As the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLA GC) Sandpit 2020 continues, eight faculty teams have formed and are crafting their innovative, interdisciplinary research projects to tackle Los Angeles County’s toughest sustainability challenges.
Read more →Extreme rainfall events could become three times more likely and 20% more severe by 2079 – according to a new study led by Daniel Swain (climate scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability) and colleagues.
Read more →Sustainable LA Grand Challenge executive director Casandra Rauser was quoted in a Daily Bruin article about two new UCLA zero-emissions shuttles that will travel through Westwood to Santa Monica.
Read more →In 2012, California became the first state to legally recognize the human right to water, requiring that all Californians have access to “safe, clean, affordable and accessible water.” We spoke with Greg Pierce, associate director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Urban Planning, about his research and the inequalities faced by Los Angeles communities when it comes to this basic human right.
Read more →This fall, more than 60 UCLA faculty are participating in a novel approach to developing research projects that address sustainability challenges in Los Angeles, the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Sandpit 2020. The cross-campus exercise will culminate in a pitch event on December 7, where research teams will compete for a funding award of up to $1 million.
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