Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.

UBC Vancouver faculty members are invited to join an information session to learn more about the Sustainability Education Fellows program with grants of up to $20,000 for interdisciplinary faculty teams developing sustainability-related curricula...

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

Emotions and Saving the Planet

Human Well-being & Social Systems

Climate Emergency Week

Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.

UBC Reads Sustainability

Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.

SDG Week Canada

SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.

Climate Justice Series

In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.

Events by Date

Past Events

Mon, November 3, 2014 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons...
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Monday, November 3, 2014 - 12:00
Sat, November 1, 2014 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. FREE. With the fall rains, many BC fungi erupt from the ground to present a spectacular display of mushrooms. If you like mushrooms and want to learn more about them, join us, rain or shine, for an exploration of mushrooms and a...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 14:15
Sat, November 1, 2014 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $75. Why do we have so much stuff? Why are our garages and storage lockers filled yet we still want more? Why do we have so much debt? Why do our children keep asking us for things and why do we buy it for them? How are the consequences...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 09:30
Fri, October 31, 2014 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free. If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Friday, October 31, 2014 - 10:00
Thu, October 30, 2014 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons...
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Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 09:30
Wed, October 29, 2014 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM See description. Global Seminar | EDCP 467A/93A, EDCP 467B/93A PERU Peru Summer Institute - Ecology, Technology, and Indigeneity in the High Amazon JULY 6 - JULY 25, 2015 | Apply by January 15, 2015 INFO SESSIONS October 29, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Neville...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 16:30
Wed, October 29, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Are you struggling with a particular feature(s) of Connect, want a quick recap or just need to discuss the structure of your course materials? Do you have questions about copyright or need help creating your course reserves...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, October 29, 2014 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Teaching and learning requires critical reflections happening in moments of our engagement within actual practice. How can we learn through our teaching and become practitioners who are also reflective learners? Dr. Susan...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 10:30
Wed, October 29, 2014 1:00 AM - 3:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. All too often there is a perceived gap between Indigenous peoples and technology. This imaginative fissure is symptomatic of a larger, fallacious belief that indigeniety and Indigenous cultural practices are products of the...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 01:00
Tue, October 28, 2014 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 14:00

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