UCLA Luskin

Waste Not: How To Make the Most of What We've Got
2017-10-18 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Room 2343 Public Affairs Building, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us as we host a discussion with Paula Daniels (Founder of the LA Food Policy Council) and Meyer Luskin of the Luskin School of Public Affairs, owner of a national food waste recovery business.

Maximizing the Impact of Solar on Affordable Housing
2017-09-14 09:00 - 15:15
GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation is proud to present the inaugural event in our Los Angeles Energy and Equity Policy Series: Maximizing the Impact of Solar on Affordable Housing. The full-day event will convene advocates and experts from the affordable housing, environmental justice and clean energy spaces, and will review the considerable opportunity available for affordable housing property owners to reduce operating costs, while extending the financial and workforce development benefits of solar to those who face some of the greatest barriers to access – low-income renters. Ticket prices includes conference admission, a catered lunch, and morning coffee and pastries.
Topics:

The Economic and Environmental Justice Imperative for Clean Energy Investment at Affordable Housing in Disadvantaged Communities
Policy and Financial Solutions for Investing in Clean Energy at Affordable Housing in Los AngelesG
Workforce Development Opportunities through Clean Energy Installations at Affordable Housing in Los Angeles
Future Clean Energy Solutions for Affordable Housing

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Summer Institute to Explore L.A. Through Technology, Social Justice
2017-06-26 08:00 - 17:00
How are cars, film and the Internet contributing to social, economic and cultural issues in Los Angeles?
An innovative UCLA summer program called LA Tech City Summer Institute: Urban Innovation and Design explores the impact these technologies have on urban life in Los Angeles. Developed by UCLA’s Urban Humanities Initiative (UHI), this new institute brings forth theories, methods and design perspective for tomorrow’s generation of urban thinkers, dwellers and practitioners.
This four-week intensive officially starts July 3 and features a new UCLA course titled, “Digital Humanities 30: Los Angeles Tech City: Digital Technologies & Spatial Justice.” The course, taught jointly by UCLA Professors Dr. Todd Presner and Dr. Dana Cuff, offers 5 quarter units of UCLA credit, as well as GE and Diversity credit for UCLA students.
This institute was designed for undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in creative tech, architecture and urban design, data analysis, public service, as well as a wide range of graduate programs. Through the innovative combination of UCLA course work and professional development activities, students will uncover how innovative spatial technologies enable engagement with issues of spatial justice in Los Angeles through research and design projects.
By the end of this intensive four-week institute, students will have designed a web-based portfolio and be able to work with image-editing software such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Using this set of conceptual and technical tools, students will learn to present the field-based projects developed in LA Tech City in convincing ways, while constructing their own digital portfolio.
This institute carries 5 quarter units of UC credit and GE credit (Foundations of Society and Culture – Social Analysis). Grades earned will be recorded on an official University of California transcript.
Registration is currently open at summer.ucla.edu/latechcity

Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
2016-11-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Los Angeles, United States
Join the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation in welcoming Mary Ellen Hannibal as she discusses her new book, Citizen Scientist, over refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
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Moderator: Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Panelists: Lila Higgins, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and H. Bradley Shaffer, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA La Kretz Center
About the book
Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction.
Digging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots: the centuries-long tradition of amateur observation by writers and naturalists. Prompted by her novelist father’s sudden death, she also examines her own past—and discovers a family legacy of looking closely at the world. With unbending zeal for protecting the planet, she then turns her gaze to the wealth of species left to fight for.
Combining original reporting, meticulous research, and memoir in impassioned prose, Citizen Scientist is a literary event, a blueprint for action, and the story of how one woman rescued herself from an odyssey of loss—with a new kind of science.
About the author
Mary Ellen Hannibal is a Bay Area journalist and author. Her new book, Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction is a literary, historic, scientific, and personal inquiry into the tech-enabled revolution changing our concept of what science is, who gets to do it, and what it is for. A Stanford Media Fellow, Hannibal is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the National Science Writers Association’s Science and Society Award. Her previous books include The Spine of the Continent. She has written for many publications including The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Nature, Nautilus, and High Country News.
