UCLA Sustainability

Southwest Swap & Style
2023-05-21 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tipuana Apartments, Warren Hall, 900 Weyburn Pl, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Need to clear out unwanted clothing before moving out? Interested in revamping your closet for the summer? GCGP is collaborating with the Southwest Apartments and FAST to hold a clothing swap at Tipuana’s MPR. Come drop off clothes you no longer want, and get a new fit styled just for you by FAST stylists! There will be giveaways and free catering as well!
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The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Presents: A Meet & Greet with Brandon Hunter, PhD
2023-05-22 14:00 - 18:00 | HYBRID: Geology 3814 and Zoom, 595 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science is pleased to welcome back Dr. Brandon Hunter as our guest speaker. We invite you, virtually or in person, to have a candid discussion with Dr. Hunter about Community Science: Navigating Environmental Justice in Academia, Community Orgs, & Non-Profits from 2-4pm PDT. There will also be an opportunity to mingle from 4pm-6pm PDT with light refreshments. Masking is optional although strongly recommended indoors.
Please RSVP to join us! The Zoom information will only be shared with those who sign up.
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Dr. Brandon Hunter is an environmental scientist, a scholastic researcher, a state-certified infrastructure design engineer, a community-based technical service provider, and a professional technical consultant. Dr. Hunter has developed a career by leveraging his technical skillsets to support and advance self-determined community-centered advocacy towards environmental equity. He currently works full-time as a Community Scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Council and has appointments as an Environmental Justice Fellow at the Center for Rural Enterprise & Environmental Justice and as an Early Career Fellow at UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science.
Brandon looks forward to meeting students, faculty, and staff and having a candid discussion about community-based science in academia and beyond.

Environmental Health Sciences Seminar - "California Climate Policies," with former CA State Senator Fran Pavley
2023-05-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) Floor 2, Corridor 3 – Room 105, 10833 Le Conte Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
RSVP by 3:00pm on Tuesday, May 16th, to help plan refreshments accordingly. There is no zoom option for this event.
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A Book Talk with Dr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez, "We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California"
2023-05-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche Hall Room 6265, 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Dr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez, a California State Parks historian & Tribal Liaison will deliver a talk titled “We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California.” This presentation will be based upon his book: We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022). This is a deeply-researched study of the Indigenous peoples of Santa Cruz and surrounding areas that improves our understanding of Native American experiences in California as a whole.

Leading the Clean Energy Transformation
2023-05-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Edison International’s President and CEO Pedro Pizarro will be featured in a moderated livestream event to discuss the company’s ongoing efforts in electrification, equity, climate adaptation and investing in the grid. Pizarro will highlight the importance of these initiatives and how they relate to leading the clean energy transformation. The event will provide valuable insights into the company’s ongoing work to address the challenges facing the energy industry and continue providing clean and reliable energy and energy services.
The conversation will be moderated by Dan Schnur, politics professor at USC, UC Berkeley, and Pepperdine.
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Episode screening of EXTRAPOLATIONS, followed by a talk-back with Showrunner Scott Z. Burns
2023-05-23 18:30 - 21:00 | Ray Kurtzman Theater, 2000 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, United States
Co-hosted with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Foundation and Good Energy, join Hollywood Climate Summit (HCS) for an episode screening of EXTRAPOLATIONS, followed by a talk-back with Showrunner Scott Z. Burns.
This screening is a pre-climate summit celebration. Come watch one of the first scripted climate TV shows with industry friends who are ready to activate.
RSVP: molly.shriver@caa.com

Common Experience x RISE: Climate Anxiety and Action Circle
2023-05-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Carnesale Commons, 350 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles , CA, 90024, United States
Join other students to explore and process the difficult emotions that come with caring about the climate crisis, and learn ways to take action on campus.
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"Climate Emergency and the Future of Democracy," Robyn Eckersley
2023-05-24 18:00 - 19:00 | HYBRID: Royce Hall, Room 314 / Zoom, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
A lecture series presented by the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute | Robyn Eckersley is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne and a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Featuring a discussion with moderator Alex Hall. Alex Hall is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of the UCLA Center for Climate Science at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Interim Director of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.
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Free Food from the dining halls
2023-05-24 22:00 | Student Activities Center ROTC Room 120P, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bruin Dine is a student-run organization founded in 2018 that works to bridge the gap between food waste and food insecurity by recovering food from the UCLA dining halls that would have otherwise been thrown away and redistributing it. Open to everyone, bring your own container and utensils.

Post Disaster Resilience and Recovery: Learning from disasters and creating safer cities
2023-05-25 07:30 - 08:30 | Online
Cities are facing more and more severe weather events in recent years, having a catastrophic impact on communities and their ability to recover. There is an urgent need for cities to better prepare themselves to withstand the adverse impact of these disasters which can enable an effective recovery and minimize losses.
In the Bordeaux region in France, one-fourth of its habitable area is below the river’s high-water line, exposing the Bordeaux Metropolitan Area to a dual risk of flooding from the sea and the river. As in many cities worldwide, in Bordeaux floods have been increasing in frequency and intensity since the 1980s. Meanwhile, cities in the USA have vast experience addressing and recovering from large-scale disasters, having faced and dealt with the consequences of extreme events like hurricanes and wildfires frequently.
Planning for effective post-disaster recovery can help cities set the path for a safer, resilient and sustainable future. It is crucial that we bring together cities to share their experience and lessons learned in their post disaster recovery efforts, and how those can shape cities to plan and build back better.
The fifth session of the Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series 2023, with the support of the Embassy of the United States of America, France, and in collaboration with partners France Ville Durable and the World Bank, will focus on “Post Disaster Resilience and Recovery”.
By bringing together New Orleans and the Bordeaux Metropolitan Region, we’re taking a deeper look at how cities can learn from each other and ensure that everyone, especially vulnerable and marginalized groups, have the ability to recover from severe disasters as well as how cities rebuild and strengthen their systems, policies and infrastructure.
Austin Feldbaum, Hazard Mitigation Director from the City of New Orleans, will join us to share their learnings on recovery and how they reconceived their city’s strategies after disasters. Valérie Sabéran, Climate Risk and Resilience Director from the Bordeaux Metropolitan Area, will share more about how the metropolis is committed more than ever to strengthening their flood management strategy as well as efforts to address climate change and learning from their past experiences with severe flooding.
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Sandwiches 4 Smiles
2023-05-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
THIS THURSDAY is the quarterly Sandwiches for Smiles, located at Bruin Plaza from 9am-1pm. See you there!
Swipe Out Hunger hosts two main events each quarter where any UCLA student can participate in combating food insecurity. Sandwiches for Smiles is a daylong PB&J-making extravaganza held in the quad, where Bruins can roll up their sleeves, put on gloves, and get to work while getting to know Swipes members.

ROADMAP 2035: Cars, Carbon and Climate Change – How Do We Meet California’s Zero Emissions Goals?
2023-05-25 09:25 - 14:00 | HYBRID: 1414 K Street, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95814 / Zoom
Join Capitol Weekly for a conference examining California’s climate goals – specifically the plan to move beyond gas-powered vehicles. ROADMAP 2035: Cars, Carbon and Climate Change – How Do We Meet California’s Zero Emissions Goals? will be held on Thursday, May 25, 2023, in Sacramento. A remote-viewing Zoom option is available HERE.
SPACE IS LIMITED – CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE LIVE EVENT
By 2035 all new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in California must be zero emissions. California’s Advanced Clean Cars II regulations will rapidly scale down light-duty passenger car, pickup truck and SUV emissions starting with the 2026 model year.
And, it’s not just happening in California. In March, the European Union announced a law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035. Multiple states, including Oregon have similar mandates in place, and the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules that could require up to two-thirds of all new cars sold in the US by 2032 to be zero emission vehicles.
Despite these ambitious goals, major challenges remain. Public acceptance of EVs is growing, but not at the rate needed to meet the mandate. And, the state’s electrical grid is barely able to meet peak demand now; what happens when the average Californian is driving a plug-in? We’ll look at these questions and many more.
Click here to view an event program, with profiles of speakers and other details.
The Keynote Speaker is Alice Busching Reynolds, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, in conversation with Rich Ehisen, Capitol Weekly.
9:30 AM, PANEL 1 – The Technology: How We Get There
Jacquelyn Birdsall, Toyota; Steve Douglas, Alliance for Automotive Innovation; Quentin Gee, California Energy Commission; Orville Thomas, CALSTART
Moderated by Alejandro Lazo, CalMatters
10:45 AM, PANEL 2 – What Now: Timelines and Implementation
Dr. Jen Gress, California Air Resources Board; Kip Lipper, Policy Advisor to the Sen. Pro Tem; Michael Pimentel, California Transit Association; Scott Wetch, Carter, Wetch and Associates
Moderated by Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee
Noon, KEYNOTE – Alice Busching Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission
In conversation with Rich Ehisen, Capitol Weekly
1:00 PM, PANEL 3 – The Future vs. The Past: The Impact on California’s Legacy Industries
Christopher Benjamin, Pacific Gas & Electric; Jon Costantino, Tradesman Advisors; Catherine Reheis-Boyd, Western States Petroleum Association; Laura Renger, California Electric Transportation Coalition
Moderated by Brian Joseph, Capitol Weekly

What We All Deserve: Basic Needs Resource Fair
2023-05-25 11:00 - 14:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join the Student Coalition for Basic Needs Event – to learn, access, and share all the amazing resources available at UCLA!
Everyone deserves to have their basic needs met. Join the newly established Student Coalition for Basic Needs to:
• Learn about food and housing insecurity on campus
• Claim FREE FOOD and oral hygiene gift cards!
• Access our updated central basic needs resource guide
• Share your thoughts on our coalition’s policy requests
• Get involved in supporting the basic needs movement at UCLA
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Leaders and the Future of Natural Resource Stewards
2023-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
May is #AAPIHeritageMonth, a time to pay tribute to the generations of Asian & Pacific Islanders who have enriched California’s history. Join an important discussion on how #AAPI communities are contributing to environmental stewardship.
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GRID Talks | Green Jobs + Equity = Restorative Justice
2023-05-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join GRID Alternatives for a discussion on how our workforce development program helps returning citizens with new career pathways.
With our three panelists, you will learn how our regional offices embed equity into their workforce development programs to train community residents and provide new career paths for individuals who were justice-involved. We look forward to an inspiring conversation about the mission-impact of workforce development programs in diversifying the solar industry and centering equity, inclusion and diversity.
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Art Reception - Nature Always Wins: A Photography Exhibit
2023-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Kerckhoff Art Gallery, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Nature is active in conquering us not only through the occasional earthquake or flood, but in the subtleties of vegetation that turn every settlement into an ongoing archaeological site. What do we see when we look down? Grass growing in the cracks of freeway pavements, and plants taking root in the little crevices of buildings and alleys.
Monica L. Smith, an archaeologist and member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, takes us on a photographic journey to the world of vibrant and resilient vegetation underfoot. She shows us how an artist’s eye resides within all of us, enabling us to see what we usually filter out of our perception as we traverse the streets of Los Angeles.
The exhibit coincides with the release of her edited volume, The Power of Nature, published by the University Press of Colorado and featuring a number of UCLA authors.

On the Sustainability of Games
2023-05-25 15:00 - 16:30 | Powell Library Building, CLICC, Classroom B, 10740 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Professor Alenda Chang (UC Santa Barbara) will present her talk “On the Sustainability of Games.”

Free Food from the dining halls
2023-05-25 22:00 | Conference Room 1 in the Student Activities Center Basement, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Book Club - Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
2023-05-26 12:00 - 13:00 | HYBRID: Terasaki Life Sciences Building 1100 and Zoom, 610 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) is hosting a book club to discuss The Sum of Us. We will read and discuss the book in four sections. Please feel free to drop in as your schedule allows.
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Pollinator Palooza
2023-05-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join UCLA CALPIRG’s Pollinator Palooza to learn more about how we can save our bees from harmful pesticides called neonicotinoids that are killing them! There will be postcard making, trivia to win cool prizes, and you can make your very own seed bomb! You don’t want to miss out on learning how YOU can help our pollinators!

Clothing Swap and Refillery Event on the Hill
2023-05-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Sunset Village, 330 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
ONE MORE Clothing Swap and Refillery Event – the Bruin community will have a chance to swap out clothing they no longer wear for other pieces of clothing available!
This Friday, May 26th, come to the Sunset Village Plaza Stage from 12PM-4PM to participate in a clothing swap! Don’t forget to bring your own bottles and containers to fill it with FREE conditioner, shampoo, body wash, laundry detergent and more.
There will also be an educational component where you can learn more about zero waste practices and be entered to win free UCLA MERCH!

Bruinwalk Basic Necessity Bundles
2023-05-30 12:00 - 15:00 | Bruin Walk, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Need a couple more hygiene products to last you til the end of the quarter? Looking for new pieces for your wardrobe? Stop by our Bruinwalk Basic Necessities Bundles event on Tuesday, May 30th! We’ll be on Bruinwalk from 12-3PM with our hygiene refill station and some clothes from our center. All completely FREE! Please bring your own bottle for refills of hygiene products, such as shampoo, body lotion, hair conditioner, and more. Plus, grab a bundle of clothing!

LIVESTREAM EVENT: Advancing the Bold Decadal Vision for Fusion
2023-05-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
In March 2022, the White House held a Fusion Summit that laid out a Bold Decadal Vision for Commercial Fusion Energy. One of five priorities in the White House Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative, commercial fusion energy has the potential to deliver abundant, clean, reliable electricity and many other benefits. With strong support from Congress and the Biden-Harris Administration, the Department of Energy (DOE) is following through on this vision with bold steps forward in our support for fusion energy science and technology.
Please join Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) Director Arati Prabhakar, DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine Richmond, and DOE Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe as we announce the first selections for the new Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program. This innovative new public-private partnership brings together the vibrant U.S. fusion private sector community and the nation’s solutions department to resolve key scientific and technological challenges that must be overcome to realize fusion pilot plants in the next decade.

UCLA on-campus Farmers Market
2023-05-31 13:00 - 19:00 | Bruin Plaza, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Every few weeks, the Farmers’ Market at UCLA descends on Bruin Plaza with a smorgasbord of fresh produce to provide healthy, sustainable nourishment.

Geoengineering and Human Rights: The False Promise of Techno-Salvation
2023-05-31 14:00 - 16:00 | IoES Conference Room, La Kretz Hall - Suite 300, 619 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, AR, 90095, United States
Geoengineering promises to mitigate the climate crisis. From a human-rights based perspective, however, it currently causes more harm than good.
Patrycja Sasnal will provide a glimpse into the contents and drafting process of the first United Nations report on geoengineering and human rights before its publication in the fall of 2023.
Dr. Patrycja Sasnal is a political scientist, Arabist and philosopher. She is a visiting professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and professor of migration at College of Europe. She also works as head of research at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. She is an expert of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, member of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ council, and the Polish Ombudsman office’s expert commission on migration. She was previously a Fulbright scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and an associate researcher at the American University in Beirut. She specializes in Middle Eastern politics, migration and political violence. She has written for The Guardian, Le Monde and Polityka. Her latest book is Arendt, Fanon and Political Violence in Islam (Routledge, 2019). Sasnal holds a PhD in political science.
At IoES, she is working on a report for the UN Human Rights Council regarding the impact of technologies for climate protection on the enjoyment on human rights. In the Spring quarter 22/23 she will teach a class on Geoengineering and Human Rights.

IUSSC Sustainability Research Summit 2023
2023-05-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Kaplan Hall 169, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The International Urban Sustainability Student Corps (IUSSC) is an interdisciplinary think tank at UCLA that participates in student-led sustainability research projects. We are hosting our first annual summit here on UCLA’s campus open to anyone who would like to learn more about pressing sustainability issues and engage in greater discussions with peers. It will feature presentations from each of IUSSC’s research divisions, other sustainability organizations at UCLA, and other guest speakers. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out if you have any questions via email at iusscexec@gmail.com or via Instagram @iussc_ucla.
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ICARP Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program - Listening Session: General Audience
2023-05-31 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
The Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program funds and supports local, regional, and tribal efforts to reduce the impacts of extreme heat. The Program coordinates the state’s efforts to address extreme heat and the urban heat island effect.
The Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program (ICARP) team is hosting a series of listening sessions for the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program from May 9-31, 2023. These listening sessions will help ensure that stakeholders’ needs and perspectives are being considered from the beginning of the grant guideline development process.
For more information visit this website: https://opr.ca.gov/climate/icarp/grants/extreme-heat-community-resilience.html.
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How Science Can Help Protect Birds and Their Habitat
2023-05-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
The Conservation Science (ConSci) committee of Santa Barbara Audubon Society (SBAS) meets formally once a month to discuss local issues, including recent species observations, situations affecting habitat, environmental policy, upcoming opportunities to comment during the public process, and more.
An important tool developed recently by ConSci members is the Breeding Bird Study (BBS).
The BBS is a public-access database of bird breeding records for Santa Barbara County. These records are a critically important tool in SBAS’s work to advocate for habitat preservation and can also be used to inform forward-thinking restoration efforts.
In this talk, SBAS will give some background on interesting birds and bird habitat within SB County south coast, highlight some recent conservation work that has used BBS data, and discuss how that data can help guide restoration efforts into the future.
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Sustainable Aviation 101: Decarbonizing the Aviation Industry
2023-06-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
The aviation industry represents one of the hardest to decarbonize sectors of the economy. But with new technologies and breakthroughs in sustainable fuels, emissions reductions, and CO2 utilization, real progress is underway. This event will provide a high-level overview of new aviation decarbonization technologies and their potential, funding opportunities available, and how to best deploy and accelerate adoption of the technology. The target audience will be a mix of clean energy community members, Congressional staff, and other key allies.
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Solutions in Our Soil - Building Sustainable Supply Chains
2023-06-01 10:00 - 11:15 | Online
Sustainable Conservation’s Solutions in Our Soil series has focused on what soil health means and why it’s so important for increasing drought resilience, improving water quality, boosting biodiversity, and nourishing healthy farmlands and communities. But, what does this look like in practice and how can we ensure soil health is prioritized throughout the food system?
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