Events
Special Event
Optimism, Optopia and Climate Change Stories
Focus on Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
How can science fiction balance hopeful stories about environmental futures with current realities? What theory of social change should inform these stories? With dire climate change impacts already happening, what kinds of stories can inspire audiences to care about and become active on large-scale environmental issues?
Wildfire disaster, recovery, and resilience: what have we learned?
2024-2025 Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series
Wildfire recovery in the U.S., particularly in California, is a slow and complex process hindered by unique post-fire challenges like housing shortages, regulatory hurdles, and underinsurance, but innovative solutions are emerging to improve resilience and equity.
Grand Theft Eco: The iBear in the River
LENS screening of the first episode of Grand Theft Eco: Environmental Futures of Los Angeles.
Grand Theft Eco is a machinima series and pedagogical engine that repurposes the video game Grand Theft Auto to explore possible eco-futures of LA in the year 2050.
On Campus
UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar
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PAST EVENTS
The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Presents: A Discussion with Critical Ecology Lab’s Suzanne Pierre & Em Whalen
Please join the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science and Critical Ecology Lab for a lunch discussion on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, from 12:30-1:30pm in Geology Room 4667. Lunch will be provided to attendees.…
Sage Hill Fall Restoration Volunteer Day
Help us restore UCLA’s Sage Hill by removing invasive plants and planting native plants. We’ll be planting native plants such as California brittlebrush, milkweed, black sage, and yucca. Meet at…
Overheated: What to watch for, and ignore, at the UN climate talks
Join the Emmett Institute’s faculty experts, including several who will be on the ground in Dubai, for a panel discussion that previews the top challenges and opportunities for international negotiation,…
Designing our Future: Environment, Community and Technology
DataX presents Professor of Information Studies, Ramesh Srinivasan, in conversation with an interdisciplinary group of UCLA professors focused on environmental issues such as climate change and their intersection with questions of…
LiS Kick-off Information Session
What is the LiS Program? Leaders in Sustainability is a free certificate program offered through the IoES that attracts graduate students across all disciplines who are interested in sustainability and multi-disciplinary opportunities. At the…
