Technology continues to advance and expand, creating environmental challenges and potential solutions.
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Rachel Sheinberg, a Ph.D. candidate at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES) graduating this year, studies a critical challenge in the clean energy transition: who benefits, and who could be left behind.
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Explore how renewable energy transitions and home electrification will shape household energy spending and burden across Los Angeles.
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Remembering the UCLA alumnus and Disney Imagineer who made it ‘safe to have fun’
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From the lecture halls of Westwood to the world’s most prestigious scientific stage, UCLA’s Nobel-winning alumni trace their triumphs to a common source: a public university that opened doors
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California’s climate ambitions have long been defined by sweeping targets: achieving statewide carbon neutrality by 2045, installing six million electric heat pumps in homes, and mandating a total phaseout of…
As cities face growing climate challenges, designing effective infrastructure requires more than technical expertise; it also means understanding how people experience environmental change in their daily lives. Madeleine Siegel examines how these community perspectives can help shape climate solutions.
Magali Delmas, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Anderson School of Management is the research lead on a pilot program launched this month by LA-based nonprofit electricity provider Clean Power Alliance.
"I don’t see the birds in the morning anymore." Gregory Pirio, a longtime Loudoun County resident, explained his experience living near a data center. Greg isn’t the only one reeling…
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UCLA has a long history of sustainability leadership — from early energy efficiency efforts and the formation of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in the 1990s, to the establishment of…
Getting Beyond Tropes: Cities for the 21st Century Dr. Pincetl spoke to the Environmental Science without Borders (ESWB), a subsidiary of UCLA's Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS), which connects students and early-career scientists from around the globe, regarding her research on urban metabolism water and energy policy, habitat conservation efforts, and the impact of land use in conjunction with climate change and climate policies.
Seminar presented by Rachel V. Blakey, The Institute for Bird Populations and The University of Missouri
Interview on The Young Turks ScIQ with UCLA environmental economist Alan Barreca by Jayde Lovell about climate change effects on public health, vulnerable communities, and the state of California. They also…
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A first of its kind interactive website built with the largest set of publicly available disaggregated energy data in the nation.