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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!

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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
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
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Student Directed Seminar on UBC's Sustainability Performance

This spring, students from a student-directed seminar on sustainability (POLI 328Y) produced robust assessments on three areas of UBC’s actions in sustainability. These reports were part of the seminar’s Living Lab projects that analyze and evaluate UBC’s performance in order to advance UBC’s...

Lhoosk’uz Dené village taps into clean water after a 20-year wait

A remote Lhoosk’uz Dené community is holding a celebration to mark a joyful milestone. After decades of relying on bottled water, the village of about 50 people, located 200 kilometres west of Quesnel on Kluskus Lake, now has a steady supply of clean drinking water straight out of the tap, thanks...

Hold that flight: medical student’s residency interviews equal 1/3 of a Canadian’s annual carbon budget

Like thousands of other medical students in Canada, Kevin Liang had no idea he would be asked to take more than 10 flights during his last year for in-person residency interviews. “After learning this, I knew I had to quantify the climate impact from thousands of students travelling for CaRMS (the...

A Pathway Together: Imagining unified approaches to challenging climate change

As part of the 2020-21 UBC Sustainability Scholars cohort, PhD student Elizabeth Jackson engaged with kQwa’ste’not (Charlene George), the cultural voice of Sierra Club BC (SCBC) and a member of the t’Souk Nation, to create A Pathway Together , a toolkit consisting of an electronic guide and print...

Materials innovation driving next-gen EV batteries

This article was originally published by UVic News on June 22, 2021. Incorporating an industrial by-product into lithium-sulphur batteries may enable the creation of smaller, safer and cheaper electric vehicle (EV) batteries with doubled energy capacity, according to researchers leading a new...

Climate activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis join UBC

This article by Wan Yee Lok was originally published by UBC News on June 23, 2021. World-renowned climate activists and journalists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis are joining the faculty at the University of British Columbia’s department of geography. “We are thrilled to welcome Naomi and Avi to UBC to...

Implementing Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in mining practices

Recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and protected by international human rights law, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) refers to the right of Indigenous Peoples to be properly informed and engaged in order to give or withhold consent to...

New global air pollution and health impact study the most comprehensive ever

This article by Erik Rolfsen was originally published by UBC News on June 14, 2021. Photo by Marcin Jozwiak / Unsplash. An international research team led by the University of British Columbia’s Dr. Michael Brauer and Washington University in St. Louis’ Dr. Randall Martin has published the most...

New tool supports student access to climate change courses

The new course listing tool responds to a strategic priority highlighted in the Climate Emergency Task Force report to, “Expand climate education opportunities and resources for the UBC community and broader public.” The tool curates and promotes courses with climate change-related content to...

Audio: Mobilizing Youth for the Sustainable Development Goals

Listen to the full interview. Following the Together | Ensemble 2020 Conference , a group of UBC students and their peers from campuses across Canada wondered how to promote intersectional and interdisciplinary collaboration towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) between Canadian post-...

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