Davis Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet - Virtual Movie Screening
2021-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Hosted by UC Davis Health Sustainability, with a short introduction from Colleen McCormick, Sustainability Director.
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Honest, revealing and urgent, DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET is a powerful first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations.
Created by award-winning natural history filmmakers Silverback Films and global conservation organization WWF, the film is Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes and Keith Scholey and Executive Produced by Colin Butfield. Celebrated British naturalist Sir David Attenborough has a broadcasting career spanning over eight decades. He has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and bringing the wonders of the living world to audiences worldwide through groundbreaking natural history series. His work includes: Life on Earth, Planet Earth and more recently the Netflix original documentary series Our Planet.
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Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future
2021-04-26 - 2021-04-28
Our future depends on our collective ability to become effective stewards of the global commons – the climate, ice, land, ocean, freshwater, forests, soils and rich diversity of life.
The first Nobel Prize Summit brings together Nobel Prize laureates, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and youth leaders to explore the question: What can be achieved in this decade to put the world on a path to a more sustainable, more prosperous future for all of humanity?
Across three days, the virtual event will combine keynotes and lively discussion with live performance and theatre. Speakers will explore solutions to some of humanity’s greatest challenges: climate change and biodiversity loss, increasing inequality, and technological innovation in support of societal goals.
The summit will ask: what can we learn from our collective response to the global pandemic? And, how can societies distinguish facts from fiction in a new information ecosystem?
The Nobel Prize Summit is hosted by the Nobel Foundation and organised by the National Academy of Sciences in partnership with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre/Beijer Institute.
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Seedlings Green Career Panel
2021-04-26 17:00 - 18:00
On Monday April 26, join three top speakers from the NGO, startup and media worlds to learn more about their career paths, current roles, and how to also forge a career that makes a real difference in the world. From working at Tesla and founding a highly-rated startup, to leading campaigns at Greenpeace International, to reporting from the depths of the Amazon rainforest for TIME, our speakers have been there and done it – and they’ll tell you how.
The event is hosted by Seedlings, the media platform for the climate generation. We create an eco-friendly email that curates all that’s interesting, important and inspiring every week.
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Sustainability at Home: Preserving your Spring Harvest
2021-04-27 12:00 - 13:00
The UCOP Sustainability Affinity Group, in partnership with the UCOP Department of Energy and Sustainability, invites the UC community to participate in “Sustainability at Home”, a three-part virtual speaker series event in celebration of Earth Month (April).
Our third and final speaker series presentation will take place on Tuesday, April 27, from 12-1 pm. UCOP Director of Sustainability Matthew St. Clair will provide opening remarks on Earth Month followed by a presentation by UC Master Food Preserver and Master Gardener of Sonoma County, Tobi Brown. UC Master Food Preservers are volunteers trained and certified by the University of California to provide research-based practices to safely preserve food in the home, reduce food waste, increase food security, and engage Californians to explore healthy food. During this one-hour presentation, Tobi will explain how we can preserve our spring garden harvest through canning, pickling and dehydration and answer any questions you may have. So, bring your appetite to this lunchtime presentation!
To learn more the Sustainability Affinity Group, please contact Michael Aires at michael.aires@ucop.edu or Donna Seaward at donna.seaward@ucop.edu.
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Indigenous Lands and People: Taking Sovereignty Seriously
2021-04-27 12:15 - 13:45
This panel will probe the right to and history of nation-to-nation consultation practices in management of indigenous lands in the U.S., including failures to consult and the promise of a new trajectory for indigenous lands under the Biden Administration.
Monte Mills, Associate Professor and Director of the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic, Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
Geneva Thompson, Associate General Counsel, Yurok Tribe
Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona
Lauren van Schilfgaarde, San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Legal Development Clinic Director, UCLA Law (moderator)
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Growing the Intersectional Environmental Movement
2021-04-27 12:15 - 13:45
The national environmental movement has faced growing pressure to recognize that meaningful, enduring progress is more likely achieved through “big tent” organizing that reaches across social, economic, and racial justice movements. Morally and philosophically, environmentalists increasingly see their cause as intertwined with longstanding fights for economic justice and civil rights. Under a Biden administration, there is more opportunity than ever to grow an intersectional environmental movement, one that joins with those working for economic justice, civil rights, labor protections, and other cross-cutting causes. Is that happening? What are its contours and prospects?
Debra Gore-Mann, President and CEO, Greenlining Institute
Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Earthjustice (moderator)
Additional speakers to be announced
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Sustainability in the Virtual Workplace
2021-04-28 15:30 - 17:00
One year later, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to radically impact working patterns around the world. In a largely virtual world, it is important to consider the impacts of cloud computing, big data and web conferencing on corporate sustainability. Some of the benefits of widespread virtual work made the news during lockdowns last Spring: declines in traffic, air pollution, and the return of wildlife to normally congested urban areas. In this discussion, we will consider the continuing benefits on virtual work in conjunction with negative impacts that can stem from increased internet and data usage. Taking these concerns into account, we will discuss what the future of work might hold post-COVID.
The event will consist of a moderated roundtable discussion with opportunities for audience questions.
Featured speakers:

Mr. Chris Talbott, Cloud Sustainability Lead, Google
Mr. Armando Mann, Chief Business Officer, Hopin
Dr. Mark Handcock, Professor, UCLA Department of Statistics

Moderator:

Dr. Marilyn Raphael, Interim Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

In addition to the panelists, the audience will have the opportunity to hear short presentations from this year’s CPP student researchers on their findings related to the pandemic’s impacts on corporate sustainability. For more background on our student research projects, please visit our website.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Plastic Waste Management in LA
2021-04-29 16:00 - 17:30
Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly altered both plastic generation and plastic waste management systems. With increased demand for household products, takeout dining, and personal protective equipment, came increased generation of plastic, and particularly single-use plastic. Consequently, many of the existing environmental problems related to plastic generation, disposal, and management were exacerbated. Even before the pandemic, recycling systems and policies aimed at reducing plastic pollution were not enough to cull the ever increasing rate of plastic going into our environment and particularly our oceans.
Though the pandemic intensified an already indisputable plastic waste crisis, it also proved our society is capable of monumental adaptation to benefit the health and wellbeing of our communities. Focusing on this potential bright side, our white paper explores innovative ways of reducing plastic waste in commercial buildings, the largest generation category of plastic waste in California. With many office workers telecommuting until a vaccine is fully distributed in mid-2021, building owners currently have a unique opportunity to update building technologies and policies to curtail commercial building plastic consumption long-term.
Join the Los Angeles Sustainability Executives Roundtable (LASER) and USGBC-LA for a panel discussion to dive deeper into the issue of plastic waste and commercial buildings in Los Angeles. The expert panel will be followed by breakout Q & A session.
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InterActions LA 2021
2021-05-07
Economic relief to individuals is playing a major role in helping people in LA make ends meet during the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanded unemployment payments and sporadic federal relief checks provided cash to people struggling to make rent and buy food. These pandemic-related cash supports are drawing attention to the role that guaranteed income programs can play in helping individuals get out of poverty.
A growing number of places in California, across the country, and the world are piloting programs and approaches to get money to the people who need it most. From Black and Pacific Islander mothers to low-income older adults to citywide programs in Stockton and Compton, guaranteed and universal basic income programs are gaining traction. Each program is demonstrating this concept on different populations and outcomes. In South Korea, basic income recipients were restricted to spending their dollars only in their local neighborhood. In San Francisco, the program seeks to improve maternal and child outcomes by providing cash support before the child is even born. All of these programs try to address deep economic concerns that low- and middle-income households face in high-cost regions.
How can these local issues be addressed through a federal program that potentially provides cash support? What have cities learned about their role in providing cash relief through these pilots and pandemic relief? If a federal basic income program existed, what role could local and state governments play? This spring, InterActions LA will bring together the latest thinking and action on the opportunities and applications around moving toward a guaranteed income for people who could benefit in the Los Angeles region.

Schedule and full speaker details to come.
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Finding Meaning in the Face of COVID, Community Injustice, and Political Polarization
2021-05-13 14:00 - 15:00
The Semel Healthy Campus Initiative & MindWell team invites you to the 5th annual Eudaimonia Event!
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La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Annual Lecture
2021-05-15 17:00 - 18:00
Join us for a live stream of the 2021 Annual ‘La Kretz Center Lecture’ which features our first decade of UCLA La Kretz Center Postdocs. The event will highlight our panelists’ current conservation work and goals.Our postdoctoral program has been one of the main accomplishments at the La Kretz Center. Our awardees are an incredibly interesting, and passionate group of young conservation scientists.
For this year’s Annual Lecture, Director Brad Shaffer will interview past and present La Kretz Postdocs about their ongoing planned conservation research.Each will present a 3-4 minute lightning talk on their proudest accomplishments and plans for future work.
There should be plenty of time for panelists to answer follow-up questions as a group and in individual breakout rooms. Pour your favorite beverage and learn what this amazing group of young scientists have been conserving!
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COVID: Taking the Journey Together (A Guided Conversation)
2021-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to leave many of us grieving all that we’ve lost in its wake. We might find ourselves longing for a much-needed hug, the holding of a fearful hand, or the joy of sharing a belly laugh with one another. There is also the uneasiness & fear of living with uncertainty. How do I make plans for the future? Where will my joy come from, my peace? Will we ever get back to normal? Do I have what it takes to thrive in this new reality? These are deep spiritual questions without easy answers. If you have been touched by COVID, join us. You are not alone.

Please join the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology Chaplain, Michael Eselun, as we explore and share with each other in a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental space, this spiritual journey that COVID has carved out for us. The Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology provides whole person psychosocial and spiritual care to those touched by cancer and their loved ones at UCLA.

Capacity is limited and first come first serve, so please email cimbery@conet.ucla.edu if interested in participating.

Now, More Than Ever: Movement Building for Climate, Racial, and Health Justice
2021-05-20 14:30 - 16:00
This is the third session of the series: Now, More Than Ever: Movement Building for Climate, Racial, and Health Justice. There has never been a more critical time for advancing health, equity and social justice while addressing climate change. This session will focus on the synergies between climate and racial justice movements and their promise in improving health, and community-based advocacy and policy initiatives to promote climate and racial justice in California and beyond.
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Engineering in Action: Transportation Equity
2021-05-20 17:00 - 18:00
You’re invited to our next installment of our Engineering in Action series, which will bring together a panel of experts from L.A. to D.C. to discuss transportation equity. Discover how transportation planning and implementation impacts communities and the innovative solutions being developed to transform the cities of the 21st century.
This series was created in partnership with the UCLA Chapter of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) to address societal challenges encountered in engineering disciplines through an interdisciplinary lens.
We hope you can join us for this exciting discussion of how society can move towards accessible, equitable, sustainable and affordable transportation for all.
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Municipal Green Building Conference & Expo
2021-05-21 - 2021-05-22
Our 2021 theme is The Time is Now!
The unprecedented events of 2020 punctuated the urgency of the climate crisis, the pervasiveness of racial inequities and environmental injustices, the deep impacts of housing unaffordability, and the vulnerability of our societal systems to handle extreme disruptions. “The Time is Now!” is a recognition that our actions to combat climate change, while strengthening our adaptive capacity, must be immediate, must be accelerated, and must be intersectional.

The Time is Now! for Climate Action & Rapid Decarbonization.
The Time is Now! for Adaptation & Resilience.
The Time is Now! for Equity & Environmental Justice.
The Time is Now! for Racial Healing & Building Community Power.
The Time is Now! for a Healthy Post-COVID Future.

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Queer Migrant Futures: Joy, Kinship, & Soul-Based Connection
2021-05-21 13:00 - 14:00
Love and laughter are essential to sustain our visions of futures beyond settler colonial borders. Join us on zoom for performances of poetry, song, and movement by acclaimed queer migrant artists Alan Pelaez Lopez, Yosimar Reyes, and Soultree. As we journey to a place of spirit and soul-based connection where joy, care, and kinship are prioritized over policies and reform, together we will open pathways to queer migrant futures. Audience Q&A with the artists will follow performances.
Featuring:
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Yosimar Reyes
Soultree
Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism
Art by Angélica
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Coastalong Festival
2021-05-22 13:00 - 18:00
Do you want to save the environment while jamming out to music? How about learning what you can do to be more sustainable? Coastalong Music & Sustainability Festival has you covered.
Hop on over and come watch our performers COAST MODERN, DARK DAZEY, WHITE JAGG, and LOVESICK CLUB and hear from key note speakers from United People on May 22nd @1pm PST.
We aren’t going to let anything get in our way to jam out so everything will be virtual and available here http://coastalongmusicfestival.com/
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Semel HCI 2021 Virtual Celebration: #BruinsTogether
2021-05-26 17:30 - 18:30
Featuring:
The UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center Eudaimonia Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

Jeanie Buss, Governor of the Los Angeles Lakers

Health Equity and Social Justice Panelists:

Metta Sandiford-Artest, NBA World Champion
Dr. Nicole Green, Director of CAPS
Dr. Michael Rodriguez, UCLA Professor
Jessica Arzola, Nurse and MPH Student
Miranda Kim, Assistant Student Wellness Commissioner

Musical Performances:

Resonance A Capella
David Flores of Las Cafeteras

The Jane B. Semel Appreciation and Recognition Awards Ceremony
Follow us on social media @healthyucla for exciting event updates and for a chance to win special prizes!
Be a part of the movement! #BruinsTogether
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Sustainability Action Research (SAR) Final Presentations
2021-05-27 16:00 - 18:00
Event Schedule
4:00pm Program Introduction
4:10pm Research Project Presentations

ASUCLA Licensing (4:10-4:25pm)
Academic Waste Diversion (4:25-4:40pm)
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (4:40-4:55pm)
Green Games (4:55-5:10pm)
Green Labs (5:10-5:25pm)
Plastic Policy Implementation (5:25-5:40pm)
Outdoor Spaces (5:40-5:55pm)

5:55pm Concluding Thoughts
ZOOM LINK
Sustainability Action Research (SAR) is a student-initiated, student-designed, and student-facilitated research program offered through the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability (IoES). In the winter and spring quarters of each academic year, students on Sustainability Action Research Teams are partnered with a campus stakeholder to research, rethink, investigate, and tackle UCLA’s greatest sustainability issues. The 2021 Sustainability Action Research Directors cordially invite you to join us in honoring the dedicated work of this year’s students and the incredible research they have been completing to further the sustainability of all aspects of the UCLA community.

California Native Ecological Knowledge, Culture, and Stories
2021-05-27 19:00 - 21:00
We’re hosting another class on traditional ecological knowledge led by native plant expert and cultural educator Nicholas Hummingbird! The class will be Thursday, May 27 at 7-9 pm via Zoom. Fill out this form to reserve your spot in the class. All are welcome to attend!
The first 70 UCLA-affiliated sign-ups can reserve a spot for free. We ask additional attendees to contribute $15-$35 to the speaker. We will email you with the link to the event and information on how to donate (if applicable) by May 26.

GreenShorts Award Ceremony
2021-06-10 16:00 - 17:00
Join us for a live stream for the 2021 annual GreenShorts Award Ceremony where we will celebrate wining short environmental films created by Southern California and Louisiana high school students.
With Greenshorts, high school students get a chance to sit in the director’s chair and win cash prizes. The contest invites two-minute-or-less films to showcase ideas, commentary and vision and the world.
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Categories:
Climate Trailblazers
Activists or communities making a positive climate impact
Ready Set Action
Solutions for the environment and sustainability
Power Poetry
Slam poetry about the environmental crisis we face
Out of the Box
Inspired by the environment, let your creativity run wild!
No Justice No Green
The intersection of environmentalism and social justice issues
Wild CA
Animals, plants, or natural systems found in the great outdoors
Learn more about GreenShorts

Freedom and Fugitivity
2021-06-11 10:00 - 11:00
The closing event of the Sanctuary Spaces Sawyer Seminar, Freedom and Fugitivity, thinks across Black feminism and Indigenous studies to foreground “beautiful experiments” of flight, refusal, and rebellion.
Featuring:
Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; 2019 MacArthur Fellow
In conversation with:
Aisha K. Finch, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies, UCLA
Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University
Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History, UCLA
Moderated by:
Sarah Haley, Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Black Feminism Initiative
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA
Chaired by:
Ananya Roy, Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography, UCLA
Co-organized with Black Feminism Initiative at UCLA
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism
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USGBC-LA's Thought Leadership Series: Reducing California's Fire Risk
2021-06-17 14:00 - 18:00
USGBC-LA is hosting this event to bring together the sustainability, green building, and fire prevention communities to jointly address wildfire resilience across California. The event will begin with virtual tours and expert interviews provided by local green building chapters in Northern and Southern California, lead to multiple keynotes from community leaders, feature panels from industry experts addressing the issues from a community and building level, and then conclude with networking and meeting space for fire safe councils throughout the state. The mini-conference aims to convene fire scientists, firefighters and fire safe councils, forest management professionals, cultural burning and environmental advocates, and more.
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Why We Care About Pollinators
2021-06-21 12:00 - 13:30
Dr. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and
Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored
100+ research articles and taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral
Ecology, Humans and Nature, and other courses for 40 yrs.
His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain
Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and
was awarded the 2008 silver medal by the Garden Writer’s
Association. Tallamy was awarded the Garden Club of America
Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd Jr.
Award of Excellence in 2013.
Tallamy encourages use of home gardens that
bridge the gaps between parks and preserves in
providing habitat for native species.
https://www.eprievents.com/event/ad7d7da3-ab4a-4f95-aec2-ecfc475d9f18/summary

Pollinator Art, Music, Culture
2021-06-22 12:00 - 13:00
Jane Breckinridge is the director of the Euchee Butterfly Farm located in Leonard, Oklahoma, and an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She has spent the last twenty years raising and exhibiting butterflies throughout the United States and Canada, as well as providing community and youth education on butterflies.
In 2013, Ms. Breckinridge founded the Natives Raising Natives Project, which is teaching rural tribal members to be butterfly farmers in order to reduce unemployment, promote science education for Native youth and raise awareness of the need for protecting the fragile ecosystems that support butterflies and other threatened pollinators. She is the co-director of Tribal Environmental Action for Monarchs (TEAM) and Tribal Alliance for Pollinators (TAP) which partner with Monarch Watch and Native American tribes to restore habitat on tribal lands.
She has spent over thirty years working in the magazine publishing industry, specializing in audience development and consumer marketing, and graduated from Macalester College with a BA in Political Science.
https://www.eprievents.com/event/ad7d7da3-ab4a-4f95-aec2-ecfc475d9f18/summary

Pollinator-Friendly Cooking Demo and Interview with Celebrity Chef, Helen Cavallo
2021-06-23 12:00 - 13:00
Helen Cavallo is of Colombian and Italian descent, and that background has dictated her love of food and family. Helen’s cooking style focuses on big, bold flavors, while always highlighting the main ingredient. Her culinary education came from her upbringing, having learned to cook from some of the best…her family, pros at feeding an army and cooking from the land. Through extensive travel in Europe and South America, Helen has learned the importance of sustainable agriculture and lifestyle. That way of life, coupled with her family-taught values, drive Helen’s desire for excellence in her own catering and restaurant businesses.
Food & Bounty restaurant bases it’s menus on everything that is seasonal and fresh. Menus change according to what’s available at farmers markets and their front yard garden. Food & Bounty is passionate about sourcing the highest quality ingredients and builds relationships with it’s vendors, mostly from small farms where produce and humanely raised livestock come from. Helen uses the simplest of methods for cooking and preparing food, believing firmly that an ingredient will shine on it’s own, offering up the best flavors when handled with the proper care and attention. In the Food & Bounty kitchen you will always find olive oil and fresh herbs to help create the boldest of natural flavors.
Chef Helen Cavallo is also the host of That’s Fresh, a short-form cooking show for moms and families produced by Disney. The show premiered September 2012 and airs on the Disney and Disney Junior channels. Through simple techniques and preparations, Helen showcases one main ingredient in recipes that are accessible, fun and above all, delicious!
Recently added is That’s Fresh Colombia, which airs in Colombia, South America. The show focuses on two of Helen’s favorite things food and family bringing her easy to make and delicious recipes to her family’s kitchen where Helen and her aunts cook together… back to her roots.
https://www.eprievents.com/event/ad7d7da3-ab4a-4f95-aec2-ecfc475d9f18/summary

When You Are Sleeping: Bat Magic
2021-06-24 12:00 - 13:00
Mylea Bayless leads Bat Conservation International (BCI) Network & Partnerships Division with more than 20 years of experience in building collaborative teams for conservation, research, and wildlife management. “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The wisdom of this African proverb defines her approach to conservation. A life-long student, she is thrilled to be focusing her natural affinity for people to develop strategic partnerships that will grow our impact around the world. Bayless joined BCI in 2006, with a career portfolio including State and Federal agency service and Academic research. Including bats, her research background includes a variety of wildlife (including spotted owls, bald eagles, American pronghorn, Merriam’s turkeys, and Rocky Mountain elk). She holds degrees from Colorado State University (B.S., M.S.).
https://www.eprievents.com/event/ad7d7da3-ab4a-4f95-aec2-ecfc475d9f18/summary

Pollinator and Bee Identification 101
2021-06-25 12:00 - 13:30
https://www.eprievents.com/event/ad7d7da3-ab4a-4f95-aec2-ecfc475d9f18/summary

Virtual Workshop: Countrywide Climate Vulnerability Findings
2021-07-01 13:00 - 14:30
Come to our workshop and learn about the risks that climate change presents to communities and infrastructure. Preview our mapping tool and explore ways you can use the assessment to empower your community to be climate resilient.
https://tinyurl.com/lacountycva

UIC Summer Institute on Sustainability & Energy
2021-07-05 - 2021-07-16
About SISE
The Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE) is usually described as an annual two-week “boot camp” on energy and sustainability — but it’s much more. SISE is a “we,” a community invested in broad issues related to energy, the environment, and sustainability, and a space that values diverse people, disciplines, perspectives, and experiences. Within this space, we engage with future and current thought leaders and societal influencers. Through conversation, critical thinking, and community engagement, we create and share knowledge to shape the future.
SISE 2021 Theme: Finding Ecosystem
Since March 2020, the idea of staying within one’s “bubble” has been a necessary part of daily life. But bubbles are not new, and individuals have been in “bubbles” their whole lives. Some are elected, such as political or ideological affiliations, and some are assigned due to race or gender. We can move freely between some bubbles, and sometimes we can exist in two bubbles simultaneously.
Bubbles. Silos. Ecosystems. Depending on one’s frameworks, and whether we consider the micro or the macro levels, perspectives gained can be focused or broad, restrictive, or all-encompassing. So when we talk about “energy” and “environment” and “climate change,” what do we include and exclude in our individual and collective definitions, our “bubbles”? And what do we not know (that we don’t know) that would impact our personal opinions and collective choices?
In SISE 2021: Finding Ecosystem, we will consider the broad ecosystem of energy, how that fits into the response to climate change, and how a broad strategy inclusive of science, culture, and environmental justice can be catalysts for creating change. Selected Fellows will be asked to hone their critical thinking skills throughout as they engage experts and each other through rigorous discussion and debate.
SISE is free for everyone, participating Fellows and virtual attendees. When in-person, SISE also covers the cost of lodging in Chicago and often assists with transportation to and from the program, thanks to the Alvin H. Baum Family Fund’s kind contributions.
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