Blog
Energy Use in Cities: A Roadmap for Urban Transitions
A new book by the team at CCSC gives a detail look at the UCLA Energy Atlas, published by Palgrave, with chapters written by Center directors and staff. The book…
Blog
Blog
CCSC Part of the Team Awarded $9M Grant for Blockchain-based Renewables Project
The project is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 64% and net grid electricity consumption by 96% for all project participants over a 25 year period.
Blog
Design with Nature is not about Financial Return—It is a Recognition that Humans Rely on Nature
The Nature of Cities: Nature based solutions, urban ecosystem services, however they are called, have emerged to try to remediate this historical modernist hubris which conceived of cities as technical…
Blog
Stephanie Pincetl Comments on the Manchester Carbon Neutrality plan
Stephanie Pincetl, Professor in Residence and Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, is currently the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Manchester in Geography. She…
Blog
As Los Angeles pushes for local water, new study explores trade-offs for county’s energy needs
Los Angeles County imports most of its water from distant sources, which is energy-intensive and leaves the region’s water supply vulnerable to disasters like earthquakes. As Los Angeles County moves…
Blog
Meet the former undergrad researchers who contributed to the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Report Card for Los Angeles County Water
UCLA graduates Anne Youngdahl and Sagarika Subramanian were key players on the research team responsible for publishing the 2019 Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) Environmental Report Card for Los Angeles…
Blog
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…
Blog
Evaluating Landscape Effects of Turf Replacement
Erik Porse and Stephanie Pincetl of UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability work with Diane Pataki, professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah and…
Blog
Rising to the challenges of 21st century water management in Los Angeles
In a recent paper, Stephanie Pincetl, director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, and co-authors argue that investments made over the years to fortify the city’s supply with additional…
Blog
Inhabiting a Post-Urban Twenty-First Century
The capitalist paradigm as a world economic system that works for people and the planet is failing. For cities and nature, shifting graciously and well into the Anthropocene requires a fundamentally different political-economy that reflects new ethics and priorities.
