UCLA Sustainability

Clean Vehicles: Greening the Transportation Sector
2023-06-08 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Clean vehicle standards represent an opportunity for the acceleration of clean energy transition and decarbonization. With new heavy and light duty standards officially announced, many of you may be asking, “what’s next?”. This briefing will provide the public and industry stakeholders with an overview of proposed rules, how the changes could impact the clean energy industry, and how our community can engage in the public comment period to ensure the final rules set us on the strongest possible path towards a net zero transportation sector.
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30x30 Webinar: Increasing Voluntary Conservation Easements
2023-06-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
Partners across the state are working to advance progress toward the 30×30 goal by implementing strategies and actions along the ten pathways identified in the Pathways to 30×30 report.
Join a webinar highlighting successes, challenges, and lessons learned on Pathway 3: Increase Voluntary Conservation Easements. Learn how partners are:
(1) Working together to amplify and accelerate the role of voluntary private land conservation to advance the 30×30 goal
(2) Pursuing multi-benefit outcomes that benefit agriculture, Tribal heritage, equity, and access
(3) Providing new tools and resources to advance shared work.
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Learn more and stay up to date at californianature.ca.gov.

A conversation with Nancy Sutley
2023-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
Join a conversation with Nancy Sutley, the newly-appointed L.A. City Deputy Mayor for Energy and Sustainability.
Come with your questions and comments!
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GRID Talks | People, Planet, and PRIDE
2023-06-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Online
F﻿REE ONLINE WEBINAR
Join the conversation about how LGBTQ+ rights and environmental justice intersect. In this month’s Pride GRID Talks, three LGBTQ+ environmental expert panelists look within the climate crisis and answer the question, why is queer liberation an environmental justice issue?
Climate change compounds the struggles of trans and queer people worldwide. Join to unpack how climate policy, environmental injustices, and geography can lead to LGBTQ+ disparities. But also, how can renewable energy be a part of the solution?
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Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandates Workshop: Research for Effective, Efficient, and Equitable Policy Implementation
2023-06-13 08:00 - 11:00 | Online
California and New York recently adopted the Advanced Clean Cars II rule, requiring all new light-duty vehicle sales to be electric by 2035, and the Advanced Clean Trucks rule, which requires a ramping up of medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle sales to 75 percent by 2035. Achieving and requiring such a rapid transition to an electric transportation sector raises a number of questions, such as:

What will happen to the used gasoline vehicle market, new vehicle sales (both electric and gasoline), and vehicle imports?
How can we ensure that this transition will be equitable?
What is the optimal pathway for charging station investments?
How will this expansion of new ZEV sales affect the electricity sector, and what rules and regulations within the electric sector can help support this transition?

There are multiple avenues to explore and lots of new research that can be done in this space to help the states effectively, efficiently, and equitably achieve their ZEV goals. To that end, we will host a two-half day virtual workshop with leading researchers and policymakers in the ZEV space to examine the state of research on zero-emission transportation, identify new researchable questions, and explore the data still needed to answer these questions. Following the workshop, we will create a written communication summarizing the findings from the workshop and laying out a new research agenda related to the ZEV mandate.
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Climate At Work: Building impactful workplace sustainability communities
2023-06-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Online
Join for an extraordinary event bringing together the visionaries behind two of the most influential workplace climate communities in the world—Anthropocene at Google and Microsoft’s monumental 10,000-member employee sustainability community. They will delve into the art of building and sustaining grassroots movements within companies, and learn how to ignite change from the ground up.
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Plastic Pollution Toxic Tour
2023-06-13 09:00 - 15:00 | USC Kerckhoff Hall, 734 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
Join Hollywood, Health & Society and Plastic Pollution Coalition for a toxic tour exploring the issue of plastic pollution, its toxic impacts, and solutions. Like your elementary school field trips, but better! Featuring a fresh, garden-to-table, plastic-free lunch.
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Lunch & Learn: Learning from GrizzlyCorps
2023-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
GrizzlyCorps is an AmeriCorps program that places fellows in rural communities to support wildfire resilience and regenerative agricultural practices to support climate and community resilience. This Lunch and Learn will share more information about the State of California’s approach to service to support climate action, the design and impact of GrizzlyCorps, and the experience from a GrizzlyCorps fellow.
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Kelp Kulture talk: A Little Further West - A Case for Restorative Ocean Farming in California
2023-06-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Leslie Booher is the co-founder of Sunken Seaweed, a macroalgae farm based in San Diego and Humboldt, California. A born and raised Californian, Leslie has been involved with ocean conservation for most of her life. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 2015 from Cal Poly Humboldt, where she focused on marine ecology. Today she is proudly farming various seaweeds with her husband, Torre, mentoring budding aquaculturists, and enjoying motherhood with her 10 month old baby.
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Climate jobs around the green ecosystem
2023-06-14 09:00 - 11:30 | Online
Join to meet companies working byte by byte and acre by acre to solve the climate crisis. This job fair will feature many marketing & communication focused roles.
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About Terra.do job fairs
We host action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them.

Hear about dozens of open roles, in a single event
Engage directly with CXOs and hiring managers
Free for candidates to attend

After the final hiring manager presents, please stay for networking where you can spend time visiting breakout rooms to chat further with the companies and organizations you have heard from today.

Extreme Heat Plans: Challenges of Implementation
2023-06-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Join to hear from experts on extreme heat about how they are moving forward with their plans, including new challenges requiring innovative and collaborative approaches to building resilience. In various parts of California and the West, extreme heat events have been occurring more frequently and with more intensity. Extreme heat plans, developed to mitigate negative impacts and adapt to this new heat reality, are being implemented for the first time.
Speakers: Marta Segura, M.P.H., Chief Heat Officer & Climate Emergency Mobilization Director; Braden Kay, Extreme Heat Program Manager in the Office of Planning and Research; David Hondula, Ph.D., Director of Heat Response and Mitigation for The City of Phoenix, Arizona; and Kimberly Fuentes, Policy Analyst for Sen. Caroline Menjivar.
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How California Can Improve Water Right Curtailment to Better Manage Water Scarcity
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Droughts are becoming more frequent and intense in California, and many watersheds experience seasonal water scarcity nearly every year. To protect water rights, human health and safety, and the environment from serious harm, California’s State Water Resources Control Board needs to be able to routinely curtail unlawful water uses. However, the agency has struggled to carry out this basic function, running into resource constraints and technical, legal, and political barriers. In our April report, Managing Water Scarcity: A Framework for Fair and Effective Water Right Curtailment in California, CLEE described the legal context for and history of curtailments in California and recommended concrete actions the State Water Board and Legislature can take to build a framework for fair and effective curtailment in California. The Legislature is considering bills that partially address some of our recommendations, but our research suggests more comprehensive action is needed, and soon.
Join two of the report’s authors for a free lunchtime policy briefing and Q&A on this important topic.
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For questions, please contact maia.baltzley@berkeley.edu.

Nothin' But Water June INLAND Cleanup 2023
2023-06-17 09:00 - 11:00 | Lake Balboa/Anthony C. Beilenson Park, 6300 Balboa Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 91406, United States
Join Heal the Bay, in partnership with Friends of the Los Angeles River, for an extra special river cleanup!
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Financing the Energy Transition: A Policy Leadership Series Event with Jigar Shah
2023-06-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
As head of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO), Jigar Shah oversees hundreds of billions in loan authority to finance the ambitious energy deployments needed to accelerate the clean energy transition at scale.
Join Resources for the Future (RFF) on Tuesday, June 20, as RFF President and CEO Richard Newell sits down with Shah to dive deep into the lessons he learned as a clean energy entrepreneur, how that is informing his approach at DOE, and the vision for how public and private finance can work together to underwrite the US energy transition at scale.
To attend this event virtually, please RSVP and follow the instructions in the Zoom confirmation email.

Clean Power and Clean Vehicles
2023-06-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
On May 11th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed urgently needed limits on carbon emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas, targeting the source of about a third of U.S. carbon pollution—or a quarter of total greenhouse gas emissions.
On April 12th, the EPA proposed rules to cut carbon emissions from cars and trucks, which are still the nation’s No. 1 source of greenhouse gas emissions. These standards, like the power plant rules, complement the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act that make it cheaper and easier to cut these dangerous emissions. These rules will also send a strong market signal for growing our clean economy.
Please join E2 to hear from two EPA Deputy Administrators Alejandra Nunez and Tomás Elias Carbonell about these critical rules and the important steps we can take to confront the climate crisis. NRDC Senior Strategic Director, David Doniger, will follow with a behind the scenes look at these rules, how they fit into the Clean Air Act and the importance of advocating for strong final rules.
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Webinar | Plastic-Free Seas: Diving Into How Plastic Impacts Health, Climate, and Our Oceans
2023-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
On June 22, the Plastic Pollution Coalition will dive deep into the challenges that plastic pollution poses to our oceans and our bodies, how polluted waters disrupt the mental health benefits we gain from access to healthy oceans and waterways, and how we may restore our planet as well as our own physical and mental well-being. Joining the conversation will be “Her Deepness,” Sylvia Earle, President & Co-Chair of Mission Blue and National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Wallace J Nichols, Marine Biologist & Author of Blue Mind; and Imari Walker-Franklin, PhD, Research Chemist at RTI International & Author of Plastics. The panel will be moderated by Plastic Pollution Coalition CEO & Co-Founder Dianna Cohen.
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Haagen-Smit Clean Air Talks
2023-06-22 13:30 - 15:30 | HYBRID: CalEPA Headquarters, Byron Sher Auditorium, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA, 95814, United States
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Haagen-Smit Awards recognize individuals for their exceptional and transformative contributions, widespread impacts, and novel accomplishments related to clean air and climate change. This year, CARB is pleased to present the seven individuals below with Haagen-Smit Awards.
Please join the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Talks, where seven 2022 Haagen-Smit award winners will make a short (10-12 minute) presentation on their work. This event is open to the public.
Award Recipients

Peggy Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE-ACT, awarded for Environmental Justice
Prashant Gargava, Member Secretary of the Central Pollution Control Board of India, awarded for International Leadership
Allen Goldstein, Professor at U.C. Berkeley, awarded for Science and Technology
Bill Magavern, Policy Director for the Coalition for Clean Air, awarded for Policy
Jonathan Samet, Dean/Professor at the Colorado School of Public Health awarded for Environmental Health Research
Shankar Prasad, CARB/OEHHA (retired), awarded for Environmental Justice
Daniel Albritton, former Director of NOAA’s Chemical Sciences Division, awarded for Policy. Unfortunately, Dan passed away last month. His long-time collaborator Susan Solomon will be giving a talk about his life’s work.

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Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: Reducing Methane Emissions in the U.S. and China
2023-06-22 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
As two of the largest global economies and energy consumers, China and the U.S. are also the top and third largest methane emitters, respectively. Both nations have significant opportunities to reduce their methane emissions over the next decade, with some methods of reduction having low or no costs associated. In the U.S., it’s estimated that a total reduction potential of 224 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent (Mt CO₂e) can be achieved through abatement measures costing $100/t CO₂e or less by 2030. Meanwhile, in China, the potential for methane reduction is predicted to reach 469 Mt CO₂e in 2030, which is equivalent to a 35% decrease from 2015 levels. Join us to hear from issue-experts, sharing insights from a new report, Reducing Methane Emissions in the U.S. and China.
Registration is free, but required. Register here.

LA'S Social & Environmental Impact Changemakers
2023-06-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Guayakí Yerba Mate HQ, 215 Rose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90291, United States
Join B Local Los Angeles at the Guayakí Yerba Mate HQ as they present a panel discussion featuring a diverse array of perspectives from local environmental and social justice changemakers.
Moderated by B Corporation impact advocates Jessica Rosen, of Guayakí, and Genevieve Lawrence, of MaCher, you won’t want to miss out on this opportunity to learn first hand from experts driving regenerative impacts across businesses, NGOs and communities. Hang out after the panel to mix and mingle with Los Angeles based sustainability experts and sip and snack on some of Guayaki’s cocktails, natural wine poured by Vin on Rose, and food provided by The Butcher’s Daughter.
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Habitat Restoration Day
2023-06-24 08:00 - 11:00 | Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Preserve, 6100 Woodley Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 91604, United States
Join Friends of the LA River, California Native Plant Society, and San Fernando Valley Audubon for a morning of invasive plant removal and bird walks in the Sepulveda Basin!
With the help of the California Native Plant Society, volunteers will remove invasive mustard and learn about its impact on the ecosystem and why its removal is vital to restoring California’s native habitat. Afterward, join San Fernando Valley Audubon Society as they lead nature-filled walks around the Nature Reserve, binoculars provided!
PLEASE BRING:

Refillable water bottle and snacks
Sunscreen
Sturdy, closed-toe shoes
Long pants (recommended)
Long sleeve shirt (recommended)

Gloves and weeding tools will be provided, but feel free to bring your own.
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Debrief of the Ruling in Arizona v. Navajo Nation
2023-06-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
Please join this discussion of the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling in Arizona v. Navajo Nation.
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Panelists will give insight on the arguments, historical precedent, and the long-term impact of this case on tribes and natural resources. Featured in the discussion will be:
Paul Spruhan — Assistant Attorney General, Litigation Unit, Navajo Nation Department of Justice;
Heather Tanana — Assistant Professor of Law & Wallace Stegner Center Fellow, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law;
Matthew L.M. Fletcher — Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law, Michigan Law;
Heather Whiteman Runs Him — Director of the Tribal Justice Clinic & Associate Clinical Professor, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law.
The discussion will be moderated by Mica Llerandi, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Director of the Tribal Legal Development Clinic.

Explore Your Climate Action Sweet Spot
2023-06-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Online
Led by an experienced facilitator, this 2-hour interactive workshop will guide you through a series of exercises to explore your personal hero, identify your climate action sweet spot, and overcome barriers to taking meaningful climate action.
Here’s what you can expect from the workshop:

Reflect on key areas that bring you a sense of purpose on your climate journey
Explore barriers that could be holding you back from fulfilling your goals
Connect with your group to build strategies to overcome hurdles

Through a mix of personal reflection, small community group discussions, and plenary sessions, you’ll explore insights into how you can make a meaningful contribution to the movement. Whether you’re new to the movement or a seasoned climate advocate, this workshop is designed to help you explore your unique role and move the needle on your climate journey!
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Resilience and Futureproofing Considerations for EV Charging Infrastructure
2023-06-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (Joint Office) will host a webinar on resilience and futureproofing considerations for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.
This webinar will cover topics such as maintaining performance, reliability, and accessibility of EV charging stations during power outages and extreme weather events, maximizing the usefulness of charging stations near evacuation routes during emergencies, protecting charging infrastructure from extreme weather, and creating space for future expansion and power upgrades.
Speakers will discuss considerations for building resilience into site analysis and deployment, including optimal siting along key evacuation corridors, key steps for coordinating and installing EV charging for resilience, incorporating on-site power generation and energy storage capacity, and integrating mobile energy storage systems.

Participants will leave the webinar with an understanding of how to incorporate solutions that build resilience and account for futureproofing in site planning and design.
Bridget Gilmore from the Joint Office will moderate the webinar and take audience questions. You can ask questions in the “Questions & Comments” field on the Zoom registration form.
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LACI Open House for Colleges and Universities
2023-06-27 11:00 - 12:30 | La Kretz Innovation Campus, 525 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) invites faculty and staff from local and regional colleges and universities to attend an open house.
This event is designed to share information about LACI’s programming with the local higher education community. LACI is creating an inclusive green economy for the people of Los Angeles by unlocking innovation by working with startups to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies, transforming markets through partnerships with policymakers, innovators, and market leaders in transportation, energy, and sustainable cities, and enhancing communities through workforce development, technology pilots, and other programs.
Since LACI opened its doors in 2011, the incubator has supported over 375 start-ups, helped our companies raise over $1B in funding, created 2600+ jobs, and helped generate $733M+ in economic activity for the city.
The program will feature brief presentations from LACI executives, program leads, entrepreneurs, and program participants. There will also be time set aside for networking with representatives from the LACI community and tour of the La Kretz Innovation Campus.
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Decarbonizing the Future: Direct Air Capture and other Carbon Management Technologies
2023-06-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Along with deep decarbonization across all sectors of the economy, carbon removal is essential to getting to net-zero emissions by mid-century. This will require both natural and technological means of removal, such as enhanced carbon uptake from forests, adjusted agricultural practices, and large-scale deployment of DAC with sequestration. This event will serve to give a high-level overview of those topics in an effort to increase awareness of and support for direct air capture and other carbon management technologies.
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LGBTQ2S+ Natural Resources Leaders Unite to Discuss the Importance of Community
2023-06-28 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join for an inspiring Secretary Speaker Series to celebrate Pride Month and shine a spotlight on LGBTQ2s+ Natural Resource Leaders. This discussion will delve into “The Importance of Community” and explore finding and building it. An esteemed panel of LGBTQ2s+ leaders will share their personal journeys, experiences, and insights, highlighting the crucial role that community plays in fostering inclusivity, empowerment, and collaboration. From inherited families to chosen families to gender-affirming care and other networks of care, a supportive environment is crucial to well-being. The panel will also look at allyship and what it means to be a good ally in the workplace. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to be part of the conversation, connect with industry experts, and celebrate Pride Month with us.
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Opportunities for Enhanced Near-term U.S.-China Climate Action: Decarbonizing the Power Sector
2023-06-28 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
The United States and China both face similar challenges in decarbonizing their power sector, despite differing political and economic systems. Meanwhile, both nations have made commitments for transforming their power sectors, with the U.S. targeting zero carbon power by 2035 and China aiming to achieve 39% non-fossil based power by 2025. Join us to hear from issue-experts on opportunities for enhanced near-term action in the power sector for the U.S. and China, including on a recent report, Decarbonizing the Power Sector in the U.S. and China.
Registration is free, but required. Register here.

Assessing the Mobility Needs of Rural and Underserved Communities in California
2023-06-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Households in small and rural communities are often automobile dependent, and those with low incomes or who do not own a car have limited transportation options for accessing basic services that improve lives and livelihoods, including jobs, health care, healthy food, and more. In this webinar, researchers from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation will highlight research pertaining to meeting the mobility needs of small, rural, and marginalized communities in California.
Caroline Rodier, Professional Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis (ITS-Davis), will share updates from a three-year experiment in electric vehicle carsharing servicing marginalized rural communities in California’s Central Valley. Jesus Barajas, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis, will share findings from a recently concluded study that assessed transportation barriers and adaptations in carless households.
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Solutions in Our Soil - From Science to Practice
2023-06-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
The Solutions in our Soil webinar series has explored what soil health means and why it’s so important, how it’s connected to water, and where we can promote soil health throughout the food supply chain. This fourth and final webinar will focus on soil health practices on the ground and how soils are integral to climate-resilient agriculture.
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P﻿anelists:
Katie Chiapuzio: Director of Environmental Science and Resources, Braga Fresh
Katie Chiapuzio is the Director of Environmental Science and Resources for Braga Fresh. She holds a degree in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy from Cal State Monterey Bay. Before beginning her career at Braga, she worked in habitat restoration and apiculture. She’s been with Braga for almost 4 years and manages all ESG data analysis and compliance as well as on-farm research, apiary maintenance and all sustainability projects and grant pursual.
Justin Wylie: Fifth-generation Farmer and Partner, Wylie Farms
Justin Wylie is a fifth-generation farmer and partner at Wylie Farms, a family business specializing in regenerative farm management of pistachios, almonds, and citrus. Growing up in Merced, Justin developed a deep appreciation for farming, inspired by his father Craig Wylie and uncle Chris Wylie, who have been devoted to pistachio farming since the 1970s under the mentorship of the renowned pistachio legend, Bob Peterson. When he’s not at home with his wife and four children on their organic Golden Nugget ranch, Justin dedicates his time to farming his own organic pistachio orchards in Madera, California. Alongside his farming responsibilities, Justin serves on the American Pistachio Growers sustainability committee, leveraging his expertise and efforts to promote regenerative practices in the industry.
Moderated by: Elliot Grant, Central Coast Project Manager, Sustainable Conservation
Elliot recently graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a double major in Economics and Environmental Studies, concentrating in Agroecology. At U.C. Santa Cruz he worked for the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) as a student assistant at the Chadwick Garden. Before that, he was a farm hand for Route One Farms, a 40-acre organic vegetable farm in Santa Cruz County. Elliot was raised in Marin County and currently resides in Santa Cruz where he enjoys surfing, fishing, and growing flowers.

A Cleantech Pride Celebration & Networking Event with LACI and StartOut LA
2023-06-29 17:00 - 19:00 | La Kretz Innovation Campus, 525 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
This event aims to create a space where diverse voices unite, ideas flourish, and empowerment abounds. This is a unique opportunity to connect with trailblazers who are shaping the future of cleantech while proudly celebrating the colorful tapestry of LGBTQ+ identities.
C﻿apacity is limited to 100 attendees.
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Light refreshments will be served. Parking validation will be provided to all guests for the La Kretz Innovation Campus (LKIC) parking lot located at 525 S Hewitt Street, Downtown LA.
Join after the celebration at The Resident for continued mixing and mingling! The Resident is an outdoor bar and music venue located a 1/4 mile walk from campus. You are welcome to stay parked in the LKIC lot to attend this continued networking opportunity.
