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Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Cooling the Heart of the City

Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) was created by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the UBC Learning Exchange, working with four DTES community organizations. The project will help the university to understand how to share its research while...
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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Chilling Up to Save Over 7,000 kWh a Year

One hundred and twelve participants, forming 18 teams, from 11 buildings across two campuses competing in one challenge: to make their research labs more energy efficient. Laboratory spaces use 10 times more energy than other types of spaces on campus as a result of high ventilation rates and...

Millennials break ideological boundaries when combatting climate change

Voter turnout for the 2015 federal election was at its highest since 1993. This was also the year Canadians, especially millennials under 30, voted strategically in record-breaking numbers: not along party lines but along policy initiatives. One of the most galvanizing issues was climate change...

To fight climate change, B.C. should get smart with manure, UBC researcher says

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, any talk of cars is usually followed closely by talk of cows. While the Canadian beef industry accounts for just 3.6 per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions , thanks to the methane-heavy flatulence of cows fed forage diets, many believe...

Fishing in a changing climate

UBC, City of Vancouver Celebrate 100th Greenest City Scholar

This summer, the City of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia celebrate a milestone in their Greenest City Scholars Program . A 100 th Greenest City Scholar will be applying their research to the City’s policies related to the Greenest City Action Plan and the Renewable City Strategy. “...

Creating a Zero-Waste Campus

UBC Researchers Help Advance Wildlife Protection

UBC researchers put urban bikeability ranking system through the spin

With Vancouver’s tenth annual Bike to Work Week about to gear up, a group of Canadian researchers is testing a system that helps cities become more cycle friendly. The Bike Score was created in 2012 using studies conducted in partnership with UBC’s School of Population and Public Health. The score...

Making the case for social resilience

Earlier this month, 88,000 residents fled the wildfire burning through Fort McMurray. Only two fatalities were reported, the result of a vehicle collision during the evacuation. The success of the evacuation effort has been attributed to many factors, ranging from emergency response measures put in...

Climate-caused wildfires? Turns out, it’s a bit more complicated

With wildfires raging months ahead of schedule in Northern B.C. and Alberta, many are pointing towards climate change as the culprit . While warm weather and low snowpacks undoubtedly contribute to tinder-dry forests, the relationship between climate change and forest fires is a bit more...

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