Special Event
Environmental Science Practicum 2024-2025 Final Presentations
CNSI Auditorium
Events
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Wildfire disaster, recovery, and resilience: what have we learned?
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.
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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?
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Managing the Mid-Transition from Fossil to Clean Energy
Focus on Environment and Sustainability Seminar Series
Featuring Emily Grubert Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy PolicyKeough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame Emily Grubert, a civil engineer and environmental sociologist, will share insights on how…
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Special Event
Commencement
Congratulations to the UCLA IoES Class of 2025. We look forward to the impact you’ll make in building a more sustainable, resilient world.
Congratulations to the UCLA IoES Class of 2025. We look forward to the impact you’ll make in building a more sustainable, resilient world.
PAST EVENTS
How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future
Featured speaker: Edward Struzik Panelists: Douglas Bevington, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (moderator); Beth Burnham, North Topanga Canyon Fire Safe Council; Chad Hanson, The John Muir Project ; Alex Hall, UCLA; Chief Ralph Terrazas,…
Now Comes the Hard Part… Implementing Groundwater Management Under SGMA
Presented by: Eric Garner, Managing Partner, Best, Best & Kreiger LLP As one of the leading water attorneys in California, Eric Garner helped to write the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act…
Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise
In a 2016 lecture titled “Let Them Drown,” Naomi Klein called attention to the nexus of climate change, colonial racism and poverty—as Rob Nixon has done in his book Slow Violence…
Big Coupled Data for Sustainable Urban Systems: Examples from Los Angeles
In an era where cities are actively developing urban sustainability goals, too often, the right kinds of “Big Data” are not adequately gathered to guide new programs and policies. Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, Director of…
2018 IoES Gala | Sea CO2 Change
honoring Keely Shaye Brosnan Director and Producer of Poisoning Paradise Pierce Brosnan Executive Producer of Poisoning Paradise Van Jones Founder of Green For All & Dream Corps and host committee Courteney…
