This talk presents a view of the Salton Sea and its surrounding Sonoran Desert ecosystem that destabilizes hegemonic, settler colonial perspectives on the sea and the desert, exploring the ways that different kinds of human communities have encountered and made meaning out of this complex place. Ultimately, this story of sea, desert, and people is...
Kaleb Goff, PhD Student, North Carolina State University and 2022 WMRC Mini Grant recipient Kaleb will discuss findings that demonstrate climate change’s affects on plant diversity and functionality within the xeric alpine ecosystems of the White Mountains, California. His work is also in collaboration with GLORIA Great Basin, which has been monitoring plant communities in...
REGISTER HERE Cynthia Babich Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee Cynthia Babich serves as the Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee. The DAAC is a grassroots community-based environmental justice organization concerned about DDT contamination and related health problems in the unincorporated Los Angeles Harbor Gateway neighborhood. The Del Amo area includes...
Family Nature Club is back! Join the Los Angeles Zoo for FREE nature play on the last Saturday of every month, from 9AM to 10:30AM. Family Nature Club participants will...
Have you heard about the food-waste program that LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) just rolled out to households they serve? Join the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance to learn about the new food-waste program, and then for a conversation with Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky. REGISTER HERE James Roska, acting environmental engineer with LASAN, and Daniel...
Salon #5: Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Rebeca Méndez This fifth and final lecture in the series will feature Prof. Rebeca Méndez, the Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts...
Join LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Monday, February 27th, from 6pm-7:30pm via Zoom for a virtual town hall. Learn more about the organics recycling process, and what the new requirements for food scraps and food-soiled paper are. Hear from local climate organizations and experts from LA Sanitation and the California Climate Action Corps about...
President Biden has made addressing environmental injustices a priority by centering justice in his actions to address the climate crisis in the U.S. and abroad. A central pillar of the environmental justice agenda is the Justice40 Initiative, the first-ever federal environmental justice commitment attached to the goal of directing at least 40% of benefits to...
Drawing inspiration from the sacred landscapes depicted on devotional textiles presented in Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings, Venu Mehta will discuss intersections of ascetic principles, spirituality and sociocentric environmentalism in the twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism. Highlighting nonviolence as the path to liberation, Jain principles offer an important worldview of environmental activism. REGISTER HERE This...
GRID Talks is a new webinar series that brings together leaders from the environmental justice movement to discuss issues related clean energy access and to community-centered solutions. The webinars seek to amplify the voices of GRID's communities and share the stories, experiences, and work that are creating mission impact and systemic changes. Jacqueline Patterson, MSW,...
