Join us for the December IoES/Luskin Lunch Seminar at 12:00PM on Monday, December 5. Professor Matt Kahn of UCLA IoES, UCLA Department of Economics, School of Public Policy, and UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation will present research on China.
LOCAL SOURCE DEVELOPMENT • WATER REUSE • CONSERVATION • DESALINATION • AND MORELocal source development promises greater reliability, water security and progressively more cost-effective sources of water. This summit will highlight success stories from across the globe, explore emerging water reuse strategies, and identify critical policy, communications and coalition-building questions for the region. Who should […]
Registration is now closed. Click here to sign-up on the wait list. The UCLA Complete Streets for California conference on Friday, March 2, 2012,will highlight recent accomplishments, explore new research, and presentimplementation examples and benchmarks to create multi-use street environmentsthat promote vibrant, healthy and active communities.Featuring Keynote Address from:Jonathan Fielding, Director, Los Angeles County Department of […]
About the Talk Major portions of the US electric grid are half a century old, and compared to other infrastructure, the adoption of new technology into the US grid has been relatively slow. This slow adoption of technology compared to other sectors such as telecommunications has been attributed to the reason that the existing grid […]
SpeakerProfessor Stephanie Pincetl, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
This one-day conference will bring together 300 leaders from across the globe–city and agency decision makers, business executives, and non-profit leaders–to explore best practices and innovative solutions for the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs).Selected invited cities include: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Los Angeles, California, Barcelona, Spain, Melbourne, Australia, Hamburg, Germany, Paris, France, Houston, Texas, Portland, Oregon, Kanagawa, […]
2012 Alternative Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo May 15-17 in Long Beach, California ACT Expo is North America’s largest alternative fuel and advanced vehicle technologies event With soaring gas prices and mobile transportation sources being a major source of air pollution in Southern California, now is the time to plan and invest in an alternatively-fueled future. […]
RSVP: www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/kohnABSTRACT:It is widely recognized that the fossil fuels, oil and natural gas, which currently provide almost 60% of the world's energy consumption, will be largely exhausted in a few decades. At the same time world population will have increased by an estimated 30 to 40 percent by mid-century.To avoid a catastrophic energy shortage by mid-century, these […]
