Congo Basin Institute (French Subtitles)
Video about the Congo Basin Institute, dedicated to finding solutions to the interconnected issues of climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity.
Videos
Design for the Circular Economy in the Ecological Century
An Oppenheim Lecture with William McDonough, Chief Executive, McDonough Innovation held Feb 18, 2015.
Protecting Biodiversity
Watch the video on NSF Video from the National Science Foundation website about the Central African Biodiversity Alliance (CABA), an international partnership of scientists, students, and policy makers working to…
Congo Basin Institute
UCLA and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) are leading a multi-institutional initiative to develop the Congo Basin Institute (CBI), which will be a model for how universities can…
Congo Basin Institute (English Version)
Video about the Congo Basin Institute, dedicated to finding solutions to the interconnected issues of climate change, human disease, food and water security, and loss of biodiversity.
Challenges to Conserving the Congo Basin Rainforest, 2014
An Oppenheim Lecture presented by CTR Director Thomas B. Smith, describing the Center is leveraging the best available science to identify new protected areas in the face of resource extraction…
NSF PIRE Workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon (French)
Coverage of the professional development workshop focused on empowering young local researchers to track and analyze the genetic diversity of the Congo Basin in the face of climate change, which…
NSF PIRE Workshop in Yaoundé Cameroon (English)
Coverage of the professional development workshop focused on empowering young local researchers to track and analyze the genetic diversity of the Congo Basin in the face of climate change, which…
UCLA geographer Glen MacDonald named to John Muir Endowed Chair
Professor MacDonald has been selected as the first occupant of a new UCLA chair in geography named after the naturalist and activist who helped preserve the Yosemite Valley as a…
Is aging infrastructure to blame for UCLA water main break?
Originally posted by 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio A busted water main sent a geyser shooting 30 feet in the air and flooded Sunset Boulevard and UCLA yesterday. About…
Graduation 2014
Video produced from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability 2014 Graduation Ceremony.
African International Meeting on Malaria and Related Haemosprodian Parasites of Wildlifeife
Watch the video on Facebook A student researcher’s reaction to the NSF-sponsored Research Coordination Network for Haemosporida (Malaria RCN)’s African workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with students from Cameroon, Nigeria, and…
Thriving in a Hotter L.A.: Turning Los Angeles into a Global Model for Urban Sustainability
The IoES and Women & Philanthropy at UCLA joined together to present “Thriving in a Hotter L.A.: Turning Los Angeles into a Global Model for Urban Sustainability.” IoES Associate Director…
Biological invasions: What’s new, and why the controversy
5th Annual La Kretz Public Lecture by Professor Daniel Simberloff, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville presented May 4, 2014 at the UCLA…
Transforming our Common Environment and Energy Futures: Perspectives on the Journey from Public Servant to Private Citizen
On February 12, Lisa Jackson visited the IoES, talked with faculty and students, and gave the Winter Oppenheim Lecture. She inspired admiration, challenged people to “be influential” in their careers,…
Confronting a Superstorm of Challenges: A New American Grand Strategy
Featuring Department of Environmental Health Sciences Chair and IoES Professor Dr. Richard Jackson.
CABAlliance – Mist Netting Birds in Ebo Forest, Cameroon
Dr. Thomas Smith sets up mist nets to catch birds at the Njuma Camp of the Ebo Forest.
Surveying H2O in Southern California
Stephanie Pincetl, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability, speaks about her continued work to map the different organizations and entities that…
UCLA video: 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley
UCLA adjunct professor of history Jon Christensen, the editor of Boom: A Journal of California, hopes that this special issue of the journal serves as an intelligent guide to the…
Pole to Pole: A Global WarNing – How the Ice Foretells the Next Systemic Transformation
An Oppenheim Lecture featuring Sebastian Copeland, award-winning photographer, explorer, extreme athlete, and environmental advocate.
Creating Regenerating Cities: Case Studies from Around the World
In an urbanising world, cities have new responsibilities for dealing with their increasingly global environmental impacts. Can they become pioneers of sustainable, or indeed, regenerative development? Can modern cities find…
L.A.’s Climate Future: What’s Coming and What Choices We Face (Highlights)
Highlights of the Oppenheim Lecture by Alex Hall, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
L.A.’s Climate Future: What’s Coming and What Choices We Face
About the Lecture Scientists have been warning about the global impacts that climate change will bring over the coming decades — but what do those impacts mean for Los Angeles?…
The Anthropocene and Environmental Communications
A short film by Jon Christensen and Terry Chen featuring guest lecturers for the undergraduate course “Environment 150 – Journalism, Science Communications, and New Media.”