Hygiene Refill Station

Bruin Walk 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

There will be a variety of products out, including shampoo, dish soap, and so many more! Everything is free! Students are welcome to bring their empty bottles to refill with hygiene products they need such as shampoo, body lotion, hair conditioner, and more.

Electrifying for EJ: Instagram Live with Jamal Lewis, Rewiring America

Online

Join Just Solutions Collective for an IG Live with Jamal Lewis, Director of Policy Partnerships & Equitable Electrification at Rewiring America! They'll be chatting about electrification, what it looks like, and the implications for environmental justice and BIPOC-frontline communities. Instagram account for livestream: @justsolutions_org

Grand Rounds in Population and Public Health: Reducing the Health Care Carbon

HYBRID: USC Zilka Neurogenetic Institute (ZNI), Herkoltz Room 111, and Zoom 1501 San Pablo St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, and the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center present guest speaker Jodi Sherman, MD, with a talk titled: "Balancing Patient Safety and Pollution Prevention: Sustainable, Equitable Health Care" Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in […]

Hygiene Refill Station

Bruin Walk 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

There will be a variety of products out, including shampoo, dish soap, and so many more! Everything is free! Students are welcome to bring their empty bottles to refill with hygiene products they need such as shampoo, body lotion, hair conditioner, and more.

Webinar – Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: The Food System

Online

Registration is free, but required. REGISTER HERE. The food system contributes about 34% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with China and the United States as the first and third largest emitters, respectively. Among the greatest opportunities for emissions reductions in the food system are reducing and repurposing food loss and waste, along with […]

White House Forum on Campus and Community-Scale Climate Solutions

Online

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the University of Washington (UW) will convene U.S. Government officials with climate, sustainability, and resilience leaders and educators from colleges and universities across the country for a virtual forum. These stakeholders will showcase how innovative ideas and actions can advance climate change efforts on […]

Net Zero Accelerator Info Session

Online

The application for the 2023 Net Zero Accelerator is now live! Come learn more about our one-of-a-kind program, first launched in 2019, which is focused on piloting net zero (carbon, energy, water, and waste) solutions in the built environment. You can learn more about the NZA at NetZeroAccelerator.org. REGISTER HERE

Building Electrification – Stories from the Home Front

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This webinar will explore the barriers and opportunities to electrifying California’s homes and buildings from those with firsthand experience — contractors, homeowners, and property owners. With a focus on lower-income residents and economically-challenged businesses, we will address both political and financial solutions that can help the state transition to clean, healthy homes and buildings. REGISTER […]

Coastal Justice Lab – Public Launch

HYBRID: UCI Law | EDU 1111 and Zoom 401 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, United States

Coastal regions, including public trust lands, are of unique importance to environmental and climate policy, infrastructure development and ecosystem management. They also raise unique challenges for disadvantaged communities, including those who live and work along the "Hidden Coast" - low-lying lands and non-oceanfront tidal and estuarine zones that account for 80% of the national shoreline. […]

Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference – Keynote by E. Tendayi Achiume & Closing Reception

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference is ten days of activities arranged around a historic first for UCLA: hosting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ (IAHCR) Period of Sessions. Tendayi Achiume is the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law at UCLA School of Law and former faculty director of the Promise Institute. She recently finished […]

Lydia Kallipoliti, “The Power of S**t”

Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar, and is Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics and more particularly on recycling material experiments, theories of waste and reuse, as well as closed and self-reliant systems and urban […]

Webinar – Methane Webinar Series: Reducing Methane Emissions from the Solid Waste Sector

Online

Registration is free, but required to attend. REGISTER HERE. Today, the solid waste landfills sector accounts for 20% of global methane emissions, and is the third largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions in the United States. Additionally, it is anticipated that the total generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) will increase by 70% by 2050 […]

Free Food from the Dining Halls

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE to all UCLA students, and is also looking for volunteers to help run these events (sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11skt8Eys4hfeP4IKQFncG4Ct8ECivES6bjPjAfu20qE/edit#gid=1001346100 -- UCLA email login required). If the sign-up list is full, please place your name on the waitlist; if the waitlist […]

How Biohydrogen Can Help Fight Climate Change

Online

Hydrogen, particularly green hydrogen produced from water electrolysis using renewable electricity, has received the lion’s share of attention due to its essential role in helping the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050. By comparison, little attention has been paid to biohydrogen (Bio-H2), a type of hydrogen produced from organic waste streams (e.g., agricultural waste). Please […]

Engineering Jobs Across Climate

Online

Meet innovative companies hiring software engineers across industries. 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 event Engage directly with CXOs and hiring managers Get […]

UCLA Farmers Market

Bruin Plaza 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Biweekly market (last market of the quarter) with fresh produce and local farmers in Bruin Plaza!

Webinar: Carbon Capture and Storage and What it Means for Environmental Justice

Online

Join Just Solutions Collective in a webinar to explore precisely what carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is and how the technology works. CCS is often purported as a just environmental solution, aiming to reduce the levels of decades of carbon emissions in the earth's atmosphere. However, many environmental and climate justice advocates point to […]

Innovative approaches for building disaster and climate change resilient communities

Online

The University of the West Indies through the Office of Global Affairs, together with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and the Clara Lionel Foundation will host a webinar themed, Innovative approaches for building disaster and climate change resilient communities. Join the conversation via Zoom on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at bit.ly/CaribbeanResilienceWebinar […]

Free Food from the Dining Halls

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE to all UCLA students, and is also looking for volunteers to help run these events (sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11skt8Eys4hfeP4IKQFncG4Ct8ECivES6bjPjAfu20qE/edit#gid=1001346100 -- UCLA email login required). If the sign-up list is full, please place your name on the waitlist; if the waitlist […]