Climate Jobs Around the Green Ecosystem
2023-03-29 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Join and meet companies working byte by byte and acre by acre to solve the climate crisis.
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Action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them.

Hear about dozens of open roles, in a single event
Engage directly with CXOs and hiring managers
Get vetted by Terra.do and move into recruiters’ “priority lists”
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator's I-710 Blueprint Webinar - Delivering the Goods: How LA County can Invest in Drayage Electrification Infrastructure
2023-03-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the Transportation Electrification Partnership put forth a call for action in 2019 for 40% of all drayage trucks serving the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to be zero emission by 2028, and have steadily advocated for significant deployment of charging infrastructure to facilitate the rapid adoption of battery-electric trucks. To catalyze the needed investment, LACI has developed an investment framework for the heavily trafficked I-710 corridor that addresses the following questions:
– How much charging infrastructure investment in Los Angeles County is needed to support the Transportation Electrification Partnership’s 40% ZE Drayage Trucks by 2028 and the San Pedro Bay Ports target of 100% ZE Drayage by 2035?
– Where in Los Angeles County should stakeholders prioritize for early deployments of charging infrastructure? What criteria should we consider?
– How can the region cooperate to fund these investments and attract federal support?
– How can different entities in the goods movement industry deploy charging infrastructure to support the drayage?
To learn more about these and other insights, join LACI and its project partners, Coalition for Environmental Health and Justice & bp pulse fleet, as they share preliminary findings and recommendations from a California Energy Commission-funded Medium and Heavy-Duty Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Blueprint grant, An Investment Blueprint for Heavy-Duty Charging to Support Battery-Electric Drayage along the I-710 Corridor.
In this webinar, LACI and its partners will outline the framework and process they created to identify specific site locations with characteristics ideal for the installation of drayage truck charging infrastructure, an overview of the opportunities presented by different sites, and the investment required to meet regional targets for zero emission drayage truck deployment.
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2023 La Kretz Center Public Lecture - 30×30 California: Conservation Science and Policy in Action
2023-04-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Hershey Hall Salon, 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join Sunday, April 2nd, for the annual UCLA La Kretz Center Public Lecture, which will have Drs. Jennifer Norris and Brad Shaffer to discuss California’s pathbreaking initiative to conserve 30% of California natural areas by 2030.
Please join for an informal presentation and lively discussion led by Dr. Jennifer Norris, the California Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency, as she gives us an insider’s look at the California “30×30 Initiative”, a science-based plan to protect our state’s biodiversity by conserving 30% of our land by 2030.
The event will continue with an overview by Dr. Brad Shaffer describing the California Conservation Genomic Project (CCGP) and the La Kretz Center’s efforts to use 21st century genomic methods to develop conservation strategies that will benefit the 30×30 Initiative.
Following a Q & A session, please stay for light refreshments and a chance to chat with our current La Kretz postdoctoral researchers and learn about the work we are funding to enhance California conservation science.
This free event is open to the public, but requires an RSVP.
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For more information about California’s 30 x 30 Initiative & the CCGP, visit:
https://www.californianature.ca.gov/pages/30×30-partnership
www.ccgproject.org
Parking Information:
The closest UCLA parking structure to Hershey Hall is Parking Structure 2 at 602 Charles E Young Drive. For more details on where to park on UCLA campus and how to pay for parking please visit the Visitor Parking page of the UCLA Transportation website:
transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors
This event is funded by the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Institute of Environmental Science and the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.

Climate Forward Conference
2023-04-04 12:00 - 16:30 | University of Southern California, Town & Gown, 665 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
The conference brings political VIPs together with students and the local community to discuss politically realistic solutions to climate change.
The conference is FREE. You can participate in person, via Zoom, or via livestream.
Lunch is provided. Space is limited. Registration is required.
Lunch begins at 12:00 p.m., followed by two back-to-back panels, each featuring a moderator and two experts – a liberal and a conservative – to find common ground on climate solutions.
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Register for the Zoom HERE

More Engineering Jobs Across Climate
2023-04-05 09:00 - 11:00 | Online
Meet innovative companies hiring hardware and software engineers across industries.
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About Terra.do job fairs
Terra.do hosts action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them.

Hear about dozens of open roles, in a single event
Engage directly with CXOs and hiring managers
Free for candidates to attend

After the final hiring manager presents, stay for networking where you can spend time visiting breakout rooms to chat further with the companies and organizations you have heard from today.

Webinar: Solutions In Our Soil
2023-04-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
As we build a more climate-resilient California, it’s important we look at the solutions living beneath our feet. Healthy soils form the foundation of thriving farmlands, communities, and ecosystems. By focusing on practices and incentives that promote soil health, we can improve our farming system and food security, protect water quality and quantity, and sustain and boost biodiversity.
Please join Sustainable Conservation for its Spring 2023 webinar series, Solutions in Our Soil. It will kick off on Wednesday, April 5 with a conversation between Author, Agroecologist, and Assistant Professor Liz Carlisle and Sustainable Conservation’s Director of Business Partnerships Ryan Flaherty. They’ll set the scene for the series and give a high-level overview of soil health and climate-smart agriculture and discuss why they’re so important in California.
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Speakers:
Liz Carlisle is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses on food and farming. Born and raised in Montana, she got hooked on agriculture while working as an aide to organic farmer and U.S. Senator Jon Tester, which led to a decade of research and writing collaborations with farmers in her home state. She has written three books about regenerative farming and agroecology: Lentil Underground (2015), Grain by Grain (2019, with co-author Bob Quinn), and most recently, Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming (2022). She is also a frequent contributor to both academic journals and popular media outlets, focusing on food and farm policy, incentivizing soil health practices, and supporting new entry farmers. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography, from UC Berkeley, and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology, from Harvard University. Prior to her career as a writer and academic, she spent several years touring rural America as a country singer.
Ryan Flaherty is Sustainable Conservation’s Director of Business Partnerships and is based out of our Modesto office. Ryan leads the organization’s efforts to promote strategies for San Joaquin Valley dairies for managing animal waste in ways that benefit clean air and water. Prior to Sustainable Conservation, Ryan worked with Business for Social Responsibility, a non-profit that works with business to ensure a just and sustainable world, where he was a manager of advisory services working with the food, beverage, and agricultural industries. Ryan has more than 15 years of experience in business strategy, supply chain management, sustainable agriculture, water stewardship and stakeholder engagement. He has an MBA from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

Virtual adaptive birding equipment research presentation
2023-04-06 10:00 - 10:45 | Online
Many disabled birders are not able to hold binoculars, or cannot get into position to see through a spotting scope on a tripod.
Adaptive birding equipment makes this possible!
Mounts that attach to mobility devices, like wheelchairs, can hold up optics and allow access to close-up views of birds. But what features of these mounts — and of optics, for that matter — are important? What makes this equipment user-friendly for people with limited hand or body function? What equipment currently exists that is easy to use and works well for this purpose?
Using qualitative research practices, Doctorate of Occupational Therapy student Alex Field, studying at Western Michigan University, under the supervision of occupational therapist and Access Birding owner Freya McGregor, have conducted the first (ever!) formal research on adaptive birding equipment.
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UCLA April First Thursdays – Farmers Market & Block Party: Arts Avenue | Climate Justice Conversations
2023-04-06 12:00 - 22:00 | Westwood Village Broxton Ave, 1031 Broxton Avenue , CA 90024, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
UCLA First Thursdays has two parts: daytime activations at the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market and evening block parties with different thematic experiences.
We invite you to discover something new in Westwood!
Westwood Village Farmers’ Market
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
UCLA Climate Justice Conversations Farmers’ Market Pop-Up| April 6th, 2023
Let’s kick off Earth Month with UCLA Climate Justice Conversations! Learn about our April events, UCLA climate resilience planning and how to up-cycle your gear with screen printing!
Evening Block Party
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Arts Avenue | April 6th, 2023
Join us for an interactive and exploratory arts journey along Broxton Avenue and surrounding spaces—featuring a series of hands-on creative moments with live performances and art-making by Hammer Museum’s Art Lab, The Poetry Bureau and much more. Bring your creative spark!
Visit the First Thursdays event website and follow @UCLA for more information about #UCLAfirstthursdays.
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Earth Month: Saving Corals - A Lecture @Fisher with Dr. Carly Kenkel and Adib Mustofa
2023-04-06 18:00 - 19:00 | USC Fisher Museum of Art, 823 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
Join the USC Fisher Museum of Art, Wrigley Institute faculty affiliate Dr. Carly Kenkel, and Wrigley Institute graduate fellow Adib Mustofa for a special lecture on the impact of climate change on coral reefs.
This program complements the Fisher Museum exhibition Mulyana: Modular Utopia, which is composed of intricately constructed, knit modules of marine life sculptures that vividly portray an unadulterated underwater world.
Followed by light refreshments.
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About the speakers:
Dr. Carly D. Kenkel is Gabilan Assistant Professor of Biological Science in Marine and Environmental Biology at the University of Southern California. Her lab studies the eco-evolutionary dynamics that affect populations of tropical reef-building coral. This research illuminates patterns of adaptive diversity, helps predict corals’ responses to global climate change, and informs preservation work aimed at conserving genetic diversity and restoring ecosystem function. Kenkel is a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow and received the International Coral Reef Society’s Early-Career Scientist Award in 2020. She is also a recognized expert and active participant in several inter-institutional working and advisory groups, most recently serving on the steering committee for the NSF Research Coordination Network on Evolution in Changing Seas and the Genetics Working Group of the Coral Restoration Consortium.
Adib Mustofa is originally from Indonesia and earned his master’s degree in marine conservation from the University of Tasmania in 2016. He worked with the World Wildlife Fund-Indonesia as an MPA and biodiversity officer at Seram Seas before serving as a lecturer at the Institute Teknologi Sumatera, Lampung Province. He recently joined Dr. Carly Kenkel’s CEE Lab as a University of Southern California Ph.D. student. His research covers the genetics of reef-building, climate change-resilient corals and the symbiotic relationship between corals and microalgae to improve coral reef restoration efforts. He is also a USC Fulbright Scholar.

WMRC Lecture Series: "Guess who is coming to stay? Impacts from an extended visit by a family of atmospheric rivers, December 27 2022 to January 16 2023"
2023-04-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Online
With Sue Burak, former Sierra Avalanche Center forecaster.
Join WMRC and Sue Burak as she discusses the science behind recent Eastern Sierra avalanche activity and climate changes implications on the phenomenon.
Sue Burak has been fascinated by snow, weather and avalanches in the eastern Sierra for many winters. Past project include study of snow properties in the Sierra Nevada during NASA’s recent SnoEx field campaign, collecting snow properties in the boreal forests of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, to on-going research into the mysteries of glide avalanche formation and release on Olmsted Point in Yosemite National Park. This talk presents on-going efforts to unravel the relationship between specific weather, climate and snowpack factors that contributed to numerous large magnitude avalanches during December 2022 and January.
Registration required via Zoom. REGISTER HERE.
This talk will be recorded. FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

lol climate change: a show
2023-04-06 19:00 - 22:00 | Second Home Hollywood, 1370 North Saint Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, United States
Tickets are live for this LA comedy show. Between each set, the best and funniest narrative climate writing tips will be shared
– Sponsored by NYU Los Angeles, Good Energy Stories Generation 180 and YEA Impact!
Tickets are free and pay-what-you-can with donations going to Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts and culture collaborative in LA.
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NOTE: There will be ASL interpretation.

Houselessness Day of Service: Care Package/Hygiene Kit Making & Distribution
2023-04-07 14:00 - 15:30 | Los Angeles Tennis Center Straus Clubhouse, 420 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Volunteers will have the opportunity to construct care packages and baggies containing hygiene products, daily essentials, & clothes. After construction of the packages, volunteers will go out into Westwood and/or the surrounding LA community to distribute the resources and provide support for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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UCLA Transportation's Bike Recycling Day
2023-04-08 10:00 - 12:30 | Top of Parking Structure 8, 555 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
One person’s trash is another’s sweet ride! Transportation’s popular Bike Recycling Day returns on Saturday, April 8, to the northwest corner of the Parking Structure 8 rooftop from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Members of the UCLA community with a valid BruinCard will have an opportunity to receive a used bike or bike parts for free.
Available bikes have been repurposed from being abandoned or impounded on campus. Recycling abandoned bikes supports UCLA Transportation’s commitment to sustainability and making bicycling more accessible to the campus community.
Those wishing to participate in Bike Recycling Day must register by Sunday, April 2 here. Due to the limited number of bikes, participants will be randomly selected and assigned a time slot. Participants need to be present when their time slot begins to claim their bike. Those not selected for a time slot will receive a special bike offer.
Approximately 65 bikes or parts that equal bikes will be available. Some bikes are stripped down to their frame but offer an excellent opportunity for those interested in building their own bike from the ground up.

Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind
2023-04-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Experimental Digital Arts, UCLA Broad Art Center, 240 Charles E. Young Dr. N, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Counterforce Lab Salon, ep. 5
Augmented Reality + Interspecies Friendship + Community-Storytelling
Dr. Francesca Albrezzi (UCLA Digital Humanities) and Yogan Müller (UCLA DMA) will explore how digital methodologies can open up immersive experiences for sensory modalities of engagement between the human and the more-than-human.
This newly-to-be-built AR interface will offer a virtual space where viewers can experience the awe of avian life, fostering interspecies friendship without encroaching on their sensitive space. Simultaneously, they will discuss AR to facilitate community storytelling and place-making as a part of a virtual counter-map wherever iterations of the Biophilia Treehouse are welcomed.
Dr. Albrezzi’s background includes extensive work in museums, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Getty Museum, exploring the greater contextual understanding of art and culture through the use of digital visualization.
Free lunch!
Eyes in the Sky, Birds in the Heart and Mind is Counterforce Lab’s 2023 lecture series exploring interspecies friendships and entering into conversations across disciplines. We ask how technology, in combination with different knowledge systems and design, can provide an avenue to connect with and learn from the more-than-human. Drones, or, “eyes in the sky,” craan enrich our empathetic connection to the natural world, if we think critically about how we use them.
Made possible with the generous support of a UCLA IDRE grant and UCLA, Design Media Arts Department.

Research Seminar: Brake and Tire Wear
2023-04-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Online
Background
With increasing market share of zero emission vehicles in California and reductions of tailpipe emissions, non-combustion sources have become the dominating source of traffic emissions. Non-combustion sources of traffic emissions include brake and tire wear. Emissions studies have been conducted on vehicular non-combustion emissions through various study designs, including ambient measurements, laboratory modeling, and on-road sampling. Studies have been conducted on the metal contents and size distribution of brake and tire wear particles dispersed in the near-road environment. It is important to reassess these emissions as the vehicle fleet changes. However, no study has been conducted to examine health impacts from brake and tire wear PM metals.
This study examined the distribution of PM metals associated with brake and tire wear and their ability to produce oxidative stress in the body and used this information to model PM metals and determine their association with birth outcomes and placental health outcomes in the Los Angeles area using health data funded by other sources. Health effects studies included placental abnormalities and function and birth outcomes in an ongoing NIH-funded study of 161 pregnant women in Los Angeles and pre-term births and low birth weight in 285,614 live births in Los Angeles County from 2017-2019 from publicly available data.
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Biography
Dr. Michael Jerrett, is an internationally recognized expert in Geographic Information Science for Exposure Assessment and Spatial Epidemiology. He is a full professor in the Department of Environmental Health Science, and Director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Jerrett earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto. Over the past 23 years, Dr. Jerrett has researched how to characterize population exposures to air pollution and built environmental variables, the social distribution of these exposures among different groups, and how to assess the health effects from environmental exposures. He has worked for many years on how the built environment affects exposures and health, particularly the role of parks and green spaces on physical activity promotion and obesity prevention. He has published extensively on climate change, including wildfires, vulnerability to heat stress, and public health co-benefits of climate mitigation. He serves as a standing member of the Health Effects Institute Review Committee, as an editorial board member for the Annual Review of Public Health, and he recently completed a 3-year term on the Geographical Sciences Committee of the U.S. National Academy of Science.

The Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus
2023-04-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
UCLA Water is hosting an online seminar on the Climate-Wildfire-Stormwater Nexus: featuring the research insights of Sanjay Mohanty and Onja Raoelison, with framing remarks and panel discussion from Faith Kearns and Ken Susilo.
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An Overview of Building Electrification (Webinar)
2023-04-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
Have Energy Efficiency (EE), Building Electrification (BE), Transportation Electrification (TE), and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) got you feeling like you’re in over your head? If so, join this Overview of Building Electrification! This class, the second in a BE series, being offered by the Energy Education Centers (EECs) will expand upon topics introduced in ‘Building Electrification and Me’.
Taught by Kavita Rodrigues from the EECs, this class will provide attendees with an expanded understanding of what BE is and how it will help California to achieve its ambitious climate goals. Participants will learn about the common misconceptions that are frequently held about electrification technologies, their applications, and how they can realize the overall benefits of electrification.
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Landscapes of Political Memory - Reading Group Session
2023-04-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Kaplan Hall 193, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Mihaela Mihai, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, will give a lecture on “Representing Environmental Grief” on Wednesday, April 19th at 4:00pm. In addition, Dr. Mihai will participate in several other events, including a Reading Group session.

Arts & Climate Collective Festival: Imagining a Fossil-Free LA
2023-04-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Founders Park, Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
Join USC’s Arts and Climate Collective for an Earth Month celebration and festival that uplifts and empowers the community to imagine a fossil-free L.A.! The event, which is free and open to everyone, will feature conversations with experts and activists, food giveaways, live music, and a resource fair that allows attendees to connect with organizations working towards building sustainable communities in South L.A. and the Eastside. In addition, the Arts and Climate Collective will showcase student artwork, films, and projects that connect the arts, culture, and storytelling with environmental justice.
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Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future - A UC Regents’ Lecture by Kali Akuno
2023-04-11 18:00 - 19:50 | Kerckhoff Grand Salon, 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
At this University of California Regents’ Lecture, Kali Akuno — organizer, educator, writer, and advocate for human rights and social justice — will lay out a path for protecting our precious planet by discarding capitalism in favor of an eco-socialist approach that employs the democratic tools of the solidarity economy. Leading climate scientists warn that we have less than 10 years to make a serious course correction to avert a catastrophic threat to the Earth’s life systems, including that of the human race. Working within the logic of the capitalist system, which depends on the need for constant growth, won’t work, Akuno says. Instead, he calls for a bottom-up transformation centered on the principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism and degrowth.
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Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee.
Kali Akuno is a co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, which is an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions. Cooperation Jackson is fighting to create economic democracy by creating a vibrant solidarity economy in Jackson, MS that will help transform Mississippi and the South. You can find more information about Cooperation Jackson at www.CooperationJackson.org.
Kali is also the co-editor of “Jackson Rising: the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS”, and the author of numerous articles and pamphlets including the Jackson-Kush Plan: the Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy”, “Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era”, “Operation Ghetto Storm: Every 28 Hours report” and “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense”.

Make or Break: Transforming U.S. Infrastructure to Meet Climate Goals
2023-04-12 08:20 - 15:45 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1357, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Buckle up. The transition to cleaner energy is speeding up and a pair of recent climate laws promises to really put America’s foot on the accelerator. But how these laws are implemented at the local, state, and national level will determine whether the U.S. can meet increasingly urgent climate goals as well as benefit communities that historically have been left behind.
Join the UCLA Emmett Institute’s annual symposium on Wednesday, April 12, to explore the new laws that are driving the clean energy transition – the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
Leading lawyers, energy experts, environmental advocates and architects of climate legislation will share their visions for an ideal infrastructure and how to build it. What’s the role of new legal mandates and economic incentives? How can local communities play a role in this development? How can lawyers and policymakers reduce the negative effects of such unprecedented growth? Big changes are coming to every state, city and household as a result of the IRA and IIJA. This event will provide policymakers with ideas for implementation and give students and climate-minded professionals insight into the process.
This day-long symposium at the UCLA School of Law is free and open to the public. It kicks off with a keynote address by David Hayes, former Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy in the Biden administration, followed by the three panel discussions detailed below.
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Schedule:
8:20-8:50 AM: Breakfast and Check-In
9:00-9:40 AM: Opening Remarks
9:40-9:50 AM: Morning Break
9:50-11:00 AM: Panel 1: Dreaming Big: How IRA and IIJA Can Help Build an Infrastructure for the Future
11:00-11:15 AM: Morning Break
11:15- 12:25 PM: Panel 2: Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy
12:25-1:25 PM: Lunch
1:25-2:35 PM: Panel 3: Transportation Case Study: Decarbonizing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
2:35-2:45 PM: Afternoon Break
2:45-3:00 PM: Closing Remarks
3:00-3:45 PM: Reception
Keynote Speaker:
David J. Hayes is Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School and a Senior Fellow at NRDC. Hayes is the former Deputy Secretary of the Interior, and recently served in the Biden Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy. He assisted in developing and implementing climate-related provisions of the IRA and IIJA. He’s an expert in the consideration and permitting of energy projects on public lands and waters.
Panel 1: Dreaming Big: How IRA and IIJA Can Help Build an Infrastructure for the Future
The Biden administration’s Build Back Better agenda was a broad framework for remaking the nation’s social, economic, and environmental policies. The end result is legislation that’s smaller in scope, and yet the IRA and IIJA create unprecedented new incentives for remaking our energy and transportation infrastructure to address climate change. Our first panel of the day will think big about the main energy and transportation goals behind these two laws and the key provisions in each to achieving those benchmarks. What are the most important implementation decisions that must be made to meet the moment? What are the biggest obstacles? This panel will put the IRA and IIJA into the context of existing environmental laws and ask how to facilitate implementation.
Panelists:
Sylvia Chi, Senior Policy Analyst at Just Solutions Collective
Kimberly Clausing, Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law
Dustin Maghamfar, Federal Program Director at Energy Foundation
Jim Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the UCLA School of Law and UC Santa Barbara
Moderated by: Cara Horowitz, Andrew Sabin Family Foundation Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Panel 2: Transmission Case Study: Remaking our Power Grid for Renewable Energy
As the nation transitions from fossil fuels to clean energy, the transmission infrastructure that forms the backbone of our power system must expand to meet growing electricity needs. This panel will explore what a grid that is fully equipped to support our transition to clean energy looks like, and how to achieve it. The IRA and IIJA provide loans and funding for the improvement of transmission, grid flexibility, and resilience. How can we implement these laws to best meet our transmission goals? Are there regulatory and other impediments to the construction of critically important energy transmission infrastructure and, if so, how can we overcome them? In rapidly expanding our transmission grid, how should we incorporate community input and respond to local concerns?
Panelists:
Jennifer Chen, Senior Manager, Clean Energy at the World Resources Institute
Karen Douglas, Commissioner at the California Public Utilities Commission
Jeremy Hargreaves, Principal at Evolved Energy Research
Moderated by: William Boyd, Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at the UCLA School of Law; Faculty Co-Director of the Emmett Institute; Professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Panel 3: Transportation Case Study: Decarbonizing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Transportation is the top contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in California, so it’s important to electrify the transportation sector quickly. The IRA and IIJA will invest almost $700 billion in programs relating to transportation, but it remains to be seen how that money will be spent—and toward what aims. This panel will ask what changes we should be seeking to achieve with these investments and how to achieve those goals. Which transportation programs could or should see the most funding? How much should we redesign American infrastructure away from the automobile, versus prioritizing a transition to electric vehicles? How much leeway will cities, states and local communities have to shape their transportation infrastructure improvements? And how do we ensure transportation development serves communities that have historically been left behind? This panel will drill down on the intersection of electrification and urban planning.
Panelists:
Hilary Norton, Chair of the California Transportation Commission and founding Executive Director of FAST
Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America
Regan Patterson, Assistant Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
Moderated by: Jonathan Zasloff, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law

Keep Cool x Terra.do Climate Job Fair
2023-04-12 09:00 - 11:30 | Online
Join this job fair in collaboration with Keep Cool where we all agree the most important thing in this world is “our planet!”
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About Terra.do job fairs
Terra.do hosts action-packed job fairs each month, giving candidates upfront access to hear from companies about their climate solutions and why you should join them.

Hear about dozens of open roles, in a single event
Engage directly with CXOs and hiring managers
Free for candidates to attend

After the final hiring manager presents, stay for networking where you can spend time visiting breakout rooms to chat further with the companies and organizations you have heard from today.

Regional Park Open Space District’s Virtual Brown Bag Lunch
2023-04-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Come learn about Park Planning! RPOSD’s Technical Assistance program (TAP) will be hosting a Virtual Brown Bag Lunch with featured guest Chester Kano, the Chief of Development at the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Contact: TAP@rposd.lacounty.gov

Careers for a Changing Climate
2023-04-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Twenty years ago, it would be hard to imagine the types of careers that are so prevalent now. What effect is a changing climate having on research and innovation? What other jobs will be needed to address health, safety, and infrastructure, and how will we effectively coordinate and communicate with each other? STAY COOL is proud to host a multigenerational event that will explore what is on the horizon for future jobseekers. Be a cool “elder” and share this information with younger generations! Cleantech San Diego, the Climate Science and Policy program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Climate People will provide highlights from their organizations.
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A Special Theatrical Screening of the new AppleTV+ Series "EXTRAPOLATIONS - Episode 104: Face of God"
2023-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | The Ray Stark Family Theatre, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
Followed by a Q&A with Series Creator Scott Z. Burns
and Executive Producer Dorothy Fortenberry
Moderated by Joe Arvai, Director of The Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
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Extrapolations is a bracing drama from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across the globe will explore the intimate, life-altering choices that must be made when the planet is changing faster than the population. Every story is different, but the fight for our future is universal. And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent. Are we brave enough to become the solution to our own undoing before it’s too late?
The series stars Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs, Edward Norton, Diane Lane, Tahar Rahim, Yara Shahidi, Matthew Rhys, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Adarsh Gourav, Keri Russell, Marion Cotillard, Forest Whitaker, Eiza González, Murray Bartlett, Indira Varma, Tobey Maguire, MaameYaa Boafo, Hari Nef, Heather Graham, Michael Gandolfini, Cherry Jones, Gaz Choudhry, Ben Harper, Judd Hirsch and Neska Rose.
Extrapolations is executive produced by Burns, Gregory Jacobs, Dorothy Fortenberry and Media Res’ Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer.
About Outside the Box [Office]
Outside the Box [Office] is a weekly showcase for upcoming releases highlighting world cinema, documentary and independent film titles. The series draws from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain.

Blue + Green: Aquaculture to Restore!
2023-04-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The Blue + Green 2023 series is a 4 part series taking place in person and virtually in celebrating of Earth Day beginning Thursday April 13, 2023 and concluding on Saturday April 29, 2023.
You are registering to attend: S﻿ession 1: Aquaculture to Restore! (Virtual)
The goal of the project is to shine a spotlight on emerging aquaculture sector in our economy. Aquaculture and the supporting technologies bring together all the key ingredients – future growth opportunities that support our coastal ecosystems, the economy, jobs, and our communities. This webinar hybrid series reimagines partnerships between business, government, universities, and communities through regenerative ocean research, exploration, and equity-based economic development.
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Speaker panel on Conservation and Environmental Justice
2023-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Rieber Hall – LLC, 310 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Join this Earth Month speaker panel in-person at the UCLA campus! The panel features environmental activist Leah Thomas (@greengirlleah), Indigenous ecologist Ary Sanchez-Amaya, and UCLA Chief Sustainability Officer Nurit Katz.
They will discuss environmentalism through the lenses of research, the work of Indigenous communities, community engagement, and more.
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Open to everyone, not just UCLA students / faculty

Climate Justice Conversations: Repair, Reuse, Resilience
2023-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | UCLA Makerspace, Olympic Hall, 267 De Neve Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Remember that sweater with a hole in it, jacket missing a button, and shirt that is so boring it never leaves your closet? Learn how to mend and spruce up your clothing with provided materials while chatting about what fashion means to you and environmental justice issues within the fashion industry.

Waste Awareness Week (WAW): Thrift Shop Pop-Up
2023-04-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Sunset Village, 330 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
WAW is a collaborative event amongst UCLA student-orgs and faculty that works to inform students about waste consciousness, sustainable practices, and environmental health.

Santa Monica Earth Month Celebration
2023-04-15 09:00 - 11:00 | Ishihara Park Learning Garden, 2909 Exposition Blvd., Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
Join to celebrate EARTH MONTH at the Ishihara Park Learning Garden. Start some of your own seeds, dissect an Owl Pellet, talk hot composting, make your own smudge stick, investigate the worm bin and help decorate the sidewalk all around our garden to celebrate Mother Earth.
Bring your own reusable cups/plates/utensils and be entered to win your own worm bin.
