Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

Can Abundance Be Sustainable? Merging Affordability and Climate Policy

UCLA Emmett Institute’s 2026 Spring Symposium

Registration is open for “Can Abundance Be Sustainable?” Affordability concerns are ubiquitous in conversations on environmental and climate policy issues. Policymakers and advocates are wrestling with the question of whether…

Smog and Sunshine: A Book Talk with Ann Carlson

Join us for a conversation about an exciting environmental success story that too few Americans know in detail.

Join us for a conversation about an exciting environmental success story that too few Americans know in detail.  In “Smog and Sunshine,” UCLA Law professor and LA native Ann Carlson…

On Campus

UCLA-wide sustainability events calendar

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PAST EVENTS

Covering The Coast: Narrating DDT Pollution and other CA Coastal Stories

Rosanna Xia will discuss her work as an environmental reporter and storyteller for the Los Angeles Times, including the story she broke in the fall about decades of previously unknown…

CDLS Unheard Voices Workshop: Diversity and Inclusion in the Environmental Movement

CDLS’s Inclusive Sustainability Collective is hosting a two-part workshop on diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement. The first half of the day will be a training session on racial equity and infusing justice…

Resiliency: Adapting Sustainability Under Pandemic Conditions

Our lives have changed significantly in the last few months as the COVID-19 pandemic shifted how we work, live, and interact with the world around us. At this event, we…

Technology for Good: Easton Center Innovation Challenge Kickoff

Join Professor Terry Kramer, Easton Center Faculty Director, in a moderated conversation with Eric Hoek and Larry Leisure on these topics. And hear about the formal launch of the Easton Center Innovation Challenge – the innovation…

Climate Adaptation Research Symposium

Event Context As global temperatures rise, climate change is causing far-reaching impacts. Communities continue to experience extreme heat waves, destructive wildfires, and devastating floods and storms. Vulnerable and low-income populations…