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…
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 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 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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
Peter Kareiva joined reporter David Nazar to talk about how business and activists could come together for the future of the planet.
During Oscar week on Feb. 21 the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability (IoES) honors Barbra Streisand and Gisele Bündchen for environmental activism at its annual Hollywood for Science…
Linz is a climate scientist with UCLA Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a fellow with the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. She’s also author of Cool for You, a…
UCLA report calls for conservation, policy and infrastructure improvements
But migration is also a scientific issue. How different are we from other species? UCLA joined La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and explored the topic in a three-night conversation…
UCLA research program challenges students from across campus to develop strategies for sustainable ‘blue’ growth on islands
The biggest climate news from this past week Monday December 10, 2018 – Friday December 14, 2018 Business Stella McCartney, Burberry among fashion brands uniting against climate change Investors with…
At this year’s 2018 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award ceremony, each candidate shared a book that has impacted their lives. Here’s the list, for anyone who wants to think like…
By Nicki Aviel For the third year, UCLA invites SoCal high schoolers to get creative with GreenShorts — an environmental short film contest hosted by the Institute of the Environment…
Eco-friendly wines taste better, but they don’t command higher prices in the marketplace. Learn why from UCLA professor Magali Delmas and Bonterra Organic Vineyards
In its annual list, Clarivate Analytics names the most highly cited researchers by other scientific research papers in 21 fields across the sciences and social sciences. The 2018 list is…
With 5,000 year-old pine trees, 10,000 feet of elevation and an abundance of animal and insect species, the four field stations of the White Mountain Research Center are prime territory…
Advances in genetics and computing helped Tom Smith determine why seedcrackers’ bills vary in size
Main building of La Kretz Center Field Station reduced to ash but second structure will remain a ‘foothold’ until rebuilding begins
24-year-old founder of BioCellection receives $100,000 award from UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
The Los Angeles Seafood Monitoring Project is seeking to reduce sushi fraud and the mislabeling of fish.