UCLA Sustainability

Covering the Coast
2021-01-29 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
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Join us for a conversation about the legacy of ocean pollution on the California coast in an era of climate change and other stressors. Rosanna Xia will discuss her work as an environmental reporter and storyteller for the Los Angeles Times, including the story she broke in the fall about decades of previously unknown DDT dumping in the Catalina Channel.
In the second part of the event, Mark Gold (Deputy Secretary, Coast and Oceans, California Natural Resources Agency) and Sean Hecht (Faculty, UCLA Law School) will join to discuss the implications of this DDT dumping ground and what can be done about it. Jon Christensen (Professor at the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability) will moderate both conversations.

Accelerating Clean Energy Transitions
2021-01-27 11:00 - 12:30
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Free webinar. Open to the public. Registration required. This webinar will debut new research on how Community Choice Aggregators (CCA) have exceeded California’s renewable energy targets. We will also illuminate how rapid CCA growth has encouraged investor-owned utilities to outpace California’s requirements for renewable energy. The conversation will address concerns about system reliability and look toward the future of clean energy in California and beyond.
This webinar will begin with two short presentations followed by a panel discussion featuring leading state policymakers.

Sustainability Office Hours
2021-01-26 15:00 - 16:00
Come chat with the UCLA sustainability team about anything and everything you’re curious about each third Tuesday of the month from 3-4PM.
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Diversity and Inclusion in Sustainability Workshop
2021-01-23 09:00 - 17:00
Unheard Voices Diversity and Inclusion in the Environmental Movement
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UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science will be hosting a one day- two part workshop on January 23rd.
The first half of the day will be a training session on racial equity and infusing justice into the environmental movement which is open to all who are interested.
The second half of the day will be a training on working within the community and will include community organizers from “The Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples’, ‘Rivers in Action’ and ‘Tree People’ to network and collaborate with on projects. The second half of the day will be reserved for representatives from UCLA’s sustainability and environmental groups.
Registration is free and open to the first 300 people to apply. Please circulate to whoever you think might be interested. If you have any questions please email tannerwaters@g.ucla.edu

2021 Energy Jobs Fair
2021-01-18 12:00 - 16:00
RSVP at tinyurl.com/EJF2021
Looking for an internship or full-time position in 2021? Join us at the sixth annual Energy Jobs Fair to connect with employment opportunities and network with recruiters and other students passionate about careers in renewable energy and sustainability! RSVP ahead of time to receive the event link, instructions, and descriptions of the companies and their open positions.
Attending companies include the Association for Energy Affordability, Grid Alternatives, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, CivicSpark, Clean Power Alliance, and more! Please email uclarenewable@gmail.com with any questions.

UCLA Connections - Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
2021-01-14 18:00 - 19:00
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As a new U.S. presidential administration prepares for the four years ahead, coping with intersecting challenges including a pandemic, persistent inequality, climate change policy and a sea of misinformation, UCLA experts discuss what role institutions of higher learning will play in addressing the crises of our times.
How can universities help champion science and evidence in a skeptical society where fact-based professions like journalism and medicine are under attack? When we are often divided into disconnected and conflicting media bubbles, how can universities help inspire people to embrace reliable facts as a means to heal our economy, our planet and our culture?
UCLA environmental humanities scholar Ursula K. Heise, public health researcher Gilbert Gee, and internet and society expert Safiya U. Noble come together in a discussion moderated by storyteller and curator Chon Noriega.
Opening remarks by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block

Webinar Two: Park Equity Policy and Advocacy
2020-12-10 11:30 - 13:00
New research about the relationship between parks and life expectancy reveals that increasing park acreage in areas that face park deficits and lack trees could lead to significant population-level increases in life expectancy. It also shows that targeted investments in park infrastructure would significantly benefit the health of Latino and Black community members.
In this webinar series, you’ll hear from the UCLA professor who conducted the research and representatives of community-based organizations that will use its results to push for park equity. The project was based in Los Angeles County, but it provides insights for cities across the country.
Webinar Two: Park Equity Policy and Advocacy
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Learn more about policy, advocacy, and power building for park equity. Register here.
Speakers:

Manal J. Aboelata, Deputy Executive Director, Prevention Institute
Elva Yañez, Health Equity Director, Prevention Institute
Alessandro Rigolon, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
Francisco Romero, Program Manager of Community Transformation, Promesa Boyle Heights
Naomi Humphrey, Undergraduate Health Equity Fellow, National Health Foundation
Veronica Padilla, Executive Director, Pacoima Beautiful

Simultaneous Spanish Interpretation will be provided.

Environmental Student Network Fundraiser Event
2020-12-08 16:00 - 21:00
The Environmental Student Network is hosting a fundraising event with Emporium Thai next Tuesday, December 8th from 4-9 pm. Here is the link to the event: https://www.groupraise.com/events/171014-ucla-environmental-students-network-at-emporium-thai
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U.S.-China Green Energy Summit
2020-12-04 17:00 - 2020-12-06 19:00
The U.S.-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) is a U.S. federal registered non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area (www.ucgec.org). Since it was founded in 2008, UCGEC has been dedicated to promoting clean energy development and strengthening U.S. and China collaboration on climate change.
We are organizing the “2020 International Green Energy Summit” virtually on Dec.4th-6th, 2020. This is one of our annual flagship events. Over the past decade, we have successfully organized eleven annual summits either in the U.S. or China. It has been recognized as a highly influential international forum.
Since this year’s summit will be a virtual conference on Zoom, we have decided to make it free and open to the public. Thus, we’d like to reach out for more people, especially students, to join this summit, so they may benefit from our invited world renowned speakers.
We have already confirmed two Nobel Laureates and many other prominent speakers for this year’s Summit. A wide range of frontier topics related to green energy will be covered, including but not limited to:
Global energy outlook
Trend on clean energy technology development
International collaboration on climate change
Carbon neutrality
Next generation of Li-ion battery
Energy Storage
Energy Internet
Intelligent transportation
Zero Emission and autonomous vehicle
More….
Please visit: www.ucgec.org/events/2020iges (or copy and paste the address in your web browser) for the conference agenda and free registration information. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to the registered attendees before the event.

Networking 101 In A New Virtual Age (ESN x ES Alumni Association Collab)
2020-12-01 18:00 - 19:15
The zoom link is here: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96092386413?pwd=[REDACTED]
We will have some amazing guest speakers from the UCLA Environmental Science Alumni Association on the topics of networking within the space of sustainability towards a future in the field. There will also be time for socializing and networking exposure during the event.
The preliminary agenda is as follows:
15 min of socializing/intros
30 min of short presentations by Alumni on how to network and its importance which may include:
– Short introduction of Alumni and background
– How to sell yourself
– How to reach out online
– Examples from career experience
30-45 min of practice networking in controlled settings. This could take the form of speed round connections and such, but is also a time to socialize with each other!
– 2-3 person breakout rooms
– Prompting type activities
5 min closing and LinkedIn sharing

Carbon-Capture Symposium
2020-11-30 08:00 - 2020-12-01 17:30
Please join us for a virtual webinar we are planning for November 30 and December 1 on carbon-capture. This webinar will include leading researchers from UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, Arizona State University, HY-TEK Bio, Verdox, and Mosaic Materials. Several presentations will focus on carbon-capture technologies that are now at the point where scaling-up to mid-scale demonstration projects is the next developmental stage on the path to utility-scale solutions. As such, some of the innovations that will be presented may benefit from a CO2 exhaust stream, for example from a co-generation plant, in a research university setting where the facilities engineers and faculty researchers can play a role in monitoring and evaluating a CC demonstration project. I expect that a number of webinar participants will be from universities with CHP plants and an interest in helping to advance carbon-capture solutions that hopefully will prove scalable.

You may be curious about our interest in exploring and fostering carbon-capture technologies. Many leading climate scientists believe that carbon-capture as well as energy de-carbonization may be essential to avoid 2 degree C. overshoot. Moreover, we believe that speeding up, as well as attaining, carbon-free energy will not be a single-path solution, but rather a mosaic of technology and infrastructure solutions that work in synergy to provide resilience and grid stability that will be increasingly critical as weather and seasonal extremes exacerbate the path to carbon-free energy.
In the spirit of bi-coastal collaboration on climate solutions, this virtual colloquium will be co-sponsored by the University of Maryland and the University of California, Irvine. Presenters will include:

Shota Atsumi, Professor of Chemistry, UC Davis
Jack Brouwer, Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Environmental Engineering and Director of the UC Irvine Advanced Power and Energy Program and National Fuel Research Center
Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
Christopher W. Jones, William R. McLain Chair and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech
Klaus Lackner, Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University and Director of Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder, Mosaic Materials
Robert “Bob” Mroz, Founder/CEO of HY-TEK Bio, a Baltimore tech startup that is operating a demonstration facility of Bob’s algae-based carbon-capture system
Edward S. Rubin, Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science; Professor of Engineering & Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering; Senior Fellow, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University
Gaurav Sant, Professor of Engineering at UCLA
Sahag Voskian, Chemistry Department, MIT, and Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Verdox
Jenny Yang, UC Irvine Professor of Chemistry

We plan to allot ample time for Q&A (more than has been commonplace in recent webinars where one or two questions are possible per speaker). If you are interested in registering for this virtual colloquium, please use this link:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4SyXG5nwTT-OIVteh6Iy3w

MAI Alumni Panel: Sustainability in Medicine and The Pre-Health Journey
2020-11-19 18:00 - 19:00
Join Medical Aid Initiative (MAI) on Thursday, November 19th at 6 PM for our alumni panel: Sustainability in Medicine and The Pre-Health Journey. A team of medical students and pre-health undergraduates will provide insight into their unique undergraduate journeys at UCLA! Along with discussing the significance of medical sustainability, panelists will share their undergraduate experiences, give tips on how to balance academics and personal well being, and describe how their opportunities at UCLA have influenced their career aspirations and prepared them for medical school, graduate school, and more. At the end of the session, each panelist will host a separate breakout room where participants will be able to ask personalized questions to the individual they resonate with most. RSVP here (https://forms.gle/MZz6ZyHV4B2cAgQs7) to receive the Zoom link, submit any questions you would like to see answered, and to review each panelist’s bio. Thank you and please feel free to reach out with any questions and concerns, as well as share this event with anyone you know who may be interested!

Fueling The Intersectional Environmental Movement with Debra Gore-Mann
2020-11-18 17:00 - 18:00
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Climate action and racial justice are inextricably linked. However, while the worst effects of climate change have disproportionately harmed communities of color, the historical faces of climate action have predominantly been white. The discussion will cover the environmental justice movement, its progress and challenges, and how corporations should get involved.
Debra Gore-Mann is President and CEO of the Greenlining Institute. With an engineering degree and an M.B.A. from Stanford (where she was the only African American woman in a class of 300 graduate students), her work has spanned across the private, public and political sectors in uplifting low opportunity communities with funding, team building and financial and people resources. Most recently, she led the San Francisco Conservation Corps, America’s first urban municipal youth corps.
As Greenlining’s President and CEO, Debra guides the organization’s growth and direction and serves as the unifying voice for multifaceted policy work, bringing her unique, intersectional perspective to bear. She works with the board to oversee the organization’s finances, management and governance and partners with staff and board to develop programs and policy strategies to advance racial and economic justice and to strengthen ties with The Greenlining Coalition.

Webinar One: Park Equity and Life Expectancy Research Findings
2020-11-18 10:00 - 11:30
New research about the relationship between parks and life expectancy reveals that increasing park acreage in areas that face park deficits and lack trees could lead to significant population-level increases in life expectancy. It also shows that targeted investments in park infrastructure would significantly benefit the health of Latino and Black community members.
In this webinar series, you’ll hear from the UCLA professor who conducted the research and representatives of community-based organizations that will use its results to push for park equity. The project was based in Los Angeles County, but it provides insights for cities across the country.
Webinar One: Park Equity and Life Expectancy Research Findings
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Learn about the life expectancy predictive model research process, methodology, findings, and possible replication. Register here.
Speakers:

Manal J. Aboelata, Deputy Executive Director, Prevention Institute
Dr. Richard J. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Michael Jerrett, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Elva Yañez, Health Equity Director, Prevention Institute

2020 Biodiversity Symposium
2020-11-16 15:00 - 2020-11-20 17:00
APLD & LASAN present the 2020 Biodiversity Symposium
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Biodiversity hotspots are home to unique flora and fauna, many of which are endemic to a particular environment. Our City of Los Angeles is fortunate to be one of only 36 Biodiversity Hotspots on the planet.
This designation also means that biodiversity here is threatened, and we need to come up with protective strategies to safeguard our area’s resilience and sustainability. Our symposium, which will unfold over the course of the week, will illustrate the vital importance of an integrated ecosystem of natural biodiversity and sustainable urban landscapes.
We are looking to provide a forum for leading area scientists to inform landscape designers and architects, builders, nurseries, growers, and homeowners on the significance of biodiversity in the Los Angeles area, which is severely threatened by urban development. We hope this forum will aid in building an understanding of how we can affect a change in practices and achieve the goal of “a no-net-loss” biodiversity strategy.
Our well-being fundamentally depends on nature. We must act quickly to take action with protective strategies to safeguard this unique area that we live in. We can make a difference. Join this community and symposium to protect our biodiversity hotspot.
Please join us and help spread the word. Garden by garden, and park by park, we can take the steps to change the narrative of environmental degradation.
We are happy to be in partnership with LASAN for this important endeavor.
“The survival and well-being of the City’s residents also depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, including air pollution reduction, strongly and rapidly mitigating and adapting to climate change, mental health and educational opportunities, water cleansing, and aesthetic benefits. These services are built directly from an integrated ecosystem of natural biodiversity and sustainable urban landscapes.” — LA Sanitation & Environment

Maintaining Momentum to COP26 for the Net-Zero Transition
2020-11-16 05:00 - 2020-11-20 08:00
COP26 has been delayed.
Environmental diplomacy put on hold.
We cannot postpone the climate emergency.
Momentum on climate action must be maintained.
2020 was meant to usher in a decade of action in our fight against the climate crisis. Governments and businesses were poised to raise their ambition but instead have been fighting a difference crisis – the global pandemic.
As economies begin to rebuild, sectors reopen and society returns the decisions governments and businesses make today and the industries we support will decide the future we create.
Event Overview
Over the past decade the Sustainable Innovation Forum has been used as a platform by the United Nations, Heads of State, Government Ministers, Climate Experts and Chief Executives, to communicate leadership, raise ambition and forge stronger relationships between the public and private sectors.
Climate Action has curated a thoroughly researched and validated programme aligned to the key trends and challenges we face in our collective fight against climate change. The programme is design to build momentum on climate action ahead of COP26 in 2021.
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Healthy Buildings and Healthy Homes: Could Indoor Spaces Be Making You Sick?
2020-11-13 11:30 - 12:30
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends approximately 90% of their life indoors. Accordingly, the physical structures in which we work and live—our homes, schools, offices, public buildings—directly impact health outcomes. By improving the performance of buildings, in both design and construction, our health and well-being benefit greatly, while also reducing health care costs. Expanding on the progress established by the green building industry, the next stage is to advance the complementary practice of healthy building and wellness. This panel brings together leading experts in the fields of healthy buildings and wellness for an informative and timely discussion regarding human health and its direct correlation to the built environment, and the tools and technologies that deliver healthier indoor environments in which we can flourish.
Moderator:
Maggie Delmas
Professor of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; and Faculty Director, Impact@Anderson
Keynote:
Bill Hayward
CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer, Hayward Lumber; and Founder and CEO, Hayward Score
Panelists:
Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic
President and CEO, A Sustainable Production, LLC
Angela Spangler
Director, International Well Building Institute
Ben Stapleton
Executive Director, US Green Building Council – Los Angeles

Princeton Energy Conference 2020
2020-11-13 05:45 - 2020-11-14 13:30
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Our virtual fall conference 2020 brings together industry professionals, researchers, academics, investors, analysts, students, and other community members that are spirited about the future of the energy industry and new technologies. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic challenges, and social injustices, this conference will emphasize how we will change the energy landscape and drive ourselves forward to a clean, equitable future for everyone.
Some of our keynote speakers include:

Dr. Daniel Kammen (Professor of Energy at UC-Berkeley & Chair Goldman School of Public Policy)
Colette Honorable, Esq. (Partner at ReedSmith, Former Commissioner at FERC)
Kelly Speakes-Backman (CEO of U.S. Energy Storage Association)

Additionally, our conference will feature panels on a wide variety of topics including energy policy, carbon dioxide removal, “out-there” technologies, and renewable business and investment. To see the schedule and full list of keynotes and panels, check out our website.
We will additionally be hosting a resume drop with our sponsors, small group and personalized discussions with panelists, and networking sessions for young professionals and college students. Register to stay updated on this information. Please reach out to puea@princeton.edu with any questions or concerns. Hope to see you soon!
Let’s shape a cleaner and equitable energy landscape together.

Greenbuild Virtual International Conference + Expo
2020-11-10 - 2020-11-12
New for 2020: Greenbuild Goes Virtual
The industry’s leading green building event now offers three virtual summits in lead up to International Conference & Expo virtual event.
Safe, secure, sustainable. Connections without geographic boundaries. Expanded education courses available in real time or any time. Interactive supplier sourcing and peer networking forums. This is Greenbuild’s next chapter. Join us!

The Event Dedicated to Sustainability in the Built Environment
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is the largest annual event for green building professionals worldwide to learn and source cutting edge solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life in our buildings, cities, and communities.
As we turn this new chapter, Greenbuild – now more than ever before – is where inspiration ignites, relationships cultivate, knowledge transfers and the leaders developing the next generation of standards, policies, and partnerships gather to turn the promise of a higher living standard into a reality for all.
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7th Annual UC Davis One Health Symposium Registration
2020-11-07 09:00 - 17:00
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The 7th Annual One Health Symposium is coming up on Saturday, November 7th. This is a great event that brings together veterinarians, physicians, public health officials, scientists, students and staff for discussions on current research projects and issues facing the health of animals, people, plants and the environment.
Exciting new things this year! The symposium is going virtual and is FREE.
Spend a Saturday learning about bugs, the amazing world of aquaculture, COVID-19 in food systems, and see what students around the world are currently researching!

U. Michigan Prof. of Environment & Sustainability Kyle Whyte presents "Against Crisis Epistemology"
2020-11-05 16:30 - 17:30
People who perpetrate colonialism often defend their actions as necessary responses to real or perceived crises. Epistemologies of crisis involve knowing the world in such a way that a certain present is experienced as new. In this talk, Whyte will discuss newness in terms of the presumptions of unprecedentedness and urgency. According to Whyte, these presumptions often depend on an unquestioned linear conception of time. In contradistinction to an epistemology of crisis, he suggests that one interpretation of certain Indigenous intellectual traditions emphasizes what he calls an epistemology of coordination. Different from crisis, coordination refers to ways of knowing the world that emphasize the importance of moral bonds—or kinship relationships—for generating the (responsible) capacity to respond to constant change. Epistemologies of coordination are conducive to responding to expected and drastic changes without validating harm or violence.

Kyle Whyte is Professor of Environment and Sustainability and George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, serving as a faculty member of the environmental justice specialization. Previously, Whyte was Professor and Timnick Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. Whyte’s research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the anthropocene. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and has partnered with numerous Tribes, First Nations and inter-Indigenous organizations in the Great Lakes region and beyond on climate change planning, education and policy. He is involved in a number of projects and organizations that advance Indigenous research methodologies, including the Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup, Sustainable Development Institute of the College of Menominee Nation, Tribal Climate Camp, and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. He has served as an author on reports by the U.S. Global Change Research Program and is a former member of the U.S. Federal Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science and the Michigan Environmental Justice Work Group. Whyte’s work has received the Bunyan Bryant Award for Academic Excellence from Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice and MSU’s Distinguished Partnership and Engaged Scholarship awards, and grants from the National Science Foundation.

The event is free and open to the public.

To participate, visit The Humanities Studio Zoom Lounge (https://pomonacollege.zoom.us/j/97855796517) on Thursday, November 5, at 4:30 p.m. PT. (If the link above does not take you directly to the registration page for the presentation, visit zoom.us and enter Meeting ID: 978 5579 6517 when prompted.)

For more information and updates on upcoming Humanities Studio events, including the Indigeneities Speakers Series, visit the Humanities Studio events page:
https://www.pomona.edu/administr…/humanities-studio/events

High Impact Tea with John Fisher, MD, MBA ('09) on Health, Leadership and Equity
2020-11-05 11:30 - 12:30
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Dr. John Fisher has more than 15 years serving as a practicing emergency room physician and is an expert in the implementation of systems to streamline and modernize the coordination and delivery of quality healthcare. As the CMO, Dr. Fisher works closely with the administrative team and medical staff to further the hospital’s mission by establishing quality standards, providing strategic direction, and facilitating communication. He is also responsible for aligning physician performance and clinical care with the hospital’s goals and objectives so that patients receive the highest quality care and have the best possible patient experience.
Throughout his career as a medical administrator, Dr. Fisher continued in clinical practice as a board-certified and active emergency medicine physician. He has supervised and mentored multidisciplinary clinical staff at multiple hospitals and outpatient facilities, including two Kaiser Permanente-owned facilities in Southern California, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and Lancaster Community Hospital.
Most recently, Dr. Fisher was chief medical officer of Kern Health Systems in Bakersfield, California, a not-for-profit managed care organization that serves more than 140,000 Medi-Cal beneficiaries. His responsibilities included ensuring the access to, quality of, and proper use of clinical resources for the plan’s members. During his tenure, he established programs that increased patient access to primary care and specialty physician services while simultaneously implementing significant cost-saving measures.
Prior to this, Dr. Fisher was a physician adviser with Executive Health Resources reviewing clinical cases for Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care compliance for numerous hospitals throughout the country. He also served as medical director for a critical care transport service and associate medical director of a hospital emergency department.

Resiliency: Adapting Sustainability Under Pandemic Conditions
2020-10-29 16:00 - 17:30
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The IoES Corporate Partners Program is hosting a panel discussion on sustainability planning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our lives have changed significantly in the last few months as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted how we work, live, and interact with the world around us. At this event, we will explore how organizations are adapting their sustainability programs under pandemic conditions. Topics of discussion may include whether sustainability priorities have shifted, how sustainability programs will allow us to ‘build back better’, and what the long term impacts of the pandemic could be on sustainability commitments. Our speakers span the technology, building, and transportation sectors.
Featured Speakers

Susanna Kass —Data Center Advisor for the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Ben Stapleton —Executive Director, U.S. Green Business Council Los Angeles Chapter
Eva Moir —Transportation Planning Manager, LA Metro

Moderated by IoES Alum Gregory Lopez, Social & Environmental Impact Consultant.
The event will conclude with a ‘reception’ where audience members can opt into rooms to chat directly with the speakers.
For more background on our panelists, see the visit our website.

Transforming Social Impact + Sustainability Work by Measuring What Matters
2020-10-29 09:00 - 16:30
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Come join us for the corporate social responsibility conference that will deep dive into how purpose-led companies are doing what they do best and understand how CFOs and institutional investors are measuring purpose and walk away with methods and tools to elevate your work to a visible priority within your company.

Trash Talk: Creating a Circular Economy
2020-10-28 12:00 - 13:00
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Presenters:
Danny Miranda Jr., Sustainable Waste Management Specialist, CSUF Office of Sustainability
Michelle Jaureguy Major Account Manager, Recycling and Commodities, Republic Services
Dylan Layfield, Senior Manager, Material Solutions, TerraCycle Inc.

Join this session to learn more about campus recycling programs and beyond. Professionals will discuss waste reduction, recycling, food waste, composting and material solutions.
Hosted by CSU Fullerton

Circular Cities Week
2020-10-26 - 2020-11-01
Last fall, the Circular Economy Club (CEC) celebrated its inaugural “Circular Cities Week” global event (Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 2019). The goal: to push, with a united voice, for the design and implementation of circular economy strategies in cities worldwide. This year, more than ever, we need to work towards building resilient cities that recover from environmental, social and health crisis. We believe in the circular economy as a model that will help cities to become more resilient. The Circular Cities Week will take place on Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2020), again alongside the UN World Cities Day.

What is the #CircularCities Week

“Circular Cities Week” is an annual, decentralized global event. In 2019, over 80 CEC Chapters signed up to organize workshops to identify opportunities and next steps to encourage implementation of the circular economy in their cities. Around 30 CEC Chapters organized the workshop and the findings can be found in this the Circular Cities Week REPORT. This process included bringing in stakeholders from city governments, private and nonprofit sectors, and academia—and providing a multi-stakeholder call to action. This year, we are moving to an online format.

Why the #CircularCities Week
The CEC envisions a world in which every city in every country functions and prospers through circularity, ending the age of waste. An ambitious goal such as this requires clarity and clearly defined deadlines. “Circular Cities Week” provides this critical framework.

The condensed timeframe of “Circular Cities Week” encourages a sense of urgency and purpose designed to help stakeholders identify opportunities, challenges and next steps for supporting the development of circularity at the city government level. The objectives of the week are two-fold;

Raise awareness about the potential for the circular economy framework to build more resilient cities, considering the current COVID-19 pandemic; and
Engage citizens to design and implement a circular city and gather suggestions to create a global report gathering the top suggestions.

Zero Waste Youth Convergence
2020-10-24 10:00 - 14:30
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As most of you are aware, due to COVID-19, Zero Waste Youth USA, in partnership with NCRA, has decided to go virtual for the 8th Annual Zero Waste Youth Convergence!
The mission of Zero Waste Youth USA is to empower the next generation to create a zero waste future. Inspired by our peers in Brazil, Sweden, and the Philippines, the Annual Zero Waste Youth USA Convergence is dedicated to high school students, college students & young professionals to learn and collaborate for a zero waste future.
Our focus this year is “All Hand On Deck”. Hear from inspiring students, young professionals, and community leaders on critical zero waste issues and solutions. The conference will be packed with keynote speakers, workshops, raffles, and more! Check out the sessions and speaker bios here: http://www.zerowasteyouthusa.org/program–speakers.html

Daring Democracy in 2020
2020-10-23 16:00 - 17:00
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Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen will be joined by author David Daley to apply their book Daring Democracy to Decision 2020. They will discuss the ways individuals can cohere and strengthen the core tenets of Democracy as well as tie the book’s lessons in time for the November election.
About Daring Democracy
An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, “What do we do now?” The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.
Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo opens with an essential truth: It’s not the magnitude of a challenge that crushes the human spirit. It’s feeling powerless–in this case, fearing that to stand up for democracy is futile. It’s not, Lappé and Eichen argue. With riveting stories and little-known evidence, they demystify how we got here, exposing the well-orchestrated effort that has robbed Americans of their rightful power. But at the heart of this unique book are solutions.
Even in this divisive time, Americans are uniting across causes and ideologies to create a “canopy of hope” the authors call the Democracy Movement. In this invigorating “movement of movements,” millions of Americans are leaving despair behind as they push for and achieve historic change. The movement and democracy itself are vital to us as citizens and fulfill human needs–for power, meaning, and connection–essential to our thriving. In this timely and necessary book, Lappé and Eichen offer proof that courage is contagious in the daring fight for democracy.
About the Panelists
Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen are the authors of Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 19 books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She is also a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine and Solutions Journal. She is the cofounder of three organizations, including Oakland based think tank Food First, and more recently, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide.

Adam Eichen is a writer, researcher, and organizer. He serves as Campaigns Manager for Equal Citizens, a non-partisan pro-democracy organization founded by Lawrence Lessig., and is also a member of the Democracy Matters board of directors. Over the past several years, his research has focused on campaign finance, voting rights, and comparative election policy.

David Daley is a senior fellow for FairVote and the author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy, which helped spark the recent drive to reform gerrymandering. David’s new book, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, chronicles the victories and defeats in state efforts to reform elections and uphold voting rights. When writing for the Hartford Courant, he helped identify Mark Felt as the “Deep Throat” source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

This event is free and open to the public.

Can a Story Save the Planet?
2020-10-20 17:00 - 18:30
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Celebrated writers Scott Z. Burns, Amitav Ghosh, and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the climate crisis and its attendant catastrophes—and how that might change. Burns is the screenwriter of the 2011 film Contagion, a prescient depiction of a pandemic that highlighted many of the institutional failures seen during the current coronavirus outbreak, and produced the climate-focused documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and its sequel. The recipient of literary awards internationally, Ghosh focused his most recent fiction and non-fiction books, Gun Island and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, on climate change and its devastating effects. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Kolbert’s most recent book, The Sixth Extinction, details the current extinction crisis and received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Scott Z. Burns is the screenwriter of the 2011 film Contagion, an eerily prescient depiction of a pandemic that highlighted many of the same institutional failures seen during the current coronavirus outbreak. He also wrote The Report, about the CIA’s coverup of the use of torture after 9/11, and The Laundromat, which focuses on the story behind the Panama Papers. He also produced the climate-focused documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.
Amitav Ghosh’s most recent book of fiction Gun Island drew on climate change and the resulting stories of human migration. Prior to that, his non-fiction book The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable focused on modern literature’s failure to address climate change, also the subject of many of the author’s newspaper and magazine opinion pieces. Ghosh has won awards internationally for both fiction and non-fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Jnanpith award, making him the first Indian writer in English to receive the prestigious Indian literary award.
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her most recent book The Sixth Extinction received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and has received a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Academies communications award. Kolbert is a visiting fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College.

Why Your Vote Matters Virtual Q&A
2020-10-20 13:30 - 14:45
U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker will share his perspective on the role our students can play in creating a just and sustainable society through civic and community engagement in the final stretch before the November elections and beyond.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will educate attendees about the steps that are being taken across the state to make sure all of our votes will be counted and our voices heard during these unprecedented times.
California State University, Long Beach alum and Legislative Manager for the California League of Conservation Voters Melissa Romero will educate students about 2020 ballot initiatives that will have an impact on the environment and our communities.
