Los Angeles, with nearly 10 million residents, depends on imported snowmelt from the distant Eastern Sierra Nevadas and Rocky Mountains for its water supply.

UCLA researchers Stephanie

Los Angeles, with nearly 10 million residents, depends on imported snowmelt from the distant Eastern Sierra Nevadas and Rocky Mountains for its water supply.

UCLA researchers Stephanie Pincetl and Mark Gold are studying how the city can reduce these imports. Their work focuses on enhancing local water capture, storage, and reuse to establish a more sustainable water system for the region.

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In California as we work towards electrification of our energy systems we must consider the impacts those systems have on existing ecologies and how we meet the demands for more electricity

In California as we work towards electrification of our energy systems we must consider the impacts those systems have on existing ecologies and how we meet the demands for more electricity equitably. Stephanie Pincetl is Director for the California Center for Sustainable Communities and Chair of the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Program, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability UCLA She is an inaugural speaker of TEDxGreenStreet Climate Countdown event. www.ioes.ucla.edu/ccsc/ www.spincetl.com Stephanie Pincetl, a UCLA professor-in-residence who researches ways to make cities sustainable, with a focus on how large-scale, collective action, coordinated at a high level, is needed to combat the climate crisis. Influenced by McHarg’s Design with Nature, Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful, and the coherence of the French city-rural relations pre-hyper modernization,she has been on a quest to recapture human scale, respect for nature, and new pathways to ensure equality and dignity for humans in their daily lives. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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