Fri, February 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Calling all UBC staff and faculty: Are you interested in sustainability? Looking to make new connections and swap ideas with other like-minded employees who are advancing sustainability projects, large and small, in their campus workplaces...
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...
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
Fri, February 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Research Associate Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries There is a lot of interest in the future oceans as a ‘Blue Economy’—socially equitable, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable...
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Friday, February 12, 2021 - 11:00
WEBINAR: Closing the Poop Loop: The Role of Ecological Sanitation as a Climate Change Solution Circular agriculture-sanitation systems capture and safely treat human waste and return the embodied organic matter and nutrients in excreta to agricultural soils. Closing this “poop loop” can contribute...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
MAPPING RACIAL GEOGRAPHIES OF VIOLENCE ON THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE (Public talk by Dr. Ingrid Waldron)
Tue, February 9, 2021 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ALLARD HALL (FACULTY OF LAW). FREE. Join us for a public talk by Dr. Ingrid Waldron on environmental racism and injustice in Canada. Dr. Waldron will examine the social justice dimensions of race, place, and space in the Indigenous and Black communities in...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 12:30
Fri, February 5, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Sara Cannon, PhD candidate, UBC Department of Geography and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Many natural and marine scientists work in places with long histories of occupation and colonialism, where the impacts of...
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Friday, February 5, 2021 - 11:00
Fri, January 29, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. UBC Library presents, in partnership with UBC Forestry and the Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre, a conversation with Dr Robin Wall Kimmerer on Friday, January 29 (1pm -2:30pm PST). The acclaimed author of Braiding Sweetgrass...
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Friday, January 29, 2021 - 13:00
Fri, January 29, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM See description. Free. UBC Library presents, in partnership with UBC Forestry and the Simon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge and Resource Centre, a conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer on Friday, January 29 (1:00-2:30 p.m. PST). The acclaimed author of Braiding...
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Friday, January 29, 2021 - 13:00
Fri, January 29, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Nyawira Muthiga Director, Wildlife Conservation Society's Marine Program, Kenya The marine and coastal resources of the East African region provide ecological, economic and social resources for millions of people. Anthropogenic...
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Friday, January 29, 2021 - 11:00
Tue, January 26, 2021 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ALLARD HALL (FACULTY OF LAW). FREE. What can our governments do to address the impacts of the global environmental crisis on our lives? Join us for a virtual public talk by Dr. David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur, on the urgent need for the legal recognition...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 17:00
WEBINAR: The Ultimate Engineering Challenge: Universal Well-Being Within Planetary Boundaries Join Julia Steinberger for a presentation on several streams of research within the “Living Well Within Limits” project, which investigates the energy requirements of well-being, from quantitative,...
When:
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event