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UCLA researchers turn carbon dioxide into sustainable concrete

The production of cement, which when mixed with water forms the binding agent in concrete, accounts for about about 5 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. An even larger source of carbon dioxide emissions is flue gas emitted from smokestacks at power plants around the world. A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UCLA has developed a potential solution for this problem: a closed-loop process which captures carbon from power plant smokestacks and uses it to create a new building material- CO2NCRETE- fabricated using 3D printers.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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Hidden costs for the ‘hidden poor’

Hidden poor seniors said they felt depressed “some, most or all of the time” at a rate of 10.6 percent, compared to 3.4 percent of those above the Elder Index.
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Steven Wallace (department of Community Health Sciences at Fielding School of Public Health) is the lead author of a new fact sheet by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research reporting that in high-cost areas of California, people with incomes much higher than the federal poverty level struggle to maintain a basic quality of life and may experience feelings of depression.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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Sustainable LA Grand Challenge announces awarding of $1.2 million to research projects to help Los Angeles County thrive 

Studying water systems in Los Angeles County is key to devising policies that will get the county to 100 percent local water by 2050. (Michael/Flickr)
Studying water systems in Los Angeles County is key to devising policies that will get the county to 100 percent local water by 2050. (Michael/Flickr)

The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge’s first competitive research grants will go to 11 projects, ranging from developing lightweight solar panels that double as batteries to studying the costs of algae-based biofuels.

Read more at UCLA Newsroom

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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.
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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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