Transportation Blog Post: March 1, 2019
By: Kyle Willenborg Hello everyone! We are now entering the thick of the SAR program as we approach the end of week 8, and the winter quarter at UCLA. In…
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Resilience Blog Post: March 1, 2019
By: Lea Le Rouzo, Nicholas Caton, Anh-Vy Pham, Sophia Bozone, Tory Coffin, and David Scolari. Over the past couple weeks, the SAR Resilience Team has been hard…
Gisele Bündchen and Barbra Streisand honored for environmental leadership at UCLA gala
Donate In receiving her award, Streisand invoked the Iroquois’ people’s “Seventh Generation” principle. “Before they made any decision, they considered the impact it would have seven generations to come,” Streisand…
Graduate Student Water Resources Group Winter Newsletter
Hey Graduate Student Water Resources Group! We hope your Winter Quarter is going well. Check out the list of upcoming events and opportunities you may be interested in: Winter Quarter…
Zero Waste Blog Post: February 22, 2019
By: Natasha Oviedo, Malcolm Au, Kate Zeile, Gustav Fiere, and Elizabeth Tanner. Edited by Chloe Ney. After our first scheduled waste audit fell through week 6 (after…
Sustainable Purchasing Blog Post: February 22, 2019
Sustainable Purchasing Tackles the Promotional Product Industry By: Ryan Hallman, Stephanie Hauschildt, Gabriel Hernandez, Corbin Kehrberg, Ayahna Mack, and Monica Portillo The Sustainable Purchasing team is making strides researching the steps that ASUCLA’s…
Food Justice and Basic Needs Blog Post: February 22, 2019
By: Alicia Kwan, Diana Ngyuen, Maninder Kaur, Jasmine Summers- Evans, Rosemary Wallace, Melinda McMonigle, and Fiona Zhang. The past two weeks for the Food Justice and Basic Needs Team…
Variety Magazine: Hollywood for Science Gala
The entertainment and fashion worlds collided at this year’s Hollywood for Science Gala, which honored actress Barbra Streisand and supermodel Gisele Bündchen. Hosted by IoES global fundraising chairman Milutin Gatsby,…
Green Games Blog Post: February 22, 2019
By: Zachary Alter, Jacob Gerigk, Sarina Levin, Jonah Eisen, Amber Lam, and Kate Minden. Edited by Chloe Ney. Since the Zero Waste Basketball game during Week 5, we have been…
University Apartments Waste Diversion Blog Post: February 15, 2019
By: Emma Stanfield, Zachary Devereux, Caroline Schreck, Maia Rodriguez-Choi, Cali Ngyuen, and Elizabeth Popescu. The UA Waste Diversion team is taking strides to implement composting programs in key…
Resilience Blog Post: February 15, 2019
Team Connects with Campus to Design Resilient UCLA By: Lea Le Rouzo, Nicholas Caton, Anh-Vy Pham, Sophia Bozone, Tory Coffin, and David Scolari. For several weeks now, the SAR Resilience Team has…
Transportation Blog Post: February 15, 2019
By: Natalie Gonzalez Hello everyone and happy Week 6! When you last heard from the SAR Transportation Team, we were in the midst of conducting our background research to give…
Stephanie Pincetl awarded the 2019 Meredith F. Burrill Award
Stephanie Pincetl, University of California Los Angeles, has been an intellectual leader in the field of urban sustainability, known particularly for her extensive research on urban metabolism and effective resource…
UCLA researchers studying how the Woolsey fire affects plant and animal recovery
Teams will monitor burn areas in the Santa Monica Mountains examining effects throughout the food chain
Wildfire experts lay out causes and solutions for California’s worsening blazes
Academic and government experts offered insight at an event co-produced by The Nature Conservancy and UCLA
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…
Sustainable Purchasing Blog Post: February 8, 2019
Pictured above: Cindy Holmes (center) and Sustainable Purchasing team members (left to right) Monica, Stephanie, Corbin, Ayahna, Gabriel, and Ryan finalize project goals on Friday, February 8th, 2019. The team…
Green Games Blog Post: February 8, 2019
Green Games Gets Dirty at Zero Waste Basketball Game By: Zachary Alter, Jacob Gerigk, Sarina Levin, Jonah Eisen, Amber Lam, and Kate Minden. Edited by Chloe Ney. The Green Games…
Food Justice and Basic Needs Blog Post: February 8, 2019
Food Justice and Basic Needs Team Serve Student Body with Critical Mission: Microwave Map By: Alicia Kwan, Diana Ngyuen, Maninder Kaur, Jasmine Summers- Evans, Rosemary Wallace, Melinda McMonigle, and Fiona Zhang. Edited by…
Transportation Blog Post: February 1, 2019
Transportation Team Tidbits By Anna Weir. Edited by Chloe Ney. Hello from the 2019 SAR Transportation Team! Our group represents the integrative nature of Sustainability Action Research; we are Environmental…
Zero Waste Blog Post: February 1, 2019
Pictured above: The Zero Waste Team meeting with our stakeholder, Kikei, and the library building officer, Tom Rosholt, to pitch ideas and discuss logistics. By: Natasha Oviedo, Malcolm Au, Kate…
Resilience Blog Post: February 1, 2019
By: Lea Le Rouzo, Nicholas Caton, Anh-Vy Pham, Sophia Bozone, Tory Coffin, and David Scolari. Edited by Chloe Ney. Last week, we, the Sustainability Action Research Resilience team, met…
University Apartments Waste Diversion Blog Post: February 1, 2019
Pictured above: Team members Elizabeth and Caroline working hard to plan out our goals for the rest of the quarter. By: Emma Stanfield, Zachary Devereux, Caroline Schreck, Maia Rodriguez-Choi,…
Managing predators in fire-prone landscapes: the importance of vegetation structure
Seminar presented by Rachel V. Blakey, The Institute for Bird Populations and The University of Missouri