Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies

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Jon Christensen in KPCC’s “Take Two”

Jon Christensen is an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California,…

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Catastrophic fires are a reckoning for Californians and their ‘new normal.’ Has the state reached a tipping point?

Jon Christensen is an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA.  In this LA…

LENS at UCLA elevates ethnic media perspectives on watersheds

The stories, which appeared in newspapers, on television, and in online publications, were produced with support from a fellowship and training provided by UCLA’s Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies and Ethnic Media…

Animal Collective’s “Tangerine Reef”: A Q&A with Ursula Heise

“Music is not an easy medium for discussing environmental stuff,” said Ursula Heise, a UCLA expert on environmental art and narratives. That doesn’t mean it’s ineffective. For Animal Collective and…

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Green Gentrification, Jon Christensen in LA Times

Concerns about gentrification in Los Angeles have reached the point where it’s not just art galleries and coffee shops that trigger alarm bells — parks and bicycle paths are in…

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The Case for ‘Sanctuary Cities’ for Endangered Species

"[W]hat if we deliberately offered sanctuary to endangered species in our cities—those that are native, of course, but also those that are not?" - Ursula Heise, in CityLab.