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Seth Kahan helps DC associations with Grand Challenges including pay equity, affodable housing and the environment

Seth Kahan, author of the business bestseller, Getting Change Right, and Getting Innovation Right, puts the focus on identifying and tackling Grand Challenges in his upcoming book. Kahan highlights UCLA’s commitment to make Los Angeles sustainable by 2050 through the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, and to cut depression in half by 2050 using brain science via the Depression Grand Challenge.

Read more at BBC Record London Limited

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SCOTUS puts regulation of power plant emissions on hold

A March 12, 2015 photo shows the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
A March 12, 2015 photo shows the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
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Cara Horowitz, of UCLA School of Law and the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, joins KPCC’s Take Two to discuss the Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 split decision to put regulation of power plant emissions on hold. The court’s decision puts a temporary halt on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan while it considers legal challenges from 29 states and energy industry groups.

Read more at KPCC

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Climate change is leaving native plants behind

A manzanita specimen from 1936 housed at the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley.
A manzanita specimen from 1936 housed at the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley.
John Upton/Climate Central

Jon Christensen of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the department of History warns that native plants are struggling to keep up with changes around them as pollution from fuel burning and deforestation continues to warm the planet.

Source: Climate change is leaving native plants behind Climate Central, 8 Feb. 2016

Additional coverage about Jon Christenson’s work studying native plants reacting to climate change:

Ecosystems pulling apart as some plants shift habitats, possibly adapting to climate change UCLA Newsroom, 8 Feb. 2016

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