UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation

Calling all UCLA students interested in environmental sustainability!

Join us for lunch on November 17 — learn about environmental orgs, funding opportunities, and jobs and internships while getting to know your peers across campus.

Registration is required.

Glad to be co-hosting with the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and our partners across campus:

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
UCLA Sustainable L.A. Grand Challenge
UCLA Sustainability
UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
UCLA Anderson School of Management Center for Impact
UCLA Easton Technology Management
UCLA Graduate Student Water Resources Group
UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions

Lunch on Luskin: UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Join us for a free, cross-campus networking reception to learn about environmental opportunities across UCLA.

We are thrilled to welcome Megan Mullin as our new faculty director!

In January, she will join as the Meyer and Renee Luskin Endowed Professor of Innovation and Sustainability.

Megan Mullin appointed an endowed chair and faculty director at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Environmental politics scholar joins Luskin Center for Innovation leadership team as urgent climate change challenges face California and the country

How will a carbon-neutral transportation sector impact California’s businesses and workers?

Our new report anticipates important employment trends over the next 25 years that can help inform a just transition to zero-emissions vehicles.
https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Workforce-Impacts-of-Achieving-Carbon-Neutral-Transportation-in-California.pdf

We're delighted to host two visiting scholars this academic year!

Sara Hughes joins us from the University of Michigan and C.J. Gabbe is visiting from Santa Clara University.

We're looking forward to collaborating on upcoming climate, water and environmental planning projects.

Welcome to our new visiting scholars, Sara Hughes and C.J. Gabbe We are pleased to host two visiting scholars during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Rainwater provides tremendous potential to boost LA's water supply and provide multiple ecosystem and community benefits.

Our new research with Stantec is helping ensure that stormwater investments equitably benefit all Angelenos.

Informing equitable stormwater investments in L.A. County - UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Findings from new UCLA report emphasize the need for community-selected and benefiting projects

Get to know our newest team members, Ariana and Elena!

Both have been working with us for several years as graduate students — we are pleased they are continuing as full-time associate project managers.

Meet Ariana Hernandez and Elena Hernandez, our newest team members This summer, we are excited to welcome two new staff members to the Luskin Center for Innovation, Ariana Hernandez and Elena Hernandez. Both have been working with the center for several years as graduate student researchers — we are pleased they are continuing as full-time associate project manag...

We're excited to launch our California Healthy Places Index (HPI): Heat Edition!

Learn how hot your community will get, explore its resilience to climate change and check out available resources — all in our new mapping tool.

The tool is a joint partnership with the Public Health Alliance of Southern California (Public Health Institute) and UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, and funding was provided by the California Strategic Growth Council.

Find out more 👇

Who will be most impacted by rising temperatures in California? New online mapping tool helps the state prepare for extreme heat

More frequent and intense heat waves are on the horizon.

Yet cities are underprepared to deal with the challenge, according to research led by our co-director V. Kelly Turner.

Most major U.S. cities are underprepared for rising temperatures UCLA-led analysis highlights gaps in municipal planning for often dangerous heat

Interested in community-led climate action? Check out our new research!

Our progress reports found that California's Transformative Climate Communities program improved the quality of life for residents in profound ways.

California Is Making Big, Hyperlocal Investments to Fight Climate Change — and It’s Working New UCLA progress reports show how the Transformative Climate Communities program is improving the lives of Californians

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What would a bold, equity-focused roadmap to cleaner transportation look like? Join us on April 4 to learn from leading environmentalist Mary Nichols, in conversation with transportation equity scholar Tierra Bills and our co-director Colleen Callahan.

Mary Nichols’ Bold Roadmap to Cleaner Transportation Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series

How should we take bold action to cut emissions in the transportation sector? Join us on April 4 to learn from leading environmentalist Mary Nichols, in conversation with transportation equity scholar Tierra Bills and our co-executive director Colleen Callahan.

We're glad to co-host this with the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Luskin Lecture: Mary Nichols’ Bold Roadmap to Cleaner Transportation April 4, 2022 at 6:15pm | Environmentalist Mary Nichols helped lead California’s internationally recognized efforts to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions during four terms as chair of the California Air Resources Board. Her legacy includes support for policies to cut emissions from ...

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Human Right to Water Solutions Lab, led by our co-director Greg Pierce!

The lab will address the most pressing challenges in realizing safe and affordable water nationwide, focusing on equitable solutions.

UCLA Human Right to Water Solutions Lab Supporting policy and advocacy, civic engagement, and leadership development solutions to advance the Human Right to Water across the United States