Our Shared Solar Future: Expanding Access through Community Solar hosted by Grid Alternatives
2019-02-28 09:30 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | 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.

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

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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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.

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

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 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

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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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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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!

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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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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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!

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:
https://goo.gl/forms/Qvo22uFK81qJ6Ilg2
THIS FORM WILL CLOSE ON FRIDAY, MARCH 8TH AT 5PM.
More announcements to come in the following weeks.
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Impact Week | Socially Responsible & Ethical Supply Chains
2019-04-22 11:30 - 12:30 | 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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Climate Change on Trial: An Earth Day Conversation with Julia Olson, Lead Attorney for Landmark Children's Climate Lawsuit
2019-04-22 17:15 - 19:45 | Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum, UCLA
April 22 event at Fowler Museum at UCLA will feature Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel for Our Children’s Trust, and lead attorney for plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States

Date: 04/22/2019
Time: 05:15 PM – 07:45 PM
Location: The Fowler Museum at UCLA, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Today’s young people and their children and grandchildren will bear the brunt of global warming. The effects American communities are experiencing today – heat waves, sea-level rise, extreme rainfall, crop failures, and wildfires – will worsen over time.
In 2015, 21 youth plaintiffs filed suit against the federal government, arguing that by subsidizing fossil fuels and failing to control greenhouse gas emissions the United States is violating the children’s constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The innovative case, Juliana v. United States, has survived two appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, but government lawyers continue to fight to prevent the case from ever heading to trial.
At an Earth Day event hosted by UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel for Our Children’s Trust, and lead attorney for the youth plaintiffs, will deliver an evening lecture to discuss this groundbreaking case. Olson’s work has been profiled in 60 Minutes, The Washington Post, CNN, Vogue, NPR, and many other leading media outlets. University of Oregon Law Professor Mary Wood told The New York Times, “she has built not just a case, but a movement.”
Following the lecture, UCLA Emmett Institute Faculty Director and Shapiro Law Professor Ann Carlson will moderate a discussion and Q&A with the speaker. A reception will precede the event. The event is open to the public.
The event is co-sponsored by UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Sustainability, and the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
RSVP:
Please use this form to RSVP by April 18, 2019
DATE/TIME:
April 22, 2019
Reception: 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Program: 6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
LOCATION:
The Fowler Museum at UCLA
308 Charles E Young Dr N
Los Angeles, CA 90024
SPEAKER BIOS:
Julia Olson, Executive Director & Chief Legal Counsel, Our Children’s Trust
Julia Olson graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993 with a B.A. in International Affairs and from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. Julia worked for 15 years representing grassroots conservation groups in the West. She helped protect rivers, forests, parks, wilderness, wildlife, organic agriculture and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she began focusing her work in that field and founded Our Children’s Trust. Her work has led her to the intersection of human rights and environmental protection and she is passionate about working for youth. Julia also teaches environmental courses as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon School of Law.
Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and the Faculty Co-Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law.
Ann Carlson is a leading scholar of climate change and air pollution law and policy, the co-author of a top casebook on Environmental Law (with Dan Farber and William Boyd), and the co-editor, with Dallas Burtraw, of a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, Lessons from the Clean Air Act: Building Durability and Flexibility into U.S. Climate and Energy Policy. She has published numerous articles in leading law reviews, including California, Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, and UCLA. Carlson is currently serving as the Speaker of the California Assembly’s representative to the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee. She is a frequent media commentator and blogs at Legal Planet. She is the recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and is the 2017 University of California Sustainability Champion. Carlson is a magna cum laude graduate of both UC Santa Barbara and Harvard Law School.

Impact Week | Impact Investing 101: How Impact Investing Can Create Real Solutions
2019-04-23 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
Impact Investing 101: How Impact Investing Can Create Real Solutions
Lunch talk featuring industry professionals from various sectors highlighting progress in the field of impact investing.

Panelists:

Dave Fanger (’15), CEO & Founder, Swell Investing
Deborah La Franchi (’00), CEO & President, SDS Group
Lisa Richter, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Avivar Capital
Zev Wexler, COO/CFO, Core Innovation Capital
Moderator: Jennifer Walske, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations & Interim Faculty Director, UCLA Anderson School of Management

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

Tue, April 23, 2019
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
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Location

UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza
Room: TBD
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Luskin Summit 2019: Livable L.A.
2019-04-24 08:30 - 13:00 | CA
This research-informed, cross-sector conversation about the major issues facing the Los Angeles region will focus not on problems but on solutions.
Featured Presenters

Elected officials, including the mayors of Burbank, Culver City, Inglewood and Pomona
Leaders from government and business
UCLA scholars
Civic leaders
Difference-makers in the nonprofit and ​philanthropic spheres

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND SESSIONS
Additional Opportunity
The UCLA Luskin Summit will precede the 49th Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, which begins April 24 and continues until April 27 at the Luskin Conference Center. The conference will bring together more than 1,000 multidisciplinary and international scholars to discuss urban-focused research, with plenary and special sessions featuring local and global experts on urban issues. Click here for more information about the UAA conference.

Energy x Impact Week | Recharging Mobility: How Disruption is Redesigning the Urban Landscape and Enriching Quality of Life
2019-04-24 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
Recharging Mobility: How Disruption is Redesigning the Urban Landscape and Enriching Quality of Life
Energy x Impact Week | Presented by Anderson Energy Management Group
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.
In addition, click here if you’d like to register for the evening Energy x Impact Week panel:
Renewable Energy and Resiliency: “Climate Disasters and the Role of the Energy Sector” Energy x Impact Week | Presented by Anderson Energy Management Group
For more information, check out the Impact Week Conference Website!
Date And Time

Wed, April 24, 2019
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PDT
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Location

UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza
Room: TBD
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Energy x Impact Week | Renewable Energy and Resiliency: “Climate Disasters and the Role of the Energy Sector
2019-04-24 17:30 - 19:30 | CA
Renewable Energy and Resiliency: “Climate Disasters and the Role of the Energy Sector”
Energy x Impact Week | Presented by Anderson Energy Management Group
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.
In addition, click here if you’d like to register for the lunchtime Energy x Impact Week panel:
Recharging Mobility: How Disruption is Redesigning the Urban Landscape and Enriching Quality of Life
Energy x Impact Week | Presented by Anderson Energy Management Group
For more information, check out the Impact Week Conference Website!
Date And Time

Wed, April 24, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT
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Impactathon® at UCLA Anderson: Interactive Social Impact Workshop & Hackathon
2019-04-25 09:00 - 2019-04-26 15:00 | CA
Calling all LA social entrepreneurs and individuals driven to create social impact! Win up to $10,000 for your social enterprise solution or up to $1,000 for mapping out a solvable problem.
If you have ever been called to create positive impact, whether locally for Los Angeles or globally for the world, this event was designed for you!
In partnership with UCLA Anderson School of Management and The SAM Initiative, Impactathon® is back, as part of Impact Week. At Impactathon, you will learn from esteemed UCLA Anderson faculty about methodologies and frameworks for understanding how social impact works as a system. You will hear from local social entrepreneurs and subject matter experts about their candid experience in deeply understanding a societal issue and building a social impact initiative. You will participate in a design-thinking approach to understanding a problem.
Whether you are an experienced social entrepreneur or new to the space, you will have the opportunity to work in teams and further your enterprise or understanding of a solvable problem. Teams will have the chance to pitch to judges and potentially win funding to further their work.
Be part of this unique opportunity to create change in Los Angeles and beyond!
Our Themes
This year’s Impactathon at UCLA Anderson will spotlight the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Social entrepreneurs working to create or advance good health and well-being; sustainable cities and communities; and/or responsible consumption and production, are especially encouraged to apply. The UN Sustainable Goals (SDG’s) were launched in 2015 to address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity and peace and justice.
Who Should Attend
– Social entrepreneurs with proven ideas and traction who are looking to scale their work.
– UCLA Anderson students and other business leaders seeking to share their skills with existing teams
– UCLA undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, community members excited to cross-pollinate ideas and lend their perspective to deeply understanding local and global issues and brainstorming innovation
– Any individual that wants to learn about social impact and social entrepreneurship, map a problem, and ideate solutions to a local or global issue
*note: Tickets also give you access to robust programming as part of Impact Week at UCLA Anderson. Financial assistance is available for tickets.
About Impact Week at Anderson
In its 5th year and with the theme Purpose + Profits, Impact Week at UCLA Anderson is focused on building a robust bridge to local issues in Southern California as well as global issues. Recognizing that some of the best ideas to solve social challenges come from the communities in which those challenges persist, Impact@Anderson believes social innovation and entrepreneurship must bridge the gap between community and classroom.
About The SAM Initiative
Founded in 2013 by Mindy Freedman, the SAM Initiative is a group of individuals who have pooled their financial resources and experience to fund and support exceptional and innovative programs in Los Angeles that promote social change and benefit women, children and families. The SAM Initiative was founded on the belief that we have more impact together than we have alone. Together, we strive to educate and engage donors by investing in community-based organizations that reflect our passions and address the most pressing needs in our community.
About Impactathon®
Innov8social partners with mission-driven companies, institutions, and foundations to bring together individuals together for Impactathons, interactive social impact events that catalyze collaboration, innovation, working in teams, and pitching social impact solutions for feedback and potential recognition.
Impactathon has partnered to deliver 10 Impactathons in cities including San Francisco, New York City, Aliso Viejo, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Baton Rouge.
Photography and filming
Please note that by purchasing a ticket, you acknowledge and agree to being photographed and filmed.
Financial Aid
Please email info@innov8social.com in case in need of financial support. Early bird rates are also available.

Date And Time

Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:00 AM –
Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 3:00 PM PDT
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Location

UCLA Anderson School of Management
Los Angeles, 90095
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LA Makers: Journey from Discovery to Market
2019-04-25 16:00 - 18:00 | LACI, 525 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
Join us for a lively panel discussion with startup companies from the Magnify and LACI incubators as we explore unique pathways founders took toward commercialization and the challenges faced along the way. Panelists will share what inspired them to take the entrepreneurs journey and the resources used to incubate their companies.
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Schedule:
4:00pm – 4:30pm: Registration and check-in
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Welcome remarks and introductions
5:00pm – 6:00pm: Panel discussion
Networking reception to follow
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Panel:
Eric Hoek, Professor, UCLA Samueli Engineering School (Moderator)
Dr. Hoek is a professor at UCLA Samueli Engineering School and his research group explores the union of nanomaterials and membrane technologies for water, energy, biomedical and environmental applications. Dr. Hoek has been involved in numerous technology startup companies including NanoH2O, Water Planet, PolyCera and IntelliFlux.
Schaffer Grimm, CFO of Craytex
Craytex is developing carbon nanotube-based composites for the aerospace and defense industries that are lighter than carbon fiber.
Sanjay Poojary, President and CEO of SayaLife
SAYA deploys a modular IOT water management solution designed for sub-metering and mitigating catastrophic water related risks. This technology saves money, protects property and fosters peace of mind by providing real time control of water systems.
Kaveh Shoorideh, Director of Technology, SELFA
SELFA is developing a point-of-care protein and nucleic acid quantitation platform based on a semiconductor biosensor with extraordinary sensitivity and scalable multiplexing.
Max Aram, CEO of Pick My Solar
Pick My Solar is a managed marketplace that helps homeowners solicit competitive quotes from a network of vetted quality installers across the country.
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Directions/ Parking:

Directions to CNSI can be downloaded here.
Stop at the information kiosk (to your left) towards the end of Westwood Plaza to obtain a parking permit.
The attendant will direct you to the closest available parking structure.
Parking is $12 — CASH ONLY —
Please allow for extra time to park and walk to CNSI.

Impact Week 2019 Friday Full-Day Conference
2019-04-26 09:00 - 18:00 | CA
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. Speakers and panelists for the Friday full-day event include: Honest Tea, Patagonia, Unilever, Deloitte, Bridgespan Group, Swell, Sustain Naturals, Aira, Tala, LADWP, and Pledgling.
For more information, check out the Impact Week Conference website!
Date And Time

Fri, April 26, 2019
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PDT
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Location

UCLA Anderson School of Management
110 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Earth Month at UCLA: Speaker Panel
2019-04-26 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
Earth Month would not exist if it weren’t for leaders who inspire our team. Come listen to a panel of environmental movers and shakers talk about the work they do within air quality, water justice, food justice, or toxic “-icides”. Learn about the work they do, communities they serve, and what students can do to join the environmental movement. After panelist presentations, there will be a Q&A session and a reception.
Panelists will be announced Week 1 of Spring Quarter throughout Earth Month’s Welcome Week!
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More announcements to come in the following weeks.
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La City San Earth Day LA 2019
2019-04-27 10:00 - 14:00 | CA
EARTH DAY LA

Please join us on Saturday, April 27, 2019 from 10am to 2pm at Woodley Park as LA Sanitation & Environment holds its fourth annual citywide Earth Day LA event. We have City vehicles for kids to explore, games to play, prizes to win, seeds to plant, 50+ exhibitors to visit, and fun for all ages. Michelle Trujillo of Telemundo will once again serve as our Mistress of Ceremonies. Free beverages, hot meals, cold popsicles, and giveaways are available for all, while supplies last. All exhibits are all related to City services and sustainability. Photos from previous years can be viewed on our Facebook page.
Earth Day LA 2019
Woodley Park
6350 Woodley Avenue
Van Nuys, CA 91436
REGISTER HERE to let us know you’re coming so we have enough goodies for everyone. Our event flyers are at the bottom of this page. Download them and share with your friends!

If you can’t make it to Earth Day LA 2019, we hope you’ll join us for our LASAN Open House events!

Over 50 exhibitors to visit

The exhibitor area is so much fun, you won’t even know you’re learning! All of our exhibitors are either government or non-profit. There will be nothing for sale, but there are plenty of giveaways! Learn how to use recycled water at home, what items can go in the blue recycling bin, where to get free mulch, how to sign up for a free street tree, and much more!

City vehicles to explore

This is what the kids have been waiting for! LASAN brings out a variety of trucks for kids to explore. Honk horns, operate the controls, and see what it’s like to be a collections worker! Additionally, other City departments will bring vehicles for kids to explore. Don’t forget your camera to capture those smiles!

Mascots and live entertainment

LA Sanitation’s mascots will be out in full-force. Meet Mr. Recycle, Tommy TV, Octo-Clean, and their good friend, The Drop. We will also have an enviro-azzi area in the Kids Zone for photographs with our mascots to keep your memories alive until next year’s event.
This year we have two stages: the Main Stage and the Kids Pavilion Stage! OUr Mistress of Ceremonies is once again Michelle Trujillo of Telemundo 32.
2019 Entertainment Lineup:
DJ Jorge Nesta
Taiko Project
LAPD Cadets – Presentation of the Colors
Jonathan Zari – National Anthem
Green Girl Saves the World
Discovery Cube LA
Joyas Divinas Del Valle
Selenamos

Artwork Competition

Local elementary schools were invited to participate in our LASAN Earth Day LA Artwork competition, open to K-5 students. The artwork had one requirement: to take inspiration from the interpretation of the contest theme “Greening Los Angeles, Preserving our Future”. Exciting prizes are available to the winners, and the chosen artwork will be displayed on an active LASAN collection truck in the local neighborhoods. Curious who the winners are? Come by the Main Stage at 11:30am.

Free food and beverage

LASAN staff will be serving lunch and snacks from 10am to 2pm! We have an asian theme this year in honor of our Japanese Garden, located adjacent to Woodley Pakr. Frozen tropical fruit popsicles, and cold water will also be available. These treats are free for all, while supplies last.

Kids Zone

Who wants to be an LASAN Earth Day Ambassador? The Environmental Learning Center at Hyperion (ELC) will be hosting a Kids Zone for our younger attendees. The Kids Zone offers educational, engaging game and craft stations to teach children how to protect the environment through everyday sustainable practices.
Bring your children to help understand the City’s work to protect the environment, learn about the Urban Water Cycle, begin your own vegetable garden, and make your very own Earth Day Pledge. Don’t forget to visit the Kids Pavilion Stage to meet our MC for the day, Carina Zaldivar!

UCLA Bio Blitz- Bruin Nature Challenge
2019-04-28 09:00 - 11:00 | Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden (North Entrance)

UCLA Bio Blitz- Bruin Nature Challenge
2019-04-28 14:00 - 16:00 | CA

Climate Justice Forum 2019: UCLA Community Call to Action
2019-04-30 17:00 - 20:00 | CA
Environmentalists of Color Collective (ECC) and Reslife Present our 2nd annual Climate Justice Forum: UCLA Community Call to Action! With all the awesome student organizations UCLA has, we want to create a space for all of us to come together to discuss and learn about Environmental Justice.
~Plant-based dinner will be provided!~
EVENTBRITE RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-justice-forum-community-call-to-action-tickets-60010029614

UCLA La Kretz Center Annual Public Lecture: California on Fire
2019-05-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum, UCLA
Please join us as we hear from three preeminent ecologists offering their perspectives on the impacts of wild fire on California conservation.

Featuring Carla D’Antonio from UC Santa Barbara, Jon Keeley from US Geological Survey, and Seth Riley from the National Park Service. The event will be moderated by Victoria Sork, UCLA Dean of Life Sciences.

Bird LA Day at UCLA: a sensory exploration of birds of the world
2019-05-04 09:00 - 16:00 | CA
Visit the UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden for a unique tour of bird sounds from all over the world! As you wander through sections of the Garden representing Hawaii, Australia, South Africa, SoCal, and more, you can listen to the songs and calls of each area’s characteristic birds using our phone-based audio tour. The Garden will also host a presentation about some of UCLA’s groundbreaking bird research, including the Bird Genoscape Project and the Center for Tropical Research. This program is additionally co-presented by the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability and the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies. When you arrive at the Garden, you can start your tour at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion, at the Garden’s northwest corner near Charles E. Young Drive. Note: You can access the audio tour on your phone. Headphones recommended! This event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP. [Photo by Nurit Katz]
Held every May, Bird LA Day celebrates the birds of Southern California and LA’s amazing biodiversity. Bird and nature-themed events are held throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Bird LA Day shines the spotlight on nature, and reminds the world that Los Angeles is a lot more than just film, fashion and celebrities. Learn more at: birdladay.org

Coastalong Festival
2019-05-04 15:00 - 21:00 | CA
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 May 4th, 2019!
NOTE: WE CHECK BRUINCARDS AT THE GATE
NOT AN UCLA STUDENT? CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR GUEST LIST!
