Special Event
Events
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.
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.
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice
Exhibition runs from Sep 14, 2024 to Jan 5, 2025
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.
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UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar
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PAST EVENTS
A Local Burden of Disease Study Due to Outdoor Air Pollution
Richard Thomas Burnett Senior Research Scientist, Population Studies Division Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch , Health Canada About the lecture Recent estimates of the global burden of disease due to…
A Climate Series for the Ages
This fall, the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, in collaboration with UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has designed a new kind of climate series: a four-night conversation…
The 2017 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Ceremony
There were originally supposed to be five finalists, but a strong class of candidates led the executive committee to include an extra contestant. On November 8, one of the them will get $100,000…
Spotlight on Sustainability: Emerging Trends in the Built Environment
Join business leaders for an interactive discussion on sustainability in the built environment.
Film Screening: Chasing Coral
It reveals the story of a team of photographers, scientists, and other experts who discover and try to capture one of the world’s largest coral bleaching events. It took 3.5…
