In conjunction with our presentation of Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store, we collaborated with UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability on presenting a Plastic Pollution Awareness Night.
Participants included:
Councilmember Paul Koretz, Council District 5
Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA Sustainability
Daniel Coffee, Associate Project Manager, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation
Ursula Heise, Professor and Interim Director, UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
Robin Frohardt, Artist and Director, Plastic Bag Store
Emily Parker, Coastal and Marine Scientist, Heal the Bay
Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO, Plastic Pollution Coalition
Rebecca Rasmussen, Director of Energy, Water and Waste, Office of Mayor Garcetti
This conversation was filmed inside The Plastic Bag Store on July 7, 2021.
Ways to get involved:
Join http://reusable.org/
Get involved with https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/
Call your Assembly members and CA Senators about SB 54
Contact your federal elected officials about the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act
Check out our Environmental Resource Toolkit,
and dig in to learn more and take action: https://cap.ucla.edu/Environmental_Toolkit
During a short break in the installation of The Plastic Bag Store, creator Robin Frohardt sat down for a conversation with Ursula Heise and Jon Christensen from Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS), to talk about the creative process and how artists are inspired to devise narr...
More Art, Less Plastic: a conversation with innovative environmental activists about art, education and single-use plastics. In conjunction with the Los Angeles presentation of Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store installation and film, we invite you discover two Los Angeles-based trailblazers ...
To view or download our digital program visit https://cap.ucla.edu/Plastic_Crisis
Check out our resource toolkit on issues surrounding environmental justice, dig in to learn more and to take action: https://cap.ucla.edu/Environmental_Toolkit
A dynamic discussion exploring how local environmental...
