UCLA Sustainability

Culver City Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection
2024-12-07 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wende Museum, Front Parking Lot, 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Sponsored jointly by the Sanitation Districts and Los Angeles County Public Works
The Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Program (HHW) gives Los Angeles County residents a legal and cost-free way to dispose of unwanted household chemicals that cannot be disposed of in the regular trash.
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CicLAvia—The Valley
2024-12-08 09:00 - 15:00 | Winnetka, 20059 Sherman Way, Los Angeles, CA, 91306, United States
Join this 57th Los Angeles Open Streets Event: CicLAvia—The Valley!
For general event information, please email info@ciclavia.org or call 213.355.8500.
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ECO '24
2024-12-09 - 2024-12-10 | Larta Institute HQ innovation campus, 1150 S Olive St, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
In 2024, Larta Institute will be hosting ECO again on December 9th & 10th with quarterly events leading up to the gathering.
ECO is a multidisciplinary festival and ecosystem gathering designed to foster innovation for a sustainable planet. This event in Los Angeles serves as a crucial platform for learning, collaboration, and practical solutions.
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Designing for Safety: Protecting Worker Health from the Hazards of Engineered Stone
2024-12-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
Architects and designers play a vital role in improving worker health and safety through the selection of safer materials. Engineered stone poses a major health hazard to workers, particularly through exposure to respirable crystalline silica. In this session, you will gain a foundational understanding of the health risks linked to engineered stone and explore a range of safer building alternatives, evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. You will also learn about regulatory measures underway in California and federally, and the prohibition of engineered stone in Australia. By the end of the session, you’ll be equipped to integrate the AIA Materials Pledge into your practice, enabling you to make informed, sustainable material choices that prioritize worker health and safety.
This course is introductory, there are no prerequsites.
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Talk / Lecture - Fire Kinship Exhibition Virtual Preview: Artist Studio Visit with Leah Mata Fragua
2024-12-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
The Fowler’s second PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition, Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art, opens on January 12, 2025. It introduces fire as a generative element that connects us to our past and offers a collective path toward a sustainable future. The show presents a living history and expertise of the Tongva, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Kumeyaay communities. Contributing artist Leah Mata Fragua will share her art and practice during this studio visit.
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Artist Panel: Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Future
2024-12-13 18:00 - 20:30 | Fowler Museum
Celebrating the Fowler’s two PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibitions—Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation and the upcoming Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art—this panel featuring artists Porfirio Gutiérrez, Sarah Rosalena, and Lazaro Arvizu Jr., moderated by Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director Silvia Forni, will focus on Indigenous ecological knowledge, ancestry, craft, science, and technology, spurring a dialogue of critique, reflection, and futurity.
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Stop and Smell the Roses: Open House and Rose Pruning Demo
2024-12-14 09:00 - 11:00 | Main Street Community Garden, 2318 Main St, Santa Monica, CA, 90405, United States
The Main Street Community Garden welcomes Stephen Reid, UC Master Gardener and assistant curator of the Rose Garden at The Huntington Library, to discuss practical rose care techniques, including deadheading, pruning, fertilizing, and day-to-day care. He will answer questions about your biggest rose challenges.
Join at 9:00 AM for coffee and pastries and a chance to wander through the City of Santa Monica’s Main Street Community Garden. The workshop will begin promptly at 10:00 AM.
Limited seating – please bring a chair or blanket.

Malibu Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Event
2024-12-14 09:00 - 15:00 | Malibu Civic Center, Rear Parking Lot, 23519 West Civic Center Way, Malibu, CA, 90265, United States
Sponsored jointly by the Sanitation Districts and Los Angeles County Public Works
The Household Hazardous Waste and Electronic Waste Collection Program (HHW) gives Los Angeles County residents a legal and cost-free way to dispose of unwanted household chemicals that cannot be disposed of in the regular trash.

Toy Swap and Fruit Tree Repotting Party
2024-12-21 09:00 - 11:00 | Ishihara Park Learning Garden, 2909 Exposition Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
Join a monthly community breakfast at Ishihara Park Learning Garden. There will be lightly used toys and children’s books, should you know someone that would benefit from some holiday cheer. Bring one to swap, bring one to donate, or simply show up and take one to re-gift.
This will also be an opportunity to repot some fruit trees, enjoy pancakes, do chalk art that will wow the best of artists, and take compost and veggie seeds for your home garden.

Botany Workshop: Container Gardening
2025-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Join a workshop on container gardening and a demo on creating beautiful container arrangements! Learn from the Garden’s Assistant Director Allison Keeney and Museum Scientist Matthew Southall.
This event is free with a reservation. RSVPs are required.
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Free Food from UCLA Dining Halls!
2025-01-07 22:00, 2025-01-08 22:00, 2025-01-09 22:00, 2025-01-22 22:00, 2025-01-23 22:00, 2025-01-28 22:00, 2025-01-29 22:00, 2025-01-30 22:00 | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Bruin Dine for our food recovery events every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 10PM in the SAC Basement! Bring your utensils, containers, and appetite!
Hit the follow button (https://www.instagram.com/uclabruindine/) to see what we’re serving up each week!

POSTPONED - Fowler Exhibition Opening Celebration: Fire Kinship
2025-01-11 18:00 - 21:00 | Fowler Museum
**Due to the ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area, we have decided to postpone this event. Stay tuned for details on the rescheduled event.**
Join the Fowler Museum for the opening of the exhibition Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art. The evening will begin with a welcome from a local California Indian community, followed by a celebration with food, dance, and music.
Fire Kinship, the Fowler’s second PST ART exhibition, seeks to counter attitudes of fear and illegality around fire, arguing for a return to Native practices in which fire is regarded as a vital aspect of land stewardship, community well-being, and tribal sovereignty. The exhibition, on view through July 13, 2025, presents a living history that centers the expertise of Tongva, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Kumeyaay communities past and present.
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826LA@Hammer: Collaging for Mother Earth
2025-01-12 11:00 - 13:00 | Hammer Museum
Free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, combine writing with creative activities for groups of up to 20 students.
Recommended for ages 8–14.
A lot of people know how important it is for the environment to recycle and reuse art materials, but not everyone knows how much fun it is! In this workshop, students will learn what it means to be an eco-surrealist. They will expand their creativity by gluing magazine cut outs and found objects to a surface in order to create their very own metaphorical self portrait. Led by artist Morgan Moto.
ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?
Ticketing: These free workshops are designed for up to 20 students. Reservations are encouraged: visit 826la.org/programs/workshops or call 310-915-0200. Drop-ins are welcome, if space allows.
Parking: Under the museum, $8 flat rate on weekends. Cash or credit card.

*POSTPONED* Welcome Reception for 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence
2025-01-21 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe, 365 Portola Plaza, Room 1302, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center are pleased to announce Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, and James Suazo as the 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence.
Learn more about each of the UCLA Activists-in-Residence here, and please join in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community at this year’s welcome reception.
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PHN Presents: Passive House & Fire Resilience - Building Forward
2025-01-22 09:00 - 10:30 | Online
Growing wildfire devastation demands better-protected buildings – better protected by building design and better design of their surrounding landscape. Yet, after fire events, like in Los Angeles, there is a need to rebuild quickly. Join to investigate integrated approaches with Passive House, how they’ve been implemented following other wildfires, and the possibilities they demonstrate for building forward.
About the Presenters:
Birgitte Messerschmidt is Director, Research, National Fire Protection Association. She is responsible for NFPA’s Research Strategy, Research on fire problems and other safety issues, Data collection efforts to maintain NFPA’s fire incident and fire service databases, and the NFPA Research library. She has a M. Sc. In Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and has spent her entire career working on fire safety issues. Making our built environment more resilient to fire through a better understanding the impact of construction products and methods, testing procedures, and policy has been a career-long passion. She has been involved in testing and research as well as standardization and advocacy. She has published and presented numerous papers on fire safety issues.
Andrew Michler has focused on high-performance building design and materiality since 1993. He has written and researched extensively on new architecture and is the author of the book Hyperlocalization of Architecture, released in 2015. He is a co-founder of Passive House Rocky Mountains, a founding board member of The Passive House Network, and was chair of the Northern Colorado Renewable Energy Society. He completed the first International Certified Passive House in Colorado in 2016, which has won several awards and has been prominent in international design media. His experience designing Passive House throughout the Colorado Rockies has focused on wildfire hardening techniques merged with Passive House methodologies.
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Beyond the Net Zero Pledges: Do they Still Matter?
2025-01-22 12:15 - 13:30 | UCLA Law School, Room 1447
Many businesses, institutions, cities, and regions have pledged to reach net-zero emissions within a few decades. But accountability has always been a challenge and it’s one made more difficult by recent political backsliding around the globe. What’s the path forward for sticking to credible benchmarks? Is there a role for carbon offsets and voluntary carbon markets?
You’ll hear from Catherine McKenna, CEO of Climate and Nature Solutions and chair of the United Nations high-level expert group on net zero emissions commitments of non-state entities. McKenna served as Canada’s minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019 and minister of infrastructure and communities from 2019 to 2021.
McKenna is a visiting scholar at the UCLA Emmett Institute. She’ll be joined in conversation with Distinguished Counsel Mary Nichols, former chair of the California Air Resources Board, and also a member of the UN high-level expert group on net zero emissions commitments.
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Please contact Heather Morphew, morphew@law.ucla.edu, with any questions.

UCLA Planetarium Public Show - January 22, 2025
2025-01-22 19:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Planetarium, Mathematical Sciences Room 8224, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join a planetarium show on Solar Energy given by Nate Magari!
Tickets for public shows are free! A subset of the seats will be available to reserve 1 week before the show for those guests that would like to ensure a guaranteed seat. The remainder of the tickets will be released on a first-come, first-serve basis one hour prior to the start of the show at the planetarium. Ticket holders that are not present 15 minutes before the show begins will automatically forfeit their seat, which will be given to those in the queue. There are no late arrivals.
Availability
Early reservation tickets will be available on Thursday, Jan 16 at 8 AM.
Day-of tickets will be available at the planetarium on Wednesday, Jan 22 at 6 PM.
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Fully Booked?
Day-of tickets will be released on a first-come, first-serve basis at the planetarium one hour prior to the start of the show, so don’t worry, there will still be available seats–just check back an hour before the show!

Expert Insights on the Causes, Impacts and Aftermath of the L.A. Wildfires
2025-01-23 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Featuring an informative panel of wildfire and climate science faculty experts.
Please click here to submit your questions in advance of the webinar
by Thursday, January 23 at 10:00 a.m.
Instructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration has been confirmed.
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The Fires 2: Hazardous Waste, Air Quality & Water Safety
2025-01-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
As community members return to their homes, schools, and businesses, there will be new and additional safety concerns. Please join Coalition for Clean Air for a second Clean Air Conversations webinar on the Southern California fires to hear from experts who will let you know how best to protect yourself and your family. Speakers include:
Katherine Butler, Director, California Department of Toxic Substances Control
Dr. Mark Gold, Director of Water Scarcity Solutions, Natural Resources Defense Council
Dr. Joe Lyou, President & CEO of the Coalition for Clean Air
The webinar is free and open to all, so please feel free to pass this along to anyone that would benefit from this information and may be interested in attending.
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Torched Talks with Edith de Guzman and Greg Pierce
2025-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Gather your questions about fire and water and join on Tuesday, January 28 at noon on Zoom. Alissa Walker will be speaking with Edith de Guzman, water equity and adaptation policy cooperative extension specialist for the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources and co-founder of the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative, and Greg Pierce, co-director of UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation and director of the Human Right to Water Solutions Lab.
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L.A. Fires & Public Health: Where We Go From Here
2025-01-28 12:00 - 13:15 | Online
Join the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for a webinar addressing the “L.A. Fires & Public Health: Where We Go From Here” on Tuesday, January 28, from 12:00pm – 1:15pm PT, via Zoom.
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HOST
Dr. Ron Brookmeyer, dean and distinguished professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
PARTICIPANTS
Dr. David Eisenman, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and director of the Center for Public Health and Disasters at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Dr. Michael Jerrett, professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, the Jonathan Fielding Chair in Climate Change and Public Health, and co-director of the Center for Climate Change and Health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Dr. Rachael Jones, professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Dr. Miriam Marlier, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Dr. Yifang Zhu, professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

RFF Live Event: Big Decisions 2025
2025-01-29 11:00 - 12:30 | HYBRID: Online and Resources and Conservation Center, 1400 16th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
With every new administration and Congress comes a different set of energy and environmental priorities. Despite shifts in political offices and rhetoric, there are opportunities for policy action toward a healthy environment and thriving economy. Join Resources for the Future (RFF) and leaders from across government, business, philanthropy, and media to discuss the big decisions anticipated in 2025. RFF and speakers and attendees will explore the priorities of the incoming Trump administration and the 119th Congress, as well as offer expert insights to inform research and policy agendas for the coming year.
Attend In-Person (reception to follow program) REGISTER HERE
Attend Virtually REGISTER HERE

Crisis Response for Kids: Keeping Children Safe During and After Wildfires
2025-01-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
The University of California is sponsoring a six-part webinar series for the UC community and the public titled “Urban Wildfire Response and Recovery Webinar Series,” focusing on the physical health, mental health and social impacts of wildfires, providing a blend of scientific information and practical skills, and highlighting environmental justice issues. The goal is to provide information and respond to the many requests for information from UC students, staff and faculty and from the broader CA community, in response to the wildfire devastation in LA. The series is sponsored by the UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity (CCHE) and its Climate Mental Health Council, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions, the Sustainable LA Grand Challenges and UCSF Alumni Association.
This webinar highlights the special attention needed to protect youth. Children eat, drink, and breathe three times as much of their environment as do adults, and their normal behaviors present additional exposure risks.
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