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.

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Past Events

Tue, September 9, 2014 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics. This event is part of UBC...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, September 8, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you a graduate student and new to UBC? Would you like to know more about what the library has to offer? This basic workshop will provide you with an overview of some of the key services and resources available to you...
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Monday, September 8, 2014 - 12:00
Sun, September 7, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Explore the fascinating world of host-parasite interactions, where the microscopic have tremendous influence.
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Sunday, September 7, 2014 - 13:00
Thu, September 4, 2014 12:00 AM - Wed, September 10, 2014, 12:00 AM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. FREE. Photo contest: “Sunrise in the forest – a new day is dawning” Brought to you by the Forestry Undergraduate Society and UBC Faculty of Forestry. Open to any amateur photographer/artist (students,...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014 - 00:00
Tue, August 26, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Engineering, Management and Education Building. WHERE: room EME 1153 Open to the Public Quesnel Lake is a fjord-type lake that supports the second largest Sockeye salmon run in Canada. On August 4, 2014 the Mount Polley tailings storage facility released...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 10:00
Sat, August 9, 2014 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $18. UBC Botanical Garden is excited to partner with Rain City Chronicles to bring you this special storytelling event in our Roseline Sturdy Amphitheatre. Join Rain City Chronicles, August 9th from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., for an open-air...
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Saturday, August 9, 2014 - 18:00
Wed, August 6, 2014 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 11:00
Sun, August 3, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Uncover the diversity, interactions and fascinating adaptations of butterflies.
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Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, July 23, 2014 9:00 AM - Fri, July 25, 2014, 1:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free admission . The Annual UBC Blueberry Fest Everything made with the goodness of BC Blueberries... July 23-25, Wednesday to Friday, 9am to 1pm at the New UBC Bookstore Plaza Presented by UBC Food Services in...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:00
Wed, July 23, 2014 12:00 AM - Thu, August 28, 2014, 12:00 AM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. free. The Sea of Cortez is located between the Baja Peninsula and mainland Mexico and is one of the youngest and most fertile seas on earth. The peninsula was formed approximately five million years ago...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 00:00

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