Sponsored by UCLA's Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs Mishuana Goeman and California Native Plant Society and Indigenous advocates. REGISTER HERE PANELISTS: Heidi Lucero (Acjachemen and Mustun Ohlone) Samantha Morales Johnson (Gabrielino Tongva) Kimberly Morales Johnson (Gabrielino Tongva) Nick Rocha (Gabrielino Shoshone) Craig Torres (Tongva) Sage smudging has become a...
Heat is a rapidly escalating dimension of the climate change crisis, and requires creative, comprehensive and collaborative strategies to mitigate its negative impacts on human health. Hosted by the BEWell pod at the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative, this lecture series will highlight some of the ways in which UCLA scholars are advancing the discourse on...
Since its inception in 2001, MyGBCE has become the longest-running and largest gathering of leading sustainability and green building advocates within both the public and private sectors in Southern California. Attended by over 1500 people in 2021, this conference and trade show provides cutting-edge thought leadership, education, and networking opportunities to inform local government agencies, building industry...
Join us for a virtual talk by Professor Cajetan lheka on his new book African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics (Duke UP 2021), followed by a Q&A session.In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film,...
The Haleakalā silversword (or ‘ahinahina in Hawaiian) is one of the most striking and rare plants in Hawai‘i. Learn how efforts to save this plant have sparked a movement to...
Did you know that the average college student creates 640 pounds of trash annually, the majority of which accumulates at move-out? From clothes, to books, to food, to furniture, many...
Eating Our Way To Extinction takes audiences on a cinematic journey around the world, from the depths of the Amazon rainforests to the Taiwanese Mountains, the Mongolian desert, the US Dust...
Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the Amazon biome by highlighting how California’s oil imports affect the future of the Amazon rainforest and calling...
Please join us for our final pod meeting of the academic year in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Nicole Green (Executive Director of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services) on the topic: From Pandemic...
As countries and subnational jurisdictions begin to orient their climate change policies toward mid-century carbon neutrality goals, market measures have taken a prominent role in many emissions-reductions plans. However, much...
