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A sweeter ride for campus bike commuters next week

UCLA Transportation and UCLA Recreation will be "sweetening" your bike ride to work next week with free giveaways, light refreshments and opportunities to share inside info on routes and other tips with others in the two-wheeled world.
Posted: 5/13/2011

Energy efficiency programs save UC $21 million per year

UC has won national praise for its 50 LEED-certified facilities, the most of any U.S. university. Many are considered shining examples of the latest in energy-efficient technology.
Posted: 5/13/2011

Student research team uses Android app to monitor trees on campus, improve environment

The Education for Sustainable Living Program's Action Research Teams will deliver their final presentations on May 23rd at 4 PM at Kerckhoff Hall - Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248).
Posted: 5/13/2011

UCLA study predicts L.A. will be a top market for electric vehicles

Los Angeles will be a U.S. leader in the market for electric vehicles, with such vehicles accounting for nearly one out of every 10 automobiles purchased in the city in 2015, according to a new study published by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.
Posted: 5/13/2011

Center for Tropical Research Spring 2011 Newsletter

CTR researchers investigate stripe variation in the African plains zebra and monkeypox transmission in the Congo Basin.
Posted: 5/12/2011

When environmentalism, education, and entertainment mix.

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Director Glen MacDonald, along with IoES undergraduate and graduate students, participated in a special event with environmentalist Philippe Cousteau.
Posted: 5/12/2011

UCLA La Kretz Center Public Lecture - May 15

Featuring Dr. Paul Ehrlich
Posted: 5/11/2011

Footprint Benchmarking and the Bottom Line: Finding the Value in Measurement and Management of Your Environmental Footprint.

A Corporate Partners Program and Center for Corporate Environmental Performance Event
Posted: 5/9/2011

Man-made rock reef is part of a welcome seaweed change

The LA Times reported on IoES Corporate Partner Southern California Edison's creation of an artificial reef 50 feet below the waves to support a new kelp forest.
Posted: 5/9/2011

Fate of Mountain Glaciers in the Anthropocene - A Report by the Working Group Commissioned by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences

IoES Affiliate Thomas Painter is a co-author of this study that cites the moral imperative before society to properly address climate change.
Posted: 5/6/2011

Protecting nature...one park at a time.

The UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and UCLA Center for Climate Change Solutions partnered with the National Park Service for a 2-day climate change summit at UCLA.
Posted: 5/6/2011

How the Zebra Changed its Stripes: Evolution of Stripe Variation in the Plains Zebra

by Brenda Larison, Ph.D., Researcher, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Posted: 5/5/2011

Inquiring minds learn about conservation & more at the Santa Monica Mountains Science Festival/div

The Festival had talks, hands-on demonstrations, nature walks, family activities, live animal displays and meet and greets with scientists, including researchers and staff from the UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and Center for Tr
Posted: 5/5/2011

Using Remote Sensing to Map the Principal Carrier of Monkeypox Virus in the Congo Basin

by Trevon Fuller, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Posted: 5/5/2011

CNE-TV spotlights new International Research and Training Center, Central Africa

Watch presentation highlights plus a one-on-one interview with Center for Tropical Research (CTR) Director Tom Smith and CTR Africa Director Kevin Njabo.
Posted: 5/2/2011

Sustainability would help boost U.S. life expectancy

Illinois' Elgin Daily Herald reported on a presentation by Dr. Richard Jackson, professor and chair of environmental health sciences at the IoES & School of Public Health, in which he spoke about the connection between public policy, health care, urban pl
Posted: 4/29/2011

Event highlights International Research and Training Center, Central Africa

The mission of this new International Research and Training Center (IRTC) is to facilitate interdisciplinary environmental, health, and social science research focused on Central Africa with outcomes that promote sustainable development and respond to the
Posted: 4/28/2011

Scientists worry about oil 'iceberg' in Gulf

Richard Ambrose, professor of environmental health sciences, was interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s "The World Today" about the clean-up following the BP oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010.
Posted: 4/28/2011

Reflections on the Gulf Oil Spill—One year later

On April 20, 2010 an explosion rocked the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig. On April 22, 2010 Deepwater Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the sea floor and causing the largest offshore oil spill in United States history. Two UCLA exp
Posted: 4/26/2011

Fukushima's lessons for U.S. nuclear power

UCLA News|Week covered the IoES hosted Nuclear Panel held April 18, 2011 featuring: UCLA Chancellor Emeritus & Public Policy and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Albert Carnesale, IoES Professor Deepak Rajagopal, Civil and Environmental Engi
Posted: 4/25/2011

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