ACE Assembly
Everything you need to know about our engaging, empowering, multimedia assembly including our assembly overview is here.
Rave Reviews
Our school is so grateful to ACE for providing great information to further our conversations about climate change and global warming. I am thankful that the science is presented in a way that allows the kids to make their own decisions about how THEY want to affect the world and make it better.
Southern California
ACE has presented climate science that sticks to 180,000+ Southern California students and are pleased to support more than 100 Action Teams working to address the causes of climate change.
Sophie Korn, Educator, received her Masters of Arts in Teaching from hometown hero USC and most recently worked as an Environmental Educator with the Children's Nature Institute. Senior Educator Kristina von Hoffmann conducted research about national biofuel production in Madagascar and is an accomplished spoken word poet. Newest addition to the SoCal Educator team, Rochelle Younan, worked as a Canvassing Field Manager for Environment California and most recently volunteered on organic farms in South Korea and India.
To contact ACE's Southern California office, contact Kristina at kristina.vonhoffmann@climateeducation.org or call 310.982.2420. To book an assembly at your school, click here.
What's your favorite part about working in Southern California?
We love the spirit. Nowhere else can you find hare krishna devotees lifting weights on the beach or spot a celebrity while waiting in line at the DMV. Diverse cultures combine to keep life super-interesting when presenting across Southern California.
What's the most inspiring student project you've worked on in Southern California?
We've worked with students to support recycling programs, intergenerational environmental literacy initiatives, water filtration and more. But in sunny SoCal, the most inspiring student project would have to be our work with Adam Raudonis and Students for Solar Schools. Not only did Adam succeed at solarizing his school, he also founded an organization that is now helping students at more than two dozen schools across the nation to do the same.
What's a fun fact about the SoCal team?
We dance! Kristina is all about West African, Rochelle loves to dance to sultry Latin beats, in both LA's finest salsa clubs and her own living room, and Sophie just can't stop - whether she's in line at the market or on stage at a presentation.
What are some Southern California student blogs?
Alexa founded the GreenTeens, a group that discusses environmental responsibility with elementary school students.
An LA area Field Correspondent discusses the projects she and her action took during Earth Week to raise environmental awarence.
A Field Correspondent from Marlborough High School in LA discusses the fresh, local lunch her and her Action Team put together to raise awareness about eating local food.
Check out more blogs at Hot and Bothered.
What are Southern California Action Teams up to? How are they doing?
Check out the Action Team Leaderboard to see how SoCal Action Teams are stacking up against the competition. To find specific SoCal Action Teams, check out the Map.
Regional Events
Green Living Workshops LA 7: Westchester
The Green Living Workshop covers the following topics, one per week:
Water | Energy | Waste | Chemicals | Transportation | Shopping & Food
We spend time each week learning about the problems related to each of the above topics on a global, national and local scale. Then with the help of the WorksBook, a comprehensive sustainability primer that all participants receive, we review ten related solutions.
There will be opportunities to receive sustainability tools to help participants carry out the solutions discussed during the workshop.
Click here for more information.Region Specific Climate info
Learn more about the specific impacts of climate change in Southern California
- Water supplies will become increasingly scarce, calling for trade-offs among competing uses, and potentially leading to conflict. Water supplies in some areas are already becoming limited. Large reductions in spring precipitation are projected for the Southwest. Continued temperature increases combined with river flow reductions and rapid population growth will increase competition for water supplies.
- Increasing temperature, drought, wildfire, and invasive species will accelerate transformation of the landscape. Record-setting wildfires are resulting from the rising temperatures and related reductions in spring snowpack and soil moisture.
- Cities and agriculture face increasing risks from a changing climate. With more intense, longer-lasting heat waves projected to occur over this century, demands for air conditioning are expected to deplete electricity supplies, increasing risks of brownouts and blackouts.
- On the upside, LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) is at 20% renewables! (but we know they could do better). Of the renewable mix, wind power comprised nearly 50% in 2010, with small hydroelectric contributing 30%, geothermal/biofuels: 22%, and solar: 1%.