INSTITUTE OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Moving Science to Action
Launching global environmental solutions from urban Los Angeles
MAGAZINE
Low-income households more likely to have power disconnected after hot summers
Utility bills increase for each day above 95 degrees Fahrenheit, UCLA-led study finds
Dysmus Kisilu wins UCLA’s Pritzker Award for environmental innovators
Kenyan entrepreneur and his company, Solar Freeze, receive $100,000 prize for reducing food waste
Wildfires drive L.A.’s mountain lions to take deadly risks
UCLA and National Park Service researchers studied the cougars’ movements before and after the Woolsey Fire
EVENTS
2022 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award ceremony
The Pritzker Award aims to recognize an environmental leader, under the age of 40, who is on the verge of making lasting change in the field of environmental sustainability.
Our Path Forward: Addressing the Alzheimer’s Epidemic
Addressing the Alzheimer’s Epidemic, the inaugural episode of Our Path Forward, will be held on Tuesday, November 15 at 12:00 p.m. PST via Zoom webinar. Dr. Brookmeyer will host Dr. Claudia…
EDUCATION
A Diverse, Practice-Based Education
This innovative, dual-component program offers both breadth and depth through a solid foundation in natural science and a focus on understanding environmental issues across earth, atmospheric, life, and social sciences.
The Senior Practicum
The Senior Practicum is a year-long capstone program for all IoES Environmental Science majors and one of the best environmental science and policy educational experiences in the world.
RESEARCH
Generating Knowledge & Providing Solutions
We leverage connections and partnerships throughout the UCLA network to focus teams of diverse talents on today’s most urgent problems.
The Human Right To Water In Poor Communities of Color: Southern Los Angeles County
Phasing out fossil fuel infrastructure in Los Angeles: Challenges for a Just Transition
In this project, Dr. Kelly Kay and Andrea Furnaro focus on the phase-out of longstanding fossil fuel infrastructure as part of the Los Angeles Green New Deal plan. While other…
Sustainable tourism in Colombia: Biocultural values
“No Music Without Trees or Birds: A Spatial Analysis of Cultural Reliance and Relationships to Endemic Flora and Fauna Species in Colombia” Pritzker Award Affiliate: Alejandra Echeverri, Conservation Scientist, Stanford…
Sustaining US — an environmental news program from PBS and UCLA
Expert informed environmental news collaboration between UCLA and KLCS PBS
GIVING
Support Us
State funding cannot cover everything we want to accomplish – we rely on endowments, grants and philanthropic gifts to make up the difference. These additional funds go to the programs, projects and outreach that would otherwise languish. We are immensely grateful for this support.