• IOES Corporate Partners Program: Built Environment Sustainability Roundtables

    The Corporate Partners Program is convening sustainability leaders from the business and academic worlds to discuss sustainability in the built environment. Industry leaders will make brief presentations on their contributions to sustainability in the built environment. Participants will explore these topics further in small roundtable discussions with the presenters and UCLA faculty. Students will share their green paper research with...

  • Movie + Dinner: Screening of “Designing Healthy Communities”

    DESCRIPTION We will be screening Episode 3: Social Policy in Concrete of the "Designing Healthy Communities" PBS series, narrated by our very own, Richard Jackson, MD, MPH. Episode 3: Social Policy in Concrete Summary Dr. Jackson believes it is every citizen’s right to live in a clean, healthy environment. This isn’t the case for many...

  • Coastalong Bicycle Powered Music Festival

    We are Coastalong, a bike-powered, student-run music festival and sustainability fair. Our goal is to spread awareness about alternative energy sources in a funky, cool, and creative space, so we host a variety of activities, booths, and installations each year in addition to all our stellar performers and DJs. We look forward to seeing you on...

  • Water in the Middle East & Africa: A Nexus of Cooperation & Conflict

    The severe water crises facing areas of the Middle East and Africa have significant implications for the health, welfare and security of the regions’ people. Today, issues related to water availability and quality – including food security, sanitation and health, and economic development – have become both more complex and critical to address in these...

  • Botanical Birding for Citizen Science and Academic Research

    Join graduate students Andy Kleinhesselink, Samuel Bressler, and the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden staff for a morning of birding in our 7.5 acre urban oasis in Westwood! We’ll start off at the Nest Outdoor Classroom with coffee and snacks, followed by some demonstrations about how the garden is used for ornithological scientific research...

  • Parrots of Pasadena: Walk, Talk and Cocktail Reception

    EVENT DETAILS WHEN 5.12.2018 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM WHERE La Pintoresca Park 45 E Washington Blvd Pasadena, CA 91103 Parrots of Pasadena walk, talk & cocktail reception with Professor Ursula K. Heise. A Bird LA Day event sponsored by UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) of the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability.  Meet at the...