Semel HCI Celebration 2023: Cultivating Community

Tipuana Teaching Kitchen 900 Weyburn Place, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Please join for a magical evening to celebrate the 11th year of Semel HCI, featuring live music and dance performances from talented UCLA student groups, the jane b semel HCI Appreciation Award ceremony, a display of student research projects, and of course, fantastic food catered by UCLA Dining and a live teaching kitchen demonstration! Special […]

Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: Industrial Decarbonization

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Registration is free, but required. Register here. Industrial emissions are responsible for approximately 60% of China’s greenhouse gas emissions, and 30% of U.S. emissions. Taking action to reduce emissions from industrial sectors like iron & steel, cement, and the chemical industry will be critical to helping the U.S. and China meet their mid-century carbon neutrality […]

Heather McGhee Book Talk

California NanoSystems Institute 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join in welcoming Heather McGhee to our beautiful campus for a thought-provoking evening, including a discussion of her book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. This New York Times Bestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award has been called “One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers […]

UCLA AUD Spring 2023 Events: Dana Cuff presents “Architectures of Spatial Justice”

Perloff Hall Courtyard 1317 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us to celebrate AUD Professor Dana Cuff and her latest book, Architectures of Spatial Justice -- a field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities. As state violence, the pandemic, and environmental collapse have exposed systemic inequities, architects and urbanists […]

The Fire Circle: Volunteer Day in the Survivor’s Healing Garden at the Reverence Project

The Reverence Project 1673 East 108th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

After our spring weeding, seeding and rain, the Survivor’s Healing Garden at the Reverence Project is in full superbloom! We hope you’ll join us among the poppies (and California lilac, and globemallow, and verbena…). Our next four volunteer days will focus on building seating for our fire circle. This sacred space will host healing and […]

Livestream – Critical Minerals in Latin America: a Bridge or a Bottleneck for the Energy Transition?

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The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will host a panel of experts to discuss what needs to be done to accelerate sustainable copper and lithium extraction in Latin American countries. This event will focus on the challenges and opportunities that governments and industry face to turn […]

The Future of Climate Tech: Advancements, Challenges, and Opportunities (LA #TechWeek)

UCLA Anderson School of Management 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, United States

This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. ​Zubin Davar (’09 ’15), VP, Confirm & Advisory Council, LACI (Moderator) ​Shomik Dutta, Overture VC and Venture Climate Alliance ​Frank Bryan (’16), Halftone Investment Partners ​Zora Chung, Rejoule ​Prof David Jassby, Associate […]

Startup UCLA 2023 Innovation Fellows Demo Day

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Join us as we celebrate UCLA's Innovation Fellows pitching their projects to entrepreneurs, investors, and, the UCLA community! Six faculty were selected to participate in UCLA's Faculty Innovation Fellows fourth cohort, a program designed to support and amplify faculty entrepreneurship at UCLA. Ferrobotic Group, Sam Emaminejad, Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Storyfairy, Xiang […]

Clean Vehicles: Greening the Transportation Sector

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Clean vehicle standards represent an opportunity for the acceleration of clean energy transition and decarbonization. With new heavy and light duty standards officially announced, many of you may be asking, “what’s next?”. This briefing will provide the public and industry stakeholders with an overview of proposed rules, how the changes could impact the clean energy […]

30×30 Webinar: Increasing Voluntary Conservation Easements

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Partners across the state are working to advance progress toward the 30x30 goal by implementing strategies and actions along the ten pathways identified in the Pathways to 30x30 report. Join a webinar highlighting successes, challenges, and lessons learned on Pathway 3: Increase Voluntary Conservation Easements. Learn how partners are: (1) Working together to amplify and […]

A conversation with Nancy Sutley

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Join a conversation with Nancy Sutley, the newly-appointed L.A. City Deputy Mayor for Energy and Sustainability. Come with your questions and comments! REGISTER HERE

GRID Talks | People, Planet, and PRIDE

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FREE ONLINE WEBINAR Join the conversation about how LGBTQ+ rights and environmental justice intersect. In this month’s Pride GRID Talks, three LGBTQ+ environmental expert panelists look within the climate crisis and answer the question, why is queer liberation an environmental justice issue? Climate change compounds the struggles of trans and queer people worldwide. Join to […]

Climate At Work: Building impactful workplace sustainability communities

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Join for an extraordinary event bringing together the visionaries behind two of the most influential workplace climate communities in the world—Anthropocene at Google and Microsoft's monumental 10,000-member employee sustainability community. They will delve into the art of building and sustaining grassroots movements within companies, and learn how to ignite change from the ground up. REGISTER […]

Plastic Pollution Toxic Tour

USC Kerckhoff Hall 734 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join Hollywood, Health & Society and Plastic Pollution Coalition for a toxic tour exploring the issue of plastic pollution, its toxic impacts, and solutions. Like your elementary school field trips, but better! Featuring a fresh, garden-to-table, plastic-free lunch. REGISTER HERE

Lunch & Learn: Learning from GrizzlyCorps

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GrizzlyCorps is an AmeriCorps program that places fellows in rural communities to support wildfire resilience and regenerative agricultural practices to support climate and community resilience. This Lunch and Learn will share more information about the State of California's approach to service to support climate action, the design and impact of GrizzlyCorps, and the experience from […]

Climate jobs around the green ecosystem

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Join to meet companies working byte by byte and acre by acre to solve the climate crisis. This job fair will feature many marketing & communication focused roles. REGISTER HERE About Terra.do job fairs We host action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why […]

Extreme Heat Plans: Challenges of Implementation

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Join to hear from experts on extreme heat about how they are moving forward with their plans, including new challenges requiring innovative and collaborative approaches to building resilience. In various parts of California and the West, extreme heat events have been occurring more frequently and with more intensity. Extreme heat plans, developed to mitigate negative […]

How California Can Improve Water Right Curtailment to Better Manage Water Scarcity

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Droughts are becoming more frequent and intense in California, and many watersheds experience seasonal water scarcity nearly every year. To protect water rights, human health and safety, and the environment from serious harm, California’s State Water Resources Control Board needs to be able to routinely curtail unlawful water uses. However, the agency has struggled to […]