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.”
Al Gore on “Winning the Conversation”
The Institute of the Environment an Sustainability hosted the second annual An Evening of Environmental Excellence on March 5, 2013 in Beverly Hills. The gala recognized the environmental leadership of…
The Global Amphibian Biodiversity Crisis
Watch the 4th Annual Public Lecture sponsored by the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science at King Gillette Ranch in Malibu, California on April 7, 2013. Since the…
Al Gore on “Issuing the Next Great Challenge”
Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore evokes President John F. Kennedy’s legendary address on the importance of space exploration and declares the climate change crisis as…
Ocean Acidification – “Time to Change” (feat. Ryan Yoo)
Blue Planet: Introduction to Oceanography students garner accolades for their imaginative assignment. Projects in IoES/Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/Earth and Space Sciences Assistant Professor Aradhna Tripati’s undergraduate course won science communication…
2nd Annual Evening of Environmental Excellence Arrivals
Amy Smart, Jason Mraz, Sarah Silverman 2nd Annual “An Evening of Environmental Excellence” Event. Red carpet interviews by maximotv.com.
Conservation for Our World of Nine Billion People: The End of Nostalgia and Apocaholism
Synopsis of Video The expanding world human population, with its demands for food and energy is undeniably placing severe stress on the planet’s ecology and nature. While there are data…
UCLA Be a Smarter Commuter
UCLA staff and faculty members choose healthy and sustainable transportation options for their commutes to campus. UCLA supports these smart commute modes by offering discounted public transit passes, bicycle incentive…
Milken Institute California Summit — Renewables: Our Energy Edge?
Speakers: Rajit Gadh, Professor and Director, UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Steven (Mac) Heller, Executive Chairman, CODA Automotive Joseph Osha, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Alternative Energy Research,…
Dr. Richard Jackson on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV
Watch an interview with Department of Environmental Health Sciences Chair and IoES Professor Richard Jackson.
Natural Disaster Economics
Matthew E. Kahn (UCLA Economics) presents his 7th lecture. This lecture focuses on how cities are affected by natural disasters.
Economic Growth and the Environment
Lecture # 6 in the “green bites” video series by Matthew E. Kahn, professor of economics at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainabiltiy.