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

Wed, March 18, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM See description. FREE. The Eco Cultures Research Series focusses on the complex intersection of culture, imagination, and ecological issues. This series connects UBC Okanagan researchers with colleagues and students engaged in diverse explorations of today’s...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 14:00
Wed, March 18, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABDUL LADHA SCIENCE STUDENT CENTRE. by donation. Get your green on! And join us from 12 pm – 2 pm at our first annual Eating Sustainably Feast! DISCOVER the various types of locally-grown, organic and fair trade product, get free samples and information. EAT...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 12:00
Wed, March 18, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. Focusing on how to rebuild a local food system, Douglas Gayeton will share inspiring stories of innovators that are creating a more sustainable food system across the continent. Date: March 18...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, March 17, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM HENRY ANGUS BUILDING. by donation. Get your green on! And join us from 12 pm – 2 pm at our first annual Eating Sustainably Feast! DISCOVER the various types of locally-grown, organic and fair trade product, get free samples and information. EAT locally-grown...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, March 17, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, March 17, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM University Centre. Need a break? Come check out three really cool TED talks today - just drop in! Three TED talks will be shown every Tuesday from 11 am to 12 noon in the UNC Theatre.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Survival analysis is for everyone in the field of Medicine, Engineering, Economics, and even Sociology. Survival analysis deals with the analysis of time duration to until one or more events happen, such as the death of...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 15:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM THE FRED KAISER BUILDING. by donation. Get your green on! And join us from 12 pm – 2 pm at our first annual Eating Sustainably Feast! DISCOVER the various types of locally-grown, organic and fair trade product, get free samples and information. EAT locally-...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Have you been to our linear regression workshop? If you have, it is time to learn about logistic regression. Logistic regression measures the relationship between a categorical dependent variable and one or more independent...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 16, 2015 8:30 AM - Fri, March 20, 2015, 4:30 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Educational Technology Support (ETS) is pleased to announce that UBC’s Faculty of Education has been approved to live stream the world-famous TED conference, which will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre...
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 08:30

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