Interested in learning how to strengthen your community’s resilience to protect against climate emergency events like extreme snow or an ice storm? At this workshop, the Dunbar Residents’ Association, Kitsilano Neighbourhood House and the Westside Seniors Hub invite all community organizations and...
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.
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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Past Events
When:
Saturday, October 22, 2022 - 10:00 to 14:00
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Decades of bitumen extraction has created trillions of litres of toxic tailings stored in tailings ponds in northern Alberta. Canada has proposed to deal with this growing crisis by allowing the release of treated, but still toxic, tailings into the Arctic’s largest watershed. Indigenous water...
When:
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:30
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Insights for building an Indigenous-led fire stewardship program and building community evaluation measures. The work draws from the Yunesit’in Quen program in central British Columbia.
When:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:30
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
Insights for building an Indigenous-led fire stewardship program and building community evaluation measures. The work draws from the Yunesit’in Quen program in central British Columbia.
When:
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:30
Location:
Online/Virtual Event
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
The unprecedented number of global crises is casting a shadow on the future of humanity, all of which seem to augur that the dharma-ending age (mofa 末法) described in Buddhist classics is now silently approaching us. At this crossroad, the climate crisis may wield the most immediate impacts for the...
When:
Sunday, October 9, 2022 - 06:00 to 18:40
Location:
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
The unprecedented number of global crises is casting a shadow on the future of humanity, all of which seem to augur that the dharma-ending age (mofa 末法) described in Buddhist classics is now silently approaching us. At this crossroad, the climate crisis may wield the most immediate impacts for the...
When:
Saturday, October 8, 2022 - 16:30 to Sunday, October 9, 2022 - 20:30
Location:
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research
In recent years, a number of climate activities have self-inflicted auto-cremation in a drastic response to climate change. Though Inspired by Buddhist auto-cremators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Buddhist self-immolation has a long history in East Asia. This lecture will...
When:
Friday, October 7, 2022 - 19:30 to 20:30
Location:
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
The unprecedented number of global crises is casting a shadow on the future of humanity, all of which seem to augur that the dharma-ending age (mofa 末法) described in Buddhist classics is now silently approaching us. At this crossroad, the climate crisis may wield the most immediate impacts for the...
When:
Friday, October 7, 2022 - 18:15 to 20:30
Location:
C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research
Join the UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture to celebrate 2022 Margolese Prize winner Jane Wolff! The event will feature a presentation of Jane’s pioneering work in landscape literacy, where she encourages people to understand and participate in the future of landscapes that...
When:
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 18:00 to 19:30
Location:
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
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:
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 13:00 to 17:00
Location:
Online (Zoom link provided upon registration)