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Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Newsletter

Fall 2011
Posted: 11/21/2011

UCTV to showcase Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Lecture Series

The Oppenheim Lectures Series will now be broadcast by University of California Television. "America's Climate Choices" by Dr. Albert Carnesale will premiere on December 5, 2011.
Posted: 11/18/2011

Energy Conservation Strategies: What Can We Gain?

Executives met to discuss conservation strategies to improve profit margins while benefiting the environment at the 2011 Fall Quarterly Corporate Partner Workshop.
Posted: 11/8/2011

How will we adapt to climate change? A free market economist's perspective

Institute Professor Matt Kahn authored a report for the Property & Environment Research Center.
Posted: 11/8/2011

Clean-tech venture funding jumps as other sectors go wanting

Green companies raise almost $1.2 billion in the third quarter, a 73% increase from a year earlier. California firms received more than half of that infusion of cash. Overall venture funding was down about 50%.
Posted: 11/4/2011

Institute alumnus Jenna M. Rodriguez's literature review published

A graduate of the IoES in 2010, Rodriguez's analysis will appear in the publication "Hydrological Processes."
Posted: 11/4/2011

GE Cluster course project makes 7 billion population milestone tangible

On October 31, 2011 the world population hit 7 billion. A Global Environment undergraduate class will study the impact of overpopulation in depth.
Posted: 11/1/2011

UC's sustainability program helps deal with budget crunch

The University of California is one of the pioneers of sustainability within higher education, and the cost savings associated with being green takes on greater importance as public universities face the budget tax.
Posted: 10/26/2011

Will California’s cap-and-trade experiment catch on?

IoES Professor Matt Kahn is quoted in an Washington Post piece about California's adoption of a cap-and-trade program.
Posted: 10/26/2011

California state officials adopt cap-and-trade program

Institute Director Glen MacDonald is quoted in a Daily Bruin article about a new California program that will regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted: 10/24/2011

The science and politics of climate change

The LA Times & BBC reported on the Berkeley Earth Project's new study that confirms global warming trends. This independent group of scientists was established in the wake of Climategate in 2009, which involved claims global warming had been exaggerated.
Posted: 10/24/2011

California Regulators Approve Design for Carbon Trading System

Ann Carlson, professor of law, IoES faculty member, and faculty director of the UCLA Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment, is quoted in a Bloomberg article about California adopting the nation's most comprehensive "cap-and-trade" system to
Posted: 10/21/2011

Leaders in Sustainability Certificate Program

LiS is for graduate students interested in business and the environment.
Posted: 10/19/2011

UCLA collaborates with Chinese universities on Clean Energy Resource Center – Los Angeles to find solutions to global energy consumption problems

Los Angeles and Beijing have more in common than an atmosphere thick with ever-lingering smog.
Posted: 10/19/2011

Dozens gather for UCLA’s first-ever Bike (Re)cycling event

Lines of bicycles sat next to scattered tires and frames on the rooftop of an on-campus parking structure.
Posted: 10/17/2011

Spotlight: "Water is Rising Music and Dance Amid Climate Change"

Latest press about the event co-sponsored by UCLA's Center for Intercultural Performance, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, & Foundation for World Arts.
Posted: 10/17/2011

Campus carpools get a free ride on hydrogen fuel

A handful of lucky UCLA drivers — who unfortunately have long commutes — are about to get a free car, free fuel and free parking for three months.
Posted: 10/13/2011

New UCLA center to drive international research in clean energy

An interdisciplinary crowd of scientists from around the world gathered on campus Monday for a workshop aimed at shaping UCLA's new Clean Energy Research Center–Los Angeles.
Posted: 10/12/2011

Albert Carnesale Oppenheim Lecture: "America’s Climate Choices"

Despite a political logjam in Congress and an economic slowdown that has made even some environmentalists hesitant to spend money on green policies, UCLA Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale remains hopeful that a National Academy of Sciences report calli
Posted: 10/11/2011

Model Design Manual for Living Streets

UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation and Los Angeles County debut new manual to expand biking and walking on city streets.
Posted: 10/6/2011

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