Luskin Innovators: Speaker Series- Gabe Klein

Join the UCLA Luskin Center in welcoming Island Press author, Gabe Klein, as he discusses his new book, Start-up City, over refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.REGISTER HEREAbout the book:In Start-Up City, Gabe Klein, demonstrates how to effect big, directional change in cities—and how to do it fast. Klein’s objective is to inspire what he calls “public […]

The Future of Environmental Engineering: Innovative Policies and Grand Challenges

J.R. DeShazo will offer the keynote address for the National Science Foundation’s and Association of Environmental Engineering & Science Professors’ Grand Challenge Workshop on Redefining Environmental Engineering and Science in the 21st Century. He will describe opportunities for environmental engineering as public policy seeks to tackle the emerging challenges of climate change and ecosystem services […]

Luskin Lecture Series: A Conversation with Mary Robinson

As the world witnesses rising temperatures, shrinking ice sheets, and shifts in climate patterns, the global community is facing an economic and environmental challenge that demands a course of action. Yet any truly sustainable solution will require a core commitment to equity.Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change and former President of Ireland, is […]

Luskin Innovators: Speaker Series featuring Richard W. Willson

Join the UCLA Luskin Center and Lewis Center in welcoming Island Press author, Richard W. Willson, as he discusses his new book, Parking Management for Smart Growth, over refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.REGISTER HEREAbout the book:The average parking space requires approximately 300 square feet of asphalt. That’s the size of a studio apartment in New York […]

Briefing on the 2015 Paris Climate Conference

Join the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaboration, the City of Los Angeles, and the Luskin Center for a first-person account from the City of Los Angeles’ Delegation to the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP21). Moderated by J.R. DeShazo, director of the Luskin Center, this event will highlight insights about the negotiations and discuss how the […]

CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (Screening)

Join the UCLA Luskin Center, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Creative Artists Agency, and the UCLA Office of Information Technology for a free screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap followed by a panel discussion with the renowned producers.REGISTER HEREDOCUMENTARY SYNOPSISCODE: DEBUGGING THEGENDER GAP exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers […]

1st International Conference on Grand Challenges in Construction Materials

Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and deteriorating, an issue, remediation of which involves huge maintenance and replacement costs. At the same time, due to the growth of the population/transportation, the need for infrastructure keeps increasing. These aspects need to be balances within the context of sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions allocated to the construction […]

Ensuring Climate Equity for Low Income Californians

Ensuring Climate Equity for Low IncomeCalifornians April 1, 2016 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355Co-hosted by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, Liberty Hill Foundation, and the SB 535 CoalitionREGISTER: https://www.regonline.com/ClimateEquity    Lunch Keynote Assembly Member Jimmy GomezThe event will also feature the latest:Report Overview: California Climate Investments Using Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Shelby Livingston, […]

PPASS Seminar Series feat. Lucas Davis: Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?

Abstract (joint with ChrisKnittel) Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of the automobile manufacturers' profit maximization problem with unusually-rich nationally representative data on vehicle registrations to estimate the distributional impact of U.S. fuel economy […]

2016 Annual Energy Innovation Conference

The Energy Innovation Conference is an annual event that brings together students, academics and professionals and seeks to showcase innovative technologies with the potential to reinvent the energy industry, enable entrepreneurs and researchers to demonstrate technology to investors and industry experts, and provide an atmosphere of collaborative learning through a panel format. We have partnered this year with UCLA Luskin, […]