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A Strategic Framework for a Just Transition
Just Transition is a framework for a fair shift to an economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members. After centuries of global plunder, the profit-driven, growth-dependent, industrial economy is severely undermining the life support systems of the planet. An economy based on extracting from a finite system faster than the capacity of the system to regenerate will eventually come to an end—either through collapse or through our intentional re-organization.
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The Necessity to Move Beyond Hydrocarbons: A Talk by Stephanie Pincetl
The UCLA Global Health and Social Medicine Grand Round Series features Stephanie Pincetl, PhD. on Monday, March 22, 2021 from 5 to 6pm PDT via Zoom. Dr. Pincetl is the…
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TED Talk: The challenge and responsibility of energy sufficiency with Stephanie Pincetl
In California as we work towards electrification of our energy systems we must consider the impacts those systems have on existing ecologies and how we meet the demands for more…
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Wildfire expert videos: Stephanie Pincetl
Stephanie Pincetl is professor-in-residence at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and founding director of the institute’s California Center for Sustainable Communities. She has studied how various factors contribute to wildfires…
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New book outlines path for equitable clean energy transition
Researchers with the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA have been researching ways to make urban systems — including water and energy supply — more sustainable. A new book…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…