Net Zero Accelerator Demo Day & Expo

This annual event is one of our most compelling, featuring live and interactive demonstrations from our NZA 2021 cohort, updates from NZA alumni companies, and companies in our SoCal CleanTech Express program with the Consulate General of Canada. A panel discussion on "Growth Mode" will follow our opening keynote, and we'll wrap up with interactive, […]

Partnership Models for Increasing Park Access in Underserved Communities

Parks provide opportunities for people to be physically active, spend time in nature, and connect socially with others. Yet over half of Los Angeles County’s population lives in neighborhoods without access to parks and open space with the majority of high-need areas being concentrated in low-income communities of color. LA County has an opportunity to […]

UCLA Farmer’s Market

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

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!

LA Green Jobs – Virtual Career Fair

Hello green job seekers! It's the top of the New Year and we would like for you to join us for our LA Green Jobs - Virtual Career Fair brought to you by USGBC-LA! REGISTER HERE If you're looking for an opportunity to speak directly with hiring managers in the sustainability industry for the built […]

Our Climate Crisis: A Guide for SoCal Communities in the Wildland Urban Interface

Led by the Malibu Foundation, this highly collaborative project assessed the social vulnerabilities and physical hazards of living in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) region and identified how we can more equitably mitigate and adapt to climate change through community engagement and multi-level stakeholder support. Zoom Meeting: https://pepperdine.zoom.us/j/83251357152 RSVP HERE Presentation of report findings and […]

UCLA Farmers Market

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

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 […]

Renewal of Wood & Future of Mass Timber

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 […]

Watch Your Step! Assessing Carbon Footprint Workshop

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 […]

Going Beyond Financial Measures to A More Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Future

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 […]

Sustainability Careers: From Getting Started to Getting Ahead

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. […]

Cities and Global Climate Justice

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 […]

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 777 Tiverton Avenue (Mildred Mathais Botanical Garden), 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 […]