Advanced Community Resilience Organizing Seminar This new Winter 2018 seminar is currently on-going. Students are learning skills for community resilience organizing with an emphasis on environmental and climate justice, deepening practices of transformative movement building, cultivating audacious vision, building community across movements, and navigating into action. This seminar is part of the our campus’ nascent [...]
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 Detained. This [...]
UCI Welcomes Aura Tegria, 26-year-old Colombian Indigenous U'wa Lawyer During the upcoming 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference, the Sustainability Initiative is honored to host special guest Aura Benilda Tegria Cristancho. Ms. Tegria is a lead community legal advisor for the indigenous Colombian U’wa people. For decades, the U’wa community has worked to protect their ancestral lands and [...]
Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) Conference Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) is a 2-day conference to promote integration across disciplines, sectors, organizations, and institutions around common interests related to water, oceans, coastal environments, resilience, and terrestrial interfaces with marine systems. Through dynamic panels, presentations, and working groups attendees will identify new challenges and advance solutions-oriented thinking [...]
Every Last Drop: "a new paradigm for water management" Each year twelve undergraduates fly to Australia to work alongside University of California researchers as they explore how Melbourne survived the millennium drought. In this inspiring video from UCI Water-PIRE, learn about a "new paradigm for water management" and what it would take to create a water [...]
2016 World Indigenous Law Conference Rights, Responsibilities & Resilience October 19-22 • Beckman Center About the Conference The UC Irvine community is invited to register and attend the World Indigenous Law Conference. The Conference will be held at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California, from October 19-22, 2016. The Seventh [...]