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Poppy Hour

Theodore Payne Foundation presents Fridays at 5:30-6:30pm PST A LIVE show, on the internet, about California native plant gardens, and the people and ideas behind them. Grab your beverage of choice and join us on Zoom or YouTube where you can share questions and comments during the hour. Join Evan, Margaret, Andrew, and Philip every...

The Future of Work: From COVID-19 to Automation to Artificial Intelligence

Monday, April 20, 2020 from 5:00 - 6:00 pm PST Moderated by Professor Terry Kramer, Faculty Director for Easton Technology Management Center, and including California’s first female Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Elana Zeide, PULSE Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Law and Policy at UCLA Law, and Matt Plummer, VP of Product Strategy at ZipRecruiter. This panel...

Fungi Day

April 21, 2020 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm As the 50th anniversary of Earth Day approaches, now more than ever, we need to recognize that our connections - to our planet and to one another - can have deep-rooted and long lasting effects on our lives and our collective future. On April 21st, we...

2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 1 – How to Be a 21st Century Naturalist

Tue, Apr 21 11:00am-12:00pm Get ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning more about community (citizen) science and the importance of being a naturalist in the 21st century. The interactive portion of this workshop will be an in-depth introduction to iNaturalist to get you ready to make observations for City Nature Challenge on April 24-27. Join...

Public Art and Sustainability in Uncertain Times: A Conversation with Wayne Healy

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Zoom bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom Cost: Free Wayne Healy's presentation will focus on the relationship between public art, culture, and sustainability. Presented by: Wayne Healy is a Los Angeles-based mural artist, former CSUN Art Department lecturer, CSUN alumnus, and co-founder of East Los Streetscapers (ELS), the most enduring public art team to come from East LA. Healy's work...

EarthRise: Earth Day Goes Digital

https://www.earthday.org/campaign/earth-day-earthrise/ On Earth Day, April 22, 2020, we have two crises: One is the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The other is a slowly building disaster for our climate. We can, will and must solve both challenges. The world was not prepared for the novel coronavirus. But we still have time to prepare — in every part of the...

Earth Day Strikes

STRIKE, DIVEST, AND VOTE TO SAVE HUMANITY AND OUR PLANET. On April 22-24, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, millions of people around the world are going online for a three-day mobilization to stop the climate emergency. Even if we’re stuck at home, we can still change the world. Join us for three days of...

Climate Justice and Pandemics: A Roundtable on Reflections, Personal Experiences and What we do Going Forward

Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 1:45PM to 3:00PM (EDT) Join us for a discussion with our faculty, students and staff to share their experiences with the global pandemic, their thoughts about the interactions of climate change and social justice. This roundtable will be an opportunity to hear and share what we as a community are feeling during these turbulent times. The event will...

2020 City Nature Challenge Livestream 2 – Nature in Place

Wed, Apr 22 11:00am-12:00pm Get ready for City Nature Challenge and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day by learning about nature near you and gaining some practical skills for nature observation around your home and neighborhood. The interactive portion of this workshop will cover tricks for smartphone photography, attracting nature to your home, and some thought-provoking discussion of natural history in...

Gardening in Unlikely Places: Growing in Containers with Yvonne Savio

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Location: Zoom bit.ly/CSUNSustainZoom Cost: Free Presented by: Yvonne Savio Yvonne Savio grew up on a 3/4-acre hillside lot in Pasadena growing year-round fruits and vegetables and flowers with lots of manure and compost and “making do” before it was called recycling or repurposing. She knows what “harvested at the perfect...