News & Events | Environmental Leadership Incubator

ELI 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.

Tobin, Takekawa, Breene, and student attendees at the Sustainable Investing workshop

ELI Students Give Tools for Financial Wellness

ELI Students, Lisa Tobin and Ethan Takekawa, create Sustainable Investing and Financial Literacy Workshops

Lily Melendez at the IV Community Center, preparing for the spring rolls cooking workshop

ELI 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

2023 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.

ELI Students in a Group Outside Looking at the Camera

ELI 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.

ELI 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."

ELI 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.

A small piiece of Anthroterra, part of a larger art exhibit

Anthroterra: 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.