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

Mon, January 26, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Come on out to Main Mall near the Fountain for a fresh, local and not to mention FREE lunch to kick off "Chew On This", a weeklong series of events to connect students to sustainable food. Bring your own reusable container!
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, January 26, 2015 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 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...
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 09:30
Fri, January 23, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 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...
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Friday, January 23, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, January 22, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). By donation. You are invited to attend the Premiere of One Big Coast - A film by UBC student Luke Wallace and Ali Harris with the support of Common Energy UBC. The premiere will be on January 22nd. Be there at 6:30. The film will...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 19:00
Tue, January 20, 2015 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Research Mentorship Program talk Speaker: Mark Johnson, Associate Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC Mark Johnson is...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 12:30
Tue, January 20, 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...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 12:00
Fri, January 16, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join us for a lively discussion of trade, infrastructure development, climate change, and the implications for British Columbia. Keynote: Steven J. Davis, University of California, Irvine Commentary: Kathryn Harrison, University of...
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Friday, January 16, 2015 - 16:00
Fri, January 16, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM H. R. MACMILLAN BUILDING. The soil science graduate seminar in collaboration with the Masters of Land and Water systems are pleased to announce this week's seminar: The UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre: Tackling environmental challenges through dairy...
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Friday, January 16, 2015 - 15:00
Fri, January 16, 2015 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...
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Friday, January 16, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, January 15, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM See description. Free. This M.Ed. in Home Economics Education with a focus on Human Ecology and Everyday Life is a unique graduate program, offered fully online, for teachers of home economics, human ecology, family studies, and family and consumer science...
When:
Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 16:00

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