Deep Dive Webinar: What’s Next? Overcoming Barriers to the Clean Energy Transition

Online

After years of ambitious campaigns to set clean energy targets and pass enabling policies across the country, focus is now expanding to how and when these much-needed investments will take place. Transforming the power grid can be slow and complex, but it's crucial that states are able to overcome transmission barriers on a shorter timescale. […]

Highly Charged: Panel Discussion

UCLA Law School, Room 1447

Come hear a discussion about the opportunities and limitations to rate design as a tool to enhance equity in the state. Panelists include tenant, ratepayer, and environmental advocates, as well as a Senior Analyst at the California Public Utilities Commission and UCLA’s own energy law expert, Professor William Boyd. REGISTER HERE Lunch served on a […]

People vs. Plastic: How the UN Plastics Treaty Must Protect Our Health

Online

April is Earth Month, and many people around the world this year are focused on plastic pollution. No matter who you are or where you live, your health is affected by plastics. During this webinar, speakers will discuss the impacts of plastics on human health and implications for the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations happening later […]

Ajay Singh Chaudhary presents The Exhausted of the Earth

La Kretz Garden Pavilion 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done? Join for a conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary and learn how he answers this question in his new book, The Exhausted of […]

Free Food from the Dining Halls

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Get a plate of free hot dining hall food in the SAC basement. Please bring your own containers and utensils. Bruin Dine is operating Tuesdays, Wednesdays, AND Thursdays this quarter.

Free Food from the Dining Halls

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Get a plate of free hot dining hall food in the SAC basement. Please bring your own containers and utensils. Bruin Dine is operating Tuesdays, Wednesdays, AND Thursdays this quarter.

Creating Impact: How To Carve Your Own Path In Environmentalism

Online

Royal Sayewitz brings a wealth of experience in sustainable agriculture and community empowerment to his role at Umaro Foods. Previously, he made significant contributions at Grow NYC, where he developed programs to promote urban agriculture and support local farmers markets. Prior to that, his time at Irving Farm New York provided insights into ethical sourcing […]

AI LA Earth Summit 2024

UCLA South Bay 30800 Palos Verdes Dr E, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, United States

​The annual AI LA Earth Summit is back for its landmark fifth year, illuminating the intersection of technology and sustainability while empowering participants with education, inspiration, and connectivity. ​The summit is a collaborative environment bringing together Los Angeles' foremost sustainability advocates, tech innovators, startups, and enterprises, catalyzing a community-driven movement toward sustainable development. By emphasizing […]

Human Transit, Book Talk by Jarrett Walker

Luskin School of Public Affairs, room 2355 UCLA

Join UCLA ITS to celebrate the revised edition of Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. The new edition will deepen its explanations about the basic principles of public transit, informed by his work as a network planning consultant. New topics include the […]

Free Food from the Dining Halls

Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Get a plate of free hot dining hall food in the SAC basement. Please bring your own containers and utensils. Bruin Dine is operating Tuesdays, Wednesdays, AND Thursdays this quarter.

Symposium: China & the Environment – Taking Stock of Domestic and Global Developments in Law & Governance

UCLA School of Law, Room 1314 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Chinese environmental law and governance has undergone dramatic change in recent decades. The UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal (PBLJ) and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are organizing an all-day symposium to assess these developments and to examine their impacts within China and globally. Scholars and advocates from China, the United States, […]

Lessons in Climate Storytelling

Online

How can we tell stories that engage people on climate change in ways that other communications strategies do not? Join the Yale Center for Environmental Communication for a discussion moderated by Sara Peach, Editor-in-Chief of Yale Climate Connections, with Antonieta Cadiz, Deputy Executive Director of Climate Power en Acción, Dominique Browning, co-founder and Director of […]

The Role of Civil Society in Protecting China’s Environment

UCLA School of Law, Room 1357 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

Scholars from around the world will converge on the UCLA School of Law to explore recent developments in Chinese environmental law and governance that are sure to have global ramifications. In concert with an all-day symposium, the Emmett Institute and others are also co-hosting a lunchtime talk on the role of civil society in protecting […]

Easton Innovation Challenge: Live Pitches in Sustainability

Room G419, Marion Anderson Hall 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Easton Center Innovation Challenge is a great example of the spirit of collective effort which is essential to success, exemplifying an invaluable partnership between the Anderson school and the greater UCLA campus, our many students, faculty and alumni who are committed to innovation and advancements in healthcare and sustainability. This initiative brings together UCLA […]

A Conversation on Climate Change and Activism with Jane Fonda and Dr. Naomi Oreskes

David Geffen Theater 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join lifelong activist and two-time Academy Award® winner Jane Fonda for a conversation with world-renowned earth scientist at Harvard, Dr. Naomi Oreskes, about the impact of storytelling through film, climate change, the powerful forces working to undermine solutions, and how we can get to a just, sustainable, green economy. REGISTER HERE

3rd annual Seeds of Unity Festival

Harvard Park 1535 West 62nd St., Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join SCOPE-LA for a transformative celebration at the "Seeds of Unity Fest," where community, culture, and climate justice intertwine in South Central Los Angeles. This Earth Day, join in sowing the seeds of Black, Brown, and Indigenous unity to protect our land, air, and water. Seeds of Unity is about celebrating our shared commitment to […]

E3’s Earth Day Fair

Dickson Court North

Join this Earth Day event for fun activities, live music, giveaways, and more! Earth Month celebrates the earth, the communities it houses, and work that promotes sustainability. As a campaign under UCLA’s student organization E3, Earth Month emphasizes the three E’s of sustainability: Ecology, Economy, Equity. Understanding that environmentalism and sustainability extends outside of our […]

“Architecture is a Collective Act” – Lecture by Tatiana Bilbao + cityLAB Block Party

UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza, Room 1302, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA cityLAB and Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) present: Tatiana Bilbao. Exhibitions, music, tacos & drinks, AND limited-edition swag. RSVP: rsvp@aud.ucla.edu Tatiana Bilbao began her eponymous studio in 2004 with the aim of integrating social values, collaboration and sensitive designapproaches to architectural work. The work of the office intersects with research allowing to design for […]