Wed, September 21, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Ocean acidification has been called global warming's evil twin. Like warming, acidification is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to reshuffle the ecological deck in the ocean. Unlike...
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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...
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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Wed, September 21, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 10:00
Tue, September 20, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, September 19, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. $10 (free for 2015 and 2016 grads) - includes reception. UBC Dialogues: Can Developing Nations Lead the Movement Towards Climate Solutions? At the December 2015 Paris climate conference (COP21), 195 countries agreed to reduce their carbon...
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Monday, September 19, 2016 - 18:30
Sun, September 18, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Sunday, September 18, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, September 17, 2016 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM UBC FARM. $40 ($32 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. The workshop will begin with showing an observation hive and pointing out the activity on the different parts of the frame. This will be followed by a discussion of the life...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 13:00
Sat, September 17, 2016 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM UBC FARM. Free. A half-day workshop to assist producers on learning how to formulate adequate feed mixtures for organic poultry and pigs that maximize the use of home-grown feeds. This workshop will be an introduction to the use of a computer software...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 13:00
Sat, September 17, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, September 17, 2016 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Included with museum admission or membership. Join us for a day of play as we celebrate the opening of Ecosystems in Play! Museum staff will be teaching visitors how to play Phylo and running stations of more traditional games...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 11:00
Sat, September 17, 2016 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Working in partnership with Nature Vancouver, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum is pleased to have Bev and Bill Ramey guide us through the green spaces and quiet corners of campus sharing their knowledge and passion for birdlife...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 10:15