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Stephanie Pincetl in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Arts invites the public into the classroom for ‘10 Questions: Centennial Edition’
The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture will kick off the second edition of “10 Questions” on Oct. 1. Building on the success of its inaugural presentation in 2018,…
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Daniel Swain in Laist: Is LA’s Marine Layer Going To Burn Off Someday And Never Ever Come Back?
Los Angeles’s summer marine layer — aka June Gloom, aka May gray — is one of the most unique aspects of living along the coast. It keeps things cool through…
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Ann Carlson on KCRW: Trump says California will no longer be able to set higher fuel efficiency standards for cars
Ann Carlson spoke on KCRW on Trump’s attempt to rollback automobile pollution. Governor Gavin Newsom today promised to fight President Trump’s announcement that California will no longer be granted a…
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Mary Nichols in California Globe: President Trump Set to Revoke California’s Authority to Set its Own Auto Emissions Standards
In May, California Globe reported “California’s top environmental regulator, California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, has stepped up the state’s war against the Trump Administration, as well as the state’s…
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J.R. DeShazo in UCLA Newsroom: UCLA to assess California drinking water systems to identify risks and solutions
California is the only state to legally recognize a human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water. But this right is not yet a reality in all communities. About…
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Money Matters podcast — with David Colgan, director of communications for UCLA environmental institute
Discussing environmental communications and green markets via The Green Bundle, a book Colgan co-authored with UCLA professor Magali Delmas.
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William Boyd in Rome News Tribune: Commentary: How California can help save the rainforest
William Boyd writes for the LA Times about what California can do about the burning rainforests. Fires burning in Brazil and the broader Amazon basin are shining a spotlight on…
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David Colgan in LAist: Reduce. Reuse. REFILL. Where To Get Your Products Topped Off In LA
Shopping smart is a part of the shift David Colgan, communications director of The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA and co-author of The Green Bundle: Pairing the…
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Ann Carlson on MSNBC: How the opioid ruling could help sue big oil companies
“Oil companies are fighting tooth and nail to try to get every one of these cases dismissed. One reason is they don’t want to pay the money. A second reason…
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Jon Christensen in Grist: How to build a new park so its neighbors benefit
All cities hunger for new property tax revenue. But all of these park projects at some point aspired to provide green space in neighborhoods that historically had little access to…
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Monica Smith in City Metric: Podcast- The Ancient Regime
The present is terrible and the future may be worse, so let’s take refuge in the past. Monica L. Smith as an archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University…
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Liz Koslov in NY Daily News: How to advance by retreating: As climate change advances, it’s time to think about leaving the coasts
“I would like us all to think of “retreat” as not just retreating from unsustainable places but unsustainable ways of life,” Liz Koslov, assistant professor at UCLA offered recently at…
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Ursula Heise in South Pasadena Review: Squawk of the Town
“They always begin to move out at first light and back to their roosts about 45 minutes before sunset. It is a sublime experience to hear and see them,’’ said…
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Pritzker finalist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in Down to Earth: ‘Giving community rights to indigenous people will benefit nations, nature’
Environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim speaks to Down To Earth about how these communities are solution providers for issues surrounding land, climate change and biodiversity Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, former co-chair,…
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Jon Christensen in Los Angeles Sentinel: New UCLA Study – State Makes Progress On Goal To Guarantee Water As A Human Right
In 2012, California became the first state in the country to declare that “Every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water” when the state legislature…
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Miranda Wang and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim in TIME Magazine: Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change
2018 Pritzker award winner Miranda Wang and 2019 Pritzker award finalists Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim listed in TIME magazine 15 women leading the fight against climate change.
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William Boyd in LA Times: Opinion- California can help save the Amazon rainforest. Do we have the guts to try?
UCLA Law’s William Boyd argues California has a chance to do its part on tropical deforestation by “staying in the fight” alongside leaders in tropical forest states and provinces.
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UCLA in KCET: Unquenchable Thirst- Groundwater Bill Could Shift State’s Water Management Approach
This system is making a critical contribution to the county’s ambition to become water independent by 2050, an ambition that the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability believes Los…
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Jon Christensen in Mirage News: Neighborhoods getting new parks could prevent displacement with targeted policies
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
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The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability research on transportation demand management
The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability sponsored three student interns to research transportation demand management (TDM) ordinances for implementation of the first ever County Sustainability plan. The…
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Jon Christensen in Mirage News: Neighborhoods getting new parks could prevent displacement with targeted policies
UCLA researcher Jon Christensen with University of Utah professor Alessandro Rigolon found policies that might help reduce “green gentrification,” that is, the displacement of residents and small businesses when parks…
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Jon Christensen in City Lab: How to Build a New Park So Its Neighbors Benefit
The Los Angeles River only intermittently resembles an actual river, even though that’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entombed in concrete in the 1930s. Since then, its 51-mile…
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Glen MacDonald Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Ninety-three new Fellows in the Academies of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science have been elected by their peers for their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Recognition by…
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Daniel Swain in Curbed LA: Warmer fall predicted for LA as ‘blob’ settles off California coast
A massive “blob” of warm water is lurking off the California coast, and it could mean that Los Angeles won’t experience a true autumn. (Does it ever, though?) UCLA climate…
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Jon Christensen in Capital Weekly: Why California needs another water bond in 2020
Jon Christensen writes for Capital Weekly about a 2020 ballot for safe drinking water, drought preparation, wildfire prevention, and climate resilience.