SEEDS Showcase
Student stories, research projects and knowledge exchange events
Welcome to the SEEDS (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) Sustainability Program Showcase. SEEDS creates applied research and interdisciplinary partnerships between students, faculty, staff and community partners to advance sustainability ideas, policies, and practices and create societal impacts by using the Campus as a Living Laboratory. You can find out more about these impact stories here.
Student Stories
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Written by: Timothy Wong, An Hoang, Hannah Griebling and Georgia Stanley Pictured: The new free-standing bat box recently installed in front of the UBC Opera House. The dual box design allows for different temperature conditions throughout the… read more.
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Along Main Mall, within building courtyards, and everywhere in between, trees play an important part in providing essential ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration and mitigating the urban heat island effect. In order to conduct meaningful research… read more.
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This first UBC Climate-Friendly Food System Label research project was carried out in three main phases from Summer 2021 to May 2022, where the research teams tested different icon iterations’ impact on the UBC community behaviour. read more.
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This innovative multi-actor project was made possible thanks to the skills, passion, and commitment of the students and faculty members through a strong collaboration with Food Services supported by the Climate-Friendly Food System Action Team, working over… read more.
News and Events
Climate-Friendly Food Systems: Research to Action Showcase
Event date: April 25, 2024, 2:00-4:00 pm.
Where: BC Hydro Theatre, CIRS Building
Event date: May 2, 2024, 2:30 – 4:00 pm.
Where: BC Hydro Theatre, CIRS Building
Event date: February 12-16, 2024
Where: Various, see website for complete event list
UBC Introduces its First Climate-Friendly Food System Label
Event date: June, 2022
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Cross-posted from FLAP Canada, originally written by Dr. Krista De Groot — a Landbird Biologist and the BC Breeding Bird Survey Coordinator with Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada. High collision mortality was documented during… read more.
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Cross-posted from the UBC Botanical Garden’s Sustainability Blog UBC biology student Alex Wong shares his insights from working with the citizen science project, the Butterflyway Project, and the importance of citizen science in nurturing people’s love for… read more.
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Students from an LFS 450 class helped Daniel Chiang, Executive Sous-Chef from UBC Food Services select edible food from three residence kitchens, Sage Restaurant, the Point Grill, and four retail outlets. With this, they created UBC’s first… read more.
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For this project, Creative Writing student, Saskia Wolsak, created 120 botanical signs for plant species across campus. Each sign features the name of the plant in Latin, English, and the species’ local language, as well as an unusual fact… read more.
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Student, Chris Evans, explores the concepts of “refuge”, “home”, and “identity” in this art installation that combines species-specific bird houses with narratives from UBC students who came to Canada as political refugees. Chris hopes that his work… read more.