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T.R.E.E. Talks: Can Art Save Nature?

Online

Join TreePeople for an insightful conversation on how the arts are being used to invoke inspiration as a means to address this dire need. REGISTER HERE While scientists, government, tech...

Healthy Campus Initiative Seed Saving Workshop

jane b semel Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, 111 Easton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join this Seed-Saving workshop taught by a pair of visiting Master Gardeners! in this workshop, you’ll learn how to save seeds from your garden and discover the value of building...

Electrifying the Nation: Promoting Uptime in EV Charging

Online

The EV charging industry is poised to evolve rapidly in the upcoming decade, especially given the recent $5B investment in the NEVI Program following funding as part of Biden’s Infrastructure...

Kiss the Ground Documentary Viewing

De Neve Auditorium

Attendance is free and open to all UCLA students. Free vegan snacks (ft. GOMacro & Lesser Evil) & a sustainable items giveaway The screening is hosted by Sustainagoals, the committee...

Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action – Methane

Online

Methane accounts for around 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, behind only carbon dioxide. As methane is both more potent and shorter-lived than carbon dioxide, near-term efforts to reduce emissions of methane could slow the increase in global temperature in the next few decades. Rebecca Leber (Vox) will moderate a conversation between Fiji George (Cheniere...

Environmental Justice and Community Organizing with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)

Room 4357 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) is an environmental justice organization with deep roots in California’s Asian immigrant and refugee communities. Since 1993, APEN has built a membership base of Laotian refugees in Richmond and Chinese immigrants in Oakland. Together, they’ve fought and won campaigns to make our communities healthier, just places where people can thrive....

The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Environmental Consequences of Colonialism

Online

This talk presents a view of the Salton Sea and its surrounding Sonoran Desert ecosystem that destabilizes hegemonic, settler colonial perspectives on the sea and the desert, exploring the ways that different kinds of human communities have encountered and made meaning out of this complex place. Ultimately, this story of sea, desert, and people is...

Taxonomic and functional diversity of xeric alpine plant communities in a changing climate

Online

Kaleb Goff, PhD Student, North Carolina State University and 2022 WMRC Mini Grant recipient Kaleb will discuss findings that demonstrate climate change’s affects on plant diversity and functionality within the xeric alpine ecosystems of the White Mountains, California. His work is also in collaboration with GLORIA Great Basin, which has been monitoring plant communities in...