• Book Talk with Professor Sayd Randle – Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles

    HYBRID: LaKretz Hall (Room 300A, the large conference room) and Zoom

    The Water Resources Group is excited to host a conversation with Sayd Randle, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Singapore Management University, to celebrate the publication of her book Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles (UC Press, 2025). REGISTER HERE

  • “Life at the City Scale” – Natural History Museum First Fridays 2026

    Natural History Museum 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    First Fridays returns to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), continuing the 2026 season and celebrating 20 years as one of Los Angeles’ must-attend after-hours events. At the center of the night is a signature discussion series, this year featuring a new theme — Life, From Our Guts to the Galaxy: Rethinking...

  • Guided UCLA Botanical Garden Tour – March 7

    UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA

    Explore a living museum, featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join a Garden Educator for a free guided 1 hour tour, and hear the stories of a selection of plants in the garden, and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. Meet at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern...

  • Botany Brown Bag with Vikram Tamboli

    UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA

    Join for another installment of Botany Brown Bag. Vikram Tamboli will give a talk titled “Seeds of Power: Poisoning, Ritual Dance and Afro-Indigenous Knowledge in the Americas.” “Seeds of Power” restrings the frayed history and geography of an obscure technology, ankle rattles and girdles made of toxic seeds of the Thevetia or yellow oleander plant....

  • Guided UCLA Botanical Garden Tour – March 21

    UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA

    Explore a living museum, featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join a Garden Educator for a free guided 1 hour tour, and hear the stories of a selection of plants in the garden, and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. Meet at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern...

  • 2026 BECAP Summit – Rising Tides in the Deep Blue Decade: Building the Workforce Ecosystems of Tomorrow

    Los Angeles Harbor College 1111 Figueroa Pl, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    The Blue Economy and Climate Action Pathways (BECAP) Summit brings together statewide partners to accelerate innovation, expand career pathways, and build the interdisciplinary ecosystems needed for a resilient, sustainable coastal future. The full-day summit at Los Angeles Harbor College will feature keynote speakers, a fireside chat, a leadership panel, and breakout sessions aligned with the...

  • Can Abundance Be Sustainable? Merging Affordability and Climate Policy

    UCLA School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East , Los Angeles , CA, United States

    An all-day symposium that will focus on the interplay between affordability and environmental regulation. Affordability concerns are ubiquitous in conversations on environmental and climate policy issues. Policymakers and advocates are wrestling with the question of whether cornerstone environmental laws and regulations, including CEQA and NEPA, can be robustly enforced while still recognizing and addressing cost-of-living...

  • Guided UCLA Botanical Garden Tour - April 4

    UCLA Mildred E Mathias Botanical Garden, La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA

    Explore a living museum, featuring collections of plants from around the globe! Join a Garden Educator for a free guided 1 hour tour, and hear the stories of a selection...

  • AILA Earth Summit

    1800 Abbot Kinney Blvd 1800 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    ​Join AILA’s 7th Earth Summit, to examine the technologies, policies, and ideas shaping our climate future. From artificial intelligence to breakthrough materials science, from state climate policy to investment strategies—...

  • "Smog and Sunshine” - A Book Talk with Ann Carlson

    UCLA School of Law 385 Charles E. Young Drive East , Los Angeles , CA, United States

    Join a conversation about an exciting environmental success story that too few Americans know in detail. In Smog and Sunshine, UCLA Law professor and LA native Ann Carlson recounts the...