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Tony Pritzker’s ‘patient strategy for the planet’ featured in Mongabay
The feature traces how an engineer’s logic — and a long view of progress — shape Pritzker’s approach to environmental change
Energy & Technology
Technology continues to advance and expand, creating environmental challenges and potential solutions.
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Stephanie Pincetl wins UCLA 2025 Public Impact Research Award
The award highlights faculty whose research has demonstrably improved lives locally, nationally and globally
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2025 Pritzker Award finalists: Anthony Waddle, Denica Riadini-Flesch, Seema Lokhandwala
Three innovators from Australia, Indonesia and India are redefining how to protect wildlife, restore ecosystems and build equitable futures
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Estimating the Energy Impacts of Rebuilding after the Palisades and Eaton Fires
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Fostering Community Solar: A Student-Led Collaborative Program between UCLA and EIA University
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California Public Utilities Commission Distributed Energy Resource Program Data Working Group
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Assessing the prospective air quality and health effects for disadvantaged communities of California’s transition to zero-emission vehicles
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UCLA Energy Atlas
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UCLA Ph.D. candidate Lorena De la Puente Burlando selected for Critical Minerals Research Lab
The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability is proud to share that Ph.D. candidate Lorena De la Puente Burlando has been accepted into the 2025–2026 Critical Minerals Research Lab,…
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Rajit Gadh for IEEE Spectrum—Future L.A. Fires Could Be Prevented With Grid-Hardening Tech
Rajit Gadh, director of the Smart Grid Energy Research Center at UCLA and professor at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, spoke with IEEE Spectrum about the role of…
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Ann Carlson for The Hill—California gas car ban faces uncertain future
UCLA professor Ann Carlson discusses the legal uncertainty surrounding California’s gas car ban for The Hill, sharing how the incoming Trump administration may attempt to undo the Biden administration’s recent…
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My journey in conserving Lake Chad: A story of Ecofeminism approach and Innovative Technology
By 2024 Pritzker Award Finalist Adenike Oladosu Titilope I was born when Nigeria had a series of environmental challenges, especially in the region of Lake Chad, a place where many environmentalists…
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California Public Utilities Commission project on distributed energy resources led by UCLA’s CCSC and LARC
The California Public Utilities Commission has selected the California Center for Sustainable Communities and the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative at UCLA IoES to lead a Data Working Group on Distributed…
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UCLA’s Comprehensive Sustainability Plan
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…
How Climate Change Will Impact California, Interview with Dr. Alan Barreca
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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L.A. Energy Atlas
A first of its kind interactive website built with the largest set of publicly available disaggregated energy data in the nation.
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