UCLA Sustainability

Sustainival- sustainability fair hosted by Team Green on the Hill
2017-10-19 17:00 - 20:00 UTC
Want to win a solar-powered cell phone charger? Now’s your chance!
UCLA Office of Residential Life and UCLA Housing & Hospitality Services are hosting the annual Sustainival Fair on October 19th, 2017 in Sunset Village. Sustainival brings vendors, games, sustainable giveaways, and FUN to the Hill. Don’t miss out!
GREEN is the New BLACK:
– Learn how you can live more sustainably
– Win prizes and decorate your own compost bin
– Join other students in making an IMPACT
– Find out how you can get involved
– Discover what UCLA is doing to be more sustainable

IOES Climate Series: Earth and Human Climate
2017-10-19 18:00 - 20:30 | La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
Climate change is the existential crisis of the 21st century. How it plays out, how we can curb it, and how we adjust to the changes already underway will define our generation.

This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation between the L.A. community and some of the world’s experts on all things climate.
DATES:
October 5 – Climate Change Cliff Notes
October 19 – Earth and Human Climate
November 2 – A Tale of Two Cities in a Hotter World: Los Angeles and Beijing
November 16 – Imagined Futures for a Hotter Planet
Thursday, October 19 Earth & Human Climate History
We can get hints about what climate change could mean for our planet and the things that live on it by looking at climate change in the past.
Conversation with
Emily Lindsey, Assistant Curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
Agustín Fuentes, University of Notre Dame Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology
Moderated by
Michelle Bezanson, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Santa Clara University

Healthy Campus Initiative Event: Setting the Table to Eat, Connect, and Build Community through Food
2017-10-24 16:00 - 19:00 | Hershey Hall, 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
DESCRIPTION

Envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel, the UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) invites you to join faculty, staff, and students from around the UCLA campus to Kick-off the new Engage Well pod and celebrate Food Day 2017 with the Eat Well pod.

Come learn about what you have in common with others on campus, particularly regarding food!

Enjoy revolutionary food from Locol!

Learn about efforts at the national level to make social relationships a public health priority from Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University.

Learn about intersections between food, social connections, and social justice from the Eat Well pod.

Help brainstorm ways to promote healthy social relationships at UCLA!

The Engage Well pod co-leaders are: Ted Robles, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Chris Dunkel Schetter, Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice Chancellor of Faculty Development
The Eat Well pod leader is Amy Rowat, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology

Dig Where You Are: Luskin Innovators Speaker Series Featuring Nan Alexander Doyal
2017-10-24 18:00 - 20:00
What if you discovered you have the power to change the world?
Reception, Presentation, Panel Discussion, Author Q&A, and Book Signing. Panelists to be announced.
RSVP HERE
About the Book
Dig Where You Are is about the potential in each of us to make a difference in the world by simply taking what we already know how to do and using it to make a meaningful change for the good. It is about seeing the opportunity in front of you to make something better and then doing something about it. It is not about wishing you were someone you’re not, but about recognizing and using the talents you have and including those around you in an effort to bring about change. This book is a collection of stories of people who have done exactly this. They started small and through persistence and grit they ended up creating something that had a big impact on the world. Even so, what we realize in reading these accounts is that it’s not about the size of the initial effort that matters; it’s that we are engaged and looking out for one another on an ongoing basis – this is what really creates scale in the long term. Furthermore, as we learn from these stories, there is no right way to start digging where you are and that is why it holds such promise.
About the Author
Nan Alexander Doyal has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Asia for more than three decades; most recently as President of The International Forum – an organization that designs active learning experiences for the leaders of global corporations. For more than ten years she led and managed this organization and its network worldwide; assessed the challenges facing global corporations and created programs to address these. Working with multi-disciplinary and multi-culture teams on the ground, she helped to design and run hands-on leadership and active learning programs in Japan, China, India, Thailand, Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Belgium and the United States. Prior to joining The International Forum she was a vice president with Ameritech Corporation in Chicago, Illinois, ran her own direct marketing firm, held several positions at American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. in New York, worked for Shiseido Co. Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan and for RBC Dominion Securities, in Toronto, Canada. She is a graduate of Smith College and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
In 2008 she began a journey to re-connect with people she had met in the world who were solving problems in creative and sustainable ways. She recounts their stories and what she learned in Dig Where You Are: How One Person’s Effort Can Save a Life, Empower a Community and Create Meaningful Change in the World. This is her first book.

Hungry for Change: Food Insecurity, Stress & Obesity
2017-10-25 09:30 - 16:30 | Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA
Hungry for Change: Food Insecurity, Stress & Obesity

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
9:30am-4:30pm
UCLA Ackerman Ballroom

HUNGRY FOR CHANGE
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Hungry For Change is presented by The UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST) & the UCLA Resnick Program for Food Policy and Law. This event invites critical exchange between forward-thinking researchers, healthcare providers, and policy advocates who are working to address many of the most urgent public health issues of our time: food insecurity, stress, obesity, and social equity.
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MORNING WELLNESS AND CONFERENCE CHECK-IN

8:00am Conference Check In Attendees welcome to check in throughout the day for one or all of the sessions.
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8:30am-9:15am Optional Morning Guided Meditation Session Led by Meditation Instructor Amanda Gilbert

SESSION I: FOOD INSECURITY AND OBESITY
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9:30am-9:40am Welcome to Hungry for Change from SSEW Directors Drs. Elissa Epel and Laura Schmidt, UCSF
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9:40am-9:50am Opening Remarks from Dr. Neal Baer, UCLA, Professor in the school of public health, pediatrician and award-winning writer and producer of TV shows and documentaries.
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9:50am-10:30 “Strategic Research in Preventing Hunger and Obesity” Dr. Kelly Brownell, Duke University

10:30-10:40 Break & Book Giveaways

SESSION II: MECHANISMS
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10:40am-11:15pm “Food Insecurity and Stress: From the Inside Out” Dr. Cindy Leung, UCSF & University of Michigan

11:15am-12:00pm Panel Discussion: “Food Insecurity, Stress, and Nutrition” Moderated by ​Dr. Elissa Epel, UCSF
Panelists include: Dr. Janet Tomiyama, UCLA, Dr. Deborah Cohen, RAND Corporation, Dr. Barbara Laraia, UC Berkeley, and Dr. Annie Gupta, UCLA.
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12:00pm-12:10pm Mindful Eating Meditation led by Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at Mindful Awareness Research Center
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12:10pm-1:00pm Lunch Break
Note: Tickets for the LOCOL Luncheon are currently SOLD OUT! Thanks for supporting!

1:00pm-1:45pm “Always Hungry: Through Abundance and Scarcity” Dr. David Ludwig, Harvard

SESSION III: INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
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1:45pm-2:30pm Panel Discussion: “University of California Leading the Way to Address Food Insecurity in Students” Moderated by ​Dr. Laura Schmidt, UCSF
Panelists include: Dr. Lorrene Ritchie, UC Agriculture & Natural Resources, Dr. Suzanna Martinez, UCB Nutrition Policy Institute, Ruben Canedo, UCB, and Antonio Sandoval, UCLA
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2:30pm-2:55pm “Emerging Scholars Present New Findings: Food Insecurity, Sugar Industry, Reward Driven Eating” Panelists Include: Tyler Watson, UCLA, Cristin Kearns, UCSF, Rachel Radin, UCSF, Erika Brown, UCB

2:55pm-3:05pm Break

3:05pm-3:40pm “From Local to National Programs: What works to address Food Insecurity?” Dr. Hilary Seligman, UCSF

3:40pm-4:25pm Panel Discussion: “Interventions in Policy: Innovative Approaches Addressing Food Insecurity” Moderated by ​Dr. Emilie Aguirre, UCLA & Harvard
Panelists include: Dr. Kelly Brownell, Duke University, Dr. Laura Schmidt, UCSF, Allison Korn, JD UCLA, Breanna Hawkins, LA Food Policy Council

4:25pm-4:30pm Closing Remarks

A Varied Path: Female Leaders Driving Clean Energy Policy
2017-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | La Kretz Innovation Campus, 525 South Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
A Varied Path: Female Leaders Driving Clean Energy PolicyThis unique event will showcase the careers of LA-based women who have impacted clean energy policy on federal, state, and local levels. Our illustrious panelists will discuss the unique and varied approaches they navigated in their career paths, the challenges they faced, and the forces that drove them to achieve the impacts they’ve made in clean energy. The event will provide a discussion platform for energy professionals (of all ages and genders) to learn and ask questions from industry leaders who have led the way.

Panelists:

Fran Pavley, Former California State Senator, and author of our state’s most important climate bills

Christine Harada, Senior Policy Fellow at LACI, Former Federal Chief Sustainability Officer under President Barack Obama, former head of Acquisitions for the GSA, and former rocket scientist

Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability and Economic Development Officer at LADWP, formerly led the White House Council on Environmental Quality

Moderator:

Kiran Srivastava, Energy Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton

Agenda:
6:00pm: Registration and Networking
6:30pm: Opening Remarks
6:40pm: Panel
7:30pm: Q&A

Off the Table Series: Harvesting Change: Fostering Partnerships for Food Security
2017-10-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Luskin School of Public Affairs, Third Floor Commons and Patio

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Screening and Livecast Q&A with Al Gore
2017-10-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Northwest Auditorium, 350 De Neve Dr,, Los Angeles,, CA, 90024
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Screening and Livecast Q&A with Al Gore
10/26/17
7-10PM

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/122419365073179/
Renewable Energy Association at UCLA is proud to partner with UCLA Housing to take part in a national screening event of the newly released An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power on Thursday, October 26th at 7PM in the Northwest Auditorium!
An Inconvenient Sequel is a documentary about former United States Vice President Al Gore’s continuing mission to battle climate change, and addresses the progress made to tackle the problem and Gore’s global efforts to persuade governmental leaders to invest in renewable energy.
**Even more exciting**, following the film we will be joining a live nationally telecasted Q&A with former Vice President Al Gore himself!
Entry is completely free for students, so we hope to see you there!

Renewable Energy Research Panel
2017-11-01 18:00 - 19:30
Renewable Energy Research Panel
11/1/17 at Engineering V, 5101
6-7:30PM

Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1745209102447436/
Come to REA’s first research panel! You will have the opportunity to learn more about current renewable energy research happening at UCLA, several professors’ personal views on renewable energy, and for a chance to ask questions and talk to professors in a more informal setting. Come out, enjoy free food, and learn about the latest updates in several facets of renewable energy! We will be having Dr. Simonetti (CBE), Dr. Kaner (Chem & Biochem), and Dr. Spokoyny (Chem & Biochem) as our guest panelists.

Hammer Museum: Food Evolution
2017-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum
Food Evolution

WEDNESDAY NOV 1, 2017 7:30PM

In the GMO (genetically modified organisms) debate, both pro and anti camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right? Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, this “scrupulous, optimistic” (Forbes) documentary by Academy Award–nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy goes to Hawaiian papaya groves, Ugandan banana farms, and Iowan cornfields to investigate the heated and polarizing debate about our food and where it comes from. (2017, dir. Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 92 min.)
A Q&A with director Scott Hamilton Kennedy follows.

Webinar: Let's Talk Climate: Expert Communications Strategies for the LA-Regional Health Community and Beyond
2017-11-02 11:15 - 12:00
“Let’s Talk Climate: Expert Communications Strategies for the LA-Regional Health Community and Beyond” on November 2, 2017, 11:15am – 12pm PT.
Climate Resolve’s Kristina von Hoffmann and ecoAmerica’s Dan Barry will cohost this webinar to address the health impacts of climate change in LA and nationwide. Participants will gain insight on research-based strategy for empowering a diverse audience on climate change and solutions and best practices for communications according to ecoAmerica’s “Let’s Talk Climate” and “15 Steps” guides.
We hope you can join us for this important conversation. Here is the link to register.

Conservation for Cities: Luskin Innovators Speaker Series Featuring Robert McDonald
2017-11-02 18:00 - 20:00
Luskin Innovators Speaker Series Featuring Robert McDonald
Reception, Presentation, Panel Discussion, Author Q&A, and Book Signing. Panelists to be announced.
RSVP HERE
About the Book
It’s time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will require a new approach to infrastructure if we’re going to be successful. Yet guidance on how to plan and implement projects to protect or restore natural infrastructure is often hard to come by.
With Conservation for Cities, Robert McDonald offers a comprehensive framework for maintaining and strengthening the supporting bonds between cities and nature through innovative infrastructure projects. After presenting a broad approach to incorporating natural infrastructure priorities into urban planning, he focuses each following chapter on a specific ecosystem service. He describes a wide variety of benefits, and helps practitioners answer fundamental questions: What are the best ecosystem services to enhance in a particular city or neighborhood? How might planners best combine green and grey infrastructure to solve problems facing a city? What are the regulatory and policy tools that can help fund and implement projects? Finally, McDonald explains how to develop a cost-effective mix of grey and green infrastructure and offers targeted advice on quantifying the benefits.
Written by one of The Nature Conservancy’s lead scientists on cities and natural infrastructure, Conservation for Cities is a book that ecologists, planners, and landscape architects will turn to again and again as they plan and implement a wide variety of projects.
About the Author
Dr. Robert McDonald is Senior Scientist for Sustainable Land Use at The Nature Conservancy, where he is lead scientist for the organization’s efforts to figure out how to make cities more sustainable. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from Duke University, and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, many of them on the science of how cities impact and depend on the environment. He blogs for The Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog and has published two recent essays on urban/environment interactions in a collection called Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Global Issues (McGraw-Hill) and in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

IOES Climate Series: A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles and Beijing
2017-11-02 18:00 - 20:30 | La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
Climate change is the existential crisis of the 21st century. How it plays out, how we can curb it, and how we adjust to the changes already underway will define our generation.

This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation between the L.A. community and some of the world’s experts on all things climate.
DATES:
October 5 – Climate Change Cliff Notes
October 19 – Earth and Human Climate
November 2 – A Tale of Two Cities in a Hotter World: Los Angeles and Beijing
November 16 – Imagined Futures for a Hotter Planet

Thursday, November 2 A Tale of Two Cities: Los Angeles & Beijing
It is tough to feel urgency when climate change seems like something happening to future generations, in faraway lands. The reality is, it is and will affect all of us, in every city on the planet. And it’s not all bad, by the way—some cities and people could benefit from global warming. To make climate change personal, local, and real, let’s talk about how it will affect two of the greatest cities in the world, Los Angeles and Beijing. We’ll compare notes on each city’s infrastructure and governance, actual on-the-ground impacts, and how residents might react.
Conversation with
Alex Hall, UCLA Professor of Atmospheric & Ocean Sciences and Director, IoES Center for Climate Science
Brad Shaffer, UCLA Evolutionary Biologist and Director, UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
Alex Wang, professor at UCLA School of Law
Moderated by
Stephanie Wear, Senior Scientist and Strategy Advisor at The Nature Conservancy

LABC Mayoral Housing, Transportation, and Jobs Summit: Smart Growth and Equity in and Expanding Economy
2017-11-03 07:00 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Confirmed Speakers
The Honorable Scott Weiner, California State Senator
John Adams, Managing Director, Principal, Gensler
Phil Ansell, Director, LA County Homeless Initiative
Dan Baer, Senior Vice President, National Planning Lead, WSP USA
Margareth Bonds, Senior Vice President, Parsons
Alice Carr, National Head of Community Development Banking, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Brad Cox, Senior Managing Director, Trammell Crow Company, Chair, LABC Institute
Andrew Gross, President, Thomas Safran & Associates
Doug Guthrie, President and CEO, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Clyde Holland, CEO & Chairman, Holland Partner Group
Lew Horne, President, Southern California & Hawai, CBRE
Hasan Ikhrata, President, SCAG
Richard Katz, Los Angeles Planning Commissioner
George Minter, Vice President, External Affairs and Environmental Strategy, SoCalGas
Judy D. Olian, Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Ann Sewill, Senior Vice President, Housing & Economic Opportunity, California Community Foundation
Nancy Sutley, Chief Sustainability & Economic Development Officer, LADWP
Phillip Washington, CEO, Metro
Kate White, Deputy Secretary of Environmental Policy and Housing Coordination, California State Transportation Agency
Richard Ziman, Chairman, Rexford Industrial, Founding Chair, Los Angeles Business Council Institute

Food Law Society-Eliminating Food Waste in LA: A Discussion of Food Waste under LA’s new Waste Hauling System
2017-11-07 17:30 - 18:30
Food Law Society- Eliminating Food Waste in LA: A Discussion of Food Waste under LA’s new Waste Hauling System
Tuesday November 7th, 5:30-6:30 @ UCLA Law School Room 1347, RSVP to email FLS@lawnet.ucla.edu

Luskin Off the Table Series: Breaking Bread: Community Building with Veterans and Farming
2017-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 | La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Tuesday, November 7. 2017
6:00 – 8:00 pm
La Kretz Garden Pavilion, UCLAPanel discussion on the community and health benefits of urban farming for the veteran population. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about the 14 acre veteran garden, right here in Westwood.
Moderator: Kris Skinner
Panelists:
Peter Capone-Newton
Michael Deluca
Jeremy Samson
Julie Sardonia
RSVP by Monday, November 6th

Farmers Market at UCLA
2017-11-08 14:00 - 18:00, 2017-11-29 14:00 - 18:00, 2018-01-17 14:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Plaza

Chasing Coral
2017-11-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Hammer Museum
Chasing Coral

WEDNESDAY NOV 8, 2017 7:30PM

Copresented by the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Marine Center and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
As the world’s coral reefs vanish at an unprecedented rate, a team of divers, photographers, and scientists race against time to preserve a sophisticated and vital part of our underwater ecosystem. This 2017 Sundance Audience Award winner captures on camera the vibrant life and tragic death of corals, presenting in epic scale our changing oceans and the urgent need to save them. (2017, dir. Jeff Orlowski, 93 min.)
A Q&A with director Jeff Orlowski and UCLA ecology professor Paul Barber follows.

ALL HAMMER PROGRAMS ARE FREE
Location: Billy Wilder Theater; seats 285.
Ticketing: Free tickets will be issued at the Box Office beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available one per person on a first come, first served basis. Early arrival is recommended.
Member Benefit: Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program and can choose their seats, subject to availability.
Parking: Under the museum, $6 flat rate after 6 p.m. Cash only.
Food and drink may not be carried into the Billy Wilder Theater. Read our food, bag check, and photo policies.

All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from an anonymous donor.
Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, an anonymous donor, The Samuel Goldwyn Foundation, and all Hammer members.
The Hammer’s digital presentation of its public programs is made possible by the Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.

Off the Table Series: Film Screening of 'Dolores'
2017-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
DESCRIPTION

Join us as we watch a documentary about Dolores Huerta, a leader alongside Cesar Chavez during the fight for racial and labor justice for farm workers and notable feminist of the twentieth century. The film reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to activism.
Parking will be available in Lot 3 for $12
Nearest bus stops are: Hilgard / Charing Cross (734, 234, 2/302) and Hilgard / Wyton (2/302)

RSVP LINK

IOES Climate Series: Imagined Futures for a Hotter Planet
2017-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
Climate change is the existential crisis of the 21st century. How it plays out, how we can curb it, and how we adjust to the changes already underway will define our generation.

This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation between the L.A. community and some of the world’s experts on all things climate.
DATES:
October 5 – Climate Change Cliff Notes
October 19 – Earth and Human Climate
November 2 – A Tale of Two Cities in a Hotter World: Los Angeles and Beijing
November 16 – Imagined Futures for a Hotter Planet
Thursday, November 16 Imagining Futures for a Hotter Planet
Artists, writers and media organizations are playing vital roles in conveying the science and ethics of global warming. This conversation will explore how experiments in environmental storytelling and media imagine possible futures for different communities and ecosystems in the context of planetary climate change.
Conversation with
Rita Wong, Poet, educator and activist
Marina Zurkow, Media artist and NYU Professor
Juan Devis, KCET Chief Creative Officer
Natale Zappia, professor of American History at Whittier College
Moderated by
Allison Carruth, UCLA Associate Professor of English and Director of Laboratory for Environmental Strategies (LENS)

Energy Jobs Fair
2017-11-20 17:30 - 20:00 | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90024
Energy Jobs Fair
Monday Nov. 20
5:30-8:00PM
James West Alumni Center (Founder’s Room)
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1339726742821115/
Description: Renewable Energy Association at UCLA (REA)’s annual Energy Jobs Fair is here! Each year, we bring energy companies to UCLA in the university’s only sustainability-focused career fair. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to network with professionals and land one of many diverse job/internship positions in the renewable energy industry in Southern California

Off the Table Series: What's on the plate? The Sustainability of Social Enterprises
2017-11-30 18:00 - 21:00 | LA Kitchen, 230 W Ave 26, Los Angeles, CA, CA, 90031, United States

Career Up Now: Environment and Sustainability
2017-11-30 18:30 - 21:30 | Hillel at UCLA, 574 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90024
Title: Career Up Now: Environment and Sustainability
Time: Thursday, November 30 6:30-9pm
Place: Hillel at UCLA – 574 Hilgard Ave.
Website: https://www.careerupnow.org/ladec2017
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/123432418324905/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

Hammer Museum Screening: Human Flow, and Q&A with Ai Weiwei
2018-01-04 18:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum
SCREENINGS

Human Flow, and Q&A with Ai Weiwei

THURSDAY JAN 4, 2018 6:30PM

This epic film by renowned artist Ai Weiwei is a detailed and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent stories that stretches through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and beyond. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders, Human Flow witnesses its subjects’ desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice. (2017, dir. Ai Weiwei, 140 min.)
A Q&A with Ai Weiwei follows the screening

Hammer Museum Screening: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Q&A with Al Gore
2018-01-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Hammer Museum
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Q&A with Al Gore

SUNDAY JAN 7, 2018 7:30PM

A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change to the fore of pop culture, Vice President Al Gore continues his fight to build a global network of advocates and influence international policy. Capturing moments both private and public, funny and poignant, this documentary follows Gore’s pursuit to overcome the perils of climate change through collective ingenuity and passion. (2017, dir. Jon Shenk & Bonni Cohen, 100 min.)
A Q&A with Al Gore follows the screening. Moderated by Tina Johnson, Policy Director, US Climate Action Network.

BruinTech Monthly Brown Bag: Search for the Super Battery
2018-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Math Sciences Virtualization Portal 5628 Math Sciences, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for our first Brown Bag of 2018!
Meet Maher El-Kady, Postdoctoral Research Associate from UCLA’s Kaner Lab and Chief Technology Officer of Nanotech Energy. He will discuss a smart city utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar and wind to produce electricity, an energy that is stored in batteries or hydrogen to run eco-friendly cars, consumer electronics, etc.
Imagine a world where you could charge your smart phone in just few minutes. Same goes for laptops, power tools, medical devices, even electric cars. Then imagine that instead of traditional batteries that run out of juice very quickly, you used long-lasting energy storage systems that can last three times longer on a single charge. That is just a snapshot of a world charged by Graphene Super battery. In this talk, I will highlight our activities at Nanotech Energy, Inc., in turning graphene and other nanomaterials research into safer, durable and more powerful batteries. I will also talk about our most recent discovery of a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars. This 3-in-1 device paves the way for fabricating technologically useful multifunctional devices that need only sun light to operate. The results are very promising and can be considered an important step towards more sustainable development.
About Nanotech Energy
Nanotech Energy, Inc., was formed in 2014 to move cutting-edge research on graphene-based energy storage devices developed at UCLA to the marketplace. Graphene has been hailed as the wonder material of the 21st Century, and Nanotech Energy is harnessing its properties to revolutionize the way we power our world. The technology Nanotech Energy is developing will create real-world benefits, from helping develop more cost-efficient, environmentally-friendly personal electronic devices to creating a more efficient way to harness renewable energy. Nanotech Energy owns more than 27 patent families covering all aspects from graphene production to applications in batteries, supercapacitors, printed electronics, and conductive adhesives. Prototypes have already been created and an operational factory is in development.
This is a Brown Bag, so please feel free to bring your lunch.
And your questions!

Center for Diverse Leadership in Science: Inaugural Social: Panel Discussion with Diverse Scientists
2018-01-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Mathmatical Science Building Room 7124
Hey, Bruins!
Who is a scientist, and how did I become one? Come join the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) for a panel discussion with UCLA scientists from a range of backgrounds on their career paths and the importance of inclusivity. During the event our panelists will field questions from the audience. Please RSVP!
Featuring:
David H. Gonzalez, Moderator, Graduate student in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences.
Marilyn Raphael, Professor in the Geography Department
Stephanie Pincetl, Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA.
Jesse Bloom Bateman, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for the Environment and Sustainability.

CDLS is focused on increasing diversity in STEM fields, to tackle the myriad challenges humanity currently faces. If you would like to stay up to date with our activities, visit the CDLS website and sign up for our mailing list.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email: cdls.ucla@gmail.com.
See you on the 18th!
CDLS Leadership Team
P.S. – Don’t forget to RSVP!

E3- Ecology, Economy, Equity- Student Organization Fair at UCLA
2018-01-24 11:00 - 14:00 | Dickson Court North
Come out to the first ever E3 Fair! Learn about our 9 campaigns and how E3 is making a difference on the UCLA campus. This is a great opportunity to get more involved in UCLA’s sustainability efforts.
These campaigns include:
– Sustainable Clothing
– Fair Trade
– Garden Mentorship
– Zero Waste
– Earth Month
– Farmers Market
– Water Conservation
– DIG: Campus Garden Coalition
– Coastalong (formerly Ecochella)
There will be free giveaways and a chance to win some awesome prizes!
