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In Los Angeles, paddling down a concrete river

Sean Hecht, executive director of the UCLA Environmental Law Center, was quoted in an Associated Press article about efforts to revitalize the Los Angeles River.
Posted: 8/29/2011

A greener cleaner? That idea may be easier said than done

Peter Sinsheimer, Institute affiliate and executive director of UCLA's Sustainable Technology and Policy Program, is quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about environmentally friendly dry cleaners.
Posted: 8/18/2011

America's Greenest Schools

UCLA is #15 in Sierra Club’s fifth annual ranking of the greenest colleges in the United States.
Posted: 8/17/2011

Nano Gold Rush: Researchers use tiny gold particles to boost organic solar cell efficiency

Plasmonic technique helps enhance power conversion by up to 20 percent.
Posted: 8/16/2011

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

Changing Lanes

Bruin Commuter Club offers incentives for UCLA members who switch to environmentally friendly transportation.
Posted: 8/1/2011

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

A visit from Obama's top environmental advisor

Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and principal environmental policy advisor to President Barak Obama, met with some of UCLA's top researchers in climate change and green technology on Friday, July 22.
Posted: 7/29/2011

Researchers use wireless technology to speed transition to electric vehicles

For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their gas-guzzlers for electric vehicles.
Posted: 7/28/2011

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

10 Questions for Daniel Blumstein: Breaking dinner-party taboos

UCLA Today’s Alison Hewitt spoke with Blumstein for this edited Q&A.
Posted: 7/22/2011

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Newsletter

Summer 2011
Posted: 7/22/2011

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