Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!
2026-05-05 22:00, 2026-05-06 22:00, 2026-05-07 22:00, 2026-05-12 22:00, 2026-05-13 22:00, 2026-05-14 22:00, 2026-05-20 22:00, 2026-05-21 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 1 more date | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Bruin Dine for food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement (unless otherwise announced)! Please bring your own tupperware and utensils!
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Book Talk: MEAT: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future
2026-05-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Hershey Hall Salon, 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Bruce Friedrich, Founder and President of The Good Food Institute, for a discussion of his new critically acclaimed book MEAT. In MEAT: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food—and Our Future, Friedrich lays out a bold vision: a future in which humans continue to enjoy meat that tastes the same as what they know and love but is produced without the inefficiency of cycling crops through animals. Standing at the crossroads of science, policy, and storytelling, Friedrich channels the urgency of a climate activist, the clear-eyed pragmatism of a seasoned entrepreneur, and the forward-looking optimism of a visionary.
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Drought, Disaster, and Decision-Making: Can a Crisis Be Averted in the Colorado River Basin?
2026-05-08 09:00 - 12:00 | Online
Join the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation on May 8th for a critical and timely discussion on the Colorado River Basin. In collaboration with UCLA partners, we are convening a virtual mini-symposium that brings together expert researchers and water managers to take a clear-eyed look at conditions in the Colorado River Basin, where the ability to reliably serve 40 million people across Western states, tribal nations, and Mexico is increasingly in question.
Speakers will examine the climate-driven trends reshaping the Basin, the current state of interstate water negotiations, and what pragmatic, balanced outcomes might look like for the West — including California’s water future. A moderated Q&A will follow each panel.
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‘IN HONOR’ series presents…Finding Edna Lewis: Film Screening & Tasting
2026-05-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Fowler Museum
UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies (RFI) is proud to continue its series: ‘IN HONOR’. ‘IN HONOR’ honors the complexity, innovation, and brilliance of black foodways. Through the lens of their experiences as members of the Black diaspora, the series features artists, scholars, and activists who have contributed to and reshaped both local and national food conversations.
Join RFI and the UCLA Fowler Museum for a special screening of Finding Edna Lewis. This Emmy Award–winning film explores the life and legacy of the trailblazing chef who brought Southern cuisine to the national stage.
Before the screening, enjoy a tasting inspired by Edna’s iconic dishes prepared by Chef Martin. After the film, stay for a conversation with the film’s Executive Producer Debra Freeman and Chef Martin Draluck.
Schedule
5–6pm: Courtyard Reception featuring light refreshments and curated small bites by Chef Martin Draluck
6–6:30pm: Lenart Auditorium doors open to the public
6:30–7:30pm: Film Screening in Lenart Auditorium begins
7:30–9pm: Conversation and Q&A
*Schedule subject to change
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Clarkia Flower Festival
2026-05-16 10:00 - 16:00 | Botanical Garden, 707 Tiverton Dr
Join an unforgettable celebration featuring exciting nature activities, a lively beer garden, fantastic live music, amazing community organizations, and so much more! Admission to this event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. You won’t want to miss out on this blooming good time!
Event Highlights:

Tables from local organizations
Themed Naturalist Walks
Engaging talks and activities about nature
Delicious food trucks
A fun beer garden
Live music
Arts and crafts for everyone

Visit this link for more information about parking on campus and an interactive parking map.

Live Webinar: Data with Purpose: 2026 State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure
2026-05-19 09:00 - 10:00 | Online
Join the Open for Good Initiative at the UCLA Anderson Center for Impact for the unveiling of the 2026 State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Report – an annual analysis of how S&P 500 companies are reporting on climate and sustainability commitments in a rapidly shifting regulatory and political landscape.
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Book Talk - Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster
2026-05-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
About the book: Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond to a deteriorating environment.
Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the book follows one man’s possible journeys through a season of planting and harvesting, buffeted by losses and sustained by the hope that he can cultivate conditions that will help his family thrive. Forecasts makes a sweeping account of environmental and financial risk accessible through the intimate story of one family’s triumphs, heartbreaks, and hopes for the future.
Author: Caroline Schuster
Associate professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University
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The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep
2026-05-21 15:00 - 17:30 | Hammer Museum
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers will address the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represented the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson, the ocean was a teacher, agent, and ancestor carried in our briny veins.
This panel will engage a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship, the history and science behind the contamination, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep.
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Out of Plain Sight, Screening and Post-screening conversation
2026-05-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Hammer Museum, Bay-Nimoy Theatre, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
From the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Rosanna Xia, Out of Plain Sight is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California.
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CA Natural Resources Secretary Speaker Series - AAPI Trailblazers: Bold Leaders Advocating for the Environment
2026-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This AAPI Heritage Month, Secretary Wade Crowfoot joins for a conversation honoring AAPI leaders advancing climate action, expanding access to nature, and helping build a stronger, more inclusive California for future generations.
Secretary Crowfoot hosts monthly discussions with leaders and big thinkers from across California to discuss emerging natural resources issues. This open forum allows for new and different perspectives about how we best steward California’s resources.
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Screening: The Sea Around Us
2026-06-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Hammer Museum
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Beneath the glittering surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a world of ancient and ongoing kinship—and a hidden legacy of destruction. Guided by the cosmologies of the Tongva and Acjachemen peoples and the relation to the abalone, this immersive journey into the ocean depths confronts a half-century of chemical dumping off the coast of Catalina Island, asking us to renew relations with a mother ocean that has been exploited.
Created by artist Rebeca Méndez, The Sea Around Us is an immersive cinematic experience born from the shocking revelation that over 500,000 barrels of toxic chemicals—including the pesticide DDT+, acid sludge, and radioactive waste—were dumped into the ocean off Santa Catalina Island between 1947 and 1972, with disastrous implications for marine and human ecologies. Méndez’s vision weaves together underwater footage, Indigenous knowledge systems and song, and poetic storytelling into a call to action for care and accountability to our source of life. The screening is followed by a conversation with Rebeca Méndez, artist and professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, Professor UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and investigative journalist Rosanna Xia.
Ticketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis, limit one per visitor. Box office opens one hour before the event.
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Los Angeles Wildfires: ​An Economic Update #3
2026-06-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This third iteration offers a refreshed overview of the economic impacts of recent wildfires in Los Angeles. It highlights updated data and key trends, while providing a general snapshot of recovery progress and ongoing challenges. The report is intended to keep stakeholders informed with timely insights as conditions continue to evolve.
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Waste Diversion and Reduction in Athletics
2026-06-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will highlight practical strategies, challenges, and successes in reducing waste at athletic events and facilities, including recycling, composting, fan engagement, and operations behind the scenes. Attendees will gain insight into how sports programs can leverage fan energy and engagement to drive broader sustainability awareness and action.
Presentation from:
Chad DeWitt – Sustainability Coordinator at University of Virginia
Meredith Laidly – Resource Stewardship Coordinator, Department of Athletics at The Ohio State University
Logan Gould – Zero Waste Coordinator, Facilities Operations and Development at The Ohio State University
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