement and Management, Southern California Edison
Crystal Huang, CEO, People Power Solar Cooperative
Brandon Smithwood, Policy Director, Coalition for Community Solar Access
Elise Hunter, Policy & Regulatory Affairs Director, GRID Alternatives

LUNCH AND KEYNOTE DISCUSSION (1:00pm)
Martha Guzman Aceves, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
#LEEPS #sharedsolar #solar #communitysolar #renewableenergy #GRIDAlternatives #solarforall #energyjustice

About GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles
GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles is an affiliate of GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer, bringing clean energy technology and job training to underserved communities. To date, GRID GLA has installed 1,862 solar electric systems for low-income households, creating $44 million in lifetime utility savings, preventing 83,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions and training 4,000 people along the way. For more information, visit www.gridalternatives.org/gla
*If you have any questions or qualify for a reduced ticket price (students, Veterans), please contact Briget Arndell at barndell@gridalternatives.org.
This event is made possible by The 11th Hour Project, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation.

Housing, Neighborhood & Health #2 (Houston & Wu)
2019-02-27 11:30 - 12:30 | UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
A joint endeavor hosted by the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s Housing as Health Care Initiative, the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
“Urban Green Space, Transit and Health Outcomes”
co-presented by Jun Wu, PhD and Doug Houston, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Gold Hall, Room B-313
UCLA Anderson School of Management
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**Lunch will be provided.**
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Directions to UCLA Anderson School of Management:
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/maps-and-directions
PARKING ($12.00/car) at UCLA Lot 4:
UCLA Parking Lot 4 is located off the Westwood Plaza entrance of campus, right off Sunset Blvd. From Westwood Plaza, proceed straight ahead down the ramp leading underground to UCLA Parking Lot 4 and veer left towards the ‘Pay by Space’ area. After you exit Lot 4, walk towards the UCLA Anderson School Complex. Take the pathway between the Collins Center and Gold Hall, and take the stairs up to the Anderson courtyard. Enter Gold Hall (UCLA Anderson ‘B’ building), which is just across from the cafe. Take one flight of stairs to the 3rd floor and find classroom B-313.
View the Anderson School of Management’s location on the UCLA interactive campus map.
For questions, please contact Christina Green (christina.green@anderson.ucla.edu).
Location

UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza, Gold Hall
Room B-313
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Public Values in Conflict with Animal Agribusiness Practices
2019-02-23 | CA

LA’s New Abnormal: Mega-Wildfires Reception and Discussion
2019-02-06 17:30 - 19:30 | UCLA Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Nature Conservancy and UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) invite you to LA’s New Abnormal: Mega-Wildfires Reception and Discussion Seemingly every year, California breaks some record for devastation with a new wildfire. The Woolsey fire was the worst the Malibu area has ever seen, and it has been 100 years since there has been a wildfire anywhere in the US as deadly as Northern California’s Camp Fire. Is this new abnormal something we just have to learn to live with, or are there actions to be taken that could reduce wildfire hazard both immediately, and more profoundly over a 10 to 20-year span?

Night of Ideas (at the Natural History Museum)
2019-02-01 18:00 - 23:59 | CA
The Natural History Museum in collaboration with the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, will present this year’s Los Angeles program for the Night of Ideas. This year’s theme, “Facing Our Time,” explores the challenges we face around ecological and climate change through the lenses of science, nature, and art.
Night of Ideas is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Sign up for our e-mail to be notified through event website. Link in the next column.

Impact Spotlight / Good Health and Well-being - Dr. Rishi Manchanda of HealthBegins
2019-01-31 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
This talk is brought to you as part of our Impact Spotlights on the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Goal #3: Good Health and Well-Being.
Genetic makeup only determines thirty percent of health outcomes. Social, physical and economic environments determine the rest. Factors such as housing status, employment, walkability, air quality, socioeconomic status, and food security collectively make up what are known as the social determinants of health, and play a huge role in influencing our health.
Hear from the founder of HealthBegins on how the company is redefining clinical-community partnerships and investing in the social determinants of health to create positive outcomes for all.
About the speaker:
Dr. Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
Founder & CEO, HealthBegins
Dr. Rishi Manchanda is a physician, author, and health care leader who has spent more than a decade developing novel strategies to improve health in resource-poor communities. He has served as director of social medicine for a network of community health centers in South-Central Los Angeles, as the lead primary care physician for homeless veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, and as chief medical officer for a self-insured employer with a large rural immigrant workforce. In his 2013 TED Book, The Upstream Doctors, he introduced readers to the upstreamists, a new model of healthcare workers who improve care by addressing patients’ health-related social needs, such as food, financial, and housing insecurity. The book has become recommended reading in medical schools and universities across the world.

Beyond Getting From Point A to Point B: Transportation as a Public Health Issue
2019-01-30 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Beyond Getting From Point A to Point B: Transportation as a Public Health Issue
Whether by car, train, bus, bike, e-scooter, or foot, transportation is more than a way to get from Point A to Point B; it is a critical public health issue. In this Health Forum, we explore how transportation policies affect health equity, the environment, as well as the health and safety of community members. Join us to learn about Los Angeles’ transportation landscape through a public health lens and to understand why sound transportation policies are crucial for ensuring healthy communities.
Panelists:
Muntu Davis, MD, MPH
Health Officer
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Juan Matute
Deputy Director
UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
Seleta J. Reynolds
General Manager
Los Angeles Department of Transportation
Moderator:
Richard J. Jackson, MD, MPH, HonAIA, HonASLA
Professor Emeritus
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
PLEASE NOTE: Attendees coming from off campus will need to purchase a parking permit ($12) from the kiosk on Westwood Plaza, just north of Charles E Young Drive South prior to proceeding to Parking Structure 9. In order to arrive promptly, we strongly recommend that you allow ample time for traffic, picking up your permit, and finding a parking space.
If you are joining the livestream, you do not need to RSVP. Just click HEREon January 30th. Please note that the program begins at 6:30pm PST.
The Paul Torrens Health Forum is recorded and available in our media archive HERE.

2019 Cleantech Open Global Forum
2019-01-29 08:30 - 20:00 | La Kretz Innovation Campus, 525 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Join us at the CTO Global Forum in Los Angeles, January 28-29. Meet nearly 100 startups driving innovation in environmental and sustainable technologies in areas ranging from energy, agriculture, water, transportation, and smart cities. We anticipate an audience of over 400 industry insiders. It will be a great opportunity to make new connections in the burgeoning Los Angeles cleantech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Finalists from our six US Regions will be pitching to win the Cleantech Open Grand Prize, as will winners from other countries in our Global Ideas Program.
As an attendee, you will:

Gain rich exposure to the startups from our 2018 cohort, more mature alumni companies graduated from the program since 2006, and LACI portfolio companies;
Network with entrepreneurs, mentors, peer judges, investors, and industry insiders; and,
Hear about the latest developments in the cleantech world from notable speakers on panels and keynotes – with plenty of opportunity for Q&A.

Program Overview
Here’s the rundown of our program at a very high level.
The event takes place at CTO’s headquarters based at the La Kretz Innovation Campus, a 60,000 SF facility owned by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and managed by LACI, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. All under one roof, the campus houses co-working facilities, meeting rooms, event space, an Advanced Prototyping Center, as well as LADWP’s Emerging Tech team and Customer Engagement Lab.
Monday, January 28th – @ La Kretz Innovation Campus

Final US National Judging – Live Audience!
Workshops for 2018 CTO cohort entrepreneurs
Innovation Tours for 2018 CTO cohort entrepreneurs
Networking Reception

Tuesday, January 29th – @ La Kretz Innovation Campus

Innovation Showcase Expo
Final Global Judging – Live Audience!

Investor & Partner Connect – invitation only
Lunch and networking

Keynotes and panel
Awards Ceremony & Celebration

If you are a CTO alumnus and want to exhibit in the Expo and participate in Investor & Partner Connect – use this registration link instead!
What does my ticket include?
Your General Admission ticket includes all of the main event on Tuesday 1/29. If you have only one day, THIS is the day to attend!

Tuesday morning Innovation Showcase Expo
Tuesday lunch with networking and Live Global Companies pitching
Tuesday afternoon Keynotes, Panel, Awards Ceremony and Celebration

In addition, as an included bonus, you’re welcome to attend on Monday 1/28:

Monday morning US Finals Judging – 6 companies giving it their all!
Monday evening Networking Reception – everyone invited.

So please do join us in LA!

Farmers Market at UCLA
2019-01-23 14:30 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza

Waste Awareness Week: Zero Waste Panel
2019-01-18 17:00 - 20:00 | CA
wasteawarenessweek.com
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Waste Awareness Week is a week-long sustainability event that specifically tackles the impact of waste mismanagement on the environment. The Renewable Energy Association at UCLA, along with a number of sustainability, environmental justice, food insecurity, and artistic organizations, are collaborating to create a number of events that:
1. Expose students to the gravity and scale of the global waste crisis
2. Discuss the various social, economic infrastructural and environmental causes and consequences of the crisis
3. Empowers students to make informed decisions and lifestyle changes that can mitigate this crisis.
The week will consist of a large variety of events that will appeal to all corners of our diverse campus. From interactive games, workshops and panels, to collaborative art shows, movie screenings and a gala dinner, Waste Awareness Week hopes to engage all students and push them to think more critically about their waste generation habits, the single-use culture and linear economic systems that enable them, and the out-of-sight-out-of-mind mentality that blinds them to the true consequences of this global crisis. By collaborating with a large number of student groups, we also hope to plug UCLA students into the community of organizers who are working relentlessly on this issue, and tackling it from every possible facet. As the university approaches the deadline of our zero waste by 2020 goal, we hope that this event will be the final catalyst that empowers our community to meet this goal, and allows us all to live more sustainably at UCLA and beyond.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK:
MONDAY JAN. 14
Play World Waste Quiz and Decomposition Game on Bruin Walk from 10AM-4PM! Bring Your Own Cup for free coffee & cookies!
Learn about commonly found single-use disposables and easy alternatives!
Bring Your Own Cup for free coffee & cookies at the Kerckhoff Art Gallery from 6-9PM for the environmental justice photo exhibition and poetry night!
TUESDAY JAN. 15
Talk to Athens Services, a local, waste collection and recycling company in the greater Los Angeles community for the past 60 years to learn about how they divert resources from landfills through reuse, recycling, and composting. Stop by to talk to the UCLA Zero Waste Coordinator, Kikei Wong, to learn more about UCLA’s Zero Waste to landfill by 2020 initiative! Both representatives will be available on Bruin Plaza from 10AM-4PM.
Play the Waste Stream Game on Bruin Walk to learn about which materials can be diverted from landfill! BYOCup for free coffee!
WEDNESDAY JAN. 16
Prizes will be given out at the Waste Reduction and Awareness Workshops from 10AM-4PM at the Court of Sciences so stop by! Learn about ocean plastic pollution, alternatives to single use items, zero waste, sustainable brands & companies, packageless products, & sustainable shopping.
Unravel will also be hosting No More Trashion: How to Combat Textile Waste to discuss the environmental impact of the textile industry.
Trashed and STRAWS Movie Screenings at 7PM on The Hill! Trashed follows actor Jeremy Irons as he investigates the global scale and impact of humanity’s modern wasteful consumerism and pollution. It was officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival where it had its premiere in 2012 and has won 8 awards. Watch the trailer here: www.trashedfilm.com/trailer/
STRAWS is a 32 minute documentary released Spring 2017 about the half a billion non-recyclable plastic straws that get used every day in the U.S., ending up in landfills and on streets and beaches. Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins narrates and turtle researchers, community activists and business owners discuss a sea of change happening, one straw at a time. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/220521917
THURSDAY JAN. 17
Participate in the SWAP Meet from 10AM-5PM on Bruin Plaza to reduce your waste and carbon footprint in your shopping!
E3 (Ecology, Economy, Equity) will be hosting a DIY Day and
Unravel will be a hosting a clothing upcycling workshop from 10AM-5PM on Bruin Plaza!
Albatross Movie Screening at 7PM on The Hill! Albatross is a powerfully moving love story about birds on Midway Island in the Pacific whose bodies are filled with ocean plastic. This award-winning 97-minute film is offered as a free public artwork. Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/218502282
FRIDAY JAN. 18
Listen to representatives for LA Sanitation, Athens Services, Plastic Pollution Coalition, My Last Plastic Straw, and Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer in the Tennis Club House from 5-8PM. Raffle winners will be announced at the end of the event! Appetizers will also be served.
ALL WEEK:
Appreciate artwork made by UCLA artists and learn about waste awareness in Kerckhoff Art Gallery starting Monday at 6PM!
Check in at each event to be entered to win prizes at the end of the week!
Collect & Carry
See how much trash you produce by carrying your waste throughout the week!

Street Plants: Wild Flora of Los Angeles Discussion
2019-01-17 16:30 - 18:00 | La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden and LENS (Laboratory for Environmental Narratives Strategies) invite you to Street Plants: Wild Flora of Los Angeles Discussion

Cities may seem to be solely the work of humans—right down to the urban landscape of street trees, ornamental plantings, and manicured lawns that were put in place by human hands. But wild plants spread through the landscape without any human help, forming a ubiquitous botanical backdrop that exists at the fringes of most concepts of nature. Join Evan Meyer, Assistant Director of the UCLA Botanical Garden, for a discussion of the wild flora of inner-city Los Angeles.
This event is free, but space is limited. RSVP at uclabotanical.eventbrite.com.

Waste Awareness Week: Swap Meet & DIY Waste Reduction Workshop
2019-01-17 10:00 - 17:00 | CA

Waste Awareness Week: Trashed and Straws Movie Screening
2019-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 | CA

Waste Awareness Week: Waste Reduction and Awareness Workshops
2019-01-16 10:00 - 16:00 | CA

Waste Awareness Week: Talk to Athens Services and UCLA's Zero Waste Coordinator
2019-01-15 10:00 - 16:00 | CA

Waste Awareness Week: Environmental Art Show
2019-01-14 18:00 - 21:00 | CA

Farmers Market at UCLA
2018-11-28 14:30 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza
Farmers’ Market at UCLA is a registered student organization in UCLA that supervises the biweekly market and designs educational events. Thanks to the support from TGIF, SWC, ASUCLA, and E3. Choose fresh produce and support local & responsible farmers. We’ll keep you updated with information about upcoming markets, fun recipes to try out, and local food news!
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