Stepping Toward Sustainability
2023-02-26 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Have you heard about the food-waste program that LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) just rolled out to households they serve?
Join the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance to learn about the new food-waste program, and then for a conversation with Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky.
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James Roska, acting environmental engineer with LASAN, and Daniel Meyers, manager of the commercial franchise (RecycLA) division, will join to discuss. You can learn more about the program here.
Come with your thoughts and questions!
Newly-elected Councilmember Katy Young Yaroslavsky was recently appointed as chair of the Energy and Environment Committee as well as vice chair of the Olympics committee. In addition, she is a member of the Budget, Finance, and Innovation Committee, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee, and the Transportation Committee.
Join for a conversation with her about her goals!

Elizabeth DeLoughrey at the Counterforce Salon
2023-02-27 12:00 - 13:30 | Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E. Young Dr. N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Salon #5: Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Rebeca Méndez
This fifth and final lecture in the series will feature Prof. Rebeca Méndez, the Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts and director of the Counterforce Lab, in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). As an artist, designer, and educator, Prof. Méndez delves into projects around the social and ecological impacts of the anthropocene. She has created artworks through fieldwork practice and collaborations that bridge across design, science, and humanities envisioning a just response to the entrenched causes of ecological crises for humans and the more-than-human world we share. Dr. DeLoughrey examines climate change and the anthropocene through environmental humanities. Her expansive work has bridged decoloniality, Indigenous perspectives, militarization, and globalization, with a focus on the Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
Their conversation will focus on how artistic, scientific, Indigenous, feminist, and environmental disciplinary lenses are employed to examine the diverse opportunities for interspecies friending beneath the sea surface. Dr. Méndez will be discussing her immersive 360º video art installation, The Sea Around Us which portrays the Eastern Pacific Ocean as a place of rich interspecies connection and interaction. The art installation intimately explores the long-lasting effects of DDT pollution on oceanic life, while forming an interdisciplinary bridge between science, art, and Indigenous cultures, in order to encourage viewers to face environmental wrongings, take restorative action, and establish relationships with other species based on equality and reciprocity. Dr. DeLoughrey will be discussing an Oceanic worldview across art and science called “tidalectics” – which she defines as a methodological tool which investigates the entanglement between sea and land, diaspora and indigeneity, and routes and roots – and the dynamics of our more-than-human watery planet. She stresses the important contribution of “tidalectics” in forming complex and dynamic stories about the relationship between land and sea in order to challenge dominant narratives about Indigenous and inter-species exploitation. Ultimately, Dr. Méndez and Dr. DeLoughrey will engage in a thoughtful conversation about humans’ relationships to watery environments in order to encourage relationships of reciprocity and respect with the ecologies, species, and cultures that are not only around us, but a part of us.
Links:
Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey: https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/elizabeth-deloughrey/
Professor Rebeca Méndez: https://rebecamendez.com/
https://Counterforcelab.org
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s 2023 lecture series exploring interspecies friendships and entering into conversations across disciplines. we ask how technology, in combination with different knowledge systems and design, can provide an avenue to connect with and learn from the more-than-human. Drones, or, “eyes in the sky,” can enrich our empathetic connection to the natural world, if we think critically about how we use them.
Made possible with the generous support of a UCLA IDRE grant and UCLA, Design Media Arts Department

Beyond The Pail: A Virtual Organics Recycling Town Hall
2023-02-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
Join LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Monday, February 27th, from 6pm-7:30pm via Zoom for a virtual town hall. Learn more about the organics recycling process, and what the new requirements for food scraps and food-soiled paper are.
Hear from local climate organizations and experts from LA Sanitation and the California Climate Action Corps about helpful recycling tips, with the opportunity to answer your questions.
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Two Years of Justice40: How the Initiative is delivering solutions to the climate crisis
2023-02-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
President Biden has made addressing environmental injustices a priority by centering justice in his actions to address the climate crisis in the U.S. and abroad. A central pillar of the environmental justice agenda is the Justice40 Initiative, the first-ever federal environmental justice commitment attached to the goal of directing at least 40% of benefits to communities that have been disadvantaged, marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.
The Justice40 initiative put a new spotlight on the historic inequities faced by frontline communities, the impact the climate crisis has on their future, and the opportunity to create a transformational clean energy economy that is inclusive of all Americans. The Initiative is being implemented using a “whole-of-government” approach that directs agencies to restructure how they operate, redesign their strategies, and be accountable for delivering on the administration’s goal. Currently, 16 agencies have announced hundreds of programs now covered under the Justice40 Initiative. The policy promises to address environmental justice through major legislation, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
With billions of dollars in climate investment flowing to states and local communities, how well has the Initiative delivered on its environmental justice goals? What is the public understanding of and engagement with Justice40? How are federal agencies collaborating with state and local policymakers to ensure alignment with Justice40 goals in implementation? What are the benefits being delivered to communities and how are agencies calculating those benefits? And what role can local leaders, businesses and households play in advancing Justice40?
Join World Resources Institute on February 28, for a conversation with Matthew Tejada, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice at the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, and Carla Walker, Director, Environmental Justice and Equity at WRI United States. We’ll explore the above questions, discuss how the Justice40 Initiative is transforming the climate landscape and the environmental justice movement, discuss how benefits are reaching disadvantaged and historically marginalized communities, and explore what more can be done to fully realize an equitable clean energy economy for all. The conversation will be followed by a panel of experts working to ensure environmental justice at state and local levels and the non-profit sector.
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Featured Speaker:
Matthew Tejada, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Justice, Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
Speakers
Julia Jeanty, Senior Policy Manager, Data for Progress
Colleen Callahan, Co-Executive Director, Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA
Naadiya Hutchinson, Government Affairs Manager, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Dan Lashof, Director, United States, World Resources Institute
Carla Walker, Director of Environmental Justice and Equity, United States, World Resources Institute (Moderator)

Vital Matters: Jainism and Ecology
2023-02-28 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
Drawing inspiration from the sacred landscapes depicted on devotional textiles presented in Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings, Venu Mehta will discuss intersections of ascetic principles, spirituality and sociocentric environmentalism in the twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism. Highlighting nonviolence as the path to liberation, Jain principles offer an important worldview of environmental activism.
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This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center of India and South Asian Studies and the Center for the Study of Religion and generously supported by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Venu Mehta is Bhagwan Chandraprabhu Postdoctoral Fellow in Jain Studies and assistant professor of comparative religions at Claremont School of Theology. Her research focuses on the devotional practices, literature, and iconography of the Jaina goddess Padmāvatī, with special attention to vernacular and regional forms of devotion and goddesses in Jainism. Her areas of scholarship in Jain studies include Jain religious diaspora and sectarian negotiations in the USA; Jainism and ecology; Jain bhakti literature and practices in Gujarat; Jaina theory of Anekāntavāda; and the Jaina notion of forgiveness.
Vital Matters programs explore objects that arouse devotion, awe, or serenity; mediate relationships between human and spiritual realms; and are of vital importance to the cultural heritage of individuals and communities. This series accompanies the new digital educational initiative Vital Matters: Stories of Belief—a platform for sharing different perspectives on devotional works at the Fowler Museum.

GRID Talks: Going Beyond Black History with Jacqui Patterson
2023-02-28 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
GRID Talks is a new webinar series that brings together leaders from the environmental justice movement to discuss issues related clean energy access and to community-centered solutions. The webinars seek to amplify the voices of GRID’s communities and share the stories, experiences, and work that are creating mission impact and systemic changes.
Jacqueline Patterson, MSW, MPH, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. She has worked on gender justice, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice, with organizations including Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, IMA World Health, United for a Fair Economy, ActionAid, Health GAP, and the organization she co-founded, Women of Color United. Before founding the Chisholm Legacy Project, Patterson served for 11 years as the Senior Director of Environmental and Climate Justice at the NAACP. She serves on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, National Black Workers Center Project, Bill Anderson Fund and the Advisory Boards for the Center for Earth Ethics and the Hive Fund.
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Under the Redwoods: A Sempervirens Fund Webinar Series - "Mycology, Redwoods, and Eugenics | Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian"
2023-02-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
If you want to learn how mycology can inspire us to reconcile the troubling roots of the redwood conservation movement, join mycologist and Bard College visiting professor Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, author of A Tangled Web and Underground Allies for February’s Under the Redwoods.
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Kanner Forum: "Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception"
2023-02-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Hsuan Hsu, professor of English at UC Davis. Professor Hsu’s talk will consider temperature as an atmospheric medium of environmental violence and embodied sensation. Drawing on recent discussions of atmospheric racism, Professor Hsu will consider how a range of Black authors and artists have experimented with the sense of thermoception as an immersive sensory capacity that communicates thermal experience and potentialities in the urban heat island.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Elizabeth DeLoughrey, professor in UCLA’s English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow the event.
REGISTER HERE to attend.
Hsuan Hsu is a professor of English at UC Davis, where his research and teaching focus on American literature, ethnic studies, cultural geography, environmental humanities, and sensory studies. His books include The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics (2020) and Air Conditioning, forthcoming in Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series.
Questions about the event?
Contact Marta Wallien, Programs and Media Manager
mwallien@english.ucla.edu

Martin Wachs Distinguished Lecture and Luskin Lecture with Robert Cervero on Accessibility, Social Equity, and Contemporary Policy Debates
2023-02-28 18:00 - 19:30 | California NanoSystems Institute, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee. The number of seats is limited.
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Part of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series.
Robert Cervero works in the area of sustainable transportation policy and planning. He has consulted on numerous transportation and urban planning projects worldwide, most recently advising long-range planning in Dubai and Singapore. His most recent book, Beyond Mobility, won the 2019 National Urban Design Best Book Award. Dr. Cervero was a member of Berkeley’s city and regional planning faculty from 1980 to 2016, where he twice served as Department Chair, was the inaugural holder of the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies, and directed both the University of California Transportation Center and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development. More recently he has held visiting faculty appointments at Tongji University in Shanghai and NYU-Abu Dhabi. During his doctoral studies in urban planning at UCLA, he worked under the supervision of his long-time mentor, Martin Wachs.
Check-in begins at 5:30pm with the discussion following at 6:00pm.
Public transportation: Big Blue Bus (Routes 2 and 17), Culver CityBus (Line 6), Metro
Ridehailing locations: Gateway Plaza, Luskin Conference Center
On-site parking available for $14 (Lot 2, Lot 8)

Rock Art East of the Range of Light: One Piece of a Global Puzzle
2023-02-28 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
With David Lee, Western Rock Art Research & former WMRC Staff.
The Owens Valley is home to the Paiute people and their ancestors, who arrived here many thousands of years ago. This landscape is rich with traces of their lives. Most visible are the amazing and intriguing petroglyphs and pictographs, a literal history book for these peoples, and much more. Documentation is the first step in developing management strategies to protect these inspiring and unique sites. This lecture will present information gathered from over twenty years of documentation in the Eastern Sierra region and throughout the American west. This will be compared to information gathered during ten field-seasons of documentation and research in the Northern Territory of Australia. Registration required via Zoom. This talk will be recorded. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Free Food from the Dining Halls
2023-02-28 22:00, 2023-03-02 22:00 | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bruin Dine is a program serving leftover hot food from the UCLA dining halls FREE to all UCLA students, and is also looking for volunteers to help run these events (sign up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11skt8Eys4hfeP4IKQFncG4Ct8ECivES6bjPjAfu20qE/edit#gid=1001346100 — UCLA email login required). If the sign-up list is full, please place your name on the waitlist; if the waitlist is full, hang tight. Bruin Dine will release more volunteer dates in the weeks to come, and also asks that volunteers arrive at their meeting location at 9 pm before the event begins. More details about your shift will be confirmed with you via email and text. If you also know of anyone who is in need of food, please send them the details to this event! Attendees must also bring their own containers and utensils! We’re excited to see our project come to life, and we would love it if you could all join us!

Winter 2023 Labor Speaker Series (+ Reception) | “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA” Book Talk
2023-03-01 15:30 - 18:00 | Online and 10383 Bunche Hall, 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount, for a conversation about her book that examines race, class, gender, and citizenship with respect to the growing social phenomenon of marginalized and unauthorized immigrants – especially women and youth. The hybrid event will be held on March 1, 2023, from 3:30-5 PM with a reception held after the event from 5-6 PM.
“Refusing Death” examines race, class, gender and citizenship with respect to the growing social phenomenon of marginalized and unauthorized immigrants – especially women and youth – making political inroads by way of grassroots activism, at times, sidestepping the need for formal political channels. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, and documents analysis of Asian American and Latin@ environmental justice activism in the industrial-port belt of Los Angeles, she finds that these mostly female immigrant activists view their work as much more than an effort to spare their children’s lungs from the gray plumes of cargo ships and oil refineries; they are also redefining notions of politics, community, and citizenship in the face of America’s nativist racism and its system of class injustice, defined by disproportionate pollution and neglected schools, surveillance/deportation, and political marginalization.
By inventively dovetailing all of these dimensions, the women show that they are highly conscious of how environmental and educational harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions; hence, they center embodied and affective strategies to uniquely challenge the neoliberal state’s neglect and betrayal and, ultimately, to refuse death.
Register for Zoom webinar HERE
RSVP for reception HERE

Electric Vehicles: Can They Deliver on Their Promise?
2023-03-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Please join the League of Women Voters of Piedmont on Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. to hear Dr. Dan Sperling talk about the impact of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on carbon reduction in California. Learn about what it will take for EVs to make a measurable difference in greenhouse gas reduction.
Register for free to receive an email with the Zoom link.
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UCLA March 1st Thursdays - Farmers Market & Block Party: Game On | American Red Cross
2023-03-02 12:00 - 22:00 | Westwood Village Broxton Ave, 1031 Broxton Avenue , CA 90024, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Join us on Broxton Ave. every first Thursday to connect with each other, celebrate the moment, enjoy tasty food and free entertainment! UCLA First Thursdays has two parts: daytime activations at the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and evening block parties with different thematic experiences.
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Westwood Village Farmers’ Market
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
American Red Cross at UCLA | March 2, 2023
Join us in celebrating Red Cross Month with the American Red Cross at UCLA. Learn CPR from trained instructors, spin the “Disasters Preparedness Trivia” wheel and put your knowledge to the test!
Evening Block Party
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Game On | March 2, 2023
Don’t wait for spring break to take a break! Campus and community are invited to join us in Westwood Village on Mar. 2, for “Game On!” Celebrating UCLA Athletics, this edition of UCLA First Thursdays will feature a tailgate party-inspired promenade along Broxton Ave. with activities, face painting, food carts/trucks, and games lining the street. Inspired by spring training, the Broxton Lot will be filled with sports-themed activities, challenges, entertainment, photo moments, prizes, special appearances, and more! RSVP for free admission—and be sure to put on your best Bruin gear and show your UCLA spirit!

Clothing Swap w/ USAC FAC Bruin Bazaar & Student Vendor: Charming x Garden
2023-03-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
A clothing swap is a type of swap meet wherein participants exchange their valued but no longer used clothing for clothing they will use. It is an opportunity to revamp your wardrobe by exchanging your old clothing pieces for new ones!
This event – co-hosted by Good Clothes Good People and Bruin Bazaar – is a collaboration with CharmingXGarden, a student vendor known for selling handmade keychains and earrings! While you’re picking out new clothes, browse through some of her adorable designs!

After the Green New Deal
2023-03-03 13:00 - 15:00 | UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe, 365 Portola Plaza, Room 1302, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join UCLA AUD’s Critical Studies program for a symposium on the changes and research that have proliferated from the Green New Deal. Join in on the conversations with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Billy Fleming.
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Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden Mulch Workshop
2023-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 | jane b semel Healthy Campus Initiative Community Garden, Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, 111 Easton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Join the jane b semel HCI Community Garden in its third workshop of the quarter with UC Master Gardeners! The Mulch Workshop will be taught by UCLA’s Master Gardener Dr. James Bassett! Learn about the benefits, how-tos, and and dirty details of mulching! Plotholders are highly encouraged to attend this workshop! There will be FREE MULCH to all plotholders to apply to their plots under the guidance of our resident UC Master Gardener and the experienced garden team.
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Hygiene Refill Station
2023-03-06 12:00 - 15:00, 2023-03-07 12:00 - 15:00 | Bruin Walk, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
There will be a variety of products out, including shampoo, dish soap, and so many more! Everything is free!
Students are welcome to bring their empty bottles to refill with hygiene products they need such as shampoo, body lotion, hair conditioner, and more.

Electrifying for EJ: Instagram Live with Jamal Lewis, Rewiring America
2023-03-07 09:45 - 10:45 | Online
Join Just Solutions Collective for an IG Live with Jamal Lewis, Director of Policy Partnerships & Equitable Electrification at Rewiring America! They’ll be chatting about electrification, what it looks like, and the implications for environmental justice and BIPOC-frontline communities.
Instagram account for livestream: @justsolutions_org

Grand Rounds in Population and Public Health: Reducing the Health Care Carbon
2023-03-07 11:45 - 13:15 | HYBRID: USC Zilka Neurogenetic Institute (ZNI), Herkoltz Room 111, and Zoom, 1501 San Pablo St, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, United States
The Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, and the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center present guest speaker Jodi Sherman, MD, with a talk titled:
“Balancing Patient Safety and Pollution Prevention: Sustainable, Equitable Health Care”
Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System.
Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems.
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Lunch will be served for in-person attendees following the event.
Welcome remarks by Flora L. Thornton Chair Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD
Moderator:
Rob McConnell, MD
Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
Panelists:
Najmedin Meshkati, PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
Arash Motamed, MD, MBA
Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology (Clinician Educator)
Medical Director of Keck Hospital Main OR Anesthesia Inpatient Service
Keck School of Medicine
Bhavna Sharma, PhD
Assistant Professor of Architecture
USC School of Architecture

Webinar - Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: The Food System
2023-03-07 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
Registration is free, but required. REGISTER HERE.
The food system contributes about 34% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with China and the United States as the first and third largest emitters, respectively. Among the greatest opportunities for emissions reductions in the food system are reducing and repurposing food loss and waste, along with improvements in fertilizer use efficiency. Join to hear from issue-experts on how the U.S. and China can tackle emissions, while concurrently improving soil and human health, meeting global food demand and achieving sustainable development goals.
Agenda
5:00 p.m. Discussion is opened by Moderator, Jennifer Turner, Director, China Environment Forum, Wilson Center
5:05 p.m. Reducing Food Waste and Fertilizer GHG Emissions in the U.S.

Professor Whendee Silver, UC Berkeley

5:15 p.m. Reducing Food Waste and Fertilizer GHG Emissions in China

Hu Min, Principal and Co-Founder, Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP)

5:25 p.m. Challenges and Opportunities of Converting Food Waste to Fertilizer in US and China

Professor Karen Mancl, Ohio State University

5:35 p.m. Moderated Audience Question and Answer
6:05 p.m. Speaker Closing Remarks
This meeting is co-sponsored by the California-China Climate Institute and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum.

White House Forum on Campus and Community-Scale Climate Solutions
2023-03-08 10:00 - 12:30 | Online
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the University of Washington (UW) will convene U.S. Government officials with climate, sustainability, and resilience leaders and educators from colleges and universities across the country for a virtual forum. These stakeholders will showcase how innovative ideas and actions can advance climate change efforts on college campuses while benefitting the surrounding communities and beyond. The discussions will include:
Making campuses more sustainable and resilient, including pathways to demonstrating net-zero emissions;
Ensuring that students have the knowledge and skills to lead in the clean industries of tomorrow and to plan, deploy, and maintain the climate-smart infrastructure needed;
Providing climate information services to states, municipalities, and indigenous communities; and
Serving as proving grounds for new climate solutions and strategies to bring them into the innovation ecosystem.
Speakers Include:
Sally Benson — Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition, OSTP
Maya Tolstoy — Dean, College of the Environment, University of Washington
Alexandra Isern — Assistant Director for Geosciences, National Science Foundation
Laura Petes — Chief of Staff for Climate and Environment and Assistant Director for Climate Resilience, OSTP
Please REGISTER HERE to join virtually.
A full agenda is available here.

Net Zero Accelerator Info Session
2023-03-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
The application for the 2023 Net Zero Accelerator is now live!
Come learn more about our one-of-a-kind program, first launched in 2019, which is focused on piloting net zero (carbon, energy, water, and waste) solutions in the built environment.
You can learn more about the NZA at NetZeroAccelerator.org.
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Building Electrification – Stories from the Home Front
2023-03-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
This webinar will explore the barriers and opportunities to electrifying California’s homes and buildings from those with firsthand experience — contractors, homeowners, and property owners. With a focus on lower-income residents and economically-challenged businesses, we will address both political and financial solutions that can help the state transition to clean, healthy homes and buildings.
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Coastal Justice Lab - Public Launch
2023-03-09 12:00 - 13:30 | HYBRID: UCI Law | EDU 1111 and Zoom, 401 E Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, 92697, United States
Coastal regions, including public trust lands, are of unique importance to environmental and climate policy, infrastructure development and ecosystem management. They also raise unique challenges for disadvantaged communities, including those who live and work along the “Hidden Coast” – low-lying lands and non-oceanfront tidal and estuarine zones that account for 80% of the national shoreline.
The Coastal Justice Lab is a joint program led by Azul, a Latinx-led and -serving environmental justice organization focused on coastal and marine conservation, and the Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources at UCI Law. The Coastal Justice Lab is unique among efforts to advance environmental justice in coastal regions. It focuses on legal and interdisciplinary research to ensure that the work of federal, state, and local agencies, planning and regulatory proceedings, and compliance and enforcement initiatives advance principles of environmental justice and community involvement and ownership. The Coastal Justice Lab’s work includes policy proposals, draft legislation, convening reports, facilitated dialogues and peer-reviewed research to support ongoing community and agency initiatives.
Speakers include:
Emma Cervantes, California Sea Grant Law and Policy Fellow, California State Lands Commission
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš, Founder and Executive Director, Azul
Gregg Macey, Associate Director for Environmental Justice, Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources, UCI Law
Yessica Ramirez, Environmental Justice Liaison, California State Lands Commission
Sumi Selvaraj, Environmental Justice Manager, California Coastal Commission
Noaki Schwartz, Deputy Director of Communications, Environmental Justice, and Tribal Affairs, California Coastal Commission
REGISTER HERE | Zoom webinar available for remote participation (link sent with registration confirmation).

Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference - Keynote by E. Tendayi Achiume & Closing Reception
2023-03-10 16:00 - 18:30 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Reimagining Rights in the Americas Conference is ten days of activities arranged around a historic first for UCLA: hosting the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ (IAHCR) Period of Sessions.
Tendayi Achiume is the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law at UCLA School of Law and former faculty director of the Promise Institute. She recently finished her period as UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
A human rights scholar and influential leader at the intersection of human rights and racial justice, Professor Achiume will speak on Climate Justice and Climate Reparations from a Racial Justice Perspective. She will be joined by IACHR Commissioner Margarette May Macaulay for a perspective from the Inter-American Commission.
The closing reception at 5:45pm will take place in the Luskin Courtyard South.
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Lydia Kallipoliti, "The Power of S**t"
2023-03-13 18:30 - 20:00 | CA
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar, and is Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Her research focuses on the intersections of architecture, technology and environmental politics and more particularly on recycling material experiments, theories of waste and reuse, as well as closed and self-reliant systems and urban environments.

Webinar - Methane Webinar Series: Reducing Methane Emissions from the Solid Waste Sector
2023-03-14 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
Registration is free, but required to attend. REGISTER HERE.
Today, the solid waste landfills sector accounts for 20% of global methane emissions, and is the third largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions in the United States. Additionally, it is anticipated that the total generation of municipal solid waste (MSW) will increase by 70% by 2050 as a result of a growing population. This increase in waste generation has the potential to drive a proportionate increase in landfill gas (LFG), which is primarily methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) — the two greatest contributors to global warming.
As two large economies, China and California are now taking actions to reduce methane emissions from the solid waste sector. Since different policies and technologies are adopted in the two jurisdictions, both sides can share lessons-learned and experiences with one another. Join us to hear from issue-experts on these topics, including about the launch of a new California-China Climate Institute report which focuses on lessons-learned from California.
Agenda
5:00 PT Discussion is Opened by Moderator, Ken Alex, Director, Project Climate, Center for Law, Energy, and Environment, UC Berkeley
5:00 PT Opening remarks

Jiang Lin, Nat Simons Presidential Chair in China Energy Policy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

5:05 PT Introduction of Waste Methane Report

Rixin Zhu, Methane Policy Fellow, California-China Climate Institute

5:25 PT Commentary and Reactions on Addressing Waste Methane

Matthew Harrison, Manager of the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Policy Section, California Air Resources Board
Dr. Xiao Liu, Project Director, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

6:00 PT Open Discussion and Audience Q & A
6:20 PT Closing Remarks

Dr. Meian Chen, Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP)

This webinar series is organized by the California-China Climate Institute, in partnership with the Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP). Supported by Climate Imperative and IGSD.
