Events
Special Event
Optimism, Optopia and Climate Change Stories
Focus on Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
How can science fiction balance hopeful stories about environmental futures with current realities? What theory of social change should inform these stories? With dire climate change impacts already happening, what kinds of stories can inspire audiences to care about and become active on large-scale environmental issues?
Wildfire disaster, recovery, and resilience: what have we learned?
2024-2025 Focus on Environment and Sustainability Series
Wildfire recovery in the U.S., particularly in California, is a slow and complex process hindered by unique post-fire challenges like housing shortages, regulatory hurdles, and underinsurance, but innovative solutions are emerging to improve resilience and equity.
Grand Theft Eco: The iBear in the River
LENS screening of the first episode of Grand Theft Eco: Environmental Futures of Los Angeles.
Grand Theft Eco is a machinima series and pedagogical engine that repurposes the video game Grand Theft Auto to explore possible eco-futures of LA in the year 2050.
On Campus
UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar
For those interested in more campus events on the environment and sustainability, follow our friends at UCLA Sustainability.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech
A talk by Professor Allison Carruth
Please join us for a LENS book talk with Princeton Professor Allison Carruth on Wednesday, May 14 at 4pm.
PAST EVENTS
Rising Seas: Jellyfish Jerky
On your way to and from classes, meetings and daily life, we invite you to take a snack break that brings the scale and data of climate change into a…
2019 GreenShorts Award Ceremony
With GreenShorts, high school students get a chance to sit in the director’s chair and win cash prizes. The contest invites two-minute-or-less films to showcase ideas, commentary and vision for…
Why have so few countries taken strong measures to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions?
ABOUT THE TALK: Why have so few countries taken strong measures to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions? We develop a novel theory to explain variation in carbon policies across countries…
How UCLA’s Sustainable LA Project envisions increased local water supply in Los Angeles County.
How UCLA’s Sustainable LA Project envisions increased local water supply in Los Angeles County. How the Southern California Water Replenishment District, serving over 4 million people in Los Angeles, has…
Blue Prosperity Symposium
The first year of research for the Blue Prosperity program at UCLA concludes with a series of presentations by student researchers from the Anderson School of Management, the Luskin School…
