Calendar of Events
Events for Fall Quarter: 9/15/2009 - 12/31/2009
Volunteers Needed! Help Restore Stone Canyon Creek
Please join the Santa Monica Baykeeper and the UCLA Institute of the Environment to help restore the only remaining section of unburied creek on the UCLA campus
Sunday, September 20, 2009
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Stone Canyon Creek
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Forests, Climate Change and Community Benefits: Perspectives from the Amazon
A joint event sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Institute of the Environment's Center for Climate Change Solutions to discuss how forestry practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions affect indigenous and local communities.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
California Room
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AltCar Expo
Fourth Annual City of Santa Monica Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
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Business and the environment: When do firms adopt green practices?
IOE/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar with PROF. MAGALI DELMAS, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Anderson School of Management
Monday, October 05, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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The Los Angeles River: Past, Present and Future
SHELLY BACKLAR, Executive Director, Friends of the LA river (FoLAR)
Monday, October 05, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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California Climate Action Plans and Performance: When Do Promises Translate into Action?
Executive Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies J. R. DeShazo will share findings from his recent research on Californias local governments climate commitments.
Monday, October 12, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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Don't Forget the Second "D" : The Importance of Including Degradation in a REDD Mechanism
DAVID GANZ, Director, Global Fire Initiative, The Nature Conservancy
Visiting Scholar, University of California-Berkely
Monday, October 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Rural Livelihoods and Urban Food Security in West Africa: A Comparative Study of The Gambia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali
Seminar with PROF. JUDY CARNEY, UCLA Department of Geography
Thursday, October 15, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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Environmental Policies in the New Economy
Join local leaders and state legislators in a forum moderated by David Ono.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Milken Institute
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Volunteers Needed! Help Restore Stone Canyon Creek
Please join the Santa Monica Baykeeper and the UCLA Institute of the Environment to help restore the only remaining section of unburied creek on the UCLA campus
Saturday, October 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Stone Canyon Creek
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Implementing SB 375: The Regional Targets Advisory Committee
Former State Assemblyman and Metro
Board Member Richard Katz, will
discuss his experience on the SB 375
Regional Targets Advisory Committee and its mission of establishing emission reduction goals.
Monday, October 19, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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But, Its a Dry Heat... Climate Warming, Increased Aridity and its Impacts in Southwestern North America
GLEN M. MACDONALD, Director, Institute of the Environment, UC-Los Angeles Professor, IoE, Dept. of Geography, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Monday, October 19, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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FutureBuild LA
Join us for the debut of FutureBuild Los Angeles. FutureBuild LA brings together experts, service professionals, vendors, and customers in the sustainable real estate sector in Los Angeles.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Los Angeles Convention Center
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Annual UCLA Sustainability Fair
UCLA will host its third annual Sustainability Fair. Come find out more about whats going on at UCLA in sustainability and how you can get involved
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Bruin Plaza
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Greening the North American Energy Relationship
Building a Stronger US-Canada Environmental Partnership
Thursday, October 22, 2009
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Covel Commons
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Is Plastic Washed Up?
A film series about plastic pollution
Friday, October 23, 2009
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
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Support India's Sustainable Development @ Grassroots
Association for Indias Development (Los Angeles Chapter)
Invites you to the seminar event of 2009.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Kerckhoff State Room 131
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The Future of Development in the Los Angeles Region
Los Angeles City Planning Commissioner Michael Woo will talk about how he sees climate and policy changing the built environment of Los Angeles.
Monday, October 26, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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Audubon: 100 years of Citizen Science
GARRY GEORGE, Director, Audubon California
Monday, October 26, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Leaders in Sustainability Program Kick-off Meeting
Come meet your fellow students from a variety of graduate programs at UCLA, learn about the requirements of the program, and hear about the events we have planned for this year. There are already Dinners for 8, speakers and happy hours in the works!
Monday, October 26, 2009
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Acid Test
A film about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
UCLA School of Law Room 1347
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Nanotechnology for Solar Harvesting
IOE/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar with PROF. DIANA HUFFAKER, UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Monday, November 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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Making Green Affordable: Barriers to Creating Energy Efficient Non- Profit Housing
Abode Communities Vice President and Director of Architecture Tim Kohut, AIA and LEED AP, speaks about challenges to building green affordable housing.
Monday, November 02, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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City of Los Angeles Biosolids Management Program
DERRICK K. LEE, EMS Coordinator, Bureau of Sanitation, City of Los Angeles
Monday, November 02, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Adapting to Wildfires on the Urban Edge in Southern California
Jon E. Keeley, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Resource Ecologist, USGS Western Ecological Research Center
An Oppenheim Lecture
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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UCLA Engineering SmartGrid Seminar
John Garrity from GE Global Research delivers his talk, "Advanced Photonic & Wireless Instrumentation for a Smarter Grid From Research to Relevant Products and Services".
Thursday, November 05, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
38-138 Engineering IV
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Lunch for 8 with Jim McDermott
We have an exciting opportunity for a lunch for 8 people with Jim McDermott, a Managing Director and Partner at US Renewables Group, one of the largest private equity firms focused exclusively on investing in renewable power, biofuels and clean technology infrastructure. USRG was founded in 2003 and has mobilized $575 million of capital commitments to invest in renewable projects.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
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UCLA CIBER Key Regions/Critical Issues Lecture Series: The United Nations Climate Change Conference
A Conversation with Ambassador Friis Petersen of Denmark on the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
Thursday, November 05, 2009
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School
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Opportunity Green
Being Green + Being Profitable
Saturday, November 07, 2009
8:00 AM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Covel Commons
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Opportunity Green
Being Green + Being Profitable
Sunday, November 08, 2009
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Covel Commons
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Performance-Based Policies and Measuring GHGs from Transportation
Director of the UCLA Program on Local Government Climate Action Policies Juan Matute talks about the policy implications of measuring GHG emissions from transportation.
Monday, November 09, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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Invasive species and other threats to California's biological diversity
JOHN M. RANDALL, Associate Science Director, South Coast & Deserts, The Nature Conservancy - California Chapter & Plant Sciences Department, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Al Gore at Saban Theater
Join former Vice President Al Gore as he presents and signs his new book, "Our Choice".
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The Saban Theater
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Volunteers Needed! Help Restore Stone Canyon Creek
Please join the Santa Monica Baykeeper and the UCLA Institute of the Environment to help restore the only remaining section of unburied creek on the UCLA campus
Saturday, November 14, 2009
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Stone Canyon Creek
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Twenty-First Century Environmental Challenges and the Emerging Science of Regional Earth System Modeling
Monday, November 16, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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Moving Locally: 10 Ways Local Governments Can and Have Reduced Their Transportation GHG Footprint
Environmental Defense Fund Director Kathryn Phillips will speak about what local governments are doing to reduce GHG intensity of transportation.
Monday, November 16, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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Making Los Angeles A Global Capital of Clean Technology
SEAN ARIAN, Director of Economic Development, Office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Monday, November 16, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Film Screening: No Impact Man
A free screening of the acclaimed documentary about a family set on living a year with as little environmental impact as possible.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
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UCLA Engineering SmartGrid Seminar
Dan Ton presents "DOEs Perspectives on Smart Grid Technology: Challenges, & Research Opportunities"
Thursday, November 19, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
38-138 Engineering IV
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CANCELED - Spatial Diffusion of Environmental-Friendly Technology: The Case of Dry Cleaners in Southern California. A notice will be sent when a new date is set for this seminar.
Seminar with PROF. PAUL ONG, UCLA
School of Public Affairs and Asian American Studies
Thursday, November 19, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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Fair Trade Fashion and Trade Show
A fashion show at UCLA with an ambitious mission: address global social issues and human rights with conscious consumerism.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
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Volunteers Needed! Help Restore Stone Canyon Creek
Please join the Santa Monica Baykeeper and the UCLA Institute of the Environment to help restore the only remaining section of unburied creek on the UCLA campus
Saturday, November 21, 2009
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Stone Canyon Creek
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Residential Electricity Consumption
UCLA Professor and author of the 2006 Brookings Institution book Green Cities Matthew Kahn will share his latest research on how we use energy at home.
Monday, November 23, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
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World's Most Endangered Forest
THOMAS GILLESPIE, Department of Geography, UC-Los Angeles
Monday, November 23, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Presentation of Individual Practicum Project
NANCY TSENG, Environmental Science Senior
Monday, November 30, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
La Kretz Hall 110
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Wind and Solar Energy: Environmental Solutions?
IOE/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar with PROF. RICHARD WIRZ, UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Monday, December 07, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Institute of the Environment
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Screening of the Film "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy"
In honor of the International climate change negotiations happening in Copenhagen, Denmark this week, UCLA is presenting a screening of "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" followed by a panel discussion and book signing.
Monday, December 07, 2009
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The UCLA James Bridges Theater
