Are We Leaving Nature Behind?
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Are We Leaving Nature Behind?

Extinction is happening all around the world, but it’s happening in a way that barely touches the lives of the world’s children — most of…
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Peter KareivaApr 1
Parks and Technology: A Match Made in California

Parks and Technology: A Match Made in California

For too long a myth has persisted that nature and technology don’t mix well. It’s easy to understand why. Nature is the place we go to…
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Jon ChristensenMar 16
‘Powering Earth 2050’ Debate: Is California’s 100 Percent Renewable Strategy Globally Viable?
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‘Powering Earth 2050’ Debate: Is California’s 100 Percent Renewable Strategy Globally Viable?

California’s renewable energy march is on. State-regulated utilities must now get 50 percent of their electricity from wind, water, and the…
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UCLA IoESFeb 28
The Pathway to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Globally Viable, says Mark Z. Jacobson

The Pathway to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Globally Viable, says Mark Z. Jacobson

Part 1 of “Powering Earth 2050” Debate
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UCLA IoESFeb 28
Leave All Energy Options Open for the Future, says Ken Caldeira

Leave All Energy Options Open for the Future, says Ken Caldeira

Part 2 of “Powering Earth 2050” Debate
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UCLA IoESFeb 28
We Need to Reduce Barriers to Get to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Globally, says Dale Bryk

We Need to Reduce Barriers to Get to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Globally, says Dale Bryk

Part 3 of “Powering Earth 2050” Debate
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UCLA IoESFeb 28
Nuclear Power Is Essential for Our Energy Future, says Michael Shellenberger

Nuclear Power Is Essential for Our Energy Future, says Michael Shellenberger

Part 4 of “Powering Earth 2050” Debate
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UCLA IoESFeb 28
The California Way: Sunny, with a Chance of Apocalypse
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The California Way: Sunny, with a Chance of Apocalypse

California Gov. Jerry Brown has found a sweet spot in climate-change communication. His genius is combining what seem on the surface to be…
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Jon ChristensenNov 29, 2015
‘Bending the Curve’: Can We Flat-Line Global Warming by 2050?
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‘Bending the Curve’: Can We Flat-Line Global Warming by 2050?

A New Report from 50 University of California System Researchers Shows How
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
California Universities Launch Experiment to Go Carbon-Neutral ‘At Scale’
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California Universities Launch Experiment to Go Carbon-Neutral ‘At Scale’

What does it look like when a university decides to walk the walk as well as talk the talk on climate change? The University of California…
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
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The Best 12 Books for Environmentalists: 2015 Edition

The Best 12 Books for Environmentalists: 2015 Edition

Featuring Hamburgers, Fog, Geoengineering and Superforecasting
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UCLA IoESDec 14, 2015
A Top 10 Environmental Thanks

A Top 10 Environmental Thanks

Let’s Use Thanksgiving as an Occasion to Celebrate the Many Positive Stories & Trends on Planet Earth
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Peter KareivaNov 19, 2015
Environment + Public Health = The New Sustainability

Environment + Public Health = The New Sustainability

Global Foundations Are Embracing the Connection. What About Environmentalists?
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Peter KareivaNov 6, 2015
Back to School: Unlearning Nine Environmental Myths

Back to School: Unlearning Nine Environmental Myths

Eating local is good. All corporations are bad. Population growth is the problem. Students: Questions these & other environmental myths.
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Peter KareivaNov 6, 2015
Beyond Tomorrow: Why Environmentalists Need to Get Beyond Instant Gratification

Beyond Tomorrow: Why Environmentalists Need to Get Beyond Instant Gratification

Humans have at least 100,000 generations of evolution as hunter-gatherers, enduring feast and famine, acting as predators and hoping to…
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Peter KareivaNov 5, 2015
Peter Kareiva: A conservation scientist at home in a megacity

Peter Kareiva: A conservation scientist at home in a megacity

As chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest environmental organization, Peter Kareiva has spent most of the past…
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Jon ChristensenNov 11, 2015
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The ‘Ridiculously Resilient Ridge’ and California’s extreme weather future

The ‘Ridiculously Resilient Ridge’ and California’s extreme weather future

There’s a reason people like to talk about the weather. Aside from being an easy way to get through casual social encounters, it’s…
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David Colgan2 days ago
City of irreconcilable dreams

City of irreconcilable dreams

A new history of urban ideas offers a cautionary tale about the dreams that have shaped LA and the big new ideas we hope might shape the…
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Jon ChristensenMar 19
Why Recycled Water Could Be Good for Your Health

Why Recycled Water Could Be Good for Your Health

It’s about way more than H2O
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David ColganMar 17
Just in Time for Spring Break

Just in Time for Spring Break

New version of CaliParks app puts 11,826 parks at your fingertips with crowd-sourced trails and millions of on-the-spot photos from…
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UCLA IoESMar 15
School’s Out for Science

School’s Out for Science

“Everybody thinks environmentalists are total pessimists but in reality we are the biggest optimists. We know how bad it is and we still…
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David ColganMar 12
Oliver Morton: Earth might turn out all right after all, with geoengineering

Oliver Morton: Earth might turn out all right after all, with geoengineering

At our recent Oppenheim debate at UCLA, a panel of four experts discussed California’s plan to move to 100 percent renewable energy, and…
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David ColganMar 5
Powering energy policy with big data

Powering energy policy with big data

Information is power, and the people in charge of making L.A. greener are getting more of it.
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David ColganFeb 29
Second thoughts from a sunny environmentalist

Second thoughts from a sunny environmentalist

The other day I got a call from a national magazine wanting to fact-check a writer’s claim that progress on confronting climate change is…
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Jon ChristensenFeb 21
El Niño Exposes L.A.’s Aquatic Conundrum

El Niño Exposes L.A.’s Aquatic Conundrum

What makes a city resilient in one era many not serve it well at all in another
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Jon ChristensenJan 5
Cities Compete To Go Green, but L.A.’s Efforts Are Set Back by a Massive Gas Leak

Cities Compete To Go Green, but L.A.’s Efforts Are Set Back by a Massive Gas Leak

Welcome to the new world of urban climate politics post-Paris 2015. No sooner was the ink dry on the Paris accord than San Diego’s…
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Jon ChristensenJan 4
Au revoir, Paris. Holá, El Niño!

Au revoir, Paris. Holá, El Niño!

The Paris climate agreement, experts agree, is historic, timely, crucially important — and basically inadequate.
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Jon ChristensenDec 12, 2015
Connecting Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: What’s the Evidence?

Connecting Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: What’s the Evidence?

Q&A with SNaP Postdoctoral Fellow Samantha Cheng
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Jon ChristensenDec 9, 2015
Exploring Our Planetary Future

Exploring Our Planetary Future

A conversation with IoES Journalism and Media Fellow Christopher Cokinos
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Jon ChristensenDec 1, 2015
A Post-Postmodern Los Angeles? It’s All About Relationships

A Post-Postmodern Los Angeles? It’s All About Relationships

Los Angeles has been dining out on its postmodern myth of itself for too long, it seems. The city is like an aging intellectual hipster…
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Jon ChristensenNov 24, 2015
A talk given at a conservation meeting a hundred years from now…

A talk given at a conservation meeting a hundred years from now…

Editor’s Note: When we read futurist Alex Steffen’s keynote speech to the 2015 annual meeting of the trustees of The Nature Conservancy, we…
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Alex SteffenNov 3, 2015
What Really Motivates Green Behavior?

What Really Motivates Green Behavior?

Hint: It’s Not Altruism
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UCLA IoESNov 10, 2015
Bridging the divide between science and humanities with cabinets of wonder

Bridging the divide between science and humanities with cabinets of wonder

On the UCLA campus, where I sit, there is a great divide between North and South Campus. It’s not unique. Nearly every university in the…
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Jon ChristensenNov 10, 2015
From “Smogtown” to a Model for the World?

From “Smogtown” to a Model for the World?

The smell of smog makes me nostalgic. My Proustian madeleine moment is walking down the jet stairs to the tarmac at the Burbank airport on…
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
Why Los Angeles missed the new economy and San Francisco won

Why Los Angeles missed the new economy and San Francisco won

The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles, a new book out this fall, should be required reading for…
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
Romeo and Juliet on the Los Angeles River

Romeo and Juliet on the Los Angeles River

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Los Angeles, where we lay our scene, From newfound grudge break to old mutiny, Where civil…
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
Los Angeles and the Rise of Urban Ecology

Los Angeles and the Rise of Urban Ecology

Urban ecology is on the rise. That’s probably no surprise to many Angelenos. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, among others…
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Jon ChristensenNov 7, 2015
New Research: West Nile Virus is Songbirds’ Silent Killer

New Research: West Nile Virus is Songbirds’ Silent Killer

Remember West Nile Virus? While it makes headlines every few years for causing a flurry of deaths in people, it’s also meant big survival…
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UCLA IoESNov 6, 2015
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Odds are you’ll be alive in 2050 — so what kind of planet do you want to create? And how will we get there? Notes on some pathways from UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

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