Deloitte Digital Sustainability Panel Discussion
2023-01-26 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | USC Popovich Hall – JKP, Suite 300, Dean's Boardroom, 3rd Floor, 611 W. Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
Join Deloitte Digital and hear from industry experts from Delta, Hewlett Packard, Logitech, USC, UCLA, and Deloitte on the latest trends and innovations that are shaping the future of sustainable business. This is a two hour event broken into three 30 min “panels” touching on Sustainability and the Role of Higher Ed, Role of the Brand and Role of Technology. It will include a number of Sustainability Officers from Deloitte, their corporate partners and USC.
For more information, please contact Bevin Chan at bevinchan@deloitte.com

Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: Decarbonizing the Buildings Sector
2023-01-26 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
Buildings contribute to 40% of the globe’s greenhouse gas emissions, consuming three-quarters of electricity in the United States alone. Meanwhile, China has the largest building stock in the world, amounting to nearly half of the globe’s new building area. Buildings also contribute significantly to industrial emissions from the production of construction materials like concrete and steel. How can we ensure zero carbon emissions in new building development? How can we reduce emissions from existing building stocks to contribute to climate objectives? Join the California-China Climate Institute to learn from issue-experts on building decarbonization opportunities for the U.S. and China, including examples from the State of California.
5:00 PM Discussion is opened by Moderator, Jenn Perron, Senior Climate Policy Fellow, California-China Climate Institute
5:05 PM Opening Remarks
Bob Weisenmiller, Research Affiliate, California-China Climate Institute
5:10 p.m. Reducing Building Emissions in the U.S.
Stephanie Greene, Managing Director, Carbon-Free Buildings, Rocky Mountain Institute
Examples from California: Title 24 standards and participation in the National Buildings Performance Standards Coalition
Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Reducing Building Emissions in China
Nan Zhou, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
5:50 PM Moderated Audience Question and Answer
6:05 PM Closing Remarks
Anand Gopal, Executive Director, Policy Research, Energy Innovation
Attendance is free, but registration is required to join. REGISTER HERE.

Free Graduate Student Farmers Market
2023-01-29 15:30 | Weyburn Terrace Grill Area, 3G7X+4H, Los Angeles, 90024, United States
Graduate students are invited to join the farmers market for free seasonal fruits, veggies and herbs! First come, first serve, while supplies last.

Drones, remote sensing, and kelp forests in the California Bight
2023-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E. Young Dr. N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Drones, remote sensing, and kelp forests in the California Bight with Kate Cavanaugh (UCLA Geography)
Admission is free, and refreshments/snacks will be served.
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, they will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a public art living sculpture, and an offering to birds.
Join to explore how drones, photogrammetry, and AR can foster interspecies friendships, reveal overlaps and disjunctures between scientific and Indigenous knowledge about birds, and marvel at avian life force.

Loreta Castro Reguera and José Ambrosi, "RETROACTIVE"
2023-01-30 18:30 - 19:30 | CA
José Pablo Ambrosi was born in Mexico City in 1979. He studied Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the ETSAB in Barcelona. He holds an MBA from IPADE in Mexico. He was project architect from 2004 to 2008 at Fabric, a Mexican architecture firm, until he started his own real estate business in 2008, Función y Forma. Since then, he has worked on housing issues in Mexico City, designing and developing projects at different scales, ranging from social to middle and high income prototypes. In 2010 he associated with Loreta Castro and transformed the firm into Taller Capital.
Born in Mexico City in 1979, Loreta Castro Reguera studied Architecture at the School of Architecture of UNAM, has a Master in Architecture from Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, and a Master in Urban Design with Distinction from the Harvard GSD. She has been awarded with several scholarships and prizes for both her trajectory and her independent work such as a Fulbright scholarship, and the CEMEX Marcelo Zambrano scholarship. As a result of focusing her research on water and design she received the 2010 Druker Traveling Fellowship Award and later the Global Gold Prize and Latin America Gold Prize of the 5th emission of the Lafarge Holcim Awards for La Quebradora, where she was design director and general coordinator. Loreta is a member of the National Creators System of Mexico and teaches a thesis design seminar at UNAM. She has written the book “The image of water in the city,” published by Arquine and Fundación ICA, and has written essays for several magazines and books. Since 2018 she is part of the National Creators System of Mexico.
Taller Capital was founded in 2010 by José Pablo Ambrosi and Loreta Castro Reguera. Their work focuses on designing the city through densification and infrastructural public spaces, understanding different strategies for managing water. They have received several national and international recognitions and prizes such as the 2022 IIT MCHAP Emerge Prize, the 2020 Emerging Architects Prize from the Architectural League of New York, a prize from the XII Iberoamerican Biennial, and a Silver Medal from the 2022 Mexican Biennial. José and Loreta were invited professors at the University of Venice WAVE program and have been guest critics in several schools in Mexico, US, and Europe. In 2022, for the 2022 Lisbon Architecture Triennale Terra, they curated the exhibition RETROACTIVE and edited its book, published by Circo de Ideas.

UCLA Activist-in-Residence Welcome Reception
2023-01-31 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe, 365 Portola Plaza, Room 1302, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and cityLAB-UCLA are pleased to announce Steve Diaz, Melissa Acedera, Josiah Edwards, and Marlené Nancy Lopez as the 2023 UCLA Activists-in-Residence.
Learn more about each of the UCLA Activists-in-Residence here, and please join us in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community at this year’s welcome reception.
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The Common Experience: Upcycle Fair
2023-01-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Sunset Village, 330 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
The Common Experience invites you to attend our inaugural Upcycle Fair! Join us as we gather well-loved, secondhand clothing pieces and breathe new life into them. You will have an opportunity to donate old attire, then peruse our second-hand closet for some FREE fresh pickups. Our multiple upcycling stations will be available to give your new pieces personal flair with sustainable upcycling practices such as beginner friendly stitching, patching, printing, and more! All this is done in alignment with this year’s Common Experience theme, “Sustainability and Climate Change”, with the intention in mitigating the carbon footprints left by the fashion industry.

The Making of Environmental Law Continues: Emmett Institute Book Talk with Richard Lazarus
2023-02-01 12:15 - 13:30 | UCLA Law School, Room 1457, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The first edition of The Making of Environmental Law was a foundational book that surveyed the first 30 years of modern environmental law. Since then, the landscape of environmental protections in the face of global warming has continued to change in dramatic ways. At this UCLA Emmett Institute book talk, Richard Lazarus will discuss the new, second edition of The Making of Environmental Law, which now covers the first 50 years of the environmental movement, examining the legal, political, cultural, and scientific factors that have shaped—and sometimes hindered—the creation of pollution controls and natural resource management laws. Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Co-Executive Director of the Emmett Institute, will moderate the conversation.
Lunch will be provided before the event.
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Please contact Heather Morphew, morphew@law.ucla.edu, with any questions.

2023 California Water Career Fair
2023-02-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Online
Join this virtual career fair using the online platform Brazen. After signing in, you’ll be able to explore the available information and opportunities, and participate in 1-on-1 text- or video-based chats with representatives from environmental and water organizations. Share your background and experience, and get all your questions answered.
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This online platform offers job seekers the ability to:
Upload their resumes!
“Stand in line” for multiple companies
Use their phones or computers
Have live video chats with employers
Send a follow up note to company representatives
Take digital notes following interactions with companies
Who Should Attend?
Anybody interested in the water/wastewater/environmental sector! This could include:
Engineers
Environmental scientists
Lab technicians
Wastewater operators
Students in these fields
Questions prior to the event? Email sfbssypc@gmail.com
Questions during the event? Ask live event support or come talk to use at the CWEA booth!

UCLA February First Thursdays: Westwood Village Farmers' Market and Evening Block Party
2023-02-02 12:00 - 22:00 | Westwood Village Broxton Ave, 1031 Broxton Avenue , CA 90024, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
UCLA First Thursdays has two parts: daytime activations at the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and evening block parties with different thematic experiences.
We invite you to discover something new in Westwood!
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Westwood Village Farmers’ Market
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Mentorship Cafe | February 2, 2023
Your journey with UCLA Alumni doesn’t have to wait until graduation, it can begin today. Stop by for an informal chat with alumni from various fields of industry. It’s a chance for you to casually explore your professional interests, ask questions in a supportive environment and learn from the experience of other Bruins.
Evening Block Party
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Westwood Wonder | February 2, 2023
Featuring an immersive dive into the cosmos, with meteorites on display, telescopes to view the Moon and Mars, photo booth, orbitron, out-of-this-world dance floor, space games, performers, giveaways, and more.

Richard Dicker on Vanuatu's Fight for a Climate Change Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice
2023-02-02 12:15 - 13:30 | UCLA Law School, Room 2357, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Pacific island state of Vanuatu risks disappearance as sea levels rise. Hear from international law advocate Richard Dicker as he recounts Vanuatu’s effort to obtain an advisory opinion from the ICJ on climate change.
Richard Dicker
Lecturer, UCLA School of Law, Founding Director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch
Introduction by Kate Mackintosh
Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
*In-Person Only (No Virtual Attendance)* | Please note that RSVPs received less than two days before the event is scheduled will not be guaranteed lunch.
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Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis
2023-02-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Kerckhoff Grand Salon, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
A real climate breakthrough requires nothing short of a radical imagination and a profound cultural shift. In this University of California Regents’ Lecture, nationally recognized sustainable development practitioner Denise Fairchild will introduce her new Climate Breakthrough project, funded by a $3 million award aimed at advancing transformative solutions to the climate crisis. Fairchild calls for addressing the cultural dimensions at the root of the crisis in a revolution grounded in optimism and possibility, as opposed to sacrifice and despair.
Fairchild, who earned her doctorate in urban planning from UCLA in 1987, has spent 40 years working at the intersection of climate, economics and equity. She is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a nonprofit aimed at creating local economies that are sustainable, just and inclusive, and co-author of the book “Energy Democracy, Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions.”
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ClimateCap x Terra.do MBA Job Fair
2023-02-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Online
ClimateCAP has partnered with Terra.do to organize a virtual job fair, exclusively for MBA students who are interested in climate tech & clean energy careers.
There is no cost to participate and any currently enrolled MBA student is welcome to attend.
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Note: This job fair is open to registrations from MBA candidates only.
ClimateCap is the Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, & Business that brings MBA students and industry leaders together to learn what every MBA needs to know about the business implications of climate change.

February Botanical Garden Tour - First Saturday
2023-02-04 13:00 - 14:00 | UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
*RSVP REQUIRED*
Explore our living museum featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join our Garden Educators for a free guided tour of the garden. We’ll hear the stories of a selection of plants in the garden, and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. We will meet at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern end of the garden. Restrooms are available at this location.
Important: Plan on arriving a few minutes early as the tour will leave on time at 1pm.
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Listening By Moonrise
2023-02-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Clockshop’s quarterly Listening By Moonrise program, in collaboration with Earth Sessions, returns to LA State Historic Park, featuring performances and immersive sound experiences with leading multi-disciplinary sound artists. On the eve of the full moon (or as close to it), this program offers listeners moments of reflection, connection, and joy while experiencing music and sound collectively within the context of a community-centered green space.
Earth Sessions is a music and environmental education event series that seeks to build community, celebrate the role of art in movements of change, and provide joyful + diverse climate justice education to new audiences. Curated in collaboration with Intersectional Environmentalist and The Eyes and Ears Agency, Clockshop invites Leah Thomas, Mandy Harris Williams, and Tonina for an afternoon of readings and music in honor of Black History Month.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Climate Investment Challenge: Information Session & FAQs
2023-02-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Climate Investment Challenge hosts a webinar to provide students with information about the competition.
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The Climate Investment Challenge calls on students to develop and describe creative financial solutions and innovations addressing the defining challenge of our time – climate change.

Fowler Talks: Destination Crenshaw X UCLA
2023-02-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
To celebrate Black history and creativity in LA, Destination Crenshaw—a $100-million, transformative, revitalization project—will develop a walkable commercial corridor defined by public artworks, tranquil green spaces, and beautiful storefronts along the 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard. Once finished, Destination Crenshaw will serve as an epicenter of Black American culture, as well as the most significant public/private Black art program in the United States.
Join a discussion of the ways that UCLA faculty and alumni have contributed ideas, expertise, and artworks to this pioneering “Afrocentric streetscape,” including its monuments, murals, and augmented reality storytellings. Darnell Hunt, advisor to the project and UCLA’s executive vice chancellor and provost, will be joined by president and COO of Destination Crenshaw Jason Foster, influential art collector and advisor Dr. V. Joy Simmons, prominent artist Maren Hassinger, and arts educator and independent filmmaker Ben Caldwell. Panelists will explore further ways to connect Destination Crenshaw with UCLA campus in the years ahead.
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This program is part of the Fowler initiative “Art of Liberation: Africa and the African Diaspora,” which is generously funded by the Nissan Foundation and The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.

Biking while Black Documentary Screening
2023-02-07 18:30 - 20:30 | James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
In a 30-minute documentary, BIKING WHILE BLACK: CONTINUING TO RIDE THROUGH DECRIMINALIZATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT AND GENTRIFICATION incorporates narratives to dig deeper into solution-based storytelling and features the actions being taken by some of our leading Black bicyclists and BIPOC community-based organizations. Cast members are paving new roads to tackle the myths, the community safety conditions in Los Angeles, and celebrating Black joy on two wheels. Black and BIPOC lives continue to have an unseen connection to the realms of hope and resilience. Some of the key revelations that were spoken of during our interviews were on uplifting and educating our youth to become leaders and navigators in bicycling education and mechanics, safety education, and engagement, paired with mobility justice advocacy. The film connects these perspectives to transportation planning through speaking with agencies on the need to acknowledge, hire, and collaborate with community leaders who have been doing the work to help keep their multi-generational community members safe and informed. This second episode expands on the nine-minute short film, BIKING WHILE BLACK: HOW SAFE ARE BLACK LIVES BICYCLING?
Post-screening discussion with director and activist Yolanda Davis-Overstreet, moderated by UCLA ITS Equity Research Manager Adonia Lugo.
More information: https://www.bikingwhileblack.com/
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Galvanize x Terra.do Climate Job Fair
2023-02-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Online
Join this Job Fair and meet rising portfolio companies working on groundbreaking solutions.
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Terra.do hosts action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them.
Galvanize is a climate-focused global investment firm built to deliver capital and integrated expertise to accelerate the solutions that will define the climate transition and reshape the global economy

Sustainable Careers 101: What are Green Jobs?
2023-02-09 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
Learn all about green jobs in the current market, brought to you by the Emerging Professionals Committee!
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About this event
Want to learn more about the basics of a career in sustainability? Join us for a discussion about green jobs that will cover all your questions! The USGBC-LA Emerging Professionals Committee is bringing together a group of expert panelists to answer it all! Expect to gain more knowledge about ESG (environmental, social, and governance) standards, where to get started, what to know, the different fields of these career paths, what employers are looking for, and what you can expect. Our diversely-experienced speakers will present their own experiences before opening up into a Q&A session to directly address your own questions.
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Zero Waste Basketball Game - UCLA Athletics x BELT (Bruin Environmental Leadership Team)
2023-02-10 15:30 - 21:00 | Pauley Pavilion, UCLA
UCLA Athletics is hosting its third annual Zero Waste game on the evening of February 10th, as the UCLA Women’s Basketball Team takes on the Oregon State Beavers, and volunteers and clubs are needed. As part of the game, we will be sorting all waste produced by the event in Pauley Pavilion – last time we achieved zero waste with a diversion rate of 94.7.! Our goal is to win the Pac-12 Zero Waste challenge this year, of which you can find more information here.
Sustainability fair / sustainability club showcase:
– looking for clubs to show up to Pauley Pavilion from 3:30-5:30pm and talk to fans about their clubs/what they’re doing in the community. Tables/chairs will be provided
Volunteering:
In-Venue Sorting + Education (3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
– Volunteers needed to assist fans in sorting their trash at our three-stream waste units located around the concourse. Volunteers will be expected to interact with fans and be sure they are placing their waste in the proper stream.
– Additional volunteers will help with sorting waste as the game goes on. We will provide the gloves, suits, and sorting implements.
Post-Game Sorting (7:00 p.m. – Finish)
– Volunteers needed to sort all waste post-game. We will provide the gloves, suits, and sorting implements.
– Volunteers will receive a meal voucher (2 hours of service req.) and community service hours if requested
Email if your club is interested in joining the fair
Click here to volunteer

Free Food from the Dining Halls
2023-02-10 22:00 | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE. Bring your own containers and enjoy some delicious food!
Every Tuesday and Thursday, you can come get hot & untouched food from the #1 dining hall in the nation would have otherwise gone to waste! Everyone is welcome! Bruin Dine will operate out of the basement of the Student Activities Center (SAC) in Conference Room 1.

Parks and Housing Together: A Win for Communities and the Environment
2023-02-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
Please join this panel on “Parks and Housing Together: A Win for Communities and the Environment,” hosted by the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Topics will include the barriers and challenges to building parks and affordable housing joint development projects, how these projects can improve extreme heat resiliency in Los Angeles, and examples of joint development projects. The event will be held via Zoom.
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Panelists:
Marta Segura, Chief Heat Officer, City of Los Angeles
Robin Mark, Trust for Public Land
Audrey Peterson, Holos Communities
Sissy Trinh, Southeast Asian Community Alliance
* The panel members are speaking as individuals and not on behalf of their organizations.
Moderated by:
Beth Kent
UCLA School of Law

Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind: Counterforce Lab's new lecture series
2023-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 | HYBRID: UCLA, Broad Art Center, EDA Room #1250 and YouTube
Rebeca Méndez (UCLA DMA) and Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA English) in conversation about the oceanic humanities and the aesthetics of submergence.
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s new lecture series. As a point of departure, we will focus on the Biophilia Treehouse, Counterforce’s flagship project, a public art living sculpture, and an offering to birds. Join us to explore how drones, photogrammetry, and AR can foster interspecies friendships, reveal overlaps and disjunctures between scientific and Indigenous knowledge about birds, and let us marvel at avian life force.
Sessions are taking place in the EDA, Broad Art Center. Free Lunch.
Livestream and recording available via UCLA DMA YouTube channel.

High Impact Tea Panel: Sustainability in the Professional World
2023-02-13 16:00 - 17:45 | Marion Anderson Hall Grand Salon, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join this High Impact Tea with an impressive panel to discuss the current sustainability landscape and forecasts for the evolving space. From the built environment to movie screens, it will cover how various industries address sustainability via innovation, measurement, reporting, and more – exploring today’s most challenging questions, including: How do firms define sustainability and measure its success?, How can a company combat greenwashing? and What is the regulatory environment for upholding Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Metrics?
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Panel: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. PST
featuring Anita Chan, Audit Partner at KPMG; John Rego, Vice President of Sustainability at Sony Pictures; Natalie Teear, Senior Vice President at Hudson Pacific Properties, in conversation with Brad Sparks, UCLA Anderson Lecturer, ESG and Sustainability Reporting
Reception: 5:00 – 5:45 p.m. PST
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.

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
2023-02-13 18:00 - 21:00 | James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Reception with refreshments 6:00 pm
Film screening 7:00 pm
Speakers with Q & A 8:00 pm
MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles. Native Americans, Japanese American World War II incarcerees and environmentalists form an alliance to preserve Payahuunadü (Owens Valley), “the land of flowing water.” Featuring breathtaking photography and immersive soundscapes, the film recounts more than 150 years of history, showing how this distant valley is inextricably tied to the city of Los Angeles. It reveals the forced removals of the Nüümü (Paiute) and the Newe (Shoshone) who were marched out of the Valley in the 1860s by the U.S. Army, and the Japanese Americans who were brought here from their West Coast homes and incarcerated in a World War II concentration camp. Water lured outsiders in and continues to fuel the greed which has sucked this once lush place dry.
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Strategies to Accelerate Electric Micromobility
2023-02-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Creating an affordable multimodal system: accessible electric micromobility
The cost of e-bikes and scooters prevents access. This webinar on accelerating electric micromobility will explore the various models for expanding access to e-bikes, e-scooters and e-mopeds.
Electric micromobility has evolved from a niche transport mode and gained popularity among commuters across the world. And, shared electric micromobility has proven to provide additional access in transit deserts and to underserved individuals and individuals with disabilities.
The speakers will discuss why incentives for e-bikes matter in creating an affordable and accessible multimodal transportation system that works for all. They will also share examples of incentives and strategies to create an economical ecosystem of transportation.
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CLEANR & Newkirk Center for Science & Society Speaker Series
2023-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Charles Lee
U.S. EPA’s Emerging Cumulative Impacts Framework: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
The UCI Law Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR) and UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society welcome environmental justice pioneer Charles Lee.
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Lee will present key concepts associated with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s emerging framework to assess and address cumulative impacts and their implications for research, policy development and practice. In EPA’s Equity Action Plan pursuant to Executive Order 13985, the agency determined that lack of a consistent, cross-agency framework to address cumulative environmental impacts is a major barrier to achieving equity. Cumulative impact assessment is a research and policy area of tremendous vibrancy and growth. For example, by 2023, one quarter of states in the U.S. had pending or enacted legislation regarding cumulative impacts. As an area that points to major shortcomings in the way that environmental protection has evolved over the past fifty years, cumulative impact assessment continues to call for new paradigms and sound scientific foundations. Lee will consider issues including: (1) the relationship between cumulative and disproportionate impacts, including implications of addressing the relationship between the concentration and distribution of environmental burdens and benefits; (2) how to ensure that the totality of exposures of overburdened communities is considered when assessing and addressing cumulative impacts; (3) how to ensure that information from disproportionate and cumulative impact assessments fits with and informs pertinent regulatory decision structures; (4) how to ensure that EPA’s approaches to cumulative impact assessment and cumulative risk assessment complement and reinforce each other to best inform decisions; and (5) how to facilitate greater attention to and action on upstream factors such as land use planning and infrastructure investment. These and related conversations underway at agencies such as EPA require input and collective learning from multiple academic disciplines and broad sectors of society.

How Businesses Are Making a Social Impact in Hollywood
2023-02-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Ronald Tutor Campus Center, University of Southern California, Room 450 (The Forum), 3607 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, 90089, United States
The 2022-2023 Jacobson Family Sustainable Impact Lecture Series addresses the topic “How Businesses are Centering Community in Social Impact.”
We are excited to be back in person for a free panel discussion and Q&A on How Businesses Are Making a Social Impact in Hollywood on February 15th!
Join us on February 15th at 12 pm PST at 3607 Trousdale Parkway, TCC 450, Los Angeles, CA, 90089. Spots are limited. Register now and then arrive early to grab your seat and a complimentary lunch!
You will meet leading practitioners, such as USC alumna Sumi Parekh, who is the Executive Director of Group Effort Initiative (GEI). GEI, which was launched by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, strives to create a pipeline for members of underrepresented communities to get real experience towards lasting careers within the entertainment industry.
Moderated by Christina Fialho, Managing Director, BSEL
R﻿SVP by January 31st for a complimentary lunch box from Greenleaf.
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Fixing the Climate: Rethinking Climate Policy in an Uncertain World
2023-02-16 17:30 - 19:30 | UCLA Law School, Room 1430, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
5:30 – 7:00pm; Reception to follow
Global climate diplomacy is stalling thanks to the same top-down approach used since the Kyoto Protocol. That’s the argument made by David Victor (UC San Diego) and Charles Sabel (Columbia Law School) in their book “Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World.” Hear them discuss how policymakers should approach climate governance in this timely and provocative conversation with faculty from UCLA’s Emmett Institute.
Charles Sabel
Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
David Victor
Professor of Innovation and Public Policy; Co-director, Deep Decarbonization Initiative, UC San Diego
Moderated by:
William Boyd
Michael J. Klein Chair in Law; Faculty Co-Director, the Emmett Institute
In Conversation with:
Edward A. Parson
Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Director, the Emmett Institute
Mary D. Nichols
Distinguished Counsel, the Emmett Institute
Kimberly Clausing
Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
Steve Cliff
Executive Officer, California Resources Board
Please contact Heather Morphew, morphew@law.ucla.edu with any questions.
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