Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.

What might sea level rise look like at UBC? A new mural in the AMS sustainability corridor offers a glimpse into future possibilities. Join local artists Josianne Assignon and Ana Julia Leon to celebrate the completion of the mural and to learn how...

Sustainability Education Fellows Information Session

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Sun, November 27, 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...
When:
Sunday, November 27, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 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, November 26, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 2016 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM UBC FARM. We will be selling our produce on the occasional Saturday once a month through the winter season! In addition to farm-fresh veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers and free-range eggs from the UBC Farm. Since 2001, the on-site Saturday Farm Market has...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 09:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Join us for this exciting forum featuring some of UBC’s leading experts from political science, business, and economics to discuss the new era of Trump. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Friday, November 25th, 2016 Liu Institute for...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 15:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Juan Jose Alava, MITAC postdoctoral fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Vancouver Aquarium Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change and chemical pollution are amongst the major stressors...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 11:00
Fri, November 25, 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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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, November 24, 2016 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free.. On November 24th, from 5:30 - 7:00, join us and Josephine Schrott, an Earth Charter Young Leader, to learn all about the Earth Charter. Expand your vision of sustainability, embrace a new sense...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 17:30
Thu, November 24, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. Find your zen - join us for free lunch hour yoga at UBC's hub for sustainability and wellbeing, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Starting September, UBC...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 12:00
Thu, November 24, 2016 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. Beneath the Surface Society is a not-for-profit partner of imagi’NATION Collective, who offers workshops, camps, mentoring, support, education, networking, and numerous other projects vesting in the tenacity, self-worth, awareness,...
When:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, November 24, 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...
When:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 10:00

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