Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!
2026-05-27 22:00, 2026-05-28 22:00, 2026-06-03 22:00, 2026-06-04 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Bruin Dine for food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement (unless otherwise announced)! Please bring your own tupperware and utensils!
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CA Natural Resources Secretary Speaker Series - AAPI Trailblazers: Bold Leaders Advocating for the Environment
2026-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
This AAPI Heritage Month, Secretary Wade Crowfoot joins for a conversation honoring AAPI leaders advancing climate action, expanding access to nature, and helping build a stronger, more inclusive California for future generations.
Secretary Crowfoot hosts monthly discussions with leaders and big thinkers from across California to discuss emerging natural resources issues. This open forum allows for new and different perspectives about how we best steward California’s resources.
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Land That Breathes: Native Film Festival
2026-05-30 18:00 - 22:00 | James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join for a night of Indigenous film. This film festival will showcase the work of Native women filmmakers whose creative visions speak to the relations between community and the land: Cassandra Kihúut Alaniz (Payómkawish, Pechanga Band of Indians), Camaray Davalos (Payómkawichum), Eve-Lauryn Little Shell LaFountain (Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Jewish), Keli Mashburn (Osage Nation), Kim O’Bomsawin (Abenaki nation of Odanak), and Meg Porteous (Ngāti Maniapoto/ Pākehā). The event will also feature a mid-show Q&A with Keli Mashburn and Meg Porteous, moderated by Desiree Wetz (Juaneño/Luiseño/Cahuilla). The festival programmer is Scott Brockman Varnado (Advanced PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television).
Doors open and dinner reception at 6, first screening at 6:30.
Find more info at https://main.aisc.ucla.edu/events/landthatbreathesindigenousfilmfestival/.

Screening: The Sea Around Us
2026-06-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Hammer Museum
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Beneath the glittering surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a world of ancient and ongoing kinship—and a hidden legacy of destruction. Guided by the cosmologies of the Tongva and Acjachemen peoples and the relation to the abalone, this immersive journey into the ocean depths confronts a half-century of chemical dumping off the coast of Catalina Island, asking us to renew relations with a mother ocean that has been exploited.
Created by artist Rebeca Méndez, The Sea Around Us is an immersive cinematic experience born from the shocking revelation that over 500,000 barrels of toxic chemicals—including the pesticide DDT+, acid sludge, and radioactive waste—were dumped into the ocean off Santa Catalina Island between 1947 and 1972, with disastrous implications for marine and human ecologies. Méndez’s vision weaves together underwater footage, Indigenous knowledge systems and song, and poetic storytelling into a call to action for care and accountability to our source of life. The screening is followed by a conversation with Rebeca Méndez, artist and professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, Professor UCLA English Professor Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and investigative journalist Rosanna Xia.
Ticketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis, limit one per visitor. Box office opens one hour before the event.
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Los Angeles Wildfires: ​An Economic Update #3
2026-06-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This third iteration offers a refreshed overview of the economic impacts of recent wildfires in Los Angeles. It highlights updated data and key trends, while providing a general snapshot of recovery progress and ongoing challenges. The report is intended to keep stakeholders informed with timely insights as conditions continue to evolve.
REGISTER FOR WEBINAR HERE

Waste Diversion and Reduction in Athletics
2026-06-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
This session will highlight practical strategies, challenges, and successes in reducing waste at athletic events and facilities, including recycling, composting, fan engagement, and operations behind the scenes. Attendees will gain insight into how sports programs can leverage fan energy and engagement to drive broader sustainability awareness and action.
Presentation from:
Chad DeWitt – Sustainability Coordinator at University of Virginia
Meredith Laidly – Resource Stewardship Coordinator, Department of Athletics at The Ohio State University
Logan Gould – Zero Waste Coordinator, Facilities Operations and Development at The Ohio State University
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Streamlining Home Electrification: Strategies to Reach Disadvantaged Communities
2026-06-11 15:30 - 16:30 | Online
How can electrification programs better support households in disadvantaged communities?
Join this webinar to explore strategies to reduce program participation barriers and expand home electrification across California. We’ll draw on findings from our recently published report, Streamlining Home Electrification in the Gateway Cities, on a promising pilot program in the L.A. region.
What to Expect: We’ll discuss the benefits of the “one-stop-shop” case management approach and the potential for streamlined applications and a universal home assessment process to facilitate participation across programs. A panel of experts will share perspectives from across the field — including state policy, environmental justice, and more — followed by a moderated Q&A.
REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR HERE
Presented by: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation in partnership with Valley Clean Air Now (Valley CAN)
Related Report: Streamlining Home Electrification in the Gateway Cities

Making Merch Sustainable
2026-06-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
How can the proliferation of music industry merchandise align with artists’ and society’s environmental and social expectations?
Merch is one of music’s fastest-growing revenue streams — and one of its most scrutinised. As fans and artists alike demand higher environmental and social standards, the industry faces a pressing question: can merchandise ever be truly sustainable?
This hour long webinar introduces the new Responsible Merch Guide, co-authored by REVERB, The CSO Shop, and Green Music Australia.
Join other industry leaders to explore how music merch is being reimagined — from reuse and remanufacturing to supply chain innovation — and what it takes to align commercial ambition with genuine responsibility.
Whether you’re an artist, manager, brand, sustainability professional or concerned fan, join to explore what’s already working, what’s still broken, and where the opportunity lies.
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Get Ready for COP17 in Armenia! Come Together to Learn and Discuss How to Engage
2026-06-17 09:00 - 10:00 | Online
Armenia takes center stage this October as host to one of the most important global summits for the future of life on earth, COP17 – the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) 17th Conference of Parties – under the theme “Taking Action for Nature.” You’re invited to a special virtual meeting hosted in collaboration with the California Global Diversity Alliance ahead of COP17. As environmental challenges continue to impact communities around the world, connecting local action with global conservation goals has never been more important.
Speakers include:
– US Congressperson Laura Friedman
– CA Assemblymember Nick Schultz
– Mike Young, Executive Director of California Environmental Voters
– and others to be announced
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