Across the street from the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center sits the four-story Depot at Santiago, a 70-unit mixed-use affordable housing development currently under construction
New Report on Equity Dimensions of Cap-and-Trade Investment in Orange County UCI Community Resilience Projects recently published a new report, Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Investments in and around Orange County: Observations on Place, Purse, and Politics. The purpose of this report is to increase understanding of current Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) investment trends [...]
Register now for this new Winter 2018 seminar. Learn skills for community resilience organizing with an emphasis on environmental and climate justice. Deepen practices of transformative movement building, cultivate audacious vision, build community across movements, and navigate into action. This seminar is part of the our campus’ nascent Community Resilience Co-lab, an experimental co-curricular [...]
February 2018 UC Food and Climate Fellows Leadership Training ABOUT THE PROGRAM This training is offered to the 2017-18 student fellows of the UC President’s Carbon Neutrality (CNI) and Global Food (GFI) Initiatives by staff leaders of UC Irvine Community Resilience Projects and UCOP Office of Sustainability. The purpose of the two-day training is [...]
Climate Refugees Storytelling Project at UCI Receives Award Congratulations to UCI historian Kristina Shull and Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC) on their 2017 grant from the Critical Refugee Studies Collective at UC San Diego. UCI Community Resilience is supporting Dr. Shull to carry out the awarded project, Climate Refugees: Environmental Justice [...]
UC and CSU Faculty Collaborate for Carbon Neutrality This spring, faculty from 16 University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) campuses came together across the state to consider how to scale and intensify California students’ literacy in climate change, climate justice, carbon neutrality/greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and sustainability. Culminating in a "nearly [...]
2017-18 Food and Climate Student Fellows The UCI Global Sustainability Resource Center has announced the 2017-18 Global Food and Carbon Neutrality Student Fellowships sponsored by the UC President’s Global Food and Carbon Neutrality Initiatives. The fellowships are designed as on-campus internships to enable graduate and undergraduate students to contribute significantly to a select group of projects. The [...]
Announcing New Paid Student Opportunities in Food, Climate, and Energy The UCI Global Sustainability Resource Center is now accepting applications for the 2017-18 Global Food and Carbon Neutrality Student Fellowships and Energize Colleges Internships. These paid opportunities are sponsored by the UC President’s Global Food and Carbon Neutrality Initiatives and Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI). The internships are [...]
Lessons from Standing Rock Is Everywhere By: Dr. Adonia Lugo This week, New Narratives brought a panel of powerful thinkers to campus. Standing Rock Is Everywhere created a space where activists brought students, faculty, staff, and community members into their experiences with organizing across Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, and Black Lives [...]
The Garden Project in 2017 Fernando Maldonado, the thinker, organizer, and educator who brought the UCI Garden Project into bloom, moved on to other adventures in December. This meant that, like plants in winter, the Garden Project slowed down. I'm Adonia Lugo, the new co-manager at GSRC, and I've spent my first two months [...]