Winter and Spring 2020 Events
Winter and Spring 2020 Events Click to download PDF Check out Community Resilience events during Winter and Spring 2020
Food for Thought
Food for Thought A Conversation on Community Microfarming & the Movement for Equitable Food Systems UCI students and CRECE Microfarm volunteers during their service learning trip on November 16, 2019. By Esmeralda Hic and Clara Leopo, January 1, 2020. Food for Thought was a collaborative event between the UCI Sustainability [...]
The North Pole Show Comes to Campus
The North Pole Show Comes to Campus Click to download PDF Executive Produced by award-winning actor and activist Rosario Dawson, The North Pole: Season Two is a political comedy web series about four friends in North Oakland, California, who fight, dream, and plot hilarious schemes to stay rooted as their neighborhood [...]
CooperAcción: A Curriculum on Co-ops
CooperAcción: A Curriculum on Co-ops By Ambereen Siddiqui, October 30, 2019. What comes to mind when you hear the word “economy”? I cycle between corruption, exploitation, and can we actually eat the rich? However, last week at CooperAcción Santa Ana, a cooperative business development program, we learned that the origin of the word [...]
Resilience Performance Lab
Resilience Performance Lab Instructed by Giulia Vittori Click to download as PDF Join UCI Community Resilience Projects and Community member Giulia Vittori for an experimental and experiential workshop: Resilience Performance Lab. What: A workshop using tools from improvisation and theatre to [...]
Friends of the Earth
From Small Town Girl to Big Green and Back Again Photo taken during a team building exercise during SISL 2016. By Esmeralda Hic, September 17, 2019. By every definition, I am a small town girl. I was born and raised in the Coachella Valley, a rural desert community located in southern [...]
Encuentro: The Possibility of Togetherness
The Possibility of Togetherness by Esmeralda Hic, September 2019 Poster hung up in the Menīkānaehkem Community Rebuilders community center within the Menominee Nation. This center is often used as an organizing space as well as a place for community. We were welcomed here by community members for the duration of our stay. [...]
October 2019 UC Food and Climate Fellows Leadership Training
October 2019 UC Food and Climate Fellows Leadership Training PROGRAM OVERVIEW This training was offered to select 2019-20 student fellows of the UC President’s Carbon Neutrality (CNI) and Global Food (GFI) Initiatives by UC Irvine Community Resilience Projects and the UCOP Office of Sustainability. All 2019-20 CNI and GFI fellows were eligble to attend, [...]
Community Resilience highlighted in UCI’s 2019 Sierra ranking
Community Resilience highlighted in UCI's 2019 Sierra ranking Sierra magazine has named the University of California, Irvine No. 1 in the nation and No. 2 overall in its annual “Cool Schools” ranking of sustainability leaders among U.S. and Canadian colleges. Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia got the top spot. Today’s [...]