Cultivating leaders to turn big environmental ideas into reality

Have you ever wondered how you can turn an idea into a great project, how you can play a critical role in tackling today’s environmental challenges, or how you can inspire and motivate a team? 

The Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI) is a nine-month program that trains undergraduate students to become environmental leaders. The ELI program is organized around student-initiated projects that seek to implement positive environmental change. It combines coursework and leadership skills training in the fall quarter, with project implementation and mentorship by real world professionals in the winter and spring quarters.

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ELI Project Published in The Current for Efforts to Curb UCSB Lab Waste

Driven by concerns regarding excess waste they observed in UCSB lab classes, ELI graduates ('25) Kaili Mikami and Lauren Buyalos, tackled this problem for their ELI change-making project, implementing and launching FLOW: Facilitating Laboratory Optimization and Waste to divert UCSB lab waste from landfills to recycling and reuse initiatives.

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