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.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Managing the Mid-Transition from Fossil to Clean Energy
Focus on Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Featuring Emily Grubert Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy PolicyKeough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame Emily Grubert, a civil engineer and environmental sociologist, will share insights on how…
PAST EVENTS
Covering The Coast: Narrating DDT Pollution and other CA Coastal Stories
Rosanna Xia will discuss her work as an environmental reporter and storyteller for the Los Angeles Times, including the story she broke in the fall about decades of previously unknown…
CDLS Unheard Voices Workshop: Diversity and Inclusion in the Environmental Movement
CDLS’s Inclusive Sustainability Collective is hosting a two-part workshop on diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement. The first half of the day will be a training session on racial equity and infusing justice…
Resiliency: Adapting Sustainability Under Pandemic Conditions
Our lives have changed significantly in the last few months as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted how we work, live, and interact with the world around us. At this event, we…
Technology for Good: Easton Center Innovation Challenge Kickoff
Join Professor Terry Kramer, Easton Center Faculty Director, in a moderated conversation with Eric Hoek and Larry Leisure on these topics. And hear about the formal launch of the Easton Center Innovation Challenge – the innovation…
Climate Adaptation Research Symposium
Event Context As global temperatures rise, climate change is causing far-reaching impacts. Communities continue to experience extreme heat waves, destructive wildfires, and devastating floods and storms. Vulnerable and low-income populations…
