Princeton Energy Conference 2020
2020-11-13 05:45 - 2020-11-14 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Our virtual fall conference 2020 brings together industry professionals, researchers, academics, investors, analysts, students, and other community members that are spirited about the future of the energy industry and new technologies. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic challenges, and social injustices, this conference will emphasize how we will change the energy landscape and drive ourselves forward to a clean, equitable future for everyone.
Some of our keynote speakers include:

Dr. Daniel Kammen (Professor of Energy at UC-Berkeley & Chair Goldman School of Public Policy)
Colette Honorable, Esq. (Partner at ReedSmith, Former Commissioner at FERC)
Kelly Speakes-Backman (CEO of U.S. Energy Storage Association)

Additionally, our conference will feature panels on a wide variety of topics including energy policy, carbon dioxide removal, “out-there” technologies, and renewable business and investment. To see the schedule and full list of keynotes and panels, check out our website.
We will additionally be hosting a resume drop with our sponsors, small group and personalized discussions with panelists, and networking sessions for young professionals and college students. Register to stay updated on this information. Please reach out to puea@princeton.edu with any questions or concerns. Hope to see you soon!
Let’s shape a cleaner and equitable energy landscape together.

Healthy Buildings and Healthy Homes: Could Indoor Spaces Be Making You Sick?
2020-11-13 11:30 - 12:30
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American spends approximately 90% of their life indoors. Accordingly, the physical structures in which we work and live—our homes, schools, offices, public buildings—directly impact health outcomes. By improving the performance of buildings, in both design and construction, our health and well-being benefit greatly, while also reducing health care costs. Expanding on the progress established by the green building industry, the next stage is to advance the complementary practice of healthy building and wellness. This panel brings together leading experts in the fields of healthy buildings and wellness for an informative and timely discussion regarding human health and its direct correlation to the built environment, and the tools and technologies that deliver healthier indoor environments in which we can flourish.
Moderator:
Maggie Delmas
Professor of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; and Faculty Director, Impact@Anderson
Keynote:
Bill Hayward
CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer, Hayward Lumber; and Founder and CEO, Hayward Score
Panelists:
Jennifer Berthelot-Jelovic
President and CEO, A Sustainable Production, LLC
Angela Spangler
Director, International Well Building Institute
Ben Stapleton
Executive Director, US Green Building Council – Los Angeles

Maintaining Momentum to COP26 for the Net-Zero Transition
2020-11-16 05:00 - 2020-11-20 08:00
COP26 has been delayed.
Environmental diplomacy put on hold.
We cannot postpone the climate emergency.
Momentum on climate action must be maintained.
2020 was meant to usher in a decade of action in our fight against the climate crisis. Governments and businesses were poised to raise their ambition but instead have been fighting a difference crisis – the global pandemic.
As economies begin to rebuild, sectors reopen and society returns the decisions governments and businesses make today and the industries we support will decide the future we create.
Event Overview
Over the past decade the Sustainable Innovation Forum has been used as a platform by the United Nations, Heads of State, Government Ministers, Climate Experts and Chief Executives, to communicate leadership, raise ambition and forge stronger relationships between the public and private sectors.
Climate Action has curated a thoroughly researched and validated programme aligned to the key trends and challenges we face in our collective fight against climate change. The programme is design to build momentum on climate action ahead of COP26 in 2021.
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2020 Biodiversity Symposium
2020-11-16 15:00 - 2020-11-20 17:00
APLD & LASAN present the 2020 Biodiversity Symposium
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Biodiversity hotspots are home to unique flora and fauna, many of which are endemic to a particular environment. Our City of Los Angeles is fortunate to be one of only 36 Biodiversity Hotspots on the planet.
This designation also means that biodiversity here is threatened, and we need to come up with protective strategies to safeguard our area’s resilience and sustainability. Our symposium, which will unfold over the course of the week, will illustrate the vital importance of an integrated ecosystem of natural biodiversity and sustainable urban landscapes.
We are looking to provide a forum for leading area scientists to inform landscape designers and architects, builders, nurseries, growers, and homeowners on the significance of biodiversity in the Los Angeles area, which is severely threatened by urban development. We hope this forum will aid in building an understanding of how we can affect a change in practices and achieve the goal of “a no-net-loss” biodiversity strategy.
Our well-being fundamentally depends on nature. We must act quickly to take action with protective strategies to safeguard this unique area that we live in. We can make a difference. Join this community and symposium to protect our biodiversity hotspot.
Please join us and help spread the word. Garden by garden, and park by park, we can take the steps to change the narrative of environmental degradation.
We are happy to be in partnership with LASAN for this important endeavor.
“The survival and well-being of the City’s residents also depend on ecosystem services provided by biodiversity, including air pollution reduction, strongly and rapidly mitigating and adapting to climate change, mental health and educational opportunities, water cleansing, and aesthetic benefits. These services are built directly from an integrated ecosystem of natural biodiversity and sustainable urban landscapes.” — LA Sanitation & Environment

Webinar One: Park Equity and Life Expectancy Research Findings
2020-11-18 10:00 - 11:30
New research about the relationship between parks and life expectancy reveals that increasing park acreage in areas that face park deficits and lack trees could lead to significant population-level increases in life expectancy. It also shows that targeted investments in park infrastructure would significantly benefit the health of Latino and Black community members.
In this webinar series, you’ll hear from the UCLA professor who conducted the research and representatives of community-based organizations that will use its results to push for park equity. The project was based in Los Angeles County, but it provides insights for cities across the country.
Webinar One: Park Equity and Life Expectancy Research Findings
Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Learn about the life expectancy predictive model research process, methodology, findings, and possible replication. Register here.
Speakers:

Manal J. Aboelata, Deputy Executive Director, Prevention Institute
Dr. Richard J. Jackson, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Dr. Michael Jerrett, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Elva Yañez, Health Equity Director, Prevention Institute

Fueling The Intersectional Environmental Movement with Debra Gore-Mann
2020-11-18 17:00 - 18:00
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Climate action and racial justice are inextricably linked. However, while the worst effects of climate change have disproportionately harmed communities of color, the historical faces of climate action have predominantly been white. The discussion will cover the environmental justice movement, its progress and challenges, and how corporations should get involved.
Debra Gore-Mann is President and CEO of the Greenlining Institute. With an engineering degree and an M.B.A. from Stanford (where she was the only African American woman in a class of 300 graduate students), her work has spanned across the private, public and political sectors in uplifting low opportunity communities with funding, team building and financial and people resources. Most recently, she led the San Francisco Conservation Corps, America’s first urban municipal youth corps.
As Greenlining’s President and CEO, Debra guides the organization’s growth and direction and serves as the unifying voice for multifaceted policy work, bringing her unique, intersectional perspective to bear. She works with the board to oversee the organization’s finances, management and governance and partners with staff and board to develop programs and policy strategies to advance racial and economic justice and to strengthen ties with The Greenlining Coalition.

MAI Alumni Panel: Sustainability in Medicine and The Pre-Health Journey
2020-11-19 18:00 - 19:00
Join Medical Aid Initiative (MAI) on Thursday, November 19th at 6 PM for our alumni panel: Sustainability in Medicine and The Pre-Health Journey. A team of medical students and pre-health undergraduates will provide insight into their unique undergraduate journeys at UCLA! Along with discussing the significance of medical sustainability, panelists will share their undergraduate experiences, give tips on how to balance academics and personal well being, and describe how their opportunities at UCLA have influenced their career aspirations and prepared them for medical school, graduate school, and more. At the end of the session, each panelist will host a separate breakout room where participants will be able to ask personalized questions to the individual they resonate with most. RSVP here (https://forms.gle/MZz6ZyHV4B2cAgQs7) to receive the Zoom link, submit any questions you would like to see answered, and to review each panelist’s bio. Thank you and please feel free to reach out with any questions and concerns, as well as share this event with anyone you know who may be interested!

Carbon-Capture Symposium
2020-11-30 08:00 - 2020-12-01 17:30
Please join us for a virtual webinar we are planning for November 30 and December 1 on carbon-capture. This webinar will include leading researchers from UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Ohio State University, Arizona State University, HY-TEK Bio, Verdox, and Mosaic Materials. Several presentations will focus on carbon-capture technologies that are now at the point where scaling-up to mid-scale demonstration projects is the next developmental stage on the path to utility-scale solutions. As such, some of the innovations that will be presented may benefit from a CO2 exhaust stream, for example from a co-generation plant, in a research university setting where the facilities engineers and faculty researchers can play a role in monitoring and evaluating a CC demonstration project. I expect that a number of webinar participants will be from universities with CHP plants and an interest in helping to advance carbon-capture solutions that hopefully will prove scalable.

You may be curious about our interest in exploring and fostering carbon-capture technologies. Many leading climate scientists believe that carbon-capture as well as energy de-carbonization may be essential to avoid 2 degree C. overshoot. Moreover, we believe that speeding up, as well as attaining, carbon-free energy will not be a single-path solution, but rather a mosaic of technology and infrastructure solutions that work in synergy to provide resilience and grid stability that will be increasingly critical as weather and seasonal extremes exacerbate the path to carbon-free energy.
In the spirit of bi-coastal collaboration on climate solutions, this virtual colloquium will be co-sponsored by the University of Maryland and the University of California, Irvine. Presenters will include:

Shota Atsumi, Professor of Chemistry, UC Davis
Jack Brouwer, Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Environmental Engineering and Director of the UC Irvine Advanced Power and Energy Program and National Fuel Research Center
Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University
Christopher W. Jones, William R. McLain Chair and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech
Klaus Lackner, Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University and Director of Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Co-Founder, Mosaic Materials
Robert “Bob” Mroz, Founder/CEO of HY-TEK Bio, a Baltimore tech startup that is operating a demonstration facility of Bob’s algae-based carbon-capture system
Edward S. Rubin, Alumni Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science; Professor of Engineering & Public Policy and Mechanical Engineering; Senior Fellow, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University
Gaurav Sant, Professor of Engineering at UCLA
Sahag Voskian, Chemistry Department, MIT, and Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Verdox
Jenny Yang, UC Irvine Professor of Chemistry

We plan to allot ample time for Q&A (more than has been commonplace in recent webinars where one or two questions are possible per speaker). If you are interested in registering for this virtual colloquium, please use this link:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4SyXG5nwTT-OIVteh6Iy3w

Networking 101 In A New Virtual Age (ESN x ES Alumni Association Collab)
2020-12-01 18:00 - 19:15
The zoom link is here: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96092386413?pwd=[REDACTED]
We will have some amazing guest speakers from the UCLA Environmental Science Alumni Association on the topics of networking within the space of sustainability towards a future in the field. There will also be time for socializing and networking exposure during the event.
The preliminary agenda is as follows:
15 min of socializing/intros
30 min of short presentations by Alumni on how to network and its importance which may include:
– Short introduction of Alumni and background
– How to sell yourself
– How to reach out online
– Examples from career experience
30-45 min of practice networking in controlled settings. This could take the form of speed round connections and such, but is also a time to socialize with each other!
– 2-3 person breakout rooms
– Prompting type activities
5 min closing and LinkedIn sharing

U.S.-China Green Energy Summit
2020-12-04 17:00 - 2020-12-06 19:00
The U.S.-China Green Energy Council (UCGEC) is a U.S. federal registered non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area (www.ucgec.org). Since it was founded in 2008, UCGEC has been dedicated to promoting clean energy development and strengthening U.S. and China collaboration on climate change.
We are organizing the “2020 International Green Energy Summit” virtually on Dec.4th-6th, 2020. This is one of our annual flagship events. Over the past decade, we have successfully organized eleven annual summits either in the U.S. or China. It has been recognized as a highly influential international forum.
Since this year’s summit will be a virtual conference on Zoom, we have decided to make it free and open to the public. Thus, we’d like to reach out for more people, especially students, to join this summit, so they may benefit from our invited world renowned speakers.
We have already confirmed two Nobel Laureates and many other prominent speakers for this year’s Summit. A wide range of frontier topics related to green energy will be covered, including but not limited to:
Global energy outlook
Trend on clean energy technology development
International collaboration on climate change
Carbon neutrality
Next generation of Li-ion battery
Energy Storage
Energy Internet
Intelligent transportation
Zero Emission and autonomous vehicle
More….
Please visit: www.ucgec.org/events/2020iges (or copy and paste the address in your web browser) for the conference agenda and free registration information. The Zoom meeting link will be sent to the registered attendees before the event.

Environmental Student Network Fundraiser Event
2020-12-08 16:00 - 21:00
The Environmental Student Network is hosting a fundraising event with Emporium Thai next Tuesday, December 8th from 4-9 pm. Here is the link to the event: https://www.groupraise.com/events/171014-ucla-environmental-students-network-at-emporium-thai
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Webinar Two: Park Equity Policy and Advocacy
2020-12-10 11:30 - 13:00
New research about the relationship between parks and life expectancy reveals that increasing park acreage in areas that face park deficits and lack trees could lead to significant population-level increases in life expectancy. It also shows that targeted investments in park infrastructure would significantly benefit the health of Latino and Black community members.
In this webinar series, you’ll hear from the UCLA professor who conducted the research and representatives of community-based organizations that will use its results to push for park equity. The project was based in Los Angeles County, but it provides insights for cities across the country.
Webinar Two: Park Equity Policy and Advocacy
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Learn more about policy, advocacy, and power building for park equity. Register here.
Speakers:

Manal J. Aboelata, Deputy Executive Director, Prevention Institute
Elva Yañez, Health Equity Director, Prevention Institute
Alessandro Rigolon, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
Francisco Romero, Program Manager of Community Transformation, Promesa Boyle Heights
Naomi Humphrey, Undergraduate Health Equity Fellow, National Health Foundation
Veronica Padilla, Executive Director, Pacoima Beautiful

Simultaneous Spanish Interpretation will be provided.

UCLA Connections - Looking Ahead: Science, Facts and the Public Debate
2021-01-14 18:00 - 19:00
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As a new U.S. presidential administration prepares for the four years ahead, coping with intersecting challenges including a pandemic, persistent inequality, climate change policy and a sea of misinformation, UCLA experts discuss what role institutions of higher learning will play in addressing the crises of our times.
How can universities help champion science and evidence in a skeptical society where fact-based professions like journalism and medicine are under attack? When we are often divided into disconnected and conflicting media bubbles, how can universities help inspire people to embrace reliable facts as a means to heal our economy, our planet and our culture?
UCLA environmental humanities scholar Ursula K. Heise, public health researcher Gilbert Gee, and internet and society expert Safiya U. Noble come together in a discussion moderated by storyteller and curator Chon Noriega.
Opening remarks by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block

2021 Energy Jobs Fair
2021-01-18 12:00 - 16:00
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Looking for an internship or full-time position in 2021? Join us at the sixth annual Energy Jobs Fair to connect with employment opportunities and network with recruiters and other students passionate about careers in renewable energy and sustainability! RSVP ahead of time to receive the event link, instructions, and descriptions of the companies and their open positions.
Attending companies include the Association for Energy Affordability, Grid Alternatives, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, CivicSpark, Clean Power Alliance, and more! Please email uclarenewable@gmail.com with any questions.

Diversity and Inclusion in Sustainability Workshop
2021-01-23 09:00 - 17:00
Unheard Voices Diversity and Inclusion in the Environmental Movement
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UCLA’s Center for Diverse Leadership in Science will be hosting a one day- two part workshop on January 23rd.
The first half of the day will be a training session on racial equity and infusing justice into the environmental movement which is open to all who are interested.
The second half of the day will be a training on working within the community and will include community organizers from “The Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples’, ‘Rivers in Action’ and ‘Tree People’ to network and collaborate with on projects. The second half of the day will be reserved for representatives from UCLA’s sustainability and environmental groups.
Registration is free and open to the first 300 people to apply. Please circulate to whoever you think might be interested. If you have any questions please email tannerwaters@g.ucla.edu

Sustainability Office Hours
2021-01-26 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-02-16 15:00 - 16:00
Come chat with the UCLA sustainability team about anything and everything you’re curious about each third Tuesday of the month from 3-4PM.
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Accelerating Clean Energy Transitions
2021-01-27 11:00 - 12:30
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Free webinar. Open to the public. Registration required. This webinar will debut new research on how Community Choice Aggregators (CCA) have exceeded California’s renewable energy targets. We will also illuminate how rapid CCA growth has encouraged investor-owned utilities to outpace California’s requirements for renewable energy. The conversation will address concerns about system reliability and look toward the future of clean energy in California and beyond.
This webinar will begin with two short presentations followed by a panel discussion featuring leading state policymakers.

Covering the Coast
2021-01-29 16:00 - 17:30
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Join us for a conversation about the legacy of ocean pollution on the California coast in an era of climate change and other stressors. Rosanna Xia will discuss her work as an environmental reporter and storyteller for the Los Angeles Times, including the story she broke in the fall about decades of previously unknown DDT dumping in the Catalina Channel.
In the second part of the event, Mark Gold (Deputy Secretary, Coast and Oceans, California Natural Resources Agency) and Sean Hecht (Faculty, UCLA Law School) will join to discuss the implications of this DDT dumping ground and what can be done about it. Jon Christensen (Professor at the UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability) will moderate both conversations.

Let's Get Quizzical: Sustainability Jeopardy
2021-02-03 18:00 - 19:30
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Join us for a fun night of Sustainability trivia with guest speaker Tamar Christensen! UCLA faculty member, Tamar Christensen, will talk to us about living a zero waste lifestyle during COVID-19 and show us how she does this from her home. This will be followed by a sustainability focused jeopardy game hosted by members of the Residential Life Sustainability Team, Charlee Jean Johnson and Lujain (Lulu) Altawarah. Make sure you listen closely to Tamar’s talk because it’ll be its own jeopardy category!
Feel free to attend our event in a team of two or come prepared to create a team of new people to win great prizes! The first place winners will each receive UCLA zero waste kits and the second place winners will each receive a reusable water bottle, reusable utensil set, and metal straw. Registration is open to all individuals and you are not required to be affiliated with UCLA to register.

Preparing for Even Wilder Wildfires
2021-02-04 11:00 - 12:00
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Free webinar. Open to the public. Registration required. This session will explore the impacts of wildfires on health, low-income housing, and small water systems, as well as highlight innovative tactics to increase resiliency, especially for populations that are most vulnerable to wildfire. This session is part of the Luskin Summit series.

Nikole Hannah-Jones Fireside Chat
2021-02-16 16:00 - 18:00
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Please join us for a keynote speaking event featuring Nikole Hannah-Jones, a MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. The event, moderated by Dr. Eraka Bath, will reflect on and explore Blackness, not only in the context of our nation’s history but also in science and medicine.

A Landmark Opportunity for Park Equity
2021-02-17 11:00 - 12:00
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Free webinar. Open to the public. Registration required. The pandemic has proved the importance of public parks for our physical and mental well-being, as well as the environmental health of our communities. During this watershed moment, new funding and initiatives offer an opportunity to improve access to public spaces for all. This discussion will illuminate new pathways to increase park equity in Los Angeles and beyond. This session is part of the Luskin Summit series.

Net Impact UCLA: Sustainability Impact Spotlight
2021-02-17 16:00 - 18:00
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Join us this February 17th for the annual speaker panel hosted by Net Impact UCLA! This winter quarter, we focus on leaders, innovators, and pioneers that are creating an impact within the field of sustainability. We will discuss topics ranging from social change to entrepreneurship, followed by an open Q&A session. If you are interested, register at the link above!

UCOP Sustainability at Home: Creating a spring herb and vegetable garden
2021-02-24 12:00 - 17:00
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The UCOP Sustainability Affinity Group, in partnership with the UCOP Department of Energy and Sustainability, invite the UC community to participate in “Sustainability at Home”, a three-part virtual speaker series event in celebration of Earth Month (April).
Part one of the speaker series will kick-off on Wednesday, February 24th from 12-1pm with a presentation by UC Master Gardener, Shilpa Thanawala. UC Master Gardeners are volunteers trained and certified by the University of California to provide research-based information about home horticulture and pest management. They serve their communities by answering questions from the public, teaching workshops, leading plant clinics, and speaking on a variety of subjects.
During this one hour presentation, Shilpa will demonstrate how we can be sustainable at home by planting spring herbs and vegetables (Her tomatoes in containers are legendary!) and answer any gardening questions you may have. So, grab a fork and join us for this lunchtime presentation!
The celebration continues next month with a UC Master Composter presentation on recycling and composting and concludes in April with a presentation on canning, pickling and dehydration by UC Master Food Preservers.

The Impact of Climate and the Physical Environment on Human Health
2021-02-25 11:30 - 12:30
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About the speaker:
Richard Joseph Jackson, MD MPH FAAP HonAIA HonFASLA, is Professor emeritus at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was Department Chair in Environmental Health Science. A pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. In October, 2011, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and since 2019 he has been co-lead of the NAM’s Health and Climate Interest Group.
Jackson was instrumental in establishing the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and in the creation of state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established major environmental public health programs and instituted the federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He has received its Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund; Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association and from the New Partners for Smart Growth; the John Heinz Award for national leadership in the Environment; the Sedgwick Memorial Medal, the highest award of the American Public Health Association for Distinguished Service. In 2015 he received the Henry Hope Reed Award for his contributions to Architecture.
Dick Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to Climate Heating, Built Environment, and Health. He co-authored the books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Making Healthy Places, and Designing Healthy Communities for which he hosted a four hour PBS series. He has served on many environment and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. He is an elected Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects and elected Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Jackson has testified before the US Congress and California Legislature many times. He is from Newark NJ. When he was age 3, his World War 2 fighter pilot father died of polio. He and his spouse, Joan, live in Berkeley, California, and have three grown children and five grandchildren.

High Impact Tea with Dr. Richard Jackson, MD MPH
2021-02-25 11:30 - 12:30
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Richard Joseph Jackson, MD MPH FAAP HonAIA HonFASLA, is Professor Emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, where he was Department Chair in Environmental Health Science. A pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award. Since 2019, he has been co-lead of the National Academy of Medicine’s Health and Climate Interest Group.
Jackson was instrumental in establishing the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and in the creation of state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established major environmental public health programs and instituted the federal effort to “biomonitor” chemical levels in the US population. He has received its Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund; Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association and from the New Partners for Smart Growth; the John Heinz Award for national leadership in the Environment; the Sedgwick Memorial Medal, the highest award of the American Public Health Association for Distinguished Service. In 2015 he received the Henry Hope Reed Award for his contributions to Architecture.
Dick Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to Climate Heating, Built Environment, and Health. He co-authored the books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Making Healthy Places, and Designing Healthy Communities for which he hosted a four hour PBS series. He is from Newark, NJ. When he was age 3, his World War 2 fighter pilot father died of polio. He and his spouse, Joan, live in Berkeley, California, and have three grown children and five grandchildren.

DGSOM EDI Lecture Series - Dr. Okanlami - Disabusing Disability
2021-02-25 12:00 - 13:00
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Nationally, he serves as the Disability Issues representative on the Steering Committee for the Group on Diversity and Inclusion at the AAMC, and the National Medical Association’s Council on Medical Legislation. He speaks around the country on topics related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, including, but not limited to the lack of black male physicians and creating a health system that is accessible and inclusive to both patients and providers with disabilities. He has been featured on CBS News, Fox News, PBS News Hour, and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He is leading efforts to create an adaptive sports program, providing access to physical fitness and recreational and competitive sports for all.

Careers in Sustainability Event
2021-03-01 17:00 - 18:00
On Monday, March 1st, from 5-6pm PT, Residential Life will be hosting a Careers in Sustainability Panel. Four recent UCLA graduates, Megna Patel, Nick Caton, Elias Platte-Bermeo, and Valeree Catangay, will speak about their job search process, what it is like to be a recent UCLA graduate working in sustainability, and what opportunities are out there for individuals interested in the same work. Please visit our Notion page for more information on each of these panelists and to also register for the event linked here: tinyurl.com/SustCareersUCLA.

Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
2021-03-03 12:15 - 13:30
Please join the Emmett Institute this Wednesday, March 3, at 12:15 p.m. PST, for a talk with Harvard Law professor Richard Lazarus to discuss his book, The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court, on the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA decision and the court’s role in environmental law and policy.
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When the Supreme Court announced its ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA the decision was hailed as a landmark, leading EPA to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants and making possible important environmental safeguards which the Trump administration sought to unravel, and which President Biden is now planning to restore. The case has been recognized as the most important environmental law decision made by the Supreme Court.
At an Emmett Institute book talk on Wednesday, March 3, Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and author of The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court, will describe how accidents, infighting, luck, superb lawyering, and the arcane practices of the Supreme Court collided to produce a legal miracle. Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Co-Executive Director of the Emmett Institute, will moderate the conversation.
