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Climate Solutions, Justice, and the Rise of a Trillion-Dollar Industry

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This is a keynote event of The Penn Regenerative Ag Alliance Workshop. The workshop’s morning keynote speaker, Dr. Jane Zelikova, will discuss the possibility of regenerative agriculture as a just climate solution. As attention on soil carbon is increasing in rapidly expanding carbon markets, questions of application and scalability must be approached from a framework...

Climate Change, Disruption, and Health Equity

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As climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures become more common, humans are being exposed to unique combinations of health hazards and stressors, which are often inequitably distributed across the population. A panel of experts will discuss how climate change and climate disasters impact health outcomes for different populations and exacerbates health inequities,...

2023 BizFed Institute Water Forum

Metropolitan Water District 700 Alameda St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us the L.A. County Business Federation (BizFed) Institute for its in-person Water Resiliency Forum on Friday, March 24th, at the Metropolitan Water District's Los Angeles headquarters to talk short-term and long-term solutions. They'll convene change agents from business and government for a frank conversation about challenges, projects, policies, and urgently needed investments. REGISTER HERE

Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America

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This is a keynote event of the Penn Regenerative Ag Alliance Workshop. REGISTER HERE Bet the Farm: A conversation with Beth Hoffman on the dollars and sense of growing food in America. Speaker: Beth Hoffman began her writing career focused on culture and food, producing a radio food series documenting the stories of immigrant women...

Urban biodiversity: the importance of scale

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REGISTER HERE While much is known about the scaling of biodiversity, less is known about specifically how biodiversity scales in urban areas. This is an important question because over two-thirds of humans live in urban areas. Understanding how, precisely, biodiversity scales in urban areas will inform management. Linear relationships would imply that similar interventions should...

Life after Concrete: Imagining the Future of the LA River

Doheny Memorial Library (DML) 240 3550 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This is the fifth event of the 2022-23 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Precarious Ecologies: Science and Social Justice in the Production of Environmental Knowledge. Nearly a century after it was encased in concrete for flood control, the LA River has in recent years become a source of hope for a renewed urban ecology, as well as...

Climate Jobs Around the Green Ecosystem

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Join and meet companies working byte by byte and acre by acre to solve the climate crisis. REGISTER HERE About Terra.do job fairs Action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them. Hear about dozens of open roles, in a single...

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s I-710 Blueprint Webinar – Delivering the Goods: How LA County can Invest in Drayage Electrification Infrastructure

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The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the Transportation Electrification Partnership put forth a call for action in 2019 for 40% of all drayage trucks serving the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to be zero emission by 2028, and have steadily advocated for significant deployment of charging infrastructure to facilitate the rapid adoption...

2023 La Kretz Center Public Lecture – 30×30 California: Conservation Science and Policy in Action

Hershey Hall Salon 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Sunday, April 2nd, for the annual UCLA La Kretz Center Public Lecture, which will have Drs. Jennifer Norris and Brad Shaffer to discuss California's pathbreaking initiative to conserve 30% of California natural areas by 2030. Please join for an informal presentation and lively discussion led by Dr. Jennifer Norris, the California Deputy Secretary for...