Renewable Energy and Conservation of Deserts
An IoES Environmental Science Colloquium lecture presented by Julie Cart, Reporter, Los Angeles Times
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Marine Biology Researchers Promotes Awareness for the Coral Triangle through Billy Joel Songng
Students from UCLA’s ecology and evolutionary biology department explain their research in Professor Paul Barber’s laboratory. Their tune to Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time” promotes awareness of the evolution…
Connecting the Wintering and Breeding Sites of Migratory Songbirds Using New Isotopic and Genetic Methods
by Kristen Ruegg, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of California, Santa Cruz and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Growth, Innovation, and the Accelerating Pace of Urban Life: Are 21st Century Cities Sustainable?
In his Spring Oppenheim Lecture on March 7th, 2012, The Santa Fe Institute’s Dr. Geoffrey West discussed how quantitative theory and data can explain the environmental sustainability of cities and…
Green Chemistry: Innovations for an Environmental and Economic Prosperity by Dr. Paul Anastas
Paul Anastas, Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of Research and Development, discusses scientific advances in the design of intrinsically safe and environmentally benign products and the resulting paradigm shift in…
E3 Club sows seeds for schools
The Daily Bruin featured an article about the student group's initiative that educates kids about nutrition and sustainable food production through garden projects.
10 questions: Conservation prof on a fascinating extinction
Amphibian expert Brad Shaffer is watching a battle for survival between the endangered California-native tiger salamander and its larger, non-native "cousin," brought in in the 1950s from Texas
Arab Media Forum: A Step Toward Change
Oppenhiem Lecturer Randa Fouad, President of the Arab Media Forum for Environment and Development, explains how her organization helps journalists throughout the Middle East learn and write about environment and…
Paul Bunje Appears on AQMD’s “On the Air” Web Program
Host Leeor Alpern interviews Dr. Bunje about LARC and how organizations such as AQMD, cities, counties, universities, businesses, etc. can collaborate to meet our shared environmental goals.
Daily Bruin: Preserving Sage Hill
Originally published by Itak Moradi in the Daily Bruin An archery range and a clubhouse on the Hill? Sounds cool enough. Until you realize that UCLA Capital Programs is considering this…
Science and Art in a Climate of Change: A Dialogue of Nations
Watch footage of the event co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance & Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Deep in the Pacific, the island nations of Kiribati, Tokelau,…
America’s Climate Choices by Albert Carnesale
In his Fall Oppenheim Lecture on October 12, 2011, Dr. Carnesale, UCLA Chancellor Emeritus and Professor, Dept. of Public Policy and Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, gave an overview…
Center for Tropical Research November 2011 Newsletter
CTR researchers report on a study tracking migratory songbirds and field research on seed dispersal of a tropical tree in Ecuador
The Ecological and Genetic Role of Seed Dispersal for a Tropical Tree in Ecuador
by Stephanie Steele, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
UCLA scientists find H1N1 flu virus prevalent in animals in Africa
UCLA life scientists and their colleagues have discovered the first evidence of the H1N1 virus in animals in Africa. In one village in northern Cameroon, a staggering 89 percent of the pigs studied had been exposed to the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the swine flu.
A conversation with Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University Bing Professor of Population Studies
Highlights of the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science Public Lecture: “California, conservation, and the globe: Why we need to close the culture gap and all become Mahbsters.”
Center for Tropical Research May 2011 Newsletter
CTR researchers investigate stripe variation in the African plains zebra and monkeypox transmission in the Congo Basin.
Using Remote Sensing to Map the Principal Carrier of Monkeypox Virus in the Congo Basin
by Trevon Fuller, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
CNE-TV spotlights new International Research and Training Center, Central Africa
Watch presentation highlights plus a one-on-one interview with Center for Tropical Research (CTR) Director Tom Smith and CTR Africa Director Kevin Njabo.
IoES awards first Glickfeld Family Scholarship
Environmental Science major Nancy Tu is the new scholarship recipient.
Yvon Chouinard: Let My People Go Surfing
Chouinard describes the philosophy of his company through something he calls “breaking the rules of business” – creating quality clothing in a relaxed atmosphere that grants his employees both flexibility…
Yvon Chouinard: Stand Up Shorts
Yvon Chouinard gives a humorous account of the trend-setting introduction of clothing to his climbing business.
Yvon Chouinard: Closing the Cycle – A long term relationship with the customer.
https://youtu.be/w5VqCE9HoiY Yvon Chouinard recounted how Patagonia grew from a retail climbing equipment business operating out of the back of his van to a successful global business based on sustainability and…
Yvon Chouinard: How to make sustainable clothing
Chouinard examines the risks of using chemicals in the production of clothing, recalls the difficulties faced in his company’s switch from industrial to organic cotton, and tackles the issue of…