Sustainable Living, Lec 5a, Environment 185A, UCLA

Course Description
Environment 185A: Sustainable Living is a sub-division of the Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP). ESLP is a student designed, student developed, and student facilitated program offered through the Institute of the Environment. The Speaker Series brings guest speakers from UCLA and across the country to speak on specialized subjects including food systems, green business, organic gardens, sustainable living, the green economy, environmental justice and transportation. Speakers range from authors, professors, community activists, environmentalists, for and non-profit business representatives, and government officials.

Lecture Series Student Directors:
Spencer Hill, 3rd Year, Applied Mathematics/Atmospheric, Oceanic and Environmental Science Double Major
Isis Krause, 4th Year, Geography/Environmental Studies
Hayley Moller, 3rd Year, Environmental Science Major

Guest Speaker:
Jonathan Parfrey was appointed to the Board of Water and Power Commissioners by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and confirmed by the Los Angeles
City Council on January 23, 2009. His term will expire on June 30, 2013. Parfrey is the
director of the GREEN LA Institute which provides educational services to the city's environmental community. He formerly served as director of the GREEN LA Coalition from 2007 to 2009. Parfrey was also executive director of the Los Angeles office of the
Nobel Peace Prize‐winning Physicians for Social Responsibility from 1994 to 2007. In 2003, Mr. Parfrey was appointed to Governor Schwarzenegger's Environmental Policy
Team, and was previously appointed to Governor Davis' select committee on radioactive waste disposal. In 1992, he received the Paul S. Delp Award for Outstanding Service, Peace and Social Justice. In 2002 he was awarded a Durfee
Foundation Fellowship

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