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...

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

Emotions and Saving the Planet

Human Well-being & Social Systems

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

Tue, April 1, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 12:30
Thu, March 27, 2014 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Free. The Peter Wall Institute will be hosting its next lunch gathering on Thursday, March 27, 2014, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in the Institute’s Conference room. We hope you can join us. The talk will be led by Dr...
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Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 12:30
Wed, March 26, 2014 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 12:00
Tue, March 25, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, March 25, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Curious about managing copyright in academic publishing, locating funder open access policies, and the different options available for open access publishing? Come to this workshop to learn about these topics and more! This...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:00
Tue, March 18, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. free. This session is appropriate for students conducting literature reviews in any discipline. Topics include ... what is a literature review? ... finding the right databases ... search strategies for databases ... finding scholarly articles...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 13:00
Tue, March 18, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 12:30
Thu, March 13, 2014 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Free. This webinar will explore how librarians are supporting researchers in applied and discipline-specific areas. Presenters will include three chemistry professionals, two who have gone into library sciences supporting...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 09:00
Tue, March 11, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 12:30
Wed, March 5, 2014 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. David Archer, a world leader in the science of human-induced climate change, delivers a public talk. UBC Earth Sciences Building, 1013.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 19:00

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