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Natural Selection and Social Behavior in Panamanian Sweat Bees

by Karen Kapheim, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA
Posted: 9/25/2008

UCLA store gets new green corner

Students with an eye out for sustainability have always had options like recycled-paper notebooks at the student store. But when the demand for green products started rising, the UCLA Store began to run out of room for its expanding array of eco-friendl
Posted: 9/24/2008

Can't See the Forest for the Trees

Prof. Susanna Hecht argues that its time to see beyond the myth of the pristine forest to gain a truer understanding of humankinds interactions with the natural landscape.
Posted: 9/23/2008

Converting drivers to bus riders, 262 commuters at a time

It was a challenge that some UCLA commuters took on as a dare: Give up your campus parking pass for one to three summer months in exchange for a free bus pass, and then decide if you want your pass back in mid-September.
Posted: 9/18/2008

Enjoy L.A. without a car? Transit guide shows you the way

UCLA Transportation provides a handy "U-See-LA" guide to everything from seeing L.A.'s popular sights to just grabbing some dinner without a car.
Posted: 9/18/2008

Calculate your carbon footprint with a cell phone

UCLA's Center for Embedded Network Sensing is testing new cell phone software that helps people track their carbon footprint and their exposure to pollutants.
Posted: 8/27/2008

UCLA Transportation featured in sutainability journal

UCLA Transportation was featured in the August issue of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.
Posted: 8/27/2008

Environmental Science Seniors Study Postburn Griffith Park

Summary of Environmental Science senior project in Griffith Park Winter and Spring 2008
Posted: 8/22/2008

Chancellor Block speaks at the G8 University Summit and signs the Sapporo Sustainability Declaration

The G8 University Summit was held for the first time in Sapporo, Japan from June 29 to July 1, 2008. Through this summit, participating university recognized the importance of academic investigation and research to achieve world-wide sustainability.
Posted: 8/15/2008

California plans to build 2 huge solar power plants

These PV solar installations will span 12.5 miles and generate up to 800 megawatts of electricity.
Posted: 8/14/2008

New bill, SB 375, would help achieve land use portion of AB 32

SB 375, if passed, will expedite smart growth development projects while giving environmentalists a great say in the project's location and GHG reduction measures.
Posted: 8/14/2008

Sustainability 101: the fertility factor

Ever since my youth, I've been a numbers type of guy. As a teenager in the 1950s, I discovered that the typical American woman was having three or four children and I calculated that the U.S.A. was in for a big population explosion.
Posted: 8/13/2008

Homegrown products save environment, money: UCLA project has potential to show how food grown locally can decrease greenhouse gases

Before ending up in last nights salad, a lettuce head undergoes a long and rough journey. From the moment a farmer picks it, the lettuce head travels for many miles, reaching a grocery store where store employees wash, refrigerate and sell its head of fre
Posted: 8/11/2008

Renewable energy is the future of UCLA

When the U.S. was again considering drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to offset the impending energy crisis, Steve Brye, project manager at the L.A. County Metropolitan Transport Authority, did something he deems in the spirit of a m
Posted: 8/11/2008

State-of-the-art water recycling system fuels campus facilities: In light of the growing water shortage, UCLA has harnessed the power of steam

The current water crisis facing the world has been growing in recent years due to changes in the environment and depleting resources, turning fresh water into a precious commodity.
Posted: 8/11/2008

UCLAs green efforts include transportation

In an age of increased carbon dioxide emissions, skyrocketing energy costs and Al Gore, its no wonder that the new buzzword of late is green. As large corporations such as Nissan and Starbucks increasingly become sustainable, the University of Californ
Posted: 8/11/2008

Creeks clear water revival: Changes stem from stream

UCLA Hardworking students and local environmentalists are getting down and dirty in the underbrush to keep UCLAs only creek flowing.
Posted: 8/1/2008

Mideast Drought and Syrian Wheat Harvest Failure

The wheat harvest is in across Syria and the Middle East and the situation looks grim. View Video by Glen M. MacDonald.
Posted: 8/1/2008

Environmental courses signal a shift in learning

Green studies are among the fastest-growing degree programs at some universities.
Posted: 7/30/2008

Around the world on solar power

A Swiss schoolteacher doing his part to change the world pulled his "Solartaxi" up to the curb on July 22 at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, the latest stop in his 50,000-kilometer, around-the-world drive to draw internatio
Posted: 7/23/2008

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