UCLA Sustainability

UCLA Bikeshare Launch!
2017-10-03 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Dickson Court North
UCLA Transportation is excited to announce that Bruin Bike Share will be officially launching on Tuesday, October 3, 2017.
Join us at Dickson Court North from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the ribbon-cutting event with food, fun, prizes and giveaways! There will also be an inaugural group ride for a limited number of participants.
Timed with the kick-off of Rideshare Month, Bruin Bike Share brings 130 bikes to 18 hubs throughout the campus and Westwood Village. UCLA students, staff and faculty will enjoy discounted membership plans to ride the bikes for quick, one-way trips. Run errands, cruise across campus, meet up with friends and more!

Annual UCLA Rideshare Fair and Rideshare Month
2017-10-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Bruin Plaza
Tired of dealing with traffic or paying for parking? Join UCLA Transportation in celebrating UCLA Rideshare Month during October!
WHAT IS RIDESHARE
Rideshare is the shared use of transportation through public transit, carpool, vanpool, biking and walking.
PLEDGE TO SHARE THE RIDE
Pledge with UCLA Transportation to commute to UCLA by public transit, carpool, vanpool, bike, or foot from now until October 31. Those who pledge below will have the opportunity to win a Fitbit, Amtrak tickets, gift cards, Metro passes and more!
Click here to read the terms and conditions of both the pledge and prize drawings.

RIDESHARE WEEK CELEBRATION
Come celebrate with us at our Rideshare Month Fair on Thursday, October 5, at Bruin Plaza from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Participate in a variety of fun activities and prize drawings aimed at promoting sustainable transportation and a healthy lifestyle.
Wilshire Center and Medical Center employees can also join in on the fun by visiting us at one of our tables during Rideshare Week. Bring coworkers and learn more about alternative transportation, enter into prize drawings and receive free giveaways!
Please also join us for the monumental launch of Bruin Bike Share on Tuesday, October 3.

Monday, October 2, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center Dining Garden
Tuesday, October 3, Bruin Bike Share Launch, from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Dickson Court North
Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 8 a.m. – 10 a.m. at Trimana Cafe in the Wilshire Center
Thursday, October 5, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Bruin Plaza

Thank you for joining us in our quest to promote a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
Please Note: If you are pledging from a phone or tablet, please click here to complete the online form.

IOES Climate Series: Climate Change Cliff Notes
2017-10-05 18:00 - 20:30 | La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90036, United States
Thursday, October 5 Climate Change Cliff Notes
There are so many questions about climate change and climate science. Is climate change right now really worse than climate change in the past? Isn’t it true that there has been a pause in warming in the ten years? Will the ice caps melt? Can we really blame heat waves, hurricanes, and droughts on global warming?
Conversation with
Michael Mann, The Madhouse Effect author
Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist
Sarah Feakins, USC Associate Professor of Earth Science
Moderated by
Bob Lalasz, founder and principal consultant of Science+Story Communications
EVENT DETAILS
WHEN
10.5.2017 – 11.16.2017
6:00 PM Doors open, 7:00 PM Discussion/Lecture followed by Q&A, 8:30 PM Program concludes
WHERE
La Brea Tar Pits Museum
5801 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Hammer Museum: Threats to Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Today
2017-10-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Hammer Museum
Indigenous peoples across Latin America face widespread annihilation as a consequence of mega dams, mining, farming, deforestation, displacement, and genocide. Researchers Sarah Shenker of Survival International, Lois Frank of the Cultural Conservancy, and anthropologist Mariana Ferreira discuss this humanitarian crisis and highlight the interconnection of human populations across North and South America, and the impact on biodiversity and environmental protection.

Environmental Graduate Student Networking Event
2017-10-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Luskin School of Public Affairs, Third Floor Commons and Patio

Emmett Institute Lunch Talk on Climate Change Litigation
2017-10-11 12:15 - 13:15 | UCLA Law School, Room 1447
Lunch talk with Vic Sher, lead lawyer on several high-profile climate change lawsuits recently filed by California local governments to seek damages from large fossil fuel companies for the impacts of sea level rise.
RSVP by October 6th, space is limited: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTU2e5T12N_JPCogHOY6vBEdZHnsds2hlDZ06eTzXzbmYW5Q/viewform
Please join us to hear from Vic Sher, lead lawyer on several high-profile climate change lawsuits recently filed by California local governments to seek damages from large fossil fuel companies for the impacts of sea level rise.
Vic Sher has spent his career developing and prosecuting unparalleled legal strategies to protect people and the planet. Over the past 30 years, he has achieved exceptional success-as a litigator, a consultant and as the leader of the world’s largest public interest environmental law firm-on behalf of communities and non-governmental organizations against the world’s most powerful polluters and largest law firms. Beyond representing public agencies and organizations in active lawsuits, Vic consults on effective litigation strategies with government agencies, national and local non-profit organizations, and attorneys around the country.
From 1998 through 2011, Vic’s practice focused solely on representing public water suppliers and other public agencies in lawsuits against the manufacturers of toxic chemicals polluting drinking water sources. He was a partner with Miller & Sher in Sacramento from 1998 through 2002, then founder and principal litigator with Sher Leff LLP in San Francisco from 2003 through 2011. In 2009, Vic served as New York City’s lead trial counsel in City of New York v. ExxonMobil, a federal jury trial over MTBE contamination in Queens that resulted in a verdict for the City of $104.7 million. His team was recognized as a Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year finalist.
Vic practiced with the public interest law firm Earthjustice (then known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) from October 1986 until June 1997, including as its President from 1994 to 1997. As President, he acted as the CEO for the world’s largest public interest environmental law firm, with 50 lawyers in ten offices. The American Lawyer called some of his work during this period among the “most important public lands management litigation in this country’s history.” The ABA Journal noted that Vic’s lawsuits caused a “dramatic new direction in forest policy” for tens of millions of acres of federal forests, “forcing an end to business as usual”. He also litigated many cases to protect communities from toxic chemicals, preserve endangered ecosystems and species, conserve public lands, and improve air and water quality.

WASTED! The Story of Food Waste (Climate Resolve and LA Food Policy Council Event)
2017-10-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Laemmle Monica Film Center, 1332 2nd St., Santa Monica, CA, 90401, United States

LACI Day of Service at Community Healing Gardens
2017-10-14 09:00 - 13:00

The Cat That Changed America - Free Film Screening
2017-10-17 18:30 - 20:30
Date: Tue, October 17, 2017
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Pepperdine University Smothers Theater, Malibu

The Cat that Changed America is a documentary featuring P-22, the mountain lion who crossed two Los Angeles freeways, and now resides in Griffith Park. The film explores how humans in urban areas co-exist with wildlife.

Click here to make a reservation for this free showing.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cat-that-changed-america-film-screening-tickets-38117659947
This is the “official” Malibu showing, co-sponsored by Pepperdine, the City of Malibu, and Poison Free Malibu.
Rhiannon Bailard, founding Director of Pepperdine’s Center for Sustainability will be the emcee.
Mayor Skylar Peak will give opening remarks.

Please bring family and friends to see this inspiring documentary.
A reception with light refreshments and food will begin at 6:30 pm prior to the 7 pm screening.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion and questions with three of the people featured in the film:
1) Beth Pratt-Bergstrom California Director of the National Wildlife Federation and the leader of the Save LA Cougars campaign to build the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing
2) Dr. Duane Tom of the California Wildlife Center
3) Joel & Kian Schulman of Poison Free Malibu

Free Speech 101: UCLA’s Week on Freedom of Speech
2017-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 | De Neve Auditorium
As a renowned public university in one of the world’s most diverse cities, UCLA prides itself on vigorously protecting and celebrating free speech. Freedom of speech is a fundamental feature of our democracy and a crucial dimension of UCLA’s institutional and academic culture.
Yet there remain competing conceptions of free speech, how it should function in a liberal democracy, and its parameters across multiple dimensions of campus life—from the production of scholarship and course content, to the selection of campus speakers, to student protest and organizing. These important issues warrant, and in many ways require, campus-wide engagement and discussion.
To that end, the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Student Affairs are hosting signature events during Free Speech 101: UCLA’s Week on Freedom of Speech. These events and others during the week of October 16 will enable UCLA students, staff, faculty, alumni, community members, and friends of the University to listen to, reflect on, and express diverse perspectives and opinions about free speech and its role in the life of our democracy—and the life of UCLA. The week’s events are listed below. We look forward to and welcome your presence and participation.
FEATURED EVENTS

From Student Affairs:
What Is Civil Discourse? Challenging Hate Speech in a Free Society
Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 7 p.m.
De Neve Auditorium

From Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:
CrossCheck Live:
Campus Speech: A Right to Speak? A Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn?
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 3 p.m.
Pauley Pavilion Club

OTHER EVENTS
Fowler Out Loud: DaEun Jung
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 6:00 p.m., Fowler Museum

Journalism in Mexico: A Deadly Occupation
Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 7:30 p.m., Hammer Museum
Culture Fix: Heather Shirey on the Baiana and Afro Brazilian Identity
Thursday, October 19, 2017, 12 p.m., Fowler Museum

➡ CrossCheck Live Salon (presented by Equity, Diversity and Inclusion)
Thursday, October 19, 2017, 5:30 p.m., UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

Art on the Edge: Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries, Challenging Conventions
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 9:00 a.m., Fowler Museum

Barbara Dane: Celebrating a Lifetime of Jazz, Blues, and Songs for Peace and Justice
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 7 p.m., Royce Hall (free pre-show activities at 6 p.m.)

Off the Table: Waste Not Want Not
2017-10-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343

Luskin: New Directions in Environmental Policy, a discussion with California leaders
2017-10-19 16:30 - 18:00 | UCLA Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
DESCRIPTION

4:30 – 5:00 pm – Reception with complementary food
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Panel discussion on new directions in environmental policy
Coming just days after the deadline for Governor Brown to sign new legislation, this event will feature updates and insights about recent environmental policy decisions in the Golden State that made headlines or could because of their important implications.
Topics will include climate policy, clean energy and transportation planning, environmental justice, and more.
Panelists:
Senator Henry Stern, District 27
Former Senator Dean Florez, Board Member, California Air Resources Board
Janea Scott, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Moderator: J.R. DeShazo, Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Sustainival- sustainability fair hosted by Team Green on the Hill
2017-10-19 17:00 - 20:00
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 | 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.
