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New Events and Opportunities for Spring 2021
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UCI Sustainability Spring 2021 Week 3 
 

Welcome to Week 3, Anteaters!

Are you an upper-division undergraduate student interested in applied research and projects related to sustainability? Apply here to be a Campus as a Living Lab intern. 

Are you a staff or faculty member with an applied research or project idea to improve sustainability in your department? Apply here to serve as a Campus as a Living Lab project site mentor

UCI’s “Campus as a Living Lab” (CLL) program is a hybrid seminar and internship experience that offers a unique interdisciplinary opportunity for undergraduates to become sustainability leaders on campus while preparing for the green careers of the future. Internship and Project Site Applications for the 2021-2022 cycle are open now through May 2.

Learn more and apply at sustainability.uci.edu/cll-2021-2022.


 

Victoria Nguyen
Reslife Program Coordinator
Environmental Justice Collective Meetings
Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8
Wednesdays 4:30-5:30pm
Email sustainability-center@uci.edu for Zoom information.

Sustainability Co-Curricular Working Group Meetings
Weeks 2, 5, and 9
Thursdays 2:00-3:00pm
Email sustainability-center@uci.edu for Zoom information.

Spring Garden Hours
Mondays 10-11am
Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm
Wednesdays 4:30-5:30pm
Thursdays 9-10am, 5-6pm
Visit bit.ly/AVgarden2021 or email dominiak@uci.edu for more information.
 
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Events & Opportunities

Just Environments Reading/Photovoice Meeting: Terry Tempest Williams

This is the meeting of the national "Just Environments" reading group. Engaging humanities perspectives, environmental studies, & social justice theory, the Just Environments Collaborative Group unites humanities centers across the United States to foreground the intertwined nature of social and environmental justice problems. The core group institutions are organizing a number of shared interdisciplinary events for the 2020-2021 academic year, and each event includes a by-invitation reading group/photovoice meeting and a public webinar.

This meeting is hosted by Amy Elias, Director of the UT Humanities Center. The meeting includes a Photovoice activity and also a discussion of selections from Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2019), in preparation for her talk at UTK via webinar on April 15 at 7:00 pm.

Learn more and register here
April 12, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Butterflies In Your Garden

Join the UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County and learn about the life cycle of butterflies and how to create a butterfly habitat! 

Did you know there are more than 170 species of butterflies that live in or visit Southern California?   You can easily attract many of them by learning about host and nectar plants and shelter that a particular species prefer. Learn to maintain an ecological partnership with flowering plants while eliminating the use of harmful pest control methods, unnecessary fertilizers and additives. Discover the many types of butterflies, what they like, and examples of native and other nectar flowers that attract them. 

Learn more and register here.

April 14, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Converging Threats, Cascading Health Risks: Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration

Join the UCSF School of Medicine Office of Population Health and Health Equity and the UCSF Center for Climate, Health, and Equity for the second event of a three-part speaker series on Climate Change and Health. The series, chaired by Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, features three virtual 90-minute sessions on the 3rd Thursdays of the month in March-May 2:30-4pm PDT.

This is the second session of the series: Converging Threats, Cascading Health Risks: Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration. Climate change is anticipated to unleash unprecedented threats to global food security and to drive the largest wave of human migration in history. This session will evaluate the intersection of climate change with the social determinants of health, emphasizing the compounding connections between a warming climate, food and water security, and migration.

Learn more and register here.

April 15, 2021
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Climate Conversations: The Cost of Carbon

Join Justin Worland, Richard Newell, and Rachel Cleetus for a conversation about the social cost of carbon and environmental justice in the United States.

The social cost of carbon is a metric used for incorporating the economic impacts of carbon emissions into federal decision-making. Justin Worland (TIME) will moderate a conversation with Richard Newell (Resources for the Future) and Rachel Cleetus (Union of Concerned Scientists) about the social cost of carbon, its importance for addressing the climate change challenge, and considerations for how it can advance just and economically sound policies. The conversation will also touch on the social cost of other greenhouse gases.

Learn more and register here.

April 15, 2021
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Making a Transformative Change as a Registered Campus Org

Are you ready to make transformative change? Whether that’s in your community or within your own organization, join to learn about transformative community organizing and how to build your organization grounded in healing justice. Especially in this virtual world, learn tools for your org to take action for the causes you care most about.

Learn more and register here.

April 15, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

 

ReFRESH and Replenish Nutrition and Wellness Virtual Summit 


The FRESH Basic Needs Hub at UC Irvine will be hosting the first ReFRESH and Replenish Nutrition and Wellness Summit on April 17, 2021 from 10AM-12:30PM. The event will focus on intersectional approaches towards nutritional and personal wellness, and will be open to all who would like to attend.

Learn more and register at bit.ly/refreshandreplenish 

April 17, 2021
10:00 am - 12:30 pm

CALPIRG Remote Internships

CALPIRG Students is a student organization here that works to protect the environment, fight hunger and homelessness, and promote civic engagement. This Fall we helped nearly 10,000 students register to vote in California!

This Winter we are working to tackle the biggest problem facing our generation - climate change. Coming off another record-setting fire season, it’s clear we need to take strong, swift action to reduce the impacts of climate change. That’s why we are building support from students across the state to call on Governor Newsom to speed up our transition to 100% clean energy by 2030!

We have volunteer and internship opportunities doing outreach, organizing events, and spreading the word through media and social media. At the end of the term, we’ll host a virtual lobby day, and a statewide Clean Energy Summit!
Learn more and apply here

Sustainability in the News
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