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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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
Leading the Clean Energy Transition: A Panel Discussion on Renewable Energy Project Finance and Development
Interested in renewable energy? Worried about climate change? Want to be part of the multi-trillion dollar global clean energy transition? Come hear from a panel of four UCLA Law alumni,…
CDLS Presents: Obstacles to STEM for Underrepresented POC and Strategies for Diversifying STEM
The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science will be having an event on “Obstacles to STEM for Underrepresented POC and Strategies for Diversifying STEM” at UCLA on February 21, 2020.…
Meet & Greet with Ph.D. Candidate Brandon Hunter, Duke University
The Environmental Justice Working Group at CDLS invites you to join us in welcoming our guest speaker Brandon Hunter to UCLA for his talk on environmental justice and sanitation solutions on January 17, 2020 at 12:30pm in La…
Roundtable with Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS) is holding a roundtable with Professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, a soil biogeochemist from UC Merced. Please RSVP through this link to join…
The 2019 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Ceremony
The Pritzker Award aims to recognize an environmental leader, under the age of 40, who is on the verge of making lasting change in the field of environmental sustainability. The…
