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- Restoring public confidence in drinking water after wildfires
- Introducing new postdoctoral researcher, Rachel Sheinberg
- What does it mean to be too hot, a TEDxUCLA talk
- A message of shade and hope
- ShadeLA advances lasting shade solutions for Los Angeles
- Climate communities are healthy communities
- ShadeLA offers a playbook to help city meet shade goals
- At the Luskin Summit, environmental justice took center stage
- New toolkit helps communities prepare for heat
- New UCLA tool maps how home electrification could change energy bills across Los Angeles
- Water, fire, and finance: building more resilient systems
- Blueprint for a better planet
- What California SB 1221 means for neighborhood decarbonization
- Planning for recovery before disaster strikes
- The Top Bruinvention of the 21st Century (So Far)
- The Luskin Center for Innovation welcomes Jelena Jezdimirovic as a postdoctoral researcher
- The Luskin Center for Innovation welcomes new doctoral researchers
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation 2025 Impact Report
- Urban wildfire: water system capacities and limitations
- Phase 1 of statewide wastewater assessment sets foundation for equitable solutions
- California communities are impacted by thousands of oil and gas wells that feed the plastic industry
- Keeping California children cool: strategies for safe schools and homes
- Building resilient utilities: UCLA issues report on key water and power infrastructure needs
- Who manages your water in Southern California and why it matters
- UCLA to help inform California’s residential water use policy implementation
- L.A.’s fiercest rivals — USC and UCLA — team up to cool the region ahead of 2028
- Beyond shade: UCLA researchers improve radiant cooling to make outdoor temperatures feel cooler
- UCLA experts guide commission’s L.A. fire recovery and rebuilding recommendations
- Turning data into dialogue: Luskin Center for Innovation-inspired art exhibit brings shade equity to life
- National shade map from UCLA and American Forests launched to combat deadly urban heat
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation provides an early overview of the 2025 fires impacted L.A.’s water systems and their residents
- Welcome Jean Claude, our new data scientist and associate project manager
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation to guide the City of L.A.’s efforts to advance equitable access to local water supplies
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation’s Gregory Pierce to lead a new water supply + wildfire research and policy coordination network
- Amaya joins the Luskin Center for Innovation as our events and operations coordinator
- The Luskin Center for Innovation-based Center for Heat Resilient Communities is now accepting applications
- We’re hiring an events and operations coordinator
- UCLA evaluates L.A.’s plan to invest billions of dollars in wastewater recycling infrastructure
- UCLA study of wildfire smoke’s long-term health effects finds upwards of 50,000 deaths in 11 years
- Gaining support from key local stakeholders to advance high-impact water affordability policies in the U.S.
- Isaac Buo and Lana Zimmerman join our heat team
- Climate resilience panels drew crowds at UCLA Luskin Summit
- Introducing our new events and operations coordinator, Héctor Osorio
- Research informs heat equity solutions to improve human well-being and quality of life
- Luskin Center for Innovation researchers draft policy briefs to address on-property plumbing issues
- UCLA research reveals successful model to build and renovate multibenefit parks in underserved communities
- Luskin and partners awarded $4 million to assess California’s aging wastewater infrastructure
- Innovative partnerships support equitable access to shared bikes, scooters, and other micromobility vehicles
- Welcome to our new project director, Rachel Connolly
- New roadmap sets forth path toward comprehensively assessing the nation’s drinking water quality for the first time
- Welcome to our new climate action researcher, Samantha Astudillo
- Celebrating our impact in 2022
- Welcome to our new water equity researcher, Grace Harrison
- Megan Mullin appointed an endowed chair and faculty director at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
- We’re jointly hiring a Water Equity and Adaptation Policy Researcher!
- Welcome to our new visiting scholars, Sara Hughes and C.J. Gabbe
- Meet Ariana Hernandez and Elena Hernandez, our newest team members
- What influences local leaders to prioritize green stormwater solutions?
- Colleen Callahan Named Co-Executive Director of Luskin Center for Innovation
- Both Change and Continuity in Our Executive Leadership Team
- Decarbonizing California Transportation by 2045
- UCLA Team Wins $7.5 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
- Speeding Up Electric Vehicle Adoption Among Apartment and Condo Dwellers
- EPA Used Dubious Methodology to Justify Weakening the Clean Water Act
- The Luskin Center Is Turning 10!
- Green Together Collaborative Gets the Green Light to Launch Projects
- When Utilities Shut Off Water for the Poor, We Are All at Risk
- Study Identified Under-performing Water Systems in L.A. County
- UCLA Luskin Research Informs State’s Water Affordability Actions
- Study on Management of Plastic Waste Will Inform L.A. County Ordinance
- Enhancing the Resiliency of L.A.’s Water Supply through Recycling
- Understanding the Needs of Diverse Park Users
- UCLA Identifying Strategies for Carbon Neutrality in Transportation
- Economists Find EPA Proposal to Undermine Protections from Power-plant Mercury Emissions is based on Incomplete Data and Faulty Analysis
- National Summit Highlights Local Transitions to 100% Clean Energy with Leaders From 30 States
- Move to All-electric Buildings will Trigger Significant Demand for Skilled Workers
- LCI to Assess California’s Vulnerable Drinking Water Systems for Risks and Solutions
- UCLA Luskin Faculty Launches Organization to Fill Research Gap at EPA
- SMART Parks Toolkit Receives National Award
- Category: Front Page Publications
- Category: News
- UCLA Luskin Summit 2025: A Vision for Equitable Recovery After the L.A. Fires
- Welcome to our new staff researcher, Camille Burrus
- Art and education series increases awareness about LA’s water past and future
- UCLA Documents a Model for Community-Led Climate Action
- We’re hiring a manager of strategic communications and events
- Expanding Potential for Electric Vehicles in Apartments and Workplaces in Southern California
- Report Sets Path Toward Clean Drinking Water for All Californians
- Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Could be Ground Zero for Zero-Emission Trucks
- 50 Cities are Quietly Leading the Nation’s 100% Clean Energy Wave
- Saving Energy Creates Jobs and Other Benefits for Angelenos
- Why Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kevin de León are Teaming Up on Climate
- Fighting Drought with Stormwater
- New Research Quantifies the Benefits of Water Recycling
- Hot Weather Affects Brian Function
- Justice — and Smog Checks — for All
- A Smart Way to Make a SMART Park
- Respect for Nature Is Key to World’s Water Problems, Author Says
- New Study Addresses Barriers to Electric Vehicle Charging in Multi-unit Dwellings
- A New Tool to Help Plan for Expected Growth in Electric Vehicles
- Relocating Bus Stops would Cut Riders’ Pollution Exposure
- Lessons Learned from a Concrete River
- Assessing Trailhead Use in the Santa Monica Mountains
- Category: Climate
- Luskin Center for Innovation experts uplift the work of about 50 students a year
- Local climate champions build a resilient future during tumultuous times
- Introducing our new project manager and researcher, Alex Aguirre Levitas
- UCLA partners with new independent Blue Ribbon Commission for climate-resilient L.A. fire recovery
- For the Press: UCLA research and commentary on the L.A. fire response and recovery
- On the fires, from UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation releases Strategic Roadmap
- The Luskin Center for Innovation develops an equity framework to identify and invest in plastic-burdened communities
- The Luskin Center for Innovation co-hosts the first-ever Southern California urban forest equity symposium
- La acción climática impulsada por la comunidad genera beneficios económicos
- Community-driven climate action spurs economic benefits
- UCLA to lead the new Center of Excellence for Heat Resilient Communities
- Downsizing local news contributes to crumbling infrastructure
- Effectively communicating about heat risk requires deep community engagement
- Introducing our new associate project manager, Randy Rodriguez Jr.
- Researchers equip policymakers to protect students from extreme heat
- We’re hiring an associate project manager and researcher to support the South LA Eco-Lab
- Are our efforts to address climate change doomed due to partisan politics?
- The heat is rising, and UCLA research is helping L.A. respond
- Welcome to our new water equity and adaptation policy expert, Edith de Guzman
- Luskin researcher and partners publish Nature Commentary defining shade deserts and ways to eliminate them
- New community-based outreach campaign responds to range of EV adoption barriers
- Investments facilitate community-led climate action
- California’s K-12 education system is under-prepared for rising temperatures
- We’re hiring a manager of strategic communications and events
- UCLA researchers study impacts of streets on urban heat
- New shade shelter prototype aims to keep transit riders cool
- Heat waves aren’t going anywhere. Here’s how we can prepare.
- Who will be most impacted by rising temperatures in California?
- Most major U.S. cities are underprepared for rising temperatures
- California is making big, hyperlocal investments to fight climate change — and it’s working
- California needs a people-focused and equity-driven approach to address extreme heat
- Uncovering the perils of plastics
- Insights from an environmental pioneer
- Meet Rae Spriggs, Our Climate Action Research Manager
- More Nuance Is Needed to Accurately Measure Extreme Heat in Cities
- Join Our Team! We’re Hiring a Manager of Climate Action Research
- How Can California Protect Its Water Supply From Wildfire?
- State can do more to protect Californians from extreme heat
- LCI Aims to Help Shape President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative
- Turner and Colleagues Receive Grant to Pinpoint Sources of Heat Injustice
- Pregnant Women Have a Higher Risk of Delivering Early on Unseasonably Hot Days
- Street Art Meets Climate Science in the Big, Blue Face of Zeus
- Park in USA Today: Heat Widens the Education Achievement Gap
- Model Metropolis
- Gore, DeShazo Share Insights on California’s Climate Leadership
- New Grants Totaling $4.1 Million Will Build Climate Resilience
- Supporting Transformative Climate Communities through Evaluation
- Climate Funds Create Jobs
- Assessing Carbon, Air Quality, Public Health, & Financial Impacts of California’s Climate Measures
- Category: Energy
- Category: Environmental Equity
- Category: Heat
- Category: HRWS Lab
- Category: Luskin Center for Innovation News
- Category: Transportation
- Category: Urban Greening
- Category: Water
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- CalHeatScore User Guide
- Drinking Water Quality, Public Confidence, and Communications After Wildfires
- Green Schools and Hot Playgrounds
- Bringing the Ship to Shore
- Hot Observations About Shade in Omaha
- Engaging the Public on Shade Equity Through Art
- Political Sentiment Explains Regional Perception of Water System Performance in the Los Angeles Wildfires
- Understanding Senate Bill 54 in California: What Do We Know About the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act?
- Pomona ACTS 2026 Progress
- Green Together 2026
- South LA Eco-Lab 2026 Progress
- Stockton Rising 2026 Progress
- Social Class Targeting of Property Buyouts
- Expanding Public Electric Vehicle Charging in Pacoima
- Expanding Public Electric Vehicle Charging in Wilmington
- A Comparative Analysis of Wildland Fire Smoke PM2.5 Exposure Estimates Across California From 2008 to 2018
- Rethinking Managed Retreat for Wildfire
- Hot Observations About Shade in Tulsa
- Building Heat Resilient Communities
- Built Shade
- The Los Angeles Residential Energy Transition Tool
- The Los Angeles Residential Energy Transition Tool: Technical Guide
- Hot Observations About Shade in Minneapolis
- Water Supply Systems, Fire, and Finance
- Streamlining Home Electrification in the Gateway Cities
- Tree Permitting Reform
- Human and Geographic Dimensions of Heat Risk: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
- Plastic Pollution Hotspots: Global Waste Trade and Environmental Risk in Latin America
- Understanding Neighborhood Decarbonization in California: What Do We Know about Senate Bill 1221?
- Expanding Public Electric Vehicle Charging in South Los Angeles
- Considerations and Pathways for Potential State Oversight of Community Water Systems’ Wildfire Fighting Efforts in California
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation 2025 Impact Report
- Understanding Home Electrification and Neighborhood Gas Decommissioning in California
- Comprendiendo la electrificación del hogar y el desmantelamiento de la red de gas en los vecindarios de California
- Water Systems’ Wildfire Fighting Capacities and Expectations
- Shifting Realities and Expectations for Urban Water Supply Systems: Lessons From the 2025 Los Angeles Fires
- How Often Have Hydrants Run Dry?
- Adapting Urban Water Supply Infrastructure and Policies for Wildfire in the 21st Century
- Connect, Rebuild, Prepare: Community-Informed Transportation Planning After the 2025 L.A. Fires
- Acceptance of a Net Zero Urban Water Future: Challenges and Strategies for a Sociotechnical Shift of Water Systems
- Collaborative Community Engagement for Post-Disaster Transportation Rebuilding
- Energy Justice at the Utility Scale: Insights From Los Angeles’s Path to Decarbonization
- Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles
- What Defines a Plastic-Burdened Community?—Part II
- Aligning California’s Plastic Mitigation Fund Investments With Fossil Fuel and Health Realities
- Safeguarding Kids by Cooling Homes and Schools Research Brief
- Keeping Children Safe by Cooling Homes and Schools in California
- Wildland Fire Smoke Exposure Disparities by Wildland Urban Interface Category and Land Ownership
- California Wastewater Needs Assessment Phase 1 Report
- Compound Climate Exposures and Public Health: A Synthesis of Research and Future Directions
- Californians’ Concern About Climate Change Hazards
- Innovation Opportunities for a Resilient L.A.
- Trust and Trade-Offs: Gendered Responses To Tap Water Insecurity and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies
- Bridging the Procedural Equity Divide in California’s Electric Vehicle Incentive Programs
- Advancing Procedural Equity in Environmental Benefit Programs: Insights From California’s Electric Vehicle Purchase Programs
- Hot Observations About Shade in Los Angeles
- The 2025 Southern California Community Water Systems Atlas
- Impacts of Household Electrification on Energy Affordability in Los Angeles
- Engaging the Public on Water Issues Through Art
- Green Together 2025 Progress
- Learning From Existing Studies and Non-Board Data Sources to Inform the California Wastewater Needs Assessment
- A Renters’ Right to Cooling
- Implementing LA100 Equity Strategies
- Air Quality Impacts of the January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires: Insights From Public Data Sources
- Deconstructing Evaluation to Build a Resilient Future
- Drought & Climate Resiliency Solutions for Small Water Systems in LA County
- UCLA Research Context and Considerations Informing Resilient Rebuilding From the January 2025 L.A. Fires
- Contribution of Large Wildfire Events and Burn Severity Classes To Air Pollution in California in 2018
- Equity and Reliability of Public EV Charging Stations in the United States
- Mapping Shade: A New Lens on Heat Equity
- Hot Observations About Shade in the United States
- How Did Utility Shutoff Procedures and Household Shutoff Outcomes Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Assessing Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation Across the United States
- Recent Trends in Water System Consolidation: Lessons From California
- Do Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentives Drive Equity? The Relationship Between Incentive Policies and Vehicle Registration Rates Across California
- Understanding Water System Manager’s Motivations for and Their Perceived Benefits of Consolidation
- How Have the L.A. Fires Affected Water Systems in L.A. County?
- Efficient Outdoor Thermal Comfort via Radiant Cooling and Infrared-Reflective Walls
- Co‐Occurring Wildfire Smoke and Extreme Heat in the Western United States From 2006 to 2020
- Lessons Learned From Los Angeles’s Just Energy Transition Initiative
- Exploring the Water Footprint of Green Hydrogen for Power Generation in California
- The Multiple Drivers of Thermal Disparities in US Manufactured Housing
- Planning for Heat Beyond the Big City: Comparing Smaller Cities’ Heat Activities, Opportunities, and Constraints in California
- Redefining Expectations for Urban Water Supply Systems To Fight Wildfires
- Electric Vehicle Incentives, Charging, and Registration Rates: Are We Achieving Equity in Los Angeles?
- Do Urban Water Supply Systems Put Out Wildfires?
- Summary: Do Urban Water Supply Systems Put Out Wildfires?
- ¿Los Sistemas de Agua Urbana Pueden Apagar Incendios Forestales?
- Resumen: ¿Los Sistemas de Agua Urbana Pueden Apagar Incendios Forestales?
- Space-Time Dynamics in Hazard Exposure Analysis: Smartphone Locations Show Pedestrian Routes Are Inflexible To Extreme Heat Events
- Preparing for a Hotter Future: The Center for Heat Resilient Communities
- Depaving California Schools for a Greener Future
- UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation's Strategic Roadmap
- Environmental Justice Framework for Informing Plastic Pollution Mitigation Investments
- What Defines a Plastic-Burdened Community?—Part I
- The Resilience Value of Recycled Water for Los Angeles
- Addressing Historic Underivestments in Heat-Vulnerable Communities
- Closing US Drinking Water Quality Gaps: The Role of Comprehensive Assessment
- Transform Fresno: 2024 Progress Report on Implementation of the Transformative Climate Communities Program Grant
- Ontario Together: 2024 Progress Report on Implementation of the Transformative Climate Communities Program Grant
- Watts Rising: 2024 Progress Report on Implementation of the Transformative Climate Communities Program Grant
- Stockton Rising: 2024 Progress Report on Implementation of the Transformative Climate Communities Program Grant
- Green Together: 2024 Progress Report on Implementation of the Transformative Climate Communities Program Grant
- Addressing the Discriminatory Impacts of Redlining and Highway Development in California
- An Analysis of California Electric Vehicle Incentive Distribution and Vehicle Registration Rates Since 2015
- Mortality Attributable to PM2.5 From Wildland Fires in California From 2008 to 2018
- Assessing Californians' Wastewater Needs
- Water and Wastewater Affordability Solutions
- Making the Most of Landmark Recycled Water Investments in Los Angeles
- Local News Reporting and Mass Attitudes on Infrastructure Investment
- Increasing Tree Cover and High-Albedo Surfaces Reduces Heat-Related ER Visits in Los Angeles, CA
- A Framework For Implementing Legislative Equity Analysis In the California State Legislature
- Critically Assessing the Idea of Wildfire Managed Retreat
- Communicating Heat Risk
- Los Angeles Urban Forest Equity Neighborhood Strategy: Sylmar
- Los Angeles Urban Forest Equity Neighborhood Strategy: Central Alameda
- Los Angeles Urban Forest Equity: Design Guidebook
- Los Angeles Urban Forest Equity: Assessment, Tools, and Recommendations
- Tap Water Quality and Distrust in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles County Policy Brief
- State of California Policy Brief
- Community Water Systems Policy Brief
- Landlords Policy Brief
- Advocacy Organizations Policy Brief
- 2023 Impact Report: Our New Era of Shaping Effective and Equitable Environmental Policy Solutions
- Trends in California Water Systems Consolidation
- LA100 Equity Strategies, Chapter 13: Energy Affordability and Policy Solutions Analysis
- LA100 Equity Strategies: Energy Affordability and Policy Solutions Analysis
- People or Property Legal Contradictions, Climate Resettlement, and the View From Shifting Ground
- The Problem with Hot Schoolyards and Classrooms
- Closing the School Heat Data Gap
- Cooling Classrooms to Healthy Temperatures
- Protecting Students from Heat Outdoors
- Changing Behavior on Hot School Days
- Funding School Heat Management
- US Partisan Polarization on Climate Change: Can Stalemate Give Way to Opportunity?
- Evaluating the Impact of Trees on Residential Thermal Conditions in Los Angeles Using Community Science
- Reducing Heat Risk for People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness
- Link: A Model for Community-Driven Park Planning
- Shade Is an Essential Solution for Hotter Cities
- Turning Down the Heat
- Accelerating Transportation Equity
- Metropolitan Water District and Its Local Resources Program
- Pathways to Advance Equity in Federal Programs
- Identifying and Addressing Heat Inequities in the City of Los Angeles
- Beyond Incentives: Lessons From a Community Outreach Campaign Supporting Electric Vehicle Purchase Uptake
- Green Together
- Ontario Together
- Watts Rising
- Stockton Rising
- Transform Fresno
- The Energy Implications of Greater Reliance on Direct Potable Reuse Water Recycling in Import-Reliant Regions: Evidence From Los Angeles County
- Site Design and Human Heat Burden in Pacoima, California
- Fear at the Tap: Factors Contributing to Public Drinking Water Distrust in Latino Communities
- Protecting Californians with Heat-Resilient Schools
- Considerations for a National Drinking Water Quality Compliance Assessment
- Urban Heat Governance: Examining the Role of Urban Planning
- Contributions of Roads To Surface Temperature: Evidence From Southern California
- 2022 Impact Report
- Realizing Park Equity
- High Temperatures and Electricity Disconnections for Low-income Homes in California
- Urban Heat and Cool Design Facts
- Designing Water System Consolidation Projects
- Lithium Extraction Policy in the Salton Sea and Thacker Pass
- Workforce Impacts of Achieving Carbon-Neutral Transportation in California
- External Drivers of Participation in Regional Collaborative Water Planning
- To Adapt to Climate Impacts, Come To Grips With Politics
- Equity in Stormwater Investments
- A Socio-Ecological Approach To Align Tree Stewardship Programs With Public Health Benefits in Marginalized Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, USA
- Housing and Urban Heat: Assessing Risk Disparities
- Protecting Californians With Heat-Resilient Homes
- Protecting Californians From Deadly Heat
- Supporting Household Access to Complex Low-Income Energy Assistance Programs
- Watts Rising
- Transform Fresno
- Stockton Rising
- Green Together
- Ontario Together
- How Are Cities Planning for Heat? Analysis of United States Municipal Plans
- Finding the Link
- Making Park Equity Real
- Champions and Traditional Technocrats: The Role of Environmental Value Orientation in Stormwater Management
- Buyouts with Rentbacks: A Policy Proposal for Managing Coastal Retreat
- Guardrails on Priced Lanes: Protecting Equity While Promoting Efficiency
- The Perils of Plastic
- Increasing Trees and High-Albedo Surfaces Decreases Heat Impacts and Mortality in Los Angeles, CA
- Households Living in Manufactured Housing Face Outsized Exposure To Heat and Wildfire Hazards: Evidence From California
- More Than Surface Temperature: Mitigating Thermal Exposure in Hyper-Local Land System
- Wildfire and Water Supply in California
- Evaluating the Clean Up Green Up Program
- 'Accept Half of Something, or Nothing At All?' Brazil's National Solid Waste Policy and the Coalition Politics of a Blue-Brown Alliance
- How Are U.S. Cities Planning for Heat?
- Keeping the Stove On
- Why and How Do Cities Plan for Extreme Heat?
- Preparing for Extreme Heat in California
- Making Justice40 a Reality for Frontline Communities
- Deploy Heat Officers, Policies and Metrics
- Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice
- Southern California Regional Energy Needs Assessment
- Los Angeles County Small Water System Risk Assessment
- California Healthy Places Index: Extreme Heat Edition
- Temperature, Workplace Safety, and Labor Market Inequality
- Keeping the Lights and Heat On
- Equity-Focused Heat Adaptation Strategies for Los Angeles County
- Supporting Land Conservation in California
- Urban Drinking Water Governing Bodies
- An Electric Vehicle Charging Station Siting Strategy for the South Coast
- Economic Benefits of BAAQMD Proposed Rule 6-5
- Procedural Equity in Implementing California's Clean Cars 4 All Program
- Green Together
- Ontario Together
- Watts Rising
- Transform Fresno
- Mobilizing the Transformative Power of WHAM
- A Community Hire Pipeline Into the LADWP Workforce
- Keeping the Lights and Water On
- When Rebuilding No Longer Means Recovery: The Stress of Staying Put After Hurricane Sandy
- An Agenda for Equity-Centered Clean Transportation
- Drinking Water Needs Assessment
- Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero
- COVID-19 Impact on Household Water System Debt at Zip Code Level
- Evaluating Multi-Unit Resident Charging Behavior at Direct Current Fast Chargers
- The Human Right To Water in Poor Communities of Color
- Identifying Effective Demand Response Program Designs for Residential Customers
- The Role of Community Choice Aggregators in Advancing Clean Energy Transitions
- Decennial Report
- Carbon Neutrality Study 1: Driving California’s Transportation Emissions to Zero
- Supporting Lower-Income Households’ Purchase of Clean Vehicles
- Subsidized Households and Wildfire Hazards in California
- Extreme Heat Vulnerability of Subsidized Housing Residents in California
- A Scalable Model for Improving Community Access to Environmental Benefit Programs in California
- Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in California’s Childcare Facilities
- Policy Pathways to a Plastic-Free Los Angeles
- Front Yards as Green Infrastructure
- Border Field State Park
- Thirst on Campus
- Lessons From San Joaquin Valley’s Smog Repair Program
- Solar Reflective Pavements — A Policy Panacea To Heat Mitigation?
- Avoiding Climate Change: “Agnostic Adaptation” and the Politics of Public Silence
- Heat and Learning
- The Effects of Drinking Water Service Fragmentation on Drought-Related Water Security
- Transform Fresno
- Ontario Together
- Watts Rising
- Evaluating the Efficacy and Equity of Environmental Stopgap Measures
- Hot Temperature and High Stakes Cognitive Assessments
- Sociology and the Climate Crisis
- Community Water Systems in Los Angeles County
- Recommendations for Implementation of a Statewide Low Income Water Rate Assistance Program
- Plastic Waste in Los Angeles County
- Understanding the Needs of Diverse Park Users
- Results of 2018 Visitor Survey and Visitor Count in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
- Is Coastal Adaptation a Public Good? The Financing Implications of Good Characteristics in Coastal Adaptation
- The Impact of High Temperatures on Delivery Timing and Gestational Lengths
- How Maps Make Time: Temporal Conflicts of Life in the Flood Zone
- California Building Decarbonization Workforce Needs and Recommendations
- Progress Toward 100% Clean Energy in Cities and States Across the U.S.
- The Rapid Growth of Community Choice Energy and its Acceleration of Renewable Energy
- Initial Assessment of Valley Clean Air Now's Clean Car Community Clinic Initiative
- An Analysis of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Feed-in Tariff Program
- Unequal Learning in a Warming World
- Zero-Emission Drayage Trucks
- Stopping the Drain on Household Budgets
- Tapping Out Bottled Water
- Ballast Water Management
- Incentivizing Private Property Green Infrastructure
- A Blue Prosperity Roadmap
- Charging Infrastructure Strategies
- Designing Light-Duty Vehicle Incentives for Low- And Moderate-Income Households
- Analyzing Southern CA Supply Investments From a Human Right To Water Perspective
- Transformative Climate Communities Evaluation Plan
- The Impact of Community Choice Aggregation on Renewable Energy in the United States
- Economic Benefits of Energy Efficiency Programs
- Employment Benefits From California Climate Investments and Co-Investments
- U.S. Households’ Perception of Drinking Water as Unsafe and its Consequences: Examining Alternative Choices to the Tap
- The Growth in Community Choice Aggregation
- Will We Adapt? Temperature, Labor and Adaptation to Climate Change
- Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
- Can Smog Repairs Create Social Justice? The Tune In & Tune Up Smog Repair Program in the San Joaquin Valley
- Paying To Save the Beach: Effects of Local Finance Decisions on Coastal Management
- 2017 IMPACT Report
- SMART Parks™
- Evaluating Community Choice Aggregation Alternatives for the City of Santa Monica
- Overcoming Barriers to Electric Vehicle Charging in Multi-unit Dwellings
- Southern California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Atlas: 2017 Update
- Golden Opportunity: Affordable Housing in the Solar Metropolis
- Design and Implementation of the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Plus-Up Pilot Program
- Siting Analysis for Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in the City of Santa Monica
- The Promises and Challenges of Community Choice Aggregation in California
- Lower Los Angeles River Revitalization
- Quenching Los Angeles' Thirst
- Prioritizing Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging Station Investments in Los Angeles County
- Chelsea Beta Hub: Problem Solving Through Innovation
- Promoting Healthy Food Choices for Children
- Adopting County Policies Which Limit Public Water System Sprawl and Promote Small System Consolidation
- Liquid Gold: Communicating About Stormwater in Los Angeles
- 2016 IMPACT Report
- Overcoming Barriers to Electric Vehicle Charging in Multi-Unit Dwellings
- Electric Vehicle Charging at Work
- Turf Replacement Program Impacts on Households and Ratepayers
- Quantifying the Benefits and Designing Governance Structures for a Water Market in Los Angeles County
- Factors Affecting Plug-in Electric Vehicle Sales in California
- Creating a Complete Los Angeles River Greenway for All
- Mistrust at the Tap? Factors Contributing to Public Drinking Water (Mis) Perception across US Households
- Improving Incentives for Clean Vehicle Purchases in the United States
- Designing Policy Incentives for Cleaner Technologies
- How Does the Presence of Hov Lanes Affect Plug-in Electric Vehicle Adoption in California?
- Demand for Battery-electric & Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
- The Effects of the Built Environment, Traffic Patterns, and Micrometeorology on Street Level Ultrafine Particle Concentrations at a Block Scale
- Shedding Light on Sex Trafficking
- Protecting the Most Vulnerable
- Disparities in Drinking Water Cost Within Los Angeles County
- What Are We Missing?
- Los Angeles County Community Water Systems: Atlas and Policy Guide
- 2015 IMPACT Report
- A Guide to Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Program Designs, Expenditures, and Benefits
- Guide To Design Decisions for Utility-Sponsored Community Solar
- Resources for Women in Tech
- Water Conservation Efforts
- The Avalon Green Alley Network Demonstration Project
- Creation of Malaysia’s Royal Belum State Park
- Designing and Implementing Surveys to Value Tropical Forests
- Transportation Electrification Curriculum Development
- State of the States' Plug-in Electric Vehicle Policies
- Efficiently Energizing Job Creation in Los Angeles
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Onsite Residential Graywater Recycling
- Investment Justice Through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: A Framework
- Restorative Buildings: Tbilisi
- From Certification Outcomes to Certification Processes
- Transitioning to Alternative Fuel Vehicles
- Building a Greener LA
- Products Liability and Driverless Cars
- Compromised By Design? Securing the Defense Electronics Supply Chain
- Sharing Solar's Promise
- Climate Equity Workshops
- California State Legislative Briefing
- The Digital Economy
- Transportation Electrification Curriculum Development Roadmap Workshop
- FIT 100 in Los Angeles
- Pricing Plug-in Electric Vehicle Recharging in Multi-Unit Dwellings
- Pricing Workplace Charging
- Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Creative Economy
- Reclaiming the Right of Way
- Smartphones for the Unbanked
- Engaging Disadvantaged Communities in Resource Management
- Los Angeles Solar and Efficiency Report (LASER)
- Critical Review: Regulatory Incentives and Impediments for Onsite Graywater Reuse in the United States
- Western Riverside Plug-in Electric Vehicle Deployment Plan
- South Bay Cities Plug-in Electric Vehicle Deployment Plan
- California Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) Registration Trends & Analysis
- Implementing Feed-in Tariff Programs
- Rethinking a Digital First Sale Doctrine in a Post- Kirtsaeng World
- San Pedro Bay Ports Energy Baseline Study
- Moving Towards Resiliency
- 2013 IMPACT Report
- PEVs: The First Three Years (of the post-modern electric-vehicle era)
- Decrypting the Fifth Amendment
- Recording Everything
- Achieving Proposition 39's Clean Energy Promise
- Clean Tech Database User Guide for Los Angeles: Excerpts from the Executive Summary
- Innovating From the Inside Out
- Financial Analysis of Solar Project Options for UCLA
- Los Angeles County Solar Atlas
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