UCLA Sustainability

The California-Quebec Adventure: Linking Cap and Trade as a Path to Global Climate Action?
2014-03-31 08:45 - 16:45 UTC | CA
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Grand Re-opening: Celebrate A New Healthy Neighborhood Market in South LA!
2014-03-29 11:00 - 15:30 | 6001 Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90044, United States
Community Celebration and Press Conference on Saturday, March 29
South LA neighborhood market owner Nelson Garcia is transforming his convenience store $1 Dollar Warehouse into a Healthy Neighborhood Market under the name “Alba Snacks & Services!”
Join us to celebrate the grand re-opening of Mr. Garcia’s store with a family-friendly street party — good eats, music, arts & dance, smoothie demos, games, a resource fair, prize raffles, special in-store discounts and more!
ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY:
arts, music, dance, workshops
resource fair
good eats, smoothie demos
prize raffle
special discounts in-store
face painting, games
We did it! Together, we helped successfully fund Mr. Garcia’s crowd-sourced loan through Kiva Zip last month. Check it out at this URL — <zip.kiva.org/loans/2760/>
With that money, he is renovating his market, including a new Healthy Snack Zone with new healthy food products for students at nearby John Muir Middle School and Hawkins High School. For more information, check out <goodfoodla.org>

Beer Belly x Community Services Unlimited : A Garden Party
2014-03-23 12:00 - 17:00 | CA
A day with the CSU Farm Fresh Pop Up stand
Beer Belly has always been about celebrating brands and projects that do it Local, Sustainably, and for community. This spring we will be combining the local taste and suds from the legendary Beer Belly kitchen with the efforts of Community Services Unlimited! This amazing program takes organically grown fruits and vegetables raised on mini urban farms and community gardens across South Los Angeles and cultivated by local South Los Angeles farmers and brings them directly to your table.
On Sunday March 23rd join us on a beautiful Sunday afternoon for great drinks, good music and vibes curated by the talented groove-smiths of EMH creative group and Greedy City, who will make sure the jams come hard and constantly. Enjoy a special menu item cooked up exclusively from the Fresh “Beyond Organic” produce grown in CSU’s Community Gardens by Beer Belly’s Chef Wes and check out a live jam making demo by the CSU team showing you how to make tasty fruit jams in the comfort of your own home. You can even check out and purchase CSU’s local “beyond organic” produce or sign up for a weekly Produce Bag!
This spring we’re celebrating health and building community. We look forward to grooving hard and breaking bread with you.

Food Justice: Robert Egger on the Power of Food to Transform Communities
2014-03-19 17:30 - 19:00 | UCLA Law School, Room 1447
Presented by the Food Law Society and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, Room 1447
Dinner from Fresh Corn Grill will be served!

Grow Riverside
2014-03-19 08:00 - 2014-03-20 17:00 | Riverside Convention Center
We want to make sure that you know about the inaugural Grow Riverside: Citrus and Beyond! conference – http://growriverside.com, which will focus on the development of urban agriculture strategies and solutions that cities can use to reconnect with their agricultural roots and create economic opportunities that investors, citizens, growers, government officials and other major stakeholders can leverage to foster a robust and sustainable local food future. The event will be held at the Riverside Convention Center on March 19 – 20, 2014 in partnership with the City and Community of Riverside.

PRESENTED in partnership with the City and Community of Riverside by SEEDSTOCK, a social venture that fosters the development of robust and sustainable local food systems through the use of a variety of tools, including the news and information blog seedstock.com, live events and consulting services.

The event will feature a broad lineup of speakers ranging from urban agriculture entrepreneurs, USDA representatives from the Farm Service Agency, Rural Development program and Natural Resources Conservation Service to investors, funding and policy experts, sustainable farmers and aquaponics practitioners and buyers and distributors of local produce; and will cover a variety of topics, including: Local Agriculture Grow Strategies, Urban Agriculture Policy, The Market Opportunity for Urban Agriculture, Innovative and Economically Viable Small-scale Agriculture Solutions and more!

For a limited time, we would like to offer COMPLIMENTARY tickets to Students; simply enter the promo code – GrowRiversideUCLA here when making your purchase: http://growriverside.eventbrite.com

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Dr. Glenda Humiston – California State Director for U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development

Paula Daniels – Founder of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council

David Rosenstein – Founder of EVO Farm and Chair of the Aquaponics Association – Western Region

Leah Di Bernardo – Co-leader of Slow Food Temecula Valley and Exec. Chef & Founder of E.A.T. Extraordinary Artisan Table

Fortino Morales III – Community Garden Coordinator at University of California, Riverside

Pierre Sleiman – Founder of Go Green Agriculture

Milt McGiffen – Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Specialist & Plant Physiologist

Mark Hoddle – Director, Center for Invasive Species at UC Riverside

Bob Knight – Founder of Inland Orange Conservancy and Old Grove Orange, Inc.

Don Webber – Partner, Cultivating Good, Inc. and Owner of Harvest 2U

Val Dolcini – State Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA)

Representative Mark Takano – California’s 41st Congressional District

Etaferahu Takele – County Director/Area Advisor Farm Management/Agricultural Economics

Rodney K. Taylor – Director of Nutrition Services, for the Riverside Unified School District

Gabriel Ruiz – Unity Farm

Rickey Smith – Founder of Urban Green

Noah Fulmer – Farm Fresh Rhode Island

Rick Pruetz (FAICP) – Founder of Planning & Implementation Strategies

Curt Covington – Managing Director, Agribusiness Banking Division for Bank of the West

Gregg Warren – American AgCredit

Erika Block – Local Orbit

Robert Hewitt – USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

Clay Monroe – Principal Account Manager for the City of Riverside Public Utilities Department

. . . And more!

Screening of "Water Everlasting?"
2014-03-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Takmin Auditorium, UCLA Medical Center. Room B-130, 757 Westwood Plaza , Los Angeles, 90024, United States

The Regents Scholar Society at UCLA presents a Service Week Speaker Event featuring Tina Quinn
2014-02-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Broad Art Center, Room 2100
Tina Quinn with Al Gore at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s 2nd Annual Evening of Environmental Excellence.
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014
7:30 p.m.
Broad Art Center, Room 2100A

Tina Oppenheim Quinn is the Chair of the Board of Advisors for the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She is the co-founder and a current board member of Sustainable Conservation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the notion that true sustainability has to balance both environmental and economic needs. She will be speaking on collaboration for environmental change and economic success and her experiences in environmental philanthropy. Take advantage of this opportunity to listen to and meet a prominent figure on our campus and a truly remarkable individual! Spread the word and bring your friends! All are welcome to this event.

Last Call at the Oasis Documentary Series
2014-02-26 19:30 | CA
Sustainable Works is partnering with American Cinematheque to present a series of compelling environmental documentaries at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

Each film will be followed by a panel discussion with experts in the field who can expand on the issues raised in the film and answer questions from the audience.

The premiere film will be Last Call at the Oasis, a critically acclaimed documentary about the world’s water crisis, featuring Erin Brockovich. Panel discussion moderated by Josh Rubenstein, chief meteorologist for KCBS and KCAL will follow the screening.
The panelist will include: Mark Gold, Associate Director at the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability UCLA, David Nahai, partner in the law firm of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith. From the City of Santa Monica Kim O’Cain, Water Resources Specialist and Myriam Cardenas, Assistant Manager for Water Production & Treatment.

TICKETS:

Free admission for Sustainable Works members and Santa Monica residents who reserve at:

http://is.gd/reserveSM

Purchase tickets ($11) and help us raise funds: http://is.gd/lastcalltickets or you can buy at the door.

Beach Cruiser giveaway will follow panel discussion. Yip!
Free voucher for all – for popcorn, candy or soda:)
BRING YOUR OWN container for water refills.

UCLA Farmer's Market
2014-02-26 14:30 - 18:30 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
E3’s FARMERS MARKET AT UCLA
WHEN: Wednesday 2/26, 2:30-6:30pm
WHERE: Bruin Plaza
E3, USAC SWC and ASUCLA are proud to present Winter Quarter’s third Farmers Market at UCLA! Stop by the market in Bruin Plaza on Wednesday, February 26 to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible!
Expect to see some delicious seasonal produce, nut products and dried fruits, as well as some student performers!
E3 will also be serving free Fair Trade coffee, selling reusable bags for $2, and collecting e-waste for recycling.
More info may be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1441524072750697/?source=1
Don’t forget to bring cash!
Want to help out?!?! Email us at uclafarmersmarket@gmail.com
Also, feel free to make the attached event flyer your Facebook cover photo! Thanks!

EDF Climate Corps Info Session
2013-11-19 11:30 - 12:30 | UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Over the last 6 years, Environmental Defense Fund has worked with graduate students from the Anderson School of Management through our EDF Climate Corps fellowship program. On behalf of our program, I would like to invite you to join our staff for our summer 2014 summer fellowship On-Campus Information Session.

The event is set to take place on Tuesday, November 19th from 11:30am to 12:30pm in Cornell Hall, D307. During the presentation, you’ll have the opportunity to meet EDF staff, hear about fellow alumni projects from this past summer, and learn how our fellows help our network of EDF Climate Corps host organizations save energy and money.

EDF Climate Corps is Environmental Defense Fund’s innovative summer fellowship program that places specially-trained graduate students in companies, cities and universities as dedicated energy problem solvers. EDF fellows have helped hundreds of organizations, including numerous colleges and universities, identify energy projects that could save over $1.3 billion dollars.

Contact:

Jonel Seon
Program Coordinator, EDF Climate Corps
Environmental Defense Fund
jseon@edf.org
edfclimatecorps.org

Women in Science and Engineering
2013-11-05 09:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Faculty Center California Room, 480 Charles E Young Dr West, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
The goal of the symposium is to provide women in science and engineering, with a range of perspectives, analysis and opinions, on challenges and opportunities that they face in their careers. It also provides a forum for informal networking. It is our hope that the symposium will help build a sustained, national and international community of professionals dedicated to advancing the careers and goals of women in science and engineering.

A panel discussion featuring Dr. Cheryl Martin, Deputy Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E)

Panelists include:

Andrea Ghez, Ph.D, Lauren B. Leichtman and Arthur E. Levine Chair in Astrophysics, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA
Diana Huffaker, Ph.D, Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Ann Karagozian, Ph.D, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
Hanna Reisler, Ph.D, Lloyd Armstrong, Jr. Chair for Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, Dornsife Director of Faculty Development, USC

Moderator:
· Robin Garrell, Ph.D, Vice Provost,Dean of Graduate Education, Professor of Chemistry,UCLA

Campus maps, directions and parking ($12.)

Seedstock Conference
2013-11-05 - 2013-11-06 | UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Seedstock will be hostingThe 2nd Annual Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference – Farming: Fundamentals and the Future, which will explore solutions and business models with the potential to assist local producers in increasing their presence in the supply chain. Slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, November 5-6, 2013, the conference will address the economic opportunities and environmental and societal benefits of embracing, developing, and investing in sustainable farms, practices, technologies, and start-up companies.

Cleantech LA Global Showcase
2013-11-04 08:00 - 2013-11-05 17:00 | Ritz Carlton Los Angeles, 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90015
Cleantech Los Angeles (CLA) fosters clean and sustainable technology innovation and adoption in the greater LA region. An important component of this work includes the promotion of international cooperation and trade. CLA, together with the City of Los Angeles, is producing the inaugural Cleantech LA Global Showcase, to facilitate international green business collaboration.
This two-day conference will cover market dynamics, best practices for conducting international trade, presentations from US and international cleantech companies, and global networking and workshop opportunities.

Annual Sustainability Fair
2013-10-23 10:00 - 14:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us on Bruin Plaza for our Annual Sustainability Fair and check out how to get involved- activities, prizes, and more!

Bike (Re)Cycling Day
2013-10-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Top of Parking Structure 8, 555 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bike (Re)cycling Day is our popular annual event where we give used bikes and used bike parts to the UCLA community for free. These bikes have been abandoned on campus and are offered as-is to members of the campus community on a first come, first served basis.
Download PDF Flyer
Link to our blog for more information: http://www.beagreencommuter.com/?p=10298
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