Changing the Fate of the “Amazon of the Ocean”
2015 Los Angeles County Report Card
After nearly two years of gathering and analyzing data, the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA has developed an Environmental Report Card for the County of Los Angeles,…
ART2015
ART is an accredited research course that follows a highly regarded Lecture Series. The two quarter course pairs active stakeholders with 4-5 students to conceptualize, organize, execute, and implement real-world…
Congo Basin Institute (French Subtitles)
Video about the Congo Basin Institute, dedicated to finding solutions to the interconnected issues of climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity.
Design for the Circular Economy in the Ecological Century
An Oppenheim Lecture with William McDonough, Chief Executive, McDonough Innovation held Feb 18, 2015.
Protecting Biodiversity
Video from the National Science Foundation website about the Central African Biodiversity Alliance (CABA), an international partnership of scientists, students, and policy makers working to build a framework to conserve…
Congo Basin Institute
UCLA and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are leading a multi-institutional initiative to develop the Congo Basin Institute (CBI), which will be a model for how universities can…
Congo Basin Institute (English Version)
Video about the Congo Basin Institute, dedicated to finding solutions to the interconnected issues of climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity.
Challenges to Conserving the Congo Basin Rainforest, 2014
An Oppenheim Lecture presented by CTR Director Thomas B. Smith, describing the Center is leveraging the best available science to identify new protected areas in the face of resource extraction…
NSF PIRE Workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon (French)
Coverage of the professional development workshop focused on empowering young local researchers to track and analyze the genetic diversity of the Congo Basin in the face of climate change, which…
NSF PIRE Workshop in Yaoundé Cameroon (English)
Coverage of the professional development workshop focused on empowering young local researchers to track and analyze the genetic diversity of the Congo Basin in the face of climate change, which…
UCLA geographer Glen MacDonald named to John Muir Endowed Chair
Professor MacDonald has been selected as the first occupant of a new UCLA chair in geography named after the naturalist and activist who helped preserve the Yosemite Valley as a…
Is aging infrastructure to blame for UCLA water main break?
Originally posted by 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio A busted water main sent a geyser shooting 30 feet in the air and flooded Sunset Boulevard and UCLA yesterday. About…
Graduation 2014
Video produced from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 2014 Graduation Ceremony.