4 Day Certificate in Regenerative Agriculture
2014-09-15 08:00 - 2014-09-18 17:00 UTC | TreePeople
Note, there is a discounted rate for UCLA Students
For more detailed information, please view our course pack here.

Graeme Sait is one of the world’s foremost experts in Regenerative Agriculture. His work ranges from small urban community agricultural projects to large corporate farms like Dole. He trains health professionals and educators, around the world, teaching them how the microcosm of our soil is interconnected with human and planetary health. Graeme impeccably demonstrates that regenerative agriculture is a solution to the climate crises. He empowers people with tools to revitalize our farm lands, our bodies, and restore balance to our delicate global ecosystem. Come get trained in the next essential movement for mankind. See his TED talk.
Copresenter and leading biological agronomist, Steve Capeness, teaches cutting-edge strategies to improve the health of your farm, your garden, your planet and yourself. You will leave this course having learned a deep comprehension of connection between soil health, planetary health, human health, including a report card on your personal health.

Nutri-Tech Solutions (NTS) are undisputed leaders in high–production agriculture servicing a client base of over 15,000 growers and exporting products to over 40 locations worldwide. The in-depth training programs are rapidly becoming prerequisites for growers wishing to increase productivity and profitability and consultants who wish to increase their skills.

Ten Reasons to Attend

This a rare opportunity to hear two acclaimed, inspirational speakers.

This course may help you discover or reclaim a passion for food production – the single most important profession.

￼You will be provided with the tools to understand mineral relationships and their links to soil, plant and human health.

￼To increase your crop and soil monitoring skills and improve yield and quality.

To understand the secrets of harnessing soil biology as your hidden workforce.

￼You will be better equipped to handle the impact of peak oil, climate change and economic issues.

￼You will be given invaluable information to improve your own health and that of your family.

￼To gain an in-depth understanding of the relationship between nutrition and pest pressure.

￼This course will help you understand that Nutrition Farming® is the shape of the future.

￼To learn cutting-edge strategies to improve the health of your farm, your garden, your planet and yourself.

Extra Information
For more detailed information, please view our course pack here.

The course runs from 9am to 5:00pm for four days. Please arrive 30 mins early (8:30am) on the first day for registration.

Bookings are essential. Note: A $100 USD surcharge will apply for cancellations in the week of the seminar to help compensate for prearranged catering charges.

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GLO SHO: Global Cleantech Showcase
2014-10-06 - 2014-10-07
This summit will attract a global audience of entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, industry executives, utility executives, and policy makers. Last year’s inaugural event attracted over 400 participants, and had 70 speakers from more than 20 nations. Participants in the 2013 Global Showcase saw entrepreneurs presenting their innovative businesses, expert panels debating current topics in their respective fields, and policy leaders describing their vision for the future. GloSho’14 is the signature event of LACI’s Global Innovation Network (GIN), which is a new transnational initiative, designed to foster global innovation and commercialization in the cleantech sector. The primary focus of this year’s event is linking up investors with entrepreneurs. Please see the attached flyer for more details.
GloSho’14 Program
http://glosho.la/program/
Video highlights from 2013 Global Showcase (featuring Mayor Eric Garcetti, Chief Sustainability Officer Matt Petersen, CARB Chair Mary Nichols, ARPA-E Director Cheryl Martin)
http://vimeo.com/93167305
Speakers/panelists/presenters:
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols
Governor Jennifer Granholm
NYSERDA Chair Richard Kaufman
Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer, Los Angeles Dept of Water and Power (LADWP)
Stephen Cheung, Director of International Development, Port of LA
Assemblyman Anthony Rendon
LA City Councilman Paul Koretz
Jeff Kightlinger, General Manager of Metropolitan Water District
Matt Rogers, Director, McKinsey & Co.
David Nahai, Partner in the law firm of Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith
Tom Soto, Managing Director, TCW/Craton
Mark Duval, President of American Chamber of Commerce – China
Bob Weisenmiller, Chair, California Energy Commission
Jim McDermott, Managing Director of U.S. Renewables Group
Mark Gold, Acting Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES)
Program includes:
Investment Bootcamp
Dinner with Your Favorite VC
Global Showcase
Investor Showcase
Funding Platform Panel
International Trade Symposium
International Partners Dinner
Global Company Showcase
International Market Showcase
Global Innovation Network Panel
Fireside Chat with Two Clean Economy Titans: How state policies drive technological innovation
A Tale of Two Green Cities
Extracting Value from Universities and National Labs
Participating investors:
Andrew Haughian
Partner
PangaeaVentures Ltd.
Anil Tammineedi
Principal
Angeleno Group
Bryon H. Lyons
Partner and CEO
SDDCO Brokerage Advisors LLC
Daniel Colbert
Managing Partner
North Energy Ventures
David DeWitt
Manager
Advanced Technology Research Honda R&D
Donald Ye
Founding Managing Partner
Tsing Capital
Erik Steeb
VP Programs LACI
Fran Seegull
Chief Investment Officer
ImpactAssets
James Zhang
Co-Founder and General Partner
Formation 8
James Magowan
Managing Director & Impact Investments Team
SRA Capital
Jim McDermott
Managing Director and Managing Partner
US Renewables Group
Joshua Haacker
Managing Director
US Renewables Group
Julien Creuze
Principal
Aster Capital
Larry Thrall
Managing Director
Vireo Energy
Matt Vitamente
Executive Vice President
California Global Innovation Exchange
Murray McCaig
Managing Partner
ArcternVentures
Rob Leclerc, Ph.D
CEO
Agfunder
Steve Foster
Managing Director
ClearSky Power & Tech Fund
Steve Hahn
Research Fellow, Ventures and Business Development
The DowChemical Company
Tom Soto
Managing Director
TCW/Craton
Vincent R Molinari
Founder/Chief Executive Officer
GATE Global Impact, Inc

Environmental Graduate Student Networking Event
2014-10-07 17:00 - 19:30
​Environmental Graduate Student Networking Event
Presented by UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation, School of Law, and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

School of Public Affairs Building
Luskin Center 3rd Floor Student Lounge & Patio

All graduate students interested in environmental sustainability and energy are invited to a free, cross-campus networking reception.
Learn more about campus environmental organizations, student research opportunities, internships, and other events, while you also meet your peers over hors d’oeuvres and refreshments.
RSVP Here
For more information please contact czarate@luskin.ucla.edu

The Great California Drought This Time, and Next
2014-10-10 13:30 - 15:00 | Law School, Room 1447
The Great California Drought This Time, and Next
Featuring Felicia Marcus Chair of the State Water Board
Friday, October 10th, 2014
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

UCLA Law School
Room 1447
385 Charles E. Young Drive East
Los Angeles, CA 90095

RSVP Here
How has the State Water Resources Control Board Managed Water during this Drought?
What has the Board learned about how to respond to the next Drought?

Featuring

Felicia Marcus, Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
Felicia Marcus was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the State Water Resources Control Board (Board) for the State of California in 2012, and designated by the Governor as Chair in April of 2013.The Board implements both federal and state laws regarding drinking water and water quality, and it implements the state’s water rights laws. Before her appointment to the Water Board, Marcus served in positions in government, the non-profit world, and the private sector.In government, Felicia served as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. EPA Region IX in the Clinton Administration. While at USEPA, Felicia worked extensively on the range of environmental issues under EPA’s jurisdiction, most heavily in air quality, Bay-Delta water, tribal, and US-Mexico border issues. Prior to that, Felicia headed Los Angeles’ Department of Public Works at a time when the City went from garnering lawsuits to garnering national awards for environmental excellence. Felicia came to Public Works after extensive experience as a public interest lawyer and community organizer in Los Angeles, including being a co-founder and general counsel for Heal the Bay.In the non-profit world, she was the Western Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national environmental leader in bringing science, law, and policy expertise to solving our world’s pressing environmental and conservation challenges. Prior to joining NRDC, Felicia was the Executive VP/COO of the Trust for Public Land (TPL), a national non-profit devoted to conserving land for people.She is also currently an Obama Administration appointee to the Commission on Environmental Cooperation-Joint Public Advisory Council (US, Mexico, Canada) and was a Schwarzenegger Administration appointee to the Delta Stewardship Council prior to being appointed to the Water Board.

Max Gomberg, Water Conservation Policy Advisor, State Water Resources Control Board
Max Gomberg is the climate change advisor to the State Water Resources Control Board, where he has helped to develop emergency water conservation regulations among other initiatives. He is also a member of the Water-Energy Team of the state’s Climate Action Team (“WETCAT”), and was the lead author for the water section of the AB32 Scoping Plan update. Previously, he worked for the Office of Ratepayer Advocates at the California Public Utilities Commission where he worked on a range of water and energy rate-setting and rulemaking proceedings. He has worked as an investigator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and has served in the Peace Corps as an environmental studies teacher in Nicaragua. In addition, he serves as Chair of the Community Environmental Advisory Commission for the City of Berkeley. Mr. Gomberg holds a Masters degree in Public Policy from UCLA and a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Chicago.
ABOUT THE LECTURE: Since last January, the State Water Board has been working the Governor’s Office and an interagency Drought Task Force to make crucial decisions about how and when to allocate and conserve water resources, including:
Deciding how much surface water is available to State Water Board Contractors and Central Valley Project Contractors through order.
Ordering all diversions by rightsholders established later than 1914, halted.
Overseeing the timing and volume of water released from all of the dams controlled by the SWP andCVP for users all over the state
Protecting the in-stream ecosystems and fish and wildlife
Requiring mandatory conservation for all urban water agencies, and
Requiring increased accountability for the urban water use.
Providing emergency drinking water to communities and schools who depend on water wells that are dry or polluted.
Supporting the development of comprehensive groundwater management legislation
Chair Marcus and Water Conservation Policy Advisor Gomberg will talk about and reflect on what has been accomplished to date, where the State Board was challenged in implementing regulations and what lessons learned will mean for their decisions in the next year of this drought, or the drought next time.
Complimentary Refreshments Following the Lecture
Cosponsored by: UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Environmental Law Society, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, and UCLA Water Technology Research Center
One of a series of lectures and discussions organized by the UCLA Water Resources Working Group to bring together experts on water policy, science, law and technology, to work on interdisciplinary solutions to water sustainability. For more information about the UCLA Water Resources Group visit www.environment.ucla.edu/water.

2014-10-15 14:30 - 18:30 | Bruin Plaza
E3’s FARMERS MARKET AT UCLA
WHEN: Wednesday October 15, 2:30-6:30pm
WHERE: Bruin Plaza
E3, USAC SWC and ASUCLA are proud to present Fall Quarter’s FIRST of FOUR Farmers Market at UCLA! Stop by the market in Bruin Plaza on Wednesday, October 15th (Week 2) to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible!
Expect to see some delicious seasonal produce, nut products and dried fruits, as well as some student performers!
E3 will also be serving free Fair Trade coffee, selling reusable bags for $2, and collecting e-waste for recycling.
More info may be found at: https://www.facebook.com/events/425456574275538/?notif_t=plan_user_joined
Don’t forget to bring cash!

Want to help out?? Email us at uclafarmersmarket@gmail.com
Follow us on Instagram @uclafarmersmarket and tag your photos #uclafarmersmarket
Also, feel free to make the attached event flyer your Facebook cover photo! Thanks

Sustainable Success Stories
2014-10-15 19:00 - 21:30 | UCLA CNSI Auditorium, 570 Westwood Plaza, , Los Angeles, CA 90095
Sustainable Success Stories
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
The SBC & UCLA invite you to an evening of sustainable business development and insightful discussion dedicated to inspiring sustainable business practices! The event features:

Networking Reception with Sustainable Business Leaders.
Visionary panel discussion sharing great stories about how companies, products and or services use energy sustainably and reduce waste.
UCLA’s new California NanoSystems Institute, (CNSI) where event takes place.

Panel TBA Shortly:

Moderator:
Peter Arpin
Executive Vice President
Arpin Group, Inc.

About Arpin Group, Inc.’s Green Initiatives
IMPORTANT: Please be sure to RSVP by clicking HERE.
Moderator

Peter Arpin, Executive Vice President, Arpin Group, Inc.

IMPORTANT: Please be sure to RSVP by clicking HERE.

WHEN
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
LOCATION
UCLA’s CNSI located at:
570 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
PARKING
For Extensive Parking Details Please Click HERE!
COST
$25 event price (UCLA students attend free)

SBC Board Members

Steve Glenn-(Chair,) Laura Berland-Shane, Rob Kramer,
Lee Wallach, Becki Ueno, Carrie Norton
SBC Steering Committee:
Alisha Auringer, Nicole Hansen,
Vivian P. Panou, Elana Pianko,
Jaime Nack, Nicole Landers,
Evan Birenbaum, Juli Schulz
Event Advisory Committee:
Christina Seskey

FOOD WEEK: Annual Sustainability Fair Food Themed
2014-10-22 11:00 - 14:00 | Bruin Plaza
This year Food Day and Campus Sustainability Day are in the same week, so our Annual Sustainability Fair will be Food themed! Join us in Bruin Plaza to learn how you can get involved in sustainability at UCLA. Student groups, departments and local organizations will be tabling with fun activities.

FOOD WEEK: WHEN ORGANIC MAY NOT BE ENOUGH: Are farm to table, foraging and eating local really sustainable or merely elitist?
2014-10-22 18:00 - 20:30
An Oppenheim Lectures Series moderated by Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize Winning Restaurant Critic for the Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Lenard Auditorium
Fowler Museum at UCLA

RSVP by Wednesday, October 15, 2014
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED
Moderator:

Jonathan Gold is the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2007 and was a finalist again in 2011. A Los Angeles native, he began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986, wrote about death metal and gangsta rap for Rolling Stone and Spin among other places, and is delighted that he has managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos.
Panelists:

Evan Kleiman, Host of Good Food on KCRW
Evan Kleiman is Host of Good Food on KCRW. She’s a culinary multitasker whose work no matter what form it takes (interviewing, teaching, writing, cooking) has food as the focus in a quest to create and reveal connections we make with one another.

Michael Cimarusti, Executive Chef/Owner, Providence
At his acclaimed Los Angeles restaurant Providence, Executive Chef Michael Cimarusti has created contemporary seafood-centric cuisine for almost a decade, yielding several James Beard Award nominations and two highly coveted Michelin stars. He combines his knowledge and appreciation of the dynamic nature of seafood with an advocacy for sustainable fishing practices evident in every dish.
The New Jersey native was first lured to L.A. by Wolfgang Puck to become chef de cuisine at the original Spago, followed by stints at New York City’s Osteria del Circo; the Michelin three-starred Arpège; and Le Cirque, where he cooked with legends such as Paul Bocuse, Roger Vergé, and Gérard Boyer. He then spent six years at Water Grill, earning a national reputation for his fish mastery.
Michael’s culinary career was cultivated early on by fishing with his grandfather and cooking with his grandmother. After graduating with honors from the Culinary Institute of America, he cooked at An American Place with his mentor Chef Larry Forgione, a restaurant that is recognized as leading the farm-to-table movement now omnipresent in American cuisine. While working in Forgione’s kitchen, he also met his future wife and business partner, pastry chef Cristina Echiverri.
Today, he and Echiverri operate Providence and Connie & Ted’s. Outside of his restaurants, Michael actively supports the Special Olympics and always finds time to go fishing with his two children.

Craig McNamara, President/Owner, Sierra Orchards & President, California State Board of Food and Agriculture
Craig McNamara is the president and owner of Sierra Orchards, a diversified farming operation producing primarily organic walnuts.
By connecting people, policy and agricultural best practices, Craig works to protect the land that feeds us, to promote social justice and support the next generation of farmers.
In that capacity, he serves as the founder of the Center for Land-Based Learning, an innovative program that helps high school students build greater social and human capital in their communities.
He is President of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture, on the UC President’s Advisory Commission and the UC Davis Dean’s Advisory Council. He is an advisory board member of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute, and active in the American Farmland Trust, Roots of Change, and the Public Policy Institute of California.
He is the recipient of several awards including California Agriculturalist of the Year 2014, James Irving Leadership Award, Leopold Conservation Award, the California Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, the UC Davis Award of Distinction and Outstanding Alumnus Award.
He is passionate about sharing his knowledge in sustainable agriculture and leadership with the world around him. Together with his wife and three children he lives in Winters California.
Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
Co-Hosted by: UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative, Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy at UCLA, and Food Law Society at UCLA

Tackling Climate Change Nationally and Globally
2014-10-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
7:30 PM

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is a danger to the planet, little progress has been made to reduce CO2 emissions. Climatologists Brenda Ekwurzel and Michael Mann join us to examine the issue. Ekwurzel works with the Union of Concerned Scientists leading education aimed at increasing support for strong climate legislation. Mann shared the Nobel Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and is the author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Lines and Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming.
Hammer Forum
This ongoing series of timely, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues.
Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters, journalist, author, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and host of the radio programs Background Briefing, Sundays at 11AM, and The Daily Briefing, Monday through Thursday at 5PM, on KPFK 90.7 FM.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets for assigned seating in the Billy Wilder Theater are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first come, first served basis.
As a benefit for their support, members enjoy priority ticketing and seat selection, subject to availability.
Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.
Hammer Forum is made possible in part by Bronya and Andrew Galef.
All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund atUCLA.
Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members.
For more information visit: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/10/tackling-climate-change-nationally-and-globally/

FOOD WEEK: UCLA-Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Conference: Transparency in the Global Food System: What Information and to What Ends?
2014-10-24 08:00 - 15:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
UCLA School of Law Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy & Harvard Law School Food Law Lab presents the first inaugural UCLA-Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Conference:
Transparency in the Global Food System: What Information and to What Ends?
Friday, October 24, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | UCLA Faculty Center
Food Chains private screening, 3:30 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | UCLA School of Law
Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. Program begins promptly at 9:00 a.m.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
This activity qualifies for 4.75 hours of general MCLE credit.
Every day brings increasing news articles, intensified citizen concern, and political focus to the problems of our food system, accompanied by a building consensus to address the known challenges. However, both the factors shaping and the implications of our current food system are often opaque and difficult to analyze, due to both the complexity and lack of transparency in our system. Most Americans are not aware of the consequences of the supply chains that they participate in, and in some cases health information about food products is also obfuscated or unclear. Yet there is debate among policy makers and food producers about the amount and type of information that consumers should be entitled to. This conference will examine the issue of transparency in the food system, with the guiding questions of what do we mean when we say transparency, the role of the consumer in using information, and what more information can achieve and not achieve.
Registration will include entrance into conference, light breakfast, and lunch. See website for more details, program schedule and registration

FOOD WEEK: For student groups: Healthy Campus Initiative Funding Application Workshop
2014-10-24 11:30 - 12:45 | Powell Library Building, CLICC, Classroom B, 10740 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Healthy Campus Initiative
Funding Application Workshop
Does your student group have a great idea to promote
health on campus? Are you looking for funding?
Learn how to apply for grants up to $2,500 to make
your idea happen.
WHEN: October 24, 2014, 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
WHERE: Powell Library Building, CLICC, Classroom B
(take any elevator to the third floor in the Powell
Library)
Box lunches will be served. Space is limited. Reserve
today! RSVP to https://ucla-live-well.eventbrite.com.

FOOD WEEK: Film Screening: Food Chains -- Is Your Food Fair?
2014-10-24 15:30 - 18:00 | UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E. Young Drive East , Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
UCLA School of Law will be screening Food Chains — Is Your Food Fair?
Following the screening, there will be a discussion with a distinguished panel of experts, including the film’s director.

FOOD WEEK: Local dinner at Bruin Plate
2014-10-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Bruin Plate Dining Hall
UCLA’s award winning healthy sustainable dining hall, Bruin Plate, will feature a meal with local ingredients. $14.50 for residents, $15.25 for others.

Farmers Market at UCLA
2014-10-29 14:30 - 18:30 | Bruin Plaza
E3, USAC SWC and ASUCLA are proud to present the Farmers Market at UCLA! Stop by Bruin Plaza on Wednesday, October 29th (Week 4) to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible!
Expect to see some delicious seasonal produce, nut products and dried fruits, as well as some student performers!
E3 will also be collecting e-waste for recycling.
More info may be found at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1531266893753916/?fref=ts
Don’t forget to bring cash!
Want to help out?? Email us at uclafarmersmarket@gmail.com
Follow us on Instagram @uclafarmersmarket and tag your photos #uclafarmersmarket
Also, feel free to make the attached event flyer your Facebook cover photo! Thanks!

3rd Annual Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference
2014-11-11 08:00 - 2014-11-12 17:00 | UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Please join us at the 3rd Annual Seedstock Sustainable Agriculture Innovation Conference: Reintegrating Ag: Local Food Systems and the Future of Cities (http://conference2014.seedstock.com) in which I will be participating. The conference will explore the economic impact as well as the community and environmental benefits that can result from the development of a robust local food system.
Slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, November 11 – 12, 2014 at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, the first day of the conference will offer an Urban Agriculture Field Trip on which attendees will get a sneak peak at Los Angeles’ first multi-faceted food production business incubator for local entrepreneurs along with a tour of a blossoming 1.5-acre high school campus urban farming operation in Pasadena and a visit to a hydroponic shipping container farm in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
The second day of the conference will feature panels and keynotes that will explore, among other topics, the following:
* Reintegrating Agriculture into the City
* The local food production and commercial potential of controlled environment agriculture in cities;
* How city and county policy can encourage investment in and support of local and urban agriculture;
* Business models and technological solutions from irrigation technology to supply chain innovations necessary to augment the growth of local food systems
I would love to see you there. Below are some more details on the conference as well as a link to register along with a promo code that will provide you with a ‘friend’s discount’ of 20% off the ticket price.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Nurit Katz – Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA
A.G. Kawamura – Former Secretary of California Dept. of Food and Agriculture
Mud Baron – Muir Ranch
Sasha Kanno – Long Beach Local and Farm Lot 59
Nicola Kerslake – New Bean Capital
Rob Trice – Better Food Ventures and The Mixing Bowl
Erik Cutter – Alegría Fresh
Clare Fox – Los Angeles Food Policy Council
Daniel Allen – Farmscape
Erika Block – Local Orbit
Nicola Kerslake – New Bean Capital
Dwight Detter – Whole Foods Market
Mark Glassock – Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust
Michel Algazi – Freshology and Food Centricity
Kimberly Kessler – Resnick Program for Food Law & Policy
Erik Oberholtzer – Tender Greens
John Mesko – Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
David Rosenstein – EVO Farm
Rickey Smith – Urban Green
Colin Archipley – Archi’s Acres and VSAT
REGISTRATION & TICKETS: A limited number of discount tickets for those of you in my network are available at 20% off the list price. So register quickly to reserve your spot by going to http://seedstockconference.eventbrite.com and entering the promotional code SEEDSTOCKFRIEND to receive your discount!
Conference Website:
http://conference2014.seedstock.com
http://conference2014.seedstock.com/program
Conference Ticket Purchase Page:
http://seedstockconference.eventbrite.com

FACTS Los Angeles: Climate Ready Cities - Taking actions to mitigate climate change and adapt in urban areas
2014-11-14 10:00 - 14:30 | UCLA – Carnesale Commons – Palisades Room
Register Here
FACTS (French Ameri-Can Climate TalkS)
Building up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be hosted by France in December 2015 (COP 21-Paris Climate 2015), the Embassies of France in both Canada and the United States are organizing FACTS (French Ameri-Can Climate TalkS), a public conference series across seven cities in the US and in Canada involving renowned scientists, civil society representatives, NGOs, political figures, journalists and entrepreneurs.
Key speakers from both the US and France will be discussing the role of urban centers in regard to climate change policies: from the changing risks they have to face to the new opportunities they can benefit from.
Climate Ready Cities
Taking actions to mitigate climate change and adapt in urban areas
In partnership with the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative (LARC) for Climate Action and Sustainability, the Embassy of France in the United States and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles will organize a conference to discuss the challenges climate change represents for cities around the world.
With more than half of humanity living in cities, urban centers are key actors for climate change. Climate change represents a major threat for many cities that will have to face a range of impacts from the consequences of the changing climate (sea level rise, increased frequency of extreme weather events, heat waves, etc.). However, the threats brought by climate change can also represent an opportunity and many cities are already taking action to become climate resilient by both decreasing their emissions and by preparing to mitigate the future impacts of climate change.

More information at: http://facts.france-science.org/program/#losangeles
Sponsored by:

Watermark: Film co-presented by Hammer and UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability
2015-01-22 19:30 - 21:30
Co-presented with the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

In this documentary, Edward Burtynsky and Jennifer Baichwal journey around the globe—from the man-made All-American Canal on the Colorado River to the sacred waters of the Allahabad in India to the immense Xiluodu Dam in China—exploring the massive impact that human intervention has had on the world’s water supply. A discussion with the filmmakers and Mark Gold, acting director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability follows the screening. (2013, Dirs. J. Baichwal & E. Burtynsky, 92 min).

THE NEXT WAVE: QUALITY, QUANTITY, AND ACCESSIBILITY OF WATER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Throughout 2015, the Hammer and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explore the most pressing issues surrounding the current and future state of water. Topics explored in this monthly series include California’s water supply, rising sea levels, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), ocean acidification, plastic pollution, international water supplies, and water rights.

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets for assigned seating in the Billy Wilder Theater are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first come, first served basis.

As a benefit for their support, members enjoy priority ticketing and seat selection, subject to availability.

Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA.

Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members.

A Gut Reaction to Obesity: The Impact of Diet, the Microbiome, and the Environment
2015-01-24 08:30 - 13:00 | UCLA Sunset Village Covel Commons, 200 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
More than one third of adults in the United States are considered obese, creating one of the most pressing medical, public health, financial, and societal crises of our time. Please join us for the 2015 UCLA Healthcare Symposium, an annual event organized by students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, to explore the obesity epidemic, its wide-reaching consequences, and possible solutions for the future. The symposium will feature lectures by Michael Moss, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning book Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and NY Times reporter, Dr. Sarkis Mazmanian, Dr. Emeran Mayer, and Dr. Paul Simon with Dr. Wendy Slusser as emcee and panel moderator.
What: 19th Annual UCLA Healthcare Symposium: “A Gut Reaction to Obesity: The Impact of Diet, the Microbiome, and the Environment”
When: Saturday, January 24, 2015, Check-in starts at 8:30am
Where: UCLA Covel Commons, 200 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Breakfast and Lunch will be served.
Please register here: www.hcs2015.eventbrite.com/

The Graduate/Undergraduate Environmental Mixer!
2015-01-27 17:00 - 19:00 | LATC Clubhouse (LA Tennis Center Clubhouse) – on campus, west of Pauley Pavilion
During this event, current UCLA graduate students from a variety of fields will share their academic, career, and personal experiences related to environment and sustainability during our panel. Following the panel, graduates and undergraduates can enjoy a mixer with fun networking activities and prizes! Food will be provided! We are also proud to announce this event has received the Green Event Seal from UCLA Events!
Date: Tuesday, January 27
Time: 5 – 7 PM
Location: LATC Clubhouse (LA Tennis Center Clubhouse) – on campus, west of Pauley Pavilion
Who: Any graduate and undergraduate students are welcome! No RSVP required!

Questions? Email the Graduate Student Association, Sustainability Resource Center at src@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu

ESN Speaker Session: LAX Environmental Planner
2015-02-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Student Activities Center Room 3
Come join us for a speaker session with an environmental planner from Los Angeles World Airport (LAX)!
Mariana Valdivia, who obtained her Masters in Urban Planning at UCLA, is a City Planner who is working on exciting new renovations to LAX, the 6th busiest airport in the US. She focuses on improving bike routes, advocating for sustainable development, and engaging the surrounding the community just to name a few.
Date: February 10, 2015
Time: 5-6pm
Location: Student Activities Center (SAC) Room 3

Global Divestment Day
2015-02-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Royce Hall
The day before Valentine’s Day, student group Fossil Free UCLA will stage a rally on campus–complete with political theater, some bears, and lots of oiled up money! The LA indigenous activism group Idle No More will join us, along with many campus student organizations to demand the UC divest from Fossil Fuels.
Speaker Elouise Brown will be joining us as well! Elouise Brown is a Diné (Navajo) elder, an iraqi war veteran and the president of the Doodá Desert Rock committee. In 2007, she successfully organized grassroots direct action to prevent the construction of 2.5 billion dollar Desert Rock coal plant that would have otherwise destroyed her ancestral land, poisoned her community, and perpetuated reliance on fossil fuels. She has previously spoken at the UN and in Washington D.C. on indigenous land and resource rights.

Speaker Series: EarthJustice
2015-02-17 18:00 - 20:00 | MS 5117
Come learn about environmental law and speak with representatives from Earthjustice! Free Native Foods! Brought to you by the USAC Facilities Commission.
Earthjustice is the nation’s premier environmental law firm, defending our fundamental right to a healthy environment.
Earthjustice is headquartered in San Francisco and has nine regional law offices, an international program, a communications team, and a policy team in Washington, D.C. With this combination of expertise and reach, we mount smart, effective campaigns that draw from our excellent legal work but are also supported by savvy lobbying and hard-hitting communications.

Oppenheim Lecture Series: Design for the Circular Economy
2015-02-18 18:00 - 21:00 | Fowler Museum
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:00 pm Light Reception
7:00 pm Lecture
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum at UCLA

Co-Hosted by:

UCLA Grand Challenges

William McDonough
Chief Executive, McDonough Innovation
Architect, designer and author William McDonough is a pioneer of sustainable design and development at all scales–products and packaging to cities and regions. He is a founder/co-founder of MBDC, William McDonough + Partners, and McDonough Innovation, as well as the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. He co-created the Cradle to Cradle® framework for design, which allows products of human creation to embody endless resourcefulness. McDonough will share his vision for a world of abundance, where the very concept of waste has been eliminated, where we are all waging peace through commerce, and where Endless is More™. He will address how these ideas apply to Los Angeles and Southern California.See his latest activity by following @billmcdonough on Twitter.
Find all of William McDonough’s written works on Amazon.

California Center for
Sustainable Communities at UCLA

The Los Angeles

Regional Collaborative

for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC)

RSVP by Wednesday, February 11, 2015
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

Learn more about the Oppenheim Lecture Series…

Metered parking available in Lot 4.
Public transportation stops at UCLA.
Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
This event follows the UCLA Green Event Guidelines.

UCLA Unicamp Info Session
2015-02-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Ackerman Union Viewpoint Conference (A201B)
UCLA UniCamp Recruitment | Outdoor Science Opportunities Session
UCLA UniCamp is the official, student-run nonprofit organization of the students of UCLA (est. 1934). For 80 years, we have taken kids from underserved communities of Los Angeles up to camp during summer for a week of fun and mentorship. This year UCLA UniCamp is hosting a session dedicated to educating youth about environmental science and sustainability. If you’re interested in the environment and working with kids, we are currently recruiting volunteers for our Outdoor Science Opportunities session (OSO).
There is one upcoming info session.
Week 7: Wednesday, Feb 18, 7-8 pm Ackerman Union Viewpoint Conference (A201B)
We will be accepting applications during 6th and 7th week. Apps are due Feb 20th at 11:59PM! If you’d like more information about UCLA UniCamp: Outdoor Science Opportunities, feel free to shoot us an email at session7@unicamp.org.
Otherwise, check out our website unicamp.org/apply and our Facebook page (UCLA UniCamp) for more information about OSO and other initiative-based sessions, including mental health, college readiness, and more!

Environmental Student Network 3rd Annual Alumni Night
2015-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 | 2320 Life Sciences Building
Come join the Environmental Student Network for our third annual alumni night! Bring your resume or business cards to network with alumni who are representing private/public sectors and graduate schools. Food will be provided.

EARTH MONTH: Public Utility and the Low-Carbon Future
2015-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 | La Kretz Hall Conf Room 300
Presented by William Boyd, Visiting Professor, University of Colorado Boulder School of Law
Substantial reductions in global power sector emissions will be needed by midcentury to avoid significant disruption of the climate system. Achieving these reductions will require greatly increased levels of financing, technological innovation, and policy reform. In the United States, the scale and complexity of the overall challenge have raised important questions regarding prevailing regulatory and business models, with much scrutiny directed at the traditional practice of public utility regulation. Recognizing the many valid criticisms leveled against public utility regulation and the important questions raised about the viability of traditional utility business models, particularly in the face of substantial growth in distributed energy resources, this talk argues that a revitalized and expanded notion of public utility has a critical role to play in efforts to decarbonize the power sector in the United States. The talk will trace the history of public utility (in concept and practice) over the last century, the problems embedded in current regulatory and business models, and the prospects for reforming such models in the face of rapid technological change and growing decarbonization imperatives. The central claim is that the overall scale, complexity, and sequencing of investments needed to decarbonize the power sector over the coming decades (however it comes to be organized) calls for a broad notion of public utility that draws from earlier understandings of the concept and provides an important foundation for efforts to govern a power system that is increasingly complex, participatory, and intelligent, and for managing the sustained, collective effort to channel investment and behavior in ways necessary to realize a low-carbon future.
The talk will draw from a recent paper and some ongoing work. The paper is here if people are interested: Public Utility and the Low Carbon Future, 61 UCLA L. Rev.1614 (2014).

EARTH MONTH: Fracking and Our Water
2015-04-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum
Co-presented with the Hammer Museum at UCLA
Fracking is both demonized and praised almost daily in the media, leaving most Americans confused. We strive to bring some clarity to this divisive issue by bringing together scientists and policy makers to tease out the facts about the effects of hydraulic fracturing on the quality and quantity of the nation’s water. Panelists: Jonathan Bishop, California State Water Resources Control Board; water treatment engineer Subir Bhattacharjee; Stanford environmental scientist Robert Jackson; and Damon Nagami, director of the Southern California Ecosystems Project at the NRDC. Moderated by Mark Gold, acting director, UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability
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THE NEXT WAVE: QUALITY, QUANTITY, AND ACCESSIBILITYOF WATER IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Throughout 2015 the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Hammer explore the most pressing issues surrounding the current and future state of water.
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets for assigned seating in the Billy Wilder Theater are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first come, first served basis. As a benefit for their support, members enjoy priority ticketing and seat selection, subject to availability.
Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.
All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund atUCLA.
Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, and all Hammer members.

EARTH MONTH: Net Impact- Authentic Connections by Good Corps
2015-04-08 19:00 - 21:00 | GOOD Corps Headquarters, 6380 Wilshire Blvd Floor 15 , Los Angeles, CA, 90048
Looking to feel more connected to other professionals with a passion for sustainability and social impact? Join us at GOOD’s headquarters for a Net Impact Los Angeles mixer!
GOODcorps, a social impact consultancy that’s part of GOOD Worldwide, will take us through a series of creative games to build spontaneous connections based on shared interests and explore with us what a community of purpose-driven professionals looks like.
You will have a chance to meet others and learn about their careers, see the inside of GOOD, and better understand how the Net Impact Los Angeles community can benefit your growth.
Tacos + Wine included in ticket price!
We will also feature Casey Unterman in our “Member Spotlight”, the first in a series of spotlights to give our members the opportunity to share their impact work with the group. If you would like to be featured for the next event, let us know!
Casey Unterman is Head of Production at Black Powder Works, a company that produces creative storytelling solutions for emerging media and television. The impact division partners with organizations to create dynamic and meaningful content that engages the audience around social and environmental issues. By understanding the urgency of the message, Casey and his team implement solutions quickly while maintaining a high standard of excellence.
Links to Net Impact and GOODcorps:
https://netimpact.org/
http://www.goodcorps.com/
$22.09 total includes Food and Wine
Buy ticket at this link:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/authentic-connections-brought-to-you-by-goodcorps-tickets-16264572775

EARTH MONTH: Sawyer Seminar on the Environmental Humanities, Environmentalism of the Poor
2015-04-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 193 Humanities
Seminars involve discussion of essays by our featured participants. You must RSVP and read the essays in advance to attend. To RSVP or to join our mailing list, please email Michelle. For more information, visit our website.
Akhil Gupta (Anthropology, UCLA)
Barbara Rose Johnston (Anthropology, Center for Political Ecology), “Why Environmental Justice Challenges, and Occasionally Transforms, Local and Global Architectures of Power: Lessons Emerging from Guatemala”
Jorge Marcone (Comparative Literature, Rutgers), “Popular Environmentalisms, Literature, and Visual Arts in the Andes and Amazonia”
Jennifer Wenzel (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia), “Turning Over a New Leaf: Fanonian Humanism and the Environmental Humanities”
Maite Zubiaurre (Spanish and Comparative Literature, UCLA)

EARTH MONTH: 6th Annual UCLA La Kretz Center Public Lecture
2015-04-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Hwy , Malibu, CA, 90263
Join us for our 6th Annual Public Lecture, presented by Professor Stan Gehrt of Ohio State University. Stan’s talk, “Ghost Dogs: Coyotes as Top Predators of the City”, will be followed by a Q&A session with local urban carnivore experts, and promises to be both stimulating and informative. The discussion continues with a VIP Dinner for La Kretz League Members at our Field Station in the mountains.
Saturday, April 18th, 2015
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy
Malibu, CA 90263

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Ghost Dogs: Coyotes as Top Predators of the City
Presented by Stan Gehrt, Professor and Wildlife Specialist, The Ohio State University
