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Confronting Climate Change: A Focus on Local Government Impacts, Actions and Resources

IoES climate change scientists Paul Bunje and Alex Hall participated in a Governor’s Office of Planning & Research hosted Impacts and Adaptation Local Government Conference on April 9th.
Posted: 4/17/2012

Conservation consternation: Prof studies Amazon's forest people

UCLA Today spotlights IoES and Department of Urban Planning Professor Susanna Hecht's research in the Amazon Basin.
Posted: 4/13/2012

UCLA greens its campus

University sets the standard for environmental sustainability - Part Two of the special series on the IoES by Mother Nature Network.
Posted: 4/11/2012

UCLA Engineering researchers use electricity to generate alternative fuel

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time demonstrated a method for converting carbon dioxide into liquid fuel isobutanol using electricity.
Posted: 4/9/2012

Which plants will survive droughts, climate change?

New research by UCLA life scientists could lead to predictions of which plant species will escape extinction from climate change.
Posted: 4/9/2012

Windfall of cash could hit state treasury from global warming program

IoES Affiliate & Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment Executive Director Cara Horowitz was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about the potential financial benefit to California from the state's cap-and-trade program.
Posted: 4/9/2012

"Beyond Green Jobs: Building Lasting Opportunities in Energy Efficiency."

The California Construction Academy - UCLA Labor Center (CCA) is proud to announce the release of their new book .
Posted: 4/6/2012

UCLA's Institute of Environment and Sustainability educates future leaders

The Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will be the focus of a special five-part series on Mother Nature Network (MNN.COM)—the world’s most visited for-profit environmental website.
Posted: 4/4/2012

Ex-slaves and indigenous peoples in Brazil band together to earn rights to their land and help protect it.

Department of Urban Planning and IoES Professor Susanna Hecht co-authored an article in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic.
Posted: 3/23/2012

Donors give half-million dollars to UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at fundraising gala

IoES raised $500,000 at a star-studded kick-off event for its new fundraising drive, which is aimed at broadening and deepening the institute's already considerable impact.
Posted: 3/21/2012

Hollywood's Green A-List Raises $500K for UCLA Environmental Institute

The Hollywood Reporter featured an article about the Institute's fundraising gala on March 15: "An Evening of Environmental Excellence."
Posted: 3/20/2012

America's Young Minds: A Neglected Renewable Resource

The Huffington Post published an Op-Ed by film producer and Institute Advisory Board member Lawrence Bender.
Posted: 3/16/2012

UC Sports Facilities Score with Sustainability

March madness came early to UC Berkeley's Haas Pavilion. No, it wasn't a bracket-busting basketball upset. It was trying to operate an 11,871-seat arena as a zero-waste facility.
Posted: 3/16/2012

Hiding in plain sight, a new frog species with a ‘weird’ croak is identified in New York City

Biologists, including IoES & Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Professor Brad Shaffer, discovered a new species in Staten Island.
Posted: 3/14/2012

Green Chemistry: Innovations for an Environmental and Economic Prosperity by Dr. Paul Anastas

The Oppenheim Lecture will premiere on UCTV Monday, March 12 with additional viewings through March 18.
Posted: 3/8/2012

Center for Sustainable Urban Systems Quarterly Research Briefing

The Center for Sustainable Urban Systems creates actionable science to inform how cities develop and redevelop in the 21st century.
Posted: 3/7/2012

Proposed L.A. River bridge is supported by the ideals and wealth of a developer turned philanthropist

The Eastsider LA interviewed IoES Advisory Board member Morton La Kretz on his plans to fund a new Los Angeles River bridge.
Posted: 3/7/2012

Financing the Future: The Case for Sustainable Investing

Winter 2012 Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Corporate Partners Program Workshop
Posted: 2/29/2012

Making a more bikeable UCLA

From “bike channels” in campus stairways to campaigns encouraging cars to share the road, departments across UCLA are teaming up to make a more bikeable university.
Posted: 2/29/2012

It's dorm vs. dorm in UCLA's 'Do it in the Dark' energy conservation contest

As college hoop teams battle toward national championships, the entire UCLA campus is wrapping up another kind of competition among residence halls.
Posted: 2/27/2012

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