Speaker: Khadija Stewart Founder, EcoVybz and EcoSeas Caribbean ONLINE ONLY: Tickets: https://oceans.ubc.ca/news-and-events/iof-seminars/weekly-seminars/ In this presentation, Khadija Stewart will highlight the work of EcoVybz Environmental Creatives and EcoSeas Caribbean , two dynamic initiatives...
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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
Production, Consumption & Waste
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...
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.
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Past Events
When:
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Marine Fish On the Move: Challenges and Prospects for Fisheries Adaptation Ocean life is on the front lines of climate change, with many species living closer to their limits and shifting to new locations faster than species on land. Marine communities are also rapidly turning over to new species...
When:
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 18:00 to 20:30
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to generate real change in the world. Join us to learn more...
When:
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 13:00 to 17:00
Location:
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS Building), 2260 West Mall
This event will launch the Collective’s 2024-2025 year! Join us for an opportunity to shape the themes and topics the Collective will focus on in upcoming events, centered on innovative interdisciplinary climate solutions research. Attendees will be able to connect with fellow members of the...
When:
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 13:00 to 15:00
Location:
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Join us for the first showcase of Indigenous short films, food and conversation. Folil Trafün (‘Joining roots’ in Mapuzugun) is part of several showcases of Indigenous and Afro-diaspora films made in Latin America and Canada, followed by dialogues to deepen understanding of the films and their...
When:
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
Forest Sciences Centre
TEEB, the G8+5 project on the economics of ecosystems & biodiversity (2008-2010) moved the invisible economics of nature from relative obscurity into the front row as a topic to be engaged by policy makers, businesses, investors and communities. Its institutional legacy includes the Capitals...
When:
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
SALA hosts a discussion with the *RePlan committee of the False Creek South Neighbourhood Association. Richard Evans, Graham McGarva, and Tatiana Vovchenko will discuss the future of the False Creek South neighbourhood, which has stood as an example of community-centred, diverse, equitable,...
When:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:30
Location:
Frederic Lasserre Building
Food Sustainability. Learn about where your food come from, climate friendly food and Zero Waste UBC. Meet the people behind the food we serve on campus. Chef Demo at noon. Enjoy free samples from UBC Food Services suppliers. Bonus Waffles, UBC Farm, Hero Coffee and Market, Skipper Otto and more...
When:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 11:00 to 13:00
Location:
UBC Bookstore
Can we write our way out of the climate crisis? Not exactly—but imagining, discussing, recording and reimagining a livable present and future can expand our interest and flexibility, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to work toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we...
When:
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries PI, Marine Mammal Research Unit Archeologists examining ancient bones recovered from the middens of Indigenous tribes concluded that a local, non-migratory population of fur seals once bred along the outer coastline of...
When:
Friday, September 20, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:00
Location:
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)