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
Special Event
Dockweiler Dune Restoration and Beach Cleanup: Surfrider LA x TBF
Hands-on volunteer event supporting ocean health and plastic reduction policy
Join Surfrider and The Bay Foundation's vibrant volunteer community in tackling plastic pollution — one cleanup at a time. Your efforts help remove harmful waste and fuel real policy change through data collection and advocacy.
PAST EVENTS
America, A Religion: An Evening with Dr. J. Kameron Carter
Dr. Carter is a renowned scholar and author, with key works such as Race: A Theological Account (2008) and The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (2023). His research…
Fall Volunteer Day at Sage Hill!
Help us restore the native ecosystem of Sage Hill—one of the last natural areas in Westwood!
The 2024 UCLA La Kretz Center Public Lecture
Note: This event will no longer be happening on May 11th, 2024. The date has been postponed and will now occur on September 28th, 2024.
2024 IoES Junior Retreat
🌤️ Happening Tuesday Sept. 24th from 9:30 am to 7 pm at UCLA’s South Bay Campus 🤸♂️ Come make new friends, enjoy a scenic hike and good food, play games,…
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice.
