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Water is Rising Music And Dance Amid Climate Change website now live!
Learn more about the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability's latest collaborative effort.
Posted: 8/10/2011
Phone losing charge? Technology created by UCLA engineers allows LCDs to recycle energy
With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight.
Posted: 8/9/2011
Probing a glacier as it thaws
The New York Times reported on research by Laurence Smith, Department of Geography professor and IoES affiliate, aimed at measuring runoff from the melting of Greenland's massive ice sheet.
Posted: 8/5/2011
Profs’ water-cleaning system could save campus thousands of gallons, dollars
UCLA’s power plant had something that professors Yoram Cohen and Panagiotis Christofides wanted: hopelessly filthy water. And they have invented something that the Cogeneration Plant wanted: a way to clean it up.
Posted: 8/5/2011
UCLA receives high standings in QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Science
UCLA placed well in two fields of study.
Posted: 8/5/2011
For Want of a Crosswalk, a Life was Lost
A piece co-authored by Dr. Richard Jackson, IoES professor and Department of Environmental Health Sciences chair, was featured in the Huffington Post.
Posted: 8/4/2011
Cash for Clunkers? The Environmental Impact of Mexico's Demand for Used Vehicles
An article by Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Professor Matt Kahn and Lucas W. Davis was featured in the latest issue of ACCESS: the Magazine of the University of California Transportation Center.
Posted: 8/3/2011
Japanese respond to national call to save energy
Matthew Kahn, a professor with the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the departments of Public Policy and Economics, has written three books: "Green Cities" (Brookings Institution Press); "Heroes and Cowards" (Princeton University Press,
Posted: 8/2/2011
Energy Conservation in Japan, U.S.
A Christian Science Monitor blog column by Matthew Kahn, a professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability with joint appointments in economics and public policy, compared energy-conservation efforts in Japan and the U.S.
Posted: 8/1/2011
UCLA Law report recommends improvements in state's groundwater regulation
Better management is key to securing California's water supply for future.
Posted: 8/1/2011
Governor's conference at UCLA promises green energy by 2020
California Gov. Jerry Brown kicked off a two-day conference at UCLA today, where politicians, business leaders, researchers and academics gathered to propose ways to meet Brown's goal of developing localized renewable energy sources that can produce 12,00
Posted: 7/26/2011
Designing Healthy Communities
Dr. Richard Jackson, chair of the department of Environmental Health Sciences and professor at the IoES, is the host of a new Media & Policy Center documentary about public health and the built environment.
Posted: 7/19/2011
Science: Lost in translation
Scientists from UCLA, USC, Caltech and other Southern California research universities gathered at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute for a July 13-15 workshop about how to better communicate the importance and excitement of their research to the pub
Posted: 7/15/2011
Summer Reading: 7 education books to take to the beach
The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) by Charles Saylan and UCLA's Daniel T. Blumstein was selected by Time Magazine as an education book to check out.
Posted: 7/15/2011
Action Research Teams Executive Summaries 2011
Learn the final outcomes of the ten Education for Sustainable Living Program Action Research Team projects.
Posted: 7/11/2011
Patt Morrison Asks: Albert Carnesale, Professor Nuclear
The LA Times featured a Q&A with Albert Carnesale, UCLA chancellor emeritus, professor of public policy and aerospace engineering, and IoES Affiliate, about the Fukushima nuclear crisis, the future of nuclear energy, and his role on the U.S. Dept. of Ener
Posted: 7/11/2011
Watch the 2011 Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Commencement Celebration
Held Sunday, June 12, 2011 at UCLA's Korn Convocation Hall.
Posted: 7/11/2011
UCLA's top teachers: Ecologist draws students, city kids to nature's wonders
Philip Rundel, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and IoES Professor, is the recipient of a 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award.
Posted: 7/8/2011
Pritzker Fund for Environment and Sustainability Education Fellow Appointed
Professor Jenny Jay, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, is the first Pritzker Fellow.
Posted: 7/5/2011
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