UCLA Sustainability

Going Beyond Financial Measures to A More Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Future
2022-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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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 disclose information about financial, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility performance and is forcing CEOs to construct measurable means to describe and present their businesses. In less than two decades, ESG investing has evolved into a US$35 trillion industry. While it is gathering momentum around the globe, companies and stakeholders have struggled with the myriad of complex and inconsistent sustainability standards, frameworks and metrics.
Join the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management (CGM), Center for Impact and Professor Chris Tang in a moderated discussion with internationally renowned experts in environmental issues and ESG. Professors Christine Loh and Magali Delmas, will explain why the ESG movement, unlike the lack luster CSR initiative, is motivating action by corporations. They will spotlight key challenges and opportunities for practitioners and researchers in ESG and explain why in the wake of climate change, social injustice and income inequality, corporations need to change the way they operate and go beyond the traditional financial measures by taking various ESG measurements into consideration. Looking ahead, they will share their observations on the recent announcement at COP26 of the creation of an International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) that will provide the foundation for consistent and global – environmental, social and governance reporting standards and whether companies are more likely to pivot their operations to a more environmentally sustainable and socially responsible future.

Sustainability Careers: From Getting Started to Getting Ahead
2022-02-24 17:00 - 18:30 | CA
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.
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Cities and Global Climate Justice
2022-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
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 vulnerable places. This online session led by author and professor Kian Goh of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy explores how grassroots climate justice activists in cities around the world fight back against unjust plans, build power among their constituents, and propose alternatives for a climate-just future.
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Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
2022-03-03 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
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 alumni who will talk about their careers after UCLA. Following their presentations, there will be a Q&A and networking session.
Register in advance to receive the zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdumoqDIjGdWTmIVSWEEOs2ztEo9LlneR.

ESN x ES Alumni: Networking and Career Development in the Virtual Age
2022-03-03 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
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 where attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and chat with alumni in a more casual setting.
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Panelists

Claudia Flores, M.E.S.M.
Environmental Planner
Water Sector at Dudek
UCLA B.S. 2017
Mikyla Reta
Policy Analyst, Energy and Environment
Center for American Progress
UCLA B.S. 2018
Nury Molina
Ph.D. Student in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Department
UC Santa Barbara
UCLA B.S. 2019

Adaptation and Community Resilience
2022-03-07 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
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.
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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 health. In order to effectively capitalize on these opportunities, it is critical to engage stakeholders from real estate, development, public health, public policy, climate adaptation, and other industries. The challenges – such as more frequent and severe heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods — can be destructive to the built environment, harm human health, and displace communities. However, the solutions offered by intersectoral work can be cost effective, simple, and innovative. Through discussion and collaboration, implementing these types of solutions can add value to real communities, increase resilience, and improve quality of life.
The second installment in this series will highlight best practices, programs and policies for climate adaptation and community resilience through the built environment, and discuss the process for implementing them. Panelists will discuss not only their current projects and opportunities in response to the climate crisis, but also provide an overview of building strategies that increase resilience. Each of these topics will be linked back to human health and social equity.
Speakers are:
– Brian Cole, DrPH, Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (Moderator)
– Sara Neff, Head of Sustainability, Lendlease Americas
– Jonathan Parfrey, Executive Director, Climate Resolve
– Ben Stapleton, Executive Director, U.S. Green Building Council – Los Angeles

Climate Lyricism with Min Hyoung Song
2022-03-07 15:30 - 17:00 | CA
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 climate change and its disastrous effects, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and extraction. These works employ what Song calls climate lyricism—a mode of address in which a first-person “I” speaks to a “you” about how climate change thoroughly shapes daily life. The relationship between “I” and “you” in this lyricism, Song contends, affects the ways readers comprehend the world, fostering a model of shared agency from which it can become possible to collectively and urgently respond to the catastrophe of our rapidly changing climate. In this way, climate lyricism helps to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change.
Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Boston College, as well as a steering committee member of Environmental Studies and an affiliated faculty member of African and African Diaspora Studies. He is the author of three books: Climate Lyricism (Duke, 2022), The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American (Duke, 2013) and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (Duke, 2005).
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Virtual Screening of "The Ants & the Grasshopper" + Discussion of Environmental Equity
2022-03-22 17:30 - 20:30 | CA
About The Film
Anita Chitaya has a gift. She can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: Persuading Americans that climate change is real.
Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.
This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet.
Panel
A panel discussion with Zilanie NyaGondwe, Director – Institute for the Conservation of Nature (Malawi) and Raj Patel, Co-director of The Ants and the Grasshopper will follow the film. Delana Gbenekama, the City of Santa Monica’s Equity and Communications Coordinator will moderate the panel.
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Restoring The Ancient Tongva Village Of Kuruvugna in West Los Angeles
2022-03-31 18:00 - 19:30 | La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 in West L.A. thrived alongside freshwater springs that emerge along the Santa Monica fault line. Today, two acres of land there have been preserved and provide a unique space to honor the sanctity of the site and to share Gabrielino/Tongva culture in a dignified way. Younger generations are coming to learn about traditional practices, gardening, and community building. Bob Ramirez (Tongva), President of the Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation, will detail the ecological restoration to preserve and protect the Kuruvungna Village Springs site, as well as share plans for the future.
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Food Relatives: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Global Food System
2022-04-01 - 2022-04-02 | CA
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.
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For Day 1 registration, click here. ONLINE
For Day 2 registration, click here. IN-PERSON at UC Berkeley
The conference’s main goal will be to connect scholars, community members, artists, and policy makers through varying critiques and discussions of three major systems of oppression in the global Food System: colonization, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism. In doing so, the Food Relatives conference will give focus on alternative food relations outside of Industrial agricultural practices in order to amplify existing decolonizing and indigenizing movements that may improve Food Systems across all Global Directions, such as Indigenous and Black stewardship, alternative food systems, and sustainable ecologies.
Questions for discussion at the Food Relatives conference may include:

How have Indigenous relationships with food and land changed in response to and as a result of colonization?
How are discussions of Food Security, Food Justice, and Food Sovereignty valuing the more-than human?
How do different disciplines tackle food system questions? What analyses are centered, or silenced, in these discussions?
What can an improved relationship with food and non-humans look like? How may that impact human and non-human health?
How have Indigenous and other historically marginalized peoples used food and land to resist colonization and exercise agency over their health, cultural practices, and social empowerment?

Registration for the Food Relatives conference will be free to all participants and attendees.
This conference is organized by the Food Institute Graduate Council (FIGC) at Berkeley, and sponsored by the Berkeley Food Institute (BFI), the Graduate Assembly (GA), the Native American Studies center, the Latinx Research Center, and the Multicultural Community Center (MCC). Inquiries to FIGC can be made via: contact@figc.berkeley.edu
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Good Clothes, Good People Free Refill Station
2022-04-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 each individual is limited to 6oz. per product per event as supplies are limited. But don’t worry, we’ll have more pop-ups in the upcoming weeks!

Luskin Lecture: Mary Nichols’ Bold Roadmap to Cleaner Transportation
2022-04-04 18:15 - 19:30 | CA
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 from Nichols’ deep experience during this conversation about how government leaders should take bold, equity-focused action. Nichols will be joined by UCLA transportation equity scholar Tierra Bills and Colleen Callahan, the co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.
Nichols has held leadership roles with environmental agencies at the national level, and TIME magazine has included her among the world’s 100 most influential people. She is currently distinguished counsel at the UCLA School of Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Nichols was inaugural director of UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability and is a former advisory board member at the Luskin Center for Innovation.
Bills holds a joint faculty appointment at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Samueli School of Engineering. Callahan earned her master’s in urban planning at UCLA.
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Speakers:

Mary Nichols, Distinguished Counsel at the Emmett Institute of UCLA Law

Gary Segura, Dean, Luskin School of Public Affairs

Tierra Bills, Assistant Professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Samueli School of Engineering

Colleen Callahan, Co-Executive Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Tainted Grapes, Tainted Lungs: Extreme Wildfire Impacts to Undocumented Latina/o and Indigenous Migrants
2022-04-07 12:30 - 14:00 | Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2353
As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adapting to the increasing threat of wildfires. In this lecture, Michael Méndez, assistant professor of environmental policy and planning at UC Irvine, explores why it is crucial to understand how climate disasters amplify existing inequalities and how to lessen the resulting harms, in particular for stigmatized populations including undocumented Latino/a and Indigenous migrants. A visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Méndez was previously a faculty fellow at the Yale School of the Environment and has more than a decade of experience in the public and private sectors.
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Climate Equity LA Series: Community-Driven Climate Resilience and Adaptation in LA
2022-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | CA
In Part II of the Climate Equity LA Series, we will explore how we center equity & justice in the co-design and implementation of climate adaptation plans, tools, and community resilience investments, and how these must reflect the voices, experiences, and expertise of those impacted by climate change. We will also present the need for building capacity and social networks to strengthen climate resilience in the face of disaster, and the need for re-defining hazards and emergencies to address the more present and frequent climate hazards Los Angeles experiences. Further still, we are exploring recommendations that support a just recovery, jobs, and advocating for solutions that match the scale of the climate crisis.
Topics we will cover include Intro to climate resilience; mitigating climate risks and hazards; and community driven climate emergency preparedness over the course of the workshops on April 7, 14, and 21.
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UCLA Clothing Swap
2022-04-08 12:00 - 16:00 | Sunset Village, 330 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Participate in the Clothing Swap at Sunset Village Plaza on Friday from 12 – 4pm. We encourage you to bring clothing with you but you’re welcome to take free items provided by Good Clothes, Good People, Unravel, RefineLA, and Zero Waste UCLA!

Discussion on Los Angeles County’s Climate Vulnerability Assessment
2022-04-11 10:00 - 11:30 | CA
The USC Schwarzenegger Institute, the UCLA Luskin Center, and the Los Angeles Business Council invite you to join the Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office for a discussion of the Los Angeles County Climate Vulnerability Assessment.
Just over two years ago, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted the OurCounty Sustainability Plan, which set forth a bold, people-centered vision for making our communities healthier, more equitable, economically stronger, and better prepared for the future. The OurCounty Plan directed the preparation of this Climate Vulnerability Assessment to help understand the risks and challenges that a changing climate will bring to people living in Los Angeles County.
This event will include an overview of the Climate Vulnerability Assessment, what it means for different communities in Los Angeles, and discuss strategies to adapt Los Angeles to a changing climate.
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Speakers:

Holly Mitchell, Los Angeles Supervisor
Ricardo Lara, California Insurance Commissioner
Fran Pavley, Environmental Policy Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute
Gary Gero, Chief Sustainability Officer, Los Angeles County
Jisung Park, Assistant Professor, UCLA, and Associate Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Mary Leslie, President, Los Angeles Business Council

Tips for Reducing Waste at Home and at Work
2022-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Please join Staff Assembly and the campus Zero Waste Ambassadors in a discussion of how to reduce waste both at home and at work.
The mission of the Zero Waste Ambassador team is to help communicate sustainability initiatives and build zero waste programs that serve the campus community.
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Presenters:
Alejandra Chavez (she/they): Zero Waste Ambassador; 3rd-year Gender Studies major
Ying Yan (she/her): Zero Waste Ambassador; 3rd-year Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental biology major
Karlie Hayes (she/her): Zero Waste Ambassador; 3rd-year Cognitive Science major
Kikei Wong (she/her): Zero Waste Manager

UCLA Climate Justice Forum 2022
2022-04-12 17:00 - 20:00 | Fowler Museum
Environmentalists of Color Collective at UCLA (ECC) and UCLA’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI) are proud to present 2022’s Climate Justice Forum! This event is open to members of the UCLA community. Please fill out this form by April 3rd, 11:59 pm to secure your spot.
We’ll be exploring whether it is realistic to navigate our uncertain future through the lens of climate optimism, as well as approaches to dealing with climate anxiety and feelings of paralysis in fighting for a healthy world through speakers, activities, and dinner. We aim to center this conversation on BIPOC identities and experiences and to get people involved in climate justice action in their communities.
This in-person event will be held at the Barbara and Joseph Goldenberg Terrace at the Fowler Museum on UCLA’s campus, though we are following COVID-19 guidelines closely should there be a need to move it to an online format. We will be checking vaccination cards or negative COVID tests at the door. If you have questions, please email ecc.ucla@gmail.com with the header “Climate Justice Forum Questions.”
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Bio Dynamic Principles and Gardening
2022-04-14 17:30 - 19:00 | CA
Horticulturist Jill Morganelli will cover the principles, history, science and the relationship to stewardship of biodynamics. Biodynamics is a holistic, ecological, and ethical approach to farming, gardening, food, and nutrition. Biodynamics is rooted in the work of philosopher and scientist Dr. Rudolf Steiner. Biodynamics has continued to develop and evolve since the 1920s through the collaboration of many farmers and researchers. Around the world, biodynamics is alive in thousands of thriving gardens, farms, vineyards, ranches, and orchards. The principles and practices of biodynamics can be applied anywhere food is grown, with thoughtful adaptation to scale, landscape, climate, and culture.
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Climate Equity LA Series: Mitigating Climate Risks and Hazards
2022-04-14 18:00 - 19:00 | CA

Resilient Palisades Earth Day Festival
2022-04-16 10:00 - 15:00 | Will Rogers State Historic Park Polo Field, 1501 Will Rogers State Park Road, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272, United States
Free Family Friendly Event

Food Trucks
DJs & Dancing
Children’s Activities
Green Tech Solutions
Yoga Classes
Sustainable Orgs & Vendors

Impact Week Conference 2022: The Future of LA
2022-04-18 - 2022-04-22 | CA
Impact Week 2022 will focus on the future of Los Angeles by examining what our extraordinarily diverse city looks like right now. We will consider the factors contributing to the life experience — and disparities — in L.A. and discuss how different sectors interconnect. We will examine the built environment, inequitable food access, public green spaces, the mayor’s Sustainable City Plan , the burgeoning tech economy of Silicon Beach, improvements in public transit alongside skyrocketing real estate prices, growing numbers of unhoused people and soaring temperatures amid worsening drought.
In six years, the world will be watching when Los Angeles takes center stage as host of the 2028 Summer Olympics. Will the city present itself as a thriving and healthy metropolis? How will the city showcase its willingness to innovate and incorporate diverse thoughts to create social action? Which local corporations are seeding positive changes now that will sow benefits come 2028?
To attempt to answer those questions and inspire discussion, we will hear from a range of panelists and keynote speakers from both the private and public sectors. We seek change-makers from the grassroots level to the heights of industry who recognize UCLA’s research, education and service missions as crucial to the future of our region. By examining different L.A. neighborhoods, Impact Week 2022 will train a lens on the business solutions best poised to improve the social determinants of health for Los Angelenos.
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Community as a Building Block of Resilience
2022-04-20 11:30 - 13:00 | CA
As American communities are confronted by compounded and systematic challenges, we need new models to build resilience for all people. Communities that are connected and empowered are better off today and more able to respond and recover when disaster strikes. Why are communities fundamental to resilience, and how do we find, connect and support our local communities? How does this translate to developing strong teams at work, and how can we leverage organizations and project teams to prepare for a changing world?
This 90-minute interactive virtual workshop will provide participants with real-world examples and strategies for understanding and supporting team building and community engagement as a key component of resilience.
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Presenters

Heather Rosenberg
Heather Rosenberg is an Associate Principal at Arup and leads its resilience discipline in the Americas. An ecologist by training, Heather is a USGB Ginsberg Fellow with 20 years of experience in sustainability and resilience in the built environment. Her practice focuses on a systemic approach to resilience to organizations, with a central focus on social justice.
Before joining Arup, Heather was the founder and president of her own successful resilience strategy firm, Building Resilience Network. She partnered with the USGBC-LA Chapter to create their Building Resilience-LA program, worked with GRESB to develop its Resilience Module and served as resilience advisor to Enterprise Community Partners.
Heather has served as a technical advisor to dozens of public, private and non-profit organizations, and served on a variety of commissions and boards, including the State of California Clean Energy Jobs Act Citizens Oversight Board, and is a former member the City of Los Angeles Innovation and Performance Commission (Mayoral appointee).

AI Earth Summit 2022
2022-04-21 11:30 - 19:00 | CA
As the cycle of climate tech innovation and investment accelerates, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning will continue to play a growing role in sustainable development. Join us for an engaging and inspiring day of conversations and collaboration centered around the planet and our technology’s place within it. This year’s Earth Summit will be hybrid—the first time in-person activities are returning since 2019’s event—there are even greater opportunities to collaborate with fellow sustainability-driven minds across the Southern California region and beyond.
In mid-March, AI LA kicked off an Open Innovation Challenge with LA County to invite geospatial scientists, machine learning engineers, and designers to build teams to solve a high-priority problem in LA County involving invasive pests destroying our trees. Teams are currently using satellite imagery to develop an alert system that could be used by LA County and other regions that are battling this growing issue of invasive pests killing our trees. During AI LA’s Earth Summit, teams will present their solutions and compete to win a $10,000 grant, office hours with Starburst Aerospace, free corporate services with Wilson Sonsini, and other ecosystem support.
Meanwhile, speaker panels at Earth Summit ranging from sustainable aerospace innovation to climate tech investment will inspire further conversations. LA County Board Supervisors Kuehl and Solis will be providing opening remarks about AI LA’s Open Innovation Challenge.
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Climate, Carbon and What Really Matters
2022-04-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Bruin Viewpoint Room, Ackerman Union at UCLA, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Dale Jamieson is a professor of environmental studies and philosophy at New York University, where he serves as director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection. He is affiliated with NYU’s schools of law, medicine and global public health, and has held visiting appointments at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as well as several universities in the United States and abroad. Jamieson’s recent work concerns the nature and uses of love, political theory for the anthropocene, the prospects for progressive consequentialism, and the various complex relationships between environmental and animal protection, especially in relation to food and conservation.
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Climate Equity LA Series: Community Driven Climate Emergency Preparedness
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | CA

Environmental Justice and Ecotherapy Conference 2022
2022-04-22 07:00 - 14:00 | CA
The UT Steve Hicks School of Social Work EJET student organization presents the first annual Environmental Justice and Eco-Therapy Conference. The goal of the conference is to bring awareness and education to the UT campus community around issues of sustainability through an environmental justice and mental health lens. The speakers presenting at this conference will consider this as they tie in their expertise on issues such as climate justice, environmental justice, ecotherapy, and climate resilience.
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Professionals can earn 4 CEUs by attending this conference
Friday April 22, 2022 Agenda
9-9:15am – Opening and Introduction – Erica Foster and Mark McKim, EJET Conference Co-Founders
9:15-10:30 – Keynote “Somos de la tierra: We are nature” – Rocío Villalobos, City of Austin Equity Office
10:30 -10:45 – Break
10:45-12:00 – Climate and Environmental Justice: Frontline perspectives to inform allies in social work. David Cortez, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter, Dr. Tane Ward, Consultant and Community Organizer, and Andy Escobar, CEER Houston
12:00- 1:00 – Break for Lunch
1:00 – 2:15 – Redefining Resilience: Equity & Climate Justice – Carmen Llanes Pulido, Go Austin Vamos Austin (GAVA) and Kizzy Hanibal Xolani, Co-founder and Program Manager at EcoRise
2:15-2:30 – Break
2:30 – 3:45 – “Nature Heals: Reflections on Indigenous Practices & Ecotherapy for Well-being.” Starla Simmons, LCSW and Marika Alvarado, Indigenous Medicine Woman
For more information and conference agenda please visit: https://sites.utexas.edu/ejetconference/

1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change
2022-04-22 08:30 - 16:00 | CA
The 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change inspires the AEC community to solve climate change issues and become more harmonious with nature by pinpointing techniques and methodologies to enhance and improve project approaches and better co-exist together.
Through expert speakers, we will explore diverse regenerative cultures, best practices for transitioning to a circular economy, re-examine how we conduct business, and highlight rapid and necessary shifts in culture and consumption. The goal is to better manage impacts between the built and natural environments, encourage ways for designers to create balance within these systems, and explore new ways in which we can actively seek to rebuild the social fabric of our cities.
Presentations will focus on building equity, emphasize human and environmental health, and instill future generations with a sense of empowerment and advocacy to influence designs as well as policy.
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UCLA Earth Day Fair
2022-04-22 13:00 - 16:00 | Sunken Gardens
UCLA’s annual Earth Day Fair is held by E3’s Earth Month Campaign. This year, our theme is Food Systems, and we aim to educate the community about food related issues and environmental concerns.
We would love for you to join us in dedicating April to advocate for the right to clean, safe, and healthy communities for us and our future generations.
Come to Zero Waste Ambassadors’ pop-up refillery open to all. Bring your own container and get shampoo, conditioner, dish soap, laundry detergent, body wash, hand sanitizer, and more refilled.
