Environmental Justice Series at the IoES Event #2
REGISTER HERE Cynthia Babich Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee Cynthia Babich serves as the Executive Director of the Del Amo Action Committee. The DAAC is a grassroots...
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Explore the L.A. Zoo with Family Nature Club
Family Nature Club is back! Join the Los Angeles Zoo for FREE nature play on the last Saturday of every month, from 9AM to 10:30AM. Family Nature Club participants will spend the morning enjoying loosely structured outdoor play – exploring nature through art and building, observation and imagination. Families, caregivers, and children of all ages...
Stepping Toward Sustainability
Have you heard about the food-waste program that LA Sanitation & Environment (LASAN) just rolled out to households they serve? Join the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance to learn about the new food-waste program, and then for a conversation with Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky. REGISTER HERE James Roska, acting environmental engineer with LASAN, and Daniel...
Elizabeth DeLoughrey at the Counterforce Salon
Salon #5: Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Rebeca Méndez This fifth and final lecture in the series will feature Prof. Rebeca Méndez, the Chair of the Department of Design Media Arts and director of the Counterforce Lab, in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Professor in the English Department and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability...
Beyond The Pail: A Virtual Organics Recycling Town Hall
Join LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman on Monday, February 27th, from 6pm-7:30pm via Zoom for a virtual town hall. Learn more about the organics recycling process, and what the new requirements for food scraps and food-soiled paper are. Hear from local climate organizations and experts from LA Sanitation and the California Climate Action Corps about...
Two Years of Justice40: How the Initiative is delivering solutions to the climate crisis
President Biden has made addressing environmental injustices a priority by centering justice in his actions to address the climate crisis in the U.S. and abroad. A central pillar of the...
Vital Matters: Jainism and Ecology
Drawing inspiration from the sacred landscapes depicted on devotional textiles presented in Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings, Venu Mehta will discuss intersections of ascetic principles, spirituality and sociocentric environmentalism...
GRID Talks: Going Beyond Black History with Jacqui Patterson
GRID Talks is a new webinar series that brings together leaders from the environmental justice movement to discuss issues related clean energy access and to community-centered solutions. The webinars seek...
Under the Redwoods: A Sempervirens Fund Webinar Series – “Mycology, Redwoods, and Eugenics | Dr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian”
If you want to learn how mycology can inspire us to reconcile the troubling roots of the redwood conservation movement, join mycologist and Bard College visiting professor Dr. Patricia Ononiwu...
Kanner Forum: “Race, Urban Heat, and the Aesthetics of Thermoception”
Join UCLA English for a talk featuring Hsuan Hsu, professor of English at UC Davis. Professor Hsu’s talk will consider temperature as an atmospheric medium of environmental violence and embodied...