Low and Slow: Fashion the Sustainable Way
ELI students, Ellah Foster and Vincent Cuenco (2022-2023), created digital magazine—Low and Slow—focused on the Isla Vista’ slow fashion scene, clothing sustainability, style, and everything in between.
Continue ReadingLow and Slow: Fashion the Sustainable WayThe Great Outdoors: ELI Students Develop Green Study Space
Finding a decent spot in the library is a struggle known to all Gauchos. Any lack of seating in Davidson is only part of the issue, though–why isn’t there adequate seating outside? ELI students Isabella Puchkova (Environmental Studies BS, ‘24) and Erica Kinsel (Environmental Studies BA, ‘25) sought to remedy the lack of outdoor study spaces on campus by installing a green study space for all UCSB students to enjoy.
Continue ReadingThe Great Outdoors: ELI Students Develop Green Study SpaceClimate Convos: Addressing Eco-Anxiety and Climate Grief
ELI student (2022-2023), Danica Kern, brings Climate Convos, a student club where members can discuss emotions associated with caring deeply for the planet, to the UCSB campus.
Continue ReadingClimate Convos: Addressing Eco-Anxiety and Climate GriefELI Student Brings Sustainable Reading to Campus
Communications major, Shoshana Medved, brings little free libraries to the UCSB residence halls to promote book sharing and sustainability.
“Free little libraries”--small boxes filled with donated books from neighborhood residents–are often an iconic and quaint facet of any neighborhood, including our very own Isla Vista. However, there were no free little libraries on the UCSB Campus, a significant lapse considering a large portion of students opt to live in residence halls rather than in Isla Vista.
Continue ReadingELI Student Brings Sustainable Reading to CampusELI Students Give Tools for Financial Wellness
ELI Students, Lisa Tobin and Ethan Takekawa, create Sustainable Investing and Financial Literacy Workshops
Continue ReadingELI Students Give Tools for Financial WellnessELI Student Creates the Sustainable Food Studies Lab
Sustainable Food Studies Lab: Student-led Food Access and Autonomy at UCSB
ELI student Lily Melendez (‘22-’23) leads hands-on sustainable food studies lab, covering food systems, nutrition, and sustainability through the lens of student empowerment
Continue ReadingELI Student Creates the Sustainable Food Studies Lab2023 ELI Capstone Event
We are excited to announce our annual Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI) Capstone event will be happening next week, Friday, June 2, from 12-2 pm in Bren 4016 (or via zoom).
ELI students have worked hard all year on environmental leadership projects either individually or in groups of 2-3 students. Please join us in celebrating their hard work and successes at this Capstone event as they share their goals, efforts, and environmental impact of their undergraduate environmental leadership projects.
Continue Reading2023 ELI Capstone EventELI Application is Open
To watch a recorded ELI Information Session, visit us here.
Do you want to join this cool group? Do you want to start making an environmental impact as an undergraduate student? If yes, then apply today to join the Environmental Leadership Incubator's 2023-2024 Cohort.
Continue ReadingELI Application is OpenELI Students in the News
ELI alum are in the news for their ELI project turned art installation.
The Current recently published an article about ELI Alum, Lukas Kraak and Noah Weiss', art exhibit Anthroterra. Anthroterra aims to ignite change through art. The new library installation at the UCSB library attempt to "spark serious thinking about human impacts on the environment."
Read more at The Current.
Continue ReadingELI Students in the NewsELI Project Launches Eco-Anxiety Conversations
Environmental Leadership Incubator (ELI) student, Danica Kern (2022-2023), launches a new eco-anxiety lecture series to begin climate community conversations at UCSB.
Continue ReadingELI Project Launches Eco-Anxiety ConversationsAnthroterra: An ELI-Inspired Art Exhibit Opens
Noah Weiss and Lukas Kraak's ELI art installation opens!
This week, Noah Weiss and Lukas Kraak, ELI students during the 2021-2022 academic year, share with the UCSB community the culmination of their ELI experience with an art exhibit at the UCSB library. The pair created Anthroterra, or human earth, to tell the story of human's impact on our planet, the changes that have occurred in the past 200 years, and what our future could look like.
Continue ReadingAnthroterra: An ELI-Inspired Art Exhibit OpensELI Student Collaborates with NGO to Develop Rainforest Exchange App
ELI Student Project Comes to Fruition to Protect Tropical Rainforests and Local Communities
Continue ReadingELI Student Collaborates with NGO to Develop Rainforest Exchange App