How can electrification programs better support households in disadvantaged communities? Join this webinar to explore strategies to reduce program participation barriers and expand home electrification across California. We’ll draw on findings from our recently published report, Streamlining Home Electrification in the Gateway Cities, on a promising pilot program in the L.A. region. What to Expect:...
How can the proliferation of music industry merchandise align with artists’ and society’s environmental and social expectations? Merch is one of music's fastest-growing revenue streams — and one of its most scrutinised. As fans and artists alike demand higher environmental and social standards, the industry faces a pressing question: can merchandise ever be truly sustainable?...
Armenia takes center stage this October as host to one of the most important global summits for the future of life on earth, COP17 – the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) 17th Conference of Parties – under the theme “Taking Action for Nature.” You’re invited to a special virtual meeting hosted in collaboration with...
Join L.A. Material’s Antonia Cereijido and Jessica Garrison for a conversation with experts about Los Angeles air quality amid the ongoing Boyle Heights warehouse fire. Guest experts include: - Yifang Zhu, professor at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences - Sam Silva, assistant professor of Earth Sciences, Civil and Environmental...
This is an off-campus, non-UCLA event posted here in case of interest to the broader community. Climate debates are going nowhere. Highly ideological, they end in gridlock more often than solutions. Disasters strike, but their media shelf-life is short. And younger generations, long worried about living on a warming planet, are moving from anxiety to...