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Beyond The Pail: A Virtual Organics Recycling Town Hall

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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...

Two Years of Justice40: How the Initiative is delivering solutions to the climate crisis

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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...

Vital Matters: Jainism and Ecology

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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: Going Beyond Black History with Jacqui Patterson

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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,...

Kanner Forum: “Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception”

Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Hsuan Hsu, professor of English at UC Davis. Professor Hsu’s talk will consider temperature as an atmospheric medium of environmental violence and embodied...

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...