UCLA Sustainability

Adaptation and Community Resilience
2022-03-07 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

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

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.

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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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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Going Beyond Financial Measures to A More Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Responsible Future
2022-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Watch Your Step! Assessing Carbon Footprint Workshop
2022-02-23 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
To promote UCLA’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative, the CNI ambassadors will organize a speaker panel on week eight to share environmental topics. Titled “Watch Your Step! Assessing Personal Carbon Footprint”, the panel will focus on low-carbon transportation on campus, sustainable eating habits, and carbon footprint assessment. We have invited Professor Millard-Ball from Luskin School of Urban Planning, doctoral student Samuel Speroni, and nutritionist Carole Barolotto from UCLA Dining Services to speak in our panel. All participants will enter a sustainable item drawing and have a chance to win an Arbor skateboard, Allbirds running shoes, and bamboo utensil sets. All these items help promote our goal for sustainable transportation and eating habits.
You can also use this note in the social media post: “Want to win a skateboard or a pair of shoes? Curious about how to lessen your carbon footprint? UCLA’s Carbon Neutrality Initiative is putting on a speaker panel where you can do both! Click the link to sign up!”
Here’s a link to the sign-up form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Un6zbKscMxx4DBCuqlydNtC15Wp-Lo2tMfnszZUY78TZ8g/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Renewal of Wood & Future of Mass Timber
2022-02-17 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
Join us for an informed discussion with local leaders on everything there is to know about the use of wood as a construction material! From mass timber design and embodied carbon calculations to the latest updates on wood-related code issues, we will unpack the sometimes complex issues around one of our most important renewable resources in the green building movement.
All are welcome to tune in for this panel of experts! This is a complimentary event brought to you by USGBC-LA and our sponsors.
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UCLA Farmers Market
2022-02-16 14:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Farmers’ Market is a biweekly farmers’ market held in Bruin Plaza for UCLA students, staff, faculty, and community to enjoy. Our team further champions sustainability, community, and education through our events and workshops. Come join us and support your local LA farmers!
Please email uclafarmersmarket@gmail.com or visit them on Instagram at @uclafarmersmarket for more info.

Our Climate Crisis: A Guide for SoCal Communities in the Wildland Urban Interface
2022-02-08 17:30 - 19:00 | CA
Led by the Malibu Foundation, this highly collaborative project assessed the social vulnerabilities and physical hazards of living in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) region and identified how we can more equitably mitigate and adapt to climate change through community engagement and multi-level stakeholder support.
Zoom Meeting: https://pepperdine.zoom.us/j/83251357152
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Presentation of report findings and discussion of next steps to strengthen climate resilience by sustainability planning experts Shea Cunningham and Dean Kubani
Co-Hosted by Dr. Chris Doran, Pepperdine’s Sustainability Program and Trevor Neilson, Co-Founder of the Climate Emergency Fund
Project Advisory Committee Panelists:
• Ryan Craig, Resilient Palisades
• Professor Madelyn Glickfield, Local Water Policy Expert
• Cassandra Rauser, PhD, UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
• Clark Stevens, Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
• Brent Woodworth, Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

LA Green Jobs - Virtual Career Fair
2022-02-02 15:00 - 16:00 | CA
Hello green job seekers! It’s the top of the New Year and we would like for you to join us for our LA Green Jobs – Virtual Career Fair brought to you by USGBC-LA!
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If you’re looking for an opportunity to speak directly with hiring managers in the sustainability industry for the built environment, this is a great opportunity for you.
Register today and we look forward to meeting you at the fair.
Participating Companies:

BNBuilders
Clean Power Alliance
Green Dinosaur
Leading Edge
LendLease
Mott MacDonald
SoCal Gas

UCLA Farmer's Market
2022-01-19 14:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Farmers’ Market is a biweekly farmers’ market held in Bruin Plaza for UCLA students, staff, faculty, and community to enjoy. Our team further champions sustainability, community, and education through our events and workshops. Come join us and support your local LA farmers!

Partnership Models for Increasing Park Access in Underserved Communities
2022-01-19 12:30 - 13:30 | CA
Parks provide opportunities for people to be physically active, spend time in nature, and connect socially with others. Yet over half of Los Angeles County’s population lives in neighborhoods without access to parks and open space with the majority of high-need areas being concentrated in low-income communities of color.
LA County has an opportunity to address these decades-long issues through increased resources provided by the passage of Measure A. But money alone is not enough to address inequity. This event will delve into the importance of partnership models to advance park equity in the LA region, including examining the recently opened Golden Age Park.
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Madeline Brozen, Lewis Center
Louie Leiva, cityLAB UCLA
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Tori Kjer, Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Miguel Velasquez, St. Barnabas Senior Services
Sean Woods, LA County Department of Parks and Recreation

Net Zero Accelerator Demo Day & Expo
2022-01-13 12:00 - 14:00 | CA
This annual event is one of our most compelling, featuring live and interactive demonstrations from our NZA 2021 cohort, updates from NZA alumni companies, and companies in our SoCal CleanTech Express program with the Consulate General of Canada. A panel discussion on “Growth Mode” will follow our opening keynote, and we’ll wrap up with interactive, virtual breakouts for solution-focused deep dives as well as future opportunities to connect directly on pilot projects.
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Saging the World
2022-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 | CA
The viral trend of smudging is endangering white sage. Metric tons of white sage (Salvia apiana) are being poached across wildlands to supply an international demand for smudge sticks, essential oil and other products. This plant is deeply rooted in the cultures and lifeways of Indigenous communities of Southern California and northern Baja, the only region that white sage naturally occurs in the world. The devastating theft and the appropriated trend that it fuels stand in sharp contrast with the values and traditional practices of regional Native communities. Indigenous advocates express that white sage that has been irreverently ripped from the wild, sold on the black market, shipped across the planet, and burned without regard for Indigenous practices has no medicine. Native people have long fought for the protection and recognition of white sage. Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small, authors of the Ethnobotany Project, and white sage advocates say it’s time to Sage the World: we need to boycott wildcrafted sage products, grow native plants like white sage, and reorient perspectives of plants as ‘resources’ to ‘relationships.’ David Bryant, CNPS’s Director of Education & Engagement, will speak about the Saging the World campaign, sharing co-led efforts with Rose, Deborah and Indigenous partners to protect this imperiled plant.
Information for logging onto the Zoom presentation will be posted on our website and Facebook twenty hours before the event and announced via email blast. If you are not on our Chapter email list, subscribe by clicking here.

Can Healthcare Reduce Its Carbon Footprint?
2021-12-07 17:00 - 18:00 | CA
Every nation, every industry, and every community are being impacted by climate change. While COP26 may be over and promises were made, work is already in progress in addressing future impacts of our actions today. How is the healthcare industry both contributing to the planet growing warmer, and what is being done by forward-thinking leaders to stop it? Please join us for a moderated, dynamic panel of sustainable design professionals and organizations to learn how health care can be part of the solution.
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Moderator: Heather Burpee, Research Associate Professor University of Washington Integrated Design Lab
Travis English, Director of Engineering; Chief Design Engineer Kaiser Permanente
Robyn Rothman, Associate Director, State Policy Programs Health Care Without Harm U.S.
Amber Wirth, Vice President; Sustainable Design Leader HKS

Global Trends and The Future of Travel – The Role of Technology and Sustainability
2021-12-02 17:00 - 18:00 | CA
Join the Centers@Anderson and Professor Terry Kramer, in conversation with M. İlker Aycı, chairman of the board of directors and executive committee for Turkish Airlines, Europe’s busiest carrier, and the largest airline in the world by the number of passenger destinations served (315) . He will discuss global trends including trade issues, growing nationalism and trade wars and their implications for the future of global travel. He will also address the longer-term effects on aviation that have been accelerated by COVID-19, including digitization, remote work and the importance of sustainability. Chairman Aycı will share his observations on the values and principles that will help guide the industry towards a healthier and more sustainable future and explain how responding to these shifts decisively now, carriers should be able to look beyond the pandemic and adapt to the long-term realities of COVID-19 that are transforming global travel. UCLA Anderson Dean Tony Bernardo will provide opening remarks.
The pandemic has changed consumer and business behavior—and the airline sector—irrevocably. As remote working and virtual meetings become the norm, the industry is likely to see a slow return of business travel. Many have questioned whether business travel will ever return to its original state pre-COVID-19. And digitalization and contactless technology will continue to transform the travel experience. Personalization, hygiene and safety measures will be more important than ever. Tourism trends surrounding low-carbon travel will continue to evolve and travel will become greener and more efficient. Finally, notwithstanding the challenges of COVID-19 and technology-based transformations – – many geopolitical trends have driven growing nationalism, reducing global trade and travel. Will these trends be short term or become part of a “new normal?”
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COP26, Climate Regulation and Beyond: How Business Leaders can Become Effective Climate Leaders
2021-12-01 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
High Impact Tea featuring Mary Nichols, Distinguished Counsel at UCLA Law, Former Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, in conversation with Dr. Magali Delmas, Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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With COP26 underway and almost to its conclusion, we wanted to feature Dr. Mary Nichols, whose work spans the gamut of environmental law and policy. Her long tenure working in this field through four gubernatorial administrations in California has made her a model of conversation, collaboration, and outcomes, managing to balance the interests of utilities companies, communities, activists, policy-makers, financiers, and the auto, oil and gas industries without getting co-opted. This High Impact Tea will explore what will come next in environmental regulations, how young graduates can have an environmental impact, and how each of us can influence corporations to be truly green. Dr. Nichols will be in conversation with Maggie Delmas, Professor of Management at the Anderson School of Management and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and Faculty Director of the Center for Impact at Anderson.
The High Impact Tea is a quarterly speaker series that features social impact industry leaders sharing stories about their successes, and lessons learned in their careers. The social and educational event is open to faculty, students, staff and alumni across UCLA, as well as the broader social impact community. It is designed to provide a forum for conversation and exchange of ideas among people committed to creating social, environmental and economic impact around the world.

Climate Change, Health and the Built Environment Discussion Series, Part 1: California's Landscape
2021-11-30 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 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 first installment in this series, California’s Landscape, will provide an overview of the current threats to our state (extreme heat, wildfire, sea level rise, drought, air quality) and discuss the ways each of these issues is mitigated/exacerbated by the built environment. Each of these topics will be linked back to health and equity and will lay groundwork for understanding the level of threat and set up discussion about ways to respond.
Speakers include: Lara Cushing, PhD (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health), David Eisenman, MD, MSHS (David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health), keynote speaker Richard Jackson, MD, MPH (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health), moderator Tim Kawahara (UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate), Elizabeth Rhoades, PhD (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health), Ryan Vaughn, PhD (Jupiter Intelligence).

The Story of Plastic Virtual Screening and Panel Discussion
2021-11-17 18:00 - 20:30 | CA
The Story of Plastic is a searing expose revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary you’ve seen, THE STORY OF PLASTIC presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance fighting back, THE STORY OF PLASTIC is a life-changing film depicting one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues.
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You can watch the trailer here.
A link to the event will be sent to you on November 17th. Please check your email!
A Panel discussion will follow the film, panelists include; Dianna Cohen, Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO & Co-Founder and The Story of Plastic Co-Executive Producer, Chris Celsi, Resource Recovery & Recycling Manager with the City of Santa Monica and Page Schult, Co-founder at topanga.io.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Sarah Spitz, UC Master Gardener, Los Angeles County.
This is a Free Event! But you must register here on Eventbrite

Partnership Models for Increasing Park Access
2021-11-17 12:30 - 14:00 | CA
Parks provide opportunities for people to be physically active, spend time in nature, and connect socially with others. Yet over half of Los Angeles County’s population lives in neighborhoods without access to parks and open space with the majority of high-need areas being concentrated in low-income communities of color.
LA County has an opportunity to address these decades-long issues through increased resources provided by the passage of Measure A. But money alone is not enough to address inequity. This event will delve into the importance of partnership models to advance park equity in the LA region, including examining the recently opened Golden Age Park.
RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YEw8DPs-SNSywjYmpDkg3A
Moderator
Madeline Brozen, Lewis Center
Panelists
Louie Leiva, cityLAB UCLA
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Miguel Velasquez, Saint Barnabas Senior Services

America Recycles Day TRUE Zero Waste Precertification Training
2021-11-15 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
Join USGBC-LA for a special America Recycles Day Training opportunity!
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TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) is a comprehensive certification program recognizing facilities for minimizing resource consumption, preventing waste, and redesigning material life cycles so that all residual materials are reused in a closed loop. TRUE was developed as a leadership standard to recognize sites that have defined and achieved their zero waste goals, making positive impacts on people, the environment, and the economy locally and globally. However, leadership is not confined to those that have reached zero waste. Leadership is taking the first step, and all the steps that follow.

TRUE zero waste Pre-certification Path:
TRUE pre-certification recognizes projects which have implemented the fundamental actions and policies needed to effectively pursue zero waste and have demonstrated a commitment to achieving TRUE certification. As such, pre-certification is available to all projects regardless of the level of diversion performance that has been achieved.
It is an optional, incremental pathway to formal certification that prioritizes the core actions essential to getting a successful start: auditing, analyzing, and aspiring to zero waste. As pre-certification is an optional step and is not required for TRUE certification, project teams may choose to skip pre-certification and pursue TRUE certification directly, if they are ready. The information outlined below offers details on the requirements and how to achieve pre-certification using the TRUE rating system.

Objectives:

Learn trends on the zero waste and circular economy solutions
Understand how you can start with TRUE zero waste pre-certification path in your facility
Comprehend the importance of the TRUE minimum program requirements (prerequisites)
Understand the importance of a zero waste audit

Take Aways

Create your own path to pre-certification
Volunteer facility to follow through the process
Opportunity to become a TRUE Advisor

People & Pollinators: Panel on Bees, Beekeeping, Gardens, and Our Greater Food System
2021-11-15 12:00 - 13:15 | La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Please RSVP below to join us at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden. Maximum capacity for this event is 60 and we encourage participant to arrive by 12pm to have a seat. Latecomers are welcome if space is available. Email eatwell@ucla.edu if you have any questions or accessibility needs for this event.
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Kindly note that this event will take place in the classrooms of the pavilion with the windows and doors open. Participants must have filled out their daily symptom monitoring survey, provide proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test, and wear masks during the event. Please see here for more info: https://ucla.app.box.com/s/ldwgbdtwohcwbmbrk2gzdmb478od5566
EatWell Pod is excited to be in conversation with California Master Beekeeper Program manager (CAMBP) Wendy Mather, Bruin Beekeepers, and the jane b semel HCI community garden stewards for an inspiring review on the people-pollinator connection.
We’ll explore how pollinators, especially bees, are valuable contributors to our diverse food systems, and overall human and planetary health. Wendy Mather will share the 4Ps that put bees in peril, and outline proactive, healthy protocols we can all implement to support healthy bees. Bruin Beekeepers will share progress and lessons learned in bringing bees to campus and building programs to connect our community to them. We look forward to a rich discussion on the reciprocal relationship between healthy honey bees and humans.

Leading with Courage and Candor: Inclusive Leadership
2021-11-15 11:30 - 12:30 | CA
Sana Rahim is a Senior HR Business Partner and People Programs Lead at brightwheel. Sana designs work environments where employees are happy and able to do their best work. She has deep expertise in diversity & inclusion, talent management and employee engagement. Sana believes work should be engaging, joyous and inclusive for ALL employees. She holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA from Northwestern University.
In this Embracing Diversity Week Session, we will deep dive into the key characteristics of an inclusive leader and walk through specific, actionable things you can start doing to drive a greater sense of inclusion and equity within your team.
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Embracing Diversity Week is proudly supported by UCLA Anderson Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and programming is open to all students, alumni, prospective applicants, staff, faculty and professionals. Register below to attend the rest of the programming that week!

Eatwell 2021 Food Day at UCLA Farmers’ Market
2021-11-10 14:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Eatwell Pod for our annual food day event at UCLA Farmers’ Market. More details coming soon!
The Farmers’ Market is held biweekly at Bruin Plaza for UCLA students, staff, faculty, and community to enjoy. Our team further champions sustainability, community, and education through our events and workshops. Come join us and support your local LA farmers!

Efforts to Phase Out Oil and Gas Extraction in California
2021-11-10 12:15 - 13:15 | CA
Register Here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcemppj0sGdCVttEhc4SBijpEPAfjMQ80
Please join us for a panel on “Efforts to Phase Out Oil and Gas Extraction in California,” hosted by the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Environmental Law Society. The panel will feature advocates working to address the impacts of oil and gas extraction. Topics will include recent Los Angeles County efforts to begin phasing out existing wells and banning new wells under County jurisdiction, state-level efforts to create setbacks from drill sites and reform oil and gas regulations, and the local and state-level environmental justice campaigns leading these efforts. The event will be held via Zoom.
Speakers:
Ingrid Brostrom, Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment
Damon Nagami, Natural Resources Defense Council
Eric Romann, STAND-LA Coalition Coordinator, Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles
Moderator: Sean Hecht, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, UCLA School of Law

Social Innovations Around the World
2021-11-09 18:00 - 19:00 | CA
Join the Centers@Anderson and Professor Chris Tang, in conversation with Cheryl Gregory (’10), senior manager, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Edwin Keh, CEO, Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and former chief operating officer, global procurement, Walmart; and Shailendra Tyagi, former head, supply chain and logistics, ITC Limited where he led the e-Choupal rural marketing initiative in India in its agri-business division. Panelists will discuss innovation projects they are engaged with and share examples of how innovative technology can enable positive change and bring new solutions to improve environmental sustainability and advance social responsibility around the world.
Shailendra Tyagi will discuss how the e-Choupal system has helped to tackle challenges of India’s agricultural sector through innovative technology solutions that empower rural communities and improve the lives of India’s rural farmers. Edwin Keh will explain how HKRITA partners with corporations to develop innovative technology solutions to address environmental issues and clean up the fast fashion industry through a review of Looop, a new garment-to-garment recycling system that is achieving real change and transforming the industry for the future. Cheryl Gregory (’10) will provide an inside look from a funder’s perspective and share the types innovations that the Gates Foundation is seeing in socially important sectors, how projects are selected through its grants budget or allocation for program-related investments (PRIs), and how the foundation measures outcomes and success.
We are proud to feature this discussion as a lead up to UCLA’s International Education Week.
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Engineering Day 2021
2021-11-06 09:00 - 13:00 | CA
REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 3PM ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4. PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE YOUR SCHOOL-ISSUED EMAIL ADDRESS. ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT 1-2 HOURS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE EVENT.
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We’re inviting environmental, chemical, and civil engineering students to learn about future career opportunities at LA Sanitation & Environment. Hear from recent hires and program managers, learn about our hiring process, and gain an understanding of our vast network of exciting projects across the City of Los Angeles. This is a free virtual event. Learn more about us on our website and view our video!

When you register, please use your school-issued email address or your registration will be cancelled.
Download the full conference program and speaker bios here.

Coming to Campus: LACI at UCLA
2021-11-05 13:00 - 14:00 | CA
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) welcomes UCLA staff and faculty to join us for an overview of our programs. LACI is creating an inclusive green economy by: unlocking innovation by working with startups to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies; transforming markets through partnerships with policymakers, innovators, and market leaders in transportation, energy and sustainable cities; and enhancing communities through workforce development, pilots, and other programs.
We invite UCLA staff and faculty to get to know LACI and how to engage with us as we create an inclusive green economy.
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Learn more at laci.org.
All of the latest job and internship opportunities available at LACI and our portfolio companies can be viewed at laci.org/opportunities.

Landscape Architecture and the Science of Climate Change
2021-11-05 12:00 - 2022-06-03 13:00 | CA
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona hosts a series of monthly presentations on the science of climate change and landscape architecture solutions.
Join the event during your lunch break. It starts at 12pm and ends at 1pm on the first Friday of each month, between October 2021 and June 2022 (except April 2022, which will be on the second Friday of that month).
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Each monthly presentation will be followed by a Q&A moderated by faculty members of Cal Poly Pomona.
October 1: DROUGHT
November 5: WILDFIRE
December 3: BIODIVERSITY LOSS
January 7: FLOODING
February 4: SEA RISE
March 4: CARBON
April 8: HEAT
May 6: FOOD
June 3: EXTINCTION
This is a public outreach event free for everyone to attend.
This event is possible thanks to the work of Ronnie Swire Siegel, chair of SoCal ASLA’s Climate Action Committee; the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, and the promotional support of the Southern California Chapter of ASLA, Northern California Chapter of ASLA, Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability, the National Association for Minority Landscape Architects, and the US Green Building Council.
For more information, contact Ronnie Siegel at ronnie@swiresiegel.com or Carlos Flores at caflores@cpp.edu
