Local uber-planner Ryan Snyder looks on as international planning rock star Gil Penalosa speaks at last Friday's "Complete Streets Conference" sponsored by UCLA's Complete Streets Initiative.
The Luskin Center recently released the Director's Report 2009-2010. This report 1) highlights the Luskin Center's accomplishments from our first nine months in the School of Public Affairs, 2) provides an overview of our initiatives and events, and 3) introduces our benefactor, scholars, Advisory Board members, Executive Committee members, and staff. To review the report, click here.
The Luskin Center is proud to announce the publication of its "Los Angeles Solar Atlas." The product of research by J.R. DeShazo, Ryan Matulka and Norman Wong, the atlas is designed to help further the development of Solar in Los Angeles by providing industry professionals and policymakers with fine grained data about sun exposure in their local areas.
WHAT: The manual, supported by a RENEW LA grant, and in partnership with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, provides guidance for cities seeking to update their existing road standard manuals with new techniques to reflect a greater emphasis on active transportation. It expands on traditional street standards by including principles for reducing stormwater run-off in streets and thereby increasing environmental sustainability.
On May 26, 2011 The UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability’s
(IoES) Corporate
Partners Program held their spring quarter event entitled “Footprint
Benchmarking and the Bottom Line: Finding the Value in Measurement and
Management of Your Environmental Footprint.”
Over 30 business members and students attended the event. This
interactive discussion was moderated by Luskin Scholar and IoES Professor
Magali Delmas. Delmas opened the event by highlighting the importance of
It turns out that a number of efforts UCLA and its sister schools have made towards being more environmentally responsible have been saving a lot of money. Read the original UCLA Today article here.
