Earth Month Learning Series - Dress, Eat and Rest Sustainably by Marianna Milkis-Edwards
2020-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Friday, April 17 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Zoom: https://asuevents.asu.edu/content/earth-month-learning-series-dress-eat-and-rest-sustainably-marianna-milkisedwards?eventDate=2020-04-17T12%3A00

Join the ASU Staff Council Sustainability Committee for an engaging and thought-provoking series of talks centered around sustainability topics voted on by fellow ASU faculty and staff. Learn how you can seamlessly incorporate sustainability initiatives into your everyday life.
Just think about it, we spend most, if not all, of our lives wearing clothes, eating food or recharging from it all (hello, Netflix). So, what if we do this more sustainably? In this talk, we will explore conscious shopping and dressing, look at strategies for getting the most of our food without waste or panic and take a fresh look at how our off-duty habits affect the world around us. It’s the little things, and by the end, each of us will have at least three action items to take into our busy and fabulous lives.
This presentation will be available via Zoom. If you can’t make the live presentation, don’t worry! The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Staff Council Sustainability Committee Website for later viewing.

Poppy Hour
2020-04-17 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-04-24 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-05-01 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-05-08 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-05-15 17:30 - 18:30, 2020-05-22 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver)
Theodore Payne Foundation presents

Fridays at 5:30-6:30pm PST
A LIVE show, on the internet, about California native plant gardens, and the people and ideas behind them. Grab your beverage of choice and join us on Zoom or YouTube where you can share questions and comments during the hour. Join Evan, Margaret, Andrew, and Philip every Friday through the pandemic.

The Future of Work: From COVID-19 to Automation to Artificial Intelligence
2020-04-20 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Monday, April 20, 2020 from 5:00 – 6:00 pm PST

Moderated by Professor Terry Kramer, Faculty Director for Easton Technology Management Center, and including California’s first female Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Elana Zeide, PULSE Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy at UCLA Law, and Matt Plummer, VP of Product Strategy at ZipRecruiter. This panel will explore how work is being shaped in the short term with impact from COVID-19 to the longer term by automation and artificial intelligence. Q&A will follow the panel discussion for registered Zoom participants.

Register Here

Fungi Day
2020-04-21 10:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
April 21, 2020 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm

As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches, now more than ever, we need to recognize that our connections – to our planet and to one another – can have deep-rooted and long lasting effects on our lives and our collective future.
On April 21st, we invite you to join us for a virtual gathering featuring live streamed conversations with researchers, educators and solutionaries about our planet’s most pressing environmental and global challenges.
Featuring Paul Stamets, Louie Schwartzberg, Suzanne Simard, Jason Silva and many more special guests, the panel discussions will run throughout Fungi Day and be available to watch for free on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Discover the magic that unites us by watching the film today.
WATCH THE FILM AND REGISTER

Fungi Day Schedule

10am PT / 1pm ET: Educational Forum
We invite parents, teachers and children to watch segments from Fantastic Fungi, where you can explore the mycelial kingdom, and discover how important this amazing world of organisms are to our survival.
Featuring:

William Padilla-Brown, Founder MycoSymbiotics
Guiliana Furci, Founder of Fundacion Fungi
Paul Stamets, Mycologist
Louie Schwartzberg, Filmmaker
Moderated by Stephen Apkon, Filmmaker

1pm PT / 4 pm ET: Shift in Consciousness
We have to shift our consciousness to gain the perspective we need to bring about change. We have not changed our behavior in response to the science and the facts. We need to speak to the heart, to understand how we are all connected, because we will protect what we love.
Featuring:

Jeremy Narby, Anthropologist and Author
Jason Silva, Futurist and Storyteller
Paul Stamets, Mycologist
Louie Schwartzberg, Filmmaker
Francoise Bourzat, Therapist and Author
Moderated by Stephen Apkon, Filmmaker

3pm PT / 6pm ET: Nature’s Intelligence
Nature knows far more than us. What can we learn from her?. All the answers we need lie literally beneath our feet. We need to lose our arrogant human-centric view and learn to live in harmony with the earth. Join us on a deep dive through time and scale to discover the secrets, mysteries and answers that nature can provide.
Featuring:

Paul Stamets, Mycologist
Suzanne Simard, Professor of Forest Ecology
Jay Harman, Biomimicry Inventor
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Activist on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth Perspective
Louie Schwartzberg, Filmmaker
Moderated by Stephen Apkon, Filmmaker

5pm PT / 8pm ET: Female Psychedelic Leaders
Join some of the many women leaders in the psychedelic movement to discuss the current challenges and possibilities we face to birth the use of psychedelics during this critical time.
Featuring:

Pam Kryskow, MD Researcher, Educator, Physician
Mary Cosimano, MSW – Johns Hopkins University
Amy Emerson, MD Clinical research – MAPS
Francoise Bourzat, Therapist and Author
Moderated by Marcina Hale, Therapist and Filmmaker

2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 1 - How to Be a 21st Century Naturalist
2020-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tue, Apr 21 11:00am-12:00pm

Get ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning more about community (citizen) science and the importance of being a naturalist in the 21st century. The interactive portion of this workshop will be an in-depth introduction to iNaturalist to get you ready to make observations for City Nature Challenge on April 24-27. Join the livestream and get ready to see the world around you in an entirely different way.
Information about the livestream will be sent after registration.
For more information, contact Lisette Arellano at larellano@onetam.org. Please use the subject line “City Nature Challenge” for a quicker response.
Register

Public Art and Sustainability in Uncertain Times: A Conversation with Wayne Healy
2020-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Zoom bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom
Cost: Free

Wayne Healy’s presentation will focus on the relationship between public art, culture, and sustainability.
Presented by: Wayne Healy is a Los Angeles-based mural artist, former CSUN Art Department lecturer, CSUN alumnus, and co-founder of East Los Streetscapers (ELS), the most enduring public art team to come from East LA. Healy‘s work is heavily inspired by Chicanx culture and includes aspects of both art and engineering. In 1983, he curated the first exhibit of Chicanx art in Europe and has since then opened similar exhibits in art centers around the world.
Zoom link: bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom

EarthRise: Earth Day Goes Digital
2020-04-22
https://www.earthday.org/campaign/earth-day-earthrise/
On Earth Day, April 22, 2020, we have two crises: One is the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The other is a slowly building disaster for our climate.

We can, will and must solve both challenges. The world was not prepared for the novel coronavirus. But we still have time to prepare — in every part of the world — for the climate crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic does not shut us down. Instead, it reminds us of what’s at stake in our fight for the planet. If we don’t demand change to transform our planet and meet our climate crisis, our current state will become the new normal — a world where pandemics and extreme weather events span the globe, leaving already marginalized and vulnerable communities even more at risk.

Earth Day Strikes
2020-04-22 - 2020-04-24
STRIKE, DIVEST, AND VOTE TO SAVE HUMANITY AND OUR PLANET.
On April 22-24, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, millions of people around the world are going online for a three-day mobilization to stop the climate emergency.
Even if we’re stuck at home, we can still change the world. Join us for three days of action — from teach-ins, musical performances, divestment, and more. All you need is an internet connection.
Together, we can change our world into one that is not only safe and sustainable, but flourishes for generations to come.
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/

Climate Justice and Pandemics: A Roundtable on Reflections, Personal Experiences and What we do Going Forward
2020-04-22 10:45 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 1:45PM to 3:00PM (EDT)

Join us for a discussion with our faculty, students and staff to share their experiences with the global pandemic, their thoughts about the interactions of climate change and social justice. This roundtable will be an opportunity to hear and share what we as a community are feeling during these turbulent times. The event will be hosted on Zoom and will feature panelists from all three groups and a Q&A. Register below and you will be provided with a link to the roundtable in advance of the event.
https://event.newschool.edu/climatejusticeandpandemic

2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 2 - Nature in Place
2020-04-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wed, Apr 22 11:00am-12:00pm

Get ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning about nature near you and gaining some practical skills for nature observation around your home and neighborhood. The interactive portion of this workshop will cover tricks for smartphone photography, attracting nature to your home, and some thought-provoking discussion of natural history in our cities. Join the livestream and get ready to see the world around you in an entirely different way.
Information about the livestream will be sent after registration.
For more information, contact Lisette Arellano at larellano@onetam.org. Please use the subject line “City Nature Challenge” for a quicker response.
Register

Gardening in Unlikely Places: Growing in Containers with Yvonne Savio
2020-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Zoom bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom
Cost: Free

Presented by: Yvonne Savio
Yvonne Savio grew up on a 3/4-acre hillside lot in Pasadena growing year-round fruits and vegetables and flowers with lots of manure and compost and “making do” before it was called recycling or repurposing. She knows what “harvested at the perfect moment of ripeness” means and enjoys enabling others to enjoy the benefits of “growing your own.” For 36 years, she worked for the University of California, conferring with statewide vegetable, fruit, and ornamentals specialists; then revitalizing the Los Angeles County Master Gardener Volunteer Program, teaching 1150 Master Gardeners who then served 1.3 million county residents. Since she retired in 2015, she continues to inspire gardeners, making presentations, and providing monthly tips and blogging on her www.GardeningInLA.net website where she invites everyone to submit gardening events and job opportunities open to the public.
To learn more about Ms. Savio, please click here.
Zoom link: bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom

Carbon Drawdown Now! Building to Combat the Climate Crisis
2020-04-22 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Date And Time

Wed, April 22, 2020
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

ONLINE. Celebrate Earth Day from home with an interactive talk on embodied carbon and how we can make better buildings for the climate.

About this Event

** To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have made changes our Earth Day plans.**
Come together and celebrate Earth Day from home with an interactive webinar presented by the R.W. Kern Center and NESEA! Join us to talk embodied carbon, systems thinking, and climate justice with Jacob Deva Racusin and Ace McArleton of New Frameworks Design & Build.
The energy we spend constructing and operating buildings makes up a big portion of global carbon emissions. But buildings can become part of the climate crisis solution! We’ll cover the major carbon emissions associated with building, how we can use systems thinking and creative material solutions to lower these emissions (or even take them negative!), and how carbon-smart building can advance climate justice. Bring your curiosity and questions to find out how you can be part of this climate solution.
Register for free on Eventbrite; we’ll post the Zoom link to participate in the next few weeks. In the meantime, check out the R.W. Kern Center website for more info on climate impacts of the built environment, and sign up for brief monthly RWKC updates.
Please contact kern@hampshire.edu with questions.

Earth Day Virtual Celebration with Griffith Park
2020-04-22 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22 at 4 PM – 5:30 PM

On the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, Friends of Griffith Park invites you to join in for a free ZOOM presentation with Jorge Ochoa, chair of Horticulture at Long Beach City College, who will discuss Insects & Plants: They Belong Together. Learn about this fascinating relationship that may be taking place in your own backyard!

Zoom must be downloaded in order to access… https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/94859480434

Integrative Geopolitics: Climate Resilience in a Post-COVID World
2020-04-22 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22 at 4:30pm

The Office of Sustainability, in collaboration with the Environmental Initiative, Environmental Studies Program, and the Lehigh Sustainability Council, at Lehigh University are thrilled to announce that the keynote speaker for Lehigh’s Earth Week 2020 celebration will be Joseph Robertson, Global Strategy Director for the Citizens’ Climate Education. The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and people across the globe will be celebrating the day through the international theme of climate action.
Please join us for Lehigh’s Virtual Earth Week Keynote Speaker Joseph Robertson
Global Strategy Director, Citizens’ Climate Education
“Integrative Geopolitics: Climate Resilience in a Post-COVID World”
April 22 at 4:30pm
Join the virtual webinar here.
The virtual talk is open to the public and we welcome all who wish to attend.
Please visit our Earth Month Celebration 2020 webpage for a running list of other virtual events occurring all month long throughout the country. To learn more about Earth Day and find other events being held around the globe, please visit the Earth Day Network.

Earth Day Love Letter Writing
2020-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22 from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Please join E3 in celebrating Earth Day by writing love letters to our one and only Mother Earth at 5pm this Earth day, Wednesday April 22nd!
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96675384818pwd=[REDACTED]

DIY Wednesday - Face Masks and Dreamcatchers
2020-04-22 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 – 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Instagram @csunasproductions

AS Productions will be hosting live tutorials on Instagram @csunasproductions on the creation of an upcycled dreamcatcher and DIY facemasks. The live dreamcatcher tutorial will be on at 5 PM, Facemasks will start at 7 PM.

Happiness & Sustainability Around the Earth
2020-04-22 18:00 - 2020-04-23 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) invites you to join our networks around the world, around the clock for a 24-hour webinar event, Happiness & Sustainability Around the Earth, on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day anniversary, Wednesday, April 22. During this 24-hour webinar, we will circumnavigate the globe to navigate happiness, well-being, and sustainability amongst COVID-19.

In this stressful and uncertain time, it is important to stay socially connected, while maintaining physical distancing. Happiness and well-being is something all humans share in common, and it is achieved through connecting with one another. According to the World Happiness Report, happiness is a better measure of a nation’s progress than GDP and using social well-being as a goal drives better public policy.

This 24-hour webinar will give us an opportunity to:

Engage with experts and community leaders on how various sustainable development initiatives across the globe are creating a more just and thriving society
Explore how the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) are being met across 13 regions and networks
Discuss how happiness is still alive amidst a global pandemic

The 24 hours of this webinar is being split into two twelve hour sessions. Please view the timing and lists of networks presenting for each session below before registering. If you want to view the entire 24 hours, you will need to register for both sessions.
https://www.unsdsn.org/24hour-webinar

DIY Workshop: Beeswax Wraps
2020-04-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, April 23, 2020 – 12:00PM
Location: Instagram csunas_sustainability

Learn how to make crafts that can help save the planet and money, with AS Sustainability’s DIY Workshops. All DIY workshops will be posted on the AS Sustainability Instagram page at 12 PM on the following dates. Instagram: csunas_sustainability
April 23rd – Beeswax Wraps: Save money with this sustainable alternative to plastic wrap and single-use plastic.

City Nature Challenge 2020
2020-04-24 - 2020-05-03
April 24-27: Taking pictures of wild plants and animals.
April 28- May 3: Identifying what was found.

What is the City Nature Challenge?
Invented by citizen science staff at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (Lila Higgins) and California Academy of Sciences (Alison Young). The City Nature Challenge is an international effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe. It’s a bioblitz-style competition where cities are in a contest against each other to see who can make the most observations of nature, who can find the most species, and who can engage the most people.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s City Nature Challenge is no longer a competition. We want to embrace the collaborative aspect of the CNC this year and the healing power of nature to allow people to document their local biodiversity in whatever way they can.
Why participate in the City Nature Challenge?
There is nature all around us, even in our cities! Knowing what species are in our city and where they are helps us study and protect them, but the ONLY way to do that is by all of us – scientists, land managers, and the community – working together to find and document the nature in our area. By participating in the City Nature Challenge, not only do you learn more about your local nature, but you can also make your city a better place – for you and other species!

Find Wildlife
It can be any plant, animal, or any other evidence of life found in your city.

Take a Picture
Take a picture of what you find. Be sure to note the location of the critter or plant.

Share!
Share your observations through iNaturalist or your city’s chosen platform.
Create your own iNaturalist account

Visit iNaturalist.org
Download the app from the AppStore or Google Play
Sign In
Start sharing your observations
Get feedback from actual scientists, experts, and other naturalists

The Future of Food
2020-04-24 09:30 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Friday, April 24, 9:30 am – 10:45 am PST

Seth Goldman, Co-Founder, Eat the Change, PLNT Burger, and Honest Tea and Chair of the board, Beyond Meat, in conversation with Dr. Jennifer Walske, Interim Faculty Director of Impact@Anderson, on the future of food, including how we balance the needs of our population and the health of our planet, through more sustainable food consumption practices. “COVID-19 has shown us how global our food sourcing has become – but consumption trends often run counter to our goals for environmental sustainability and equity in food access. For the future of our planet and people, we must source and consume food in a more novel and efficient way.” Jennifer Walske, Interim Faculty Director, Impact@Anderson.

Register Here

Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis: Mobilizing Health for Common Solutions
2020-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
April 24 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Zoom RSVP here

Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty years. Cohen is President and Co-Founder of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. He was also instrumental in bringing together the NGOs and hospital systems that formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. All three were created to transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and serve as anchor institutions to support environmental health in their communities.

COVID-19 and Environmental Law
2020-04-24 13:00 - 13:50 (America/Los_Angeles)
DATE: Friday, April 24, 2020
TIME: 1:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.

The UCLA Emmett Institute and UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy invite you to a Zoom conversation on COVID-19 and environmental law with UCLA Law faculty this Friday, April 24, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. PDT
UCLA Law professors William Boyd and Ann Carlson will respond to questions for environmental law amid the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Richard Re will moderate the conversation, addressing issues such as:

Reductions in Los Angeles air pollution
Federal regulatory rollbacks during the pandemic
Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic for law and policy approaches to climate change
Impacts on the oil and gas sector – and global energy markets

The event will last approximately 50 minutes and will allow for Q&A. Participants will be asked to submit questions via the Zoom chat channel.
The event is free and open to the public. Register to receive Zoom link. Please contact Daniel Melling, melling@law.ucla.edu, with any questions
Speakers:

William Boyd, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Full bio.
Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA School of Law; Faculty Co-Director, UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Full bio.

Richard Re (moderator), Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Co-Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy; Faculty Co-Director, PULSE (Program on Understanding Law, Science & Evidence). Full bio.
In addition to the Zoom conversation, UCLA Emmett Institute faculty are addressing environmental issues in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this week with a series of posts on the Legal Planet blog. Subscribe to Legal Planet.

Climate Adaptation Reseach Symposium: Measuring and Addressing Societal Impacts
2020-05-08 08:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Mark your calendars for a first-of-its-kind national symposium featuring social science research that measures the scale and scope of climate impacts, as well as how to address those impacts through adaptive markets, public policies, and planning.

DIY Workshop: Unpaper Towels
2020-05-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, May 14, 2020 – 12:00pm
Location: Instagram: csunas_sustainability

https://www.csun.edu/as/events/diy-workshop-unpaper-towels
Learn how to make crafts that can help save the planet and money, with AS Sustainability’s DIY Workshops. All DIY workshops will be posted on the AS Sustainability Instagram page at 12 PM on the following dates. Instagram: csunas_sustainability
May 14th – Unpaper Towels: Learn how to customize your own reusable cloth towels to replace single use paper towels.

DIY Workshop: Body Wash and Hand Soap
2020-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Thursday, May 21, 2020 – 12:00pm
Location: Instagram: csunas_sustainability

Learn how to make crafts that can help save the planet and money, with AS Sustainability’s DIY Workshops. All DIY workshops will be posted on the AS Sustainability Instagram page at 12 PM on the following dates. Instagram: csunas_sustainability
May 21st – Body Wash and Hand Soap: Learn how to make a simple and inexpensive body wash and hand soap.
