• Clarkia Flower Festival

    Join an unforgettable celebration featuring exciting nature activities, a lively beer garden, fantastic live music, amazing community organizations, and so much more! Admission to this event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. You won’t want to miss out on this blooming good time! Event Highlights: Tables from local organizations Themed Naturalist...

  • Live Webinar: Data with Purpose: 2026 State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

    Join the Open for Good Initiative at the UCLA Anderson Center for Impact for the unveiling of the 2026 State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Report - an annual analysis of how S&P 500 companies are reporting on climate and sustainability commitments in a rapidly shifting regulatory and political landscape. REGISTER FOR WEBINAR HERE

  • The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep

    To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers will address the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represented the science of...

  • Book Talk – Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster

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    About the book: Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond to a deteriorating environment. Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the...