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Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Cooling the Heart of the City

Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) was created by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the UBC Learning Exchange, working with four DTES community organizations. The project will help the university to understand how to share its research while...
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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Green Buildings 101

Future Fisheries Can Expect $10-Billion Revenue Loss Due to Climate Change

Wellbeing in the workplace helps us live, work better

At UBC, we champion wellbeing as integral to our continued excellence as a post-secondary institution and to create happier, healthier, and more sustainable communities, both on our campuses and beyond. For UBC staff, as well as many other Canadians, the workplace is where we spend a substantial...

Keeping a foot on the gas pedal: the state of renewables in 2016

Canada continues to make gains when it comes to the share of renewable power resources in energy portfolios across the country, but storm winds are brewing. That’s according to a recent op-ed from researchers at Clean Energy Canada, who say it’s time to step on the gas pedal at a “pivotal” moment...

China, U.S. ratify Paris agreement in major climate change milestone

China and the United States have both formally ratified the Paris climate change agreement, marking a major step toward the implementation of the global pact. U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the decision in China on Sept. 3. “Just as I believe the Paris agreement will ultimately prove to be a...

UBC Students Explore Ways to Reduce Food Waste

Globally, approximately one third of the food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted each year. At the same time, almost a billion people go hungry. In dollar amount, that equates to some $680 billion in losses in industrialized countries alone. In Canada, a 2014 report suggests that...

UBC's Green Building Plan

Mike van der Laan is a Planning Analyst with UBC and alongside Campus + Community Planning collegues is involved in a process to develop UBC's Green Building Plan. Over the next year the campus community will be engaged to build on UBC's pioneering leadership in sustainability and shape the future...

A Gold Medal for a Climate Neutral Games?

With the successful completion of the Rio Olympic games it is valuable to reflect on what has been achieved in terms of the contribution of the event to the sustainability agenda: one of the pillars of the Games. In the past, the Games were criticised by environmental groups for wasting resources...

Vancouver’s social venture space faces growing pains

Wish you could grow some bok choy in your garden, but don’t have a clue how? There’s a social venture that can help with that. According to a UBC report , the number of social ventures has grown by over a third since 2015. However, issues such as not tracking social impact and a disproportionate...

Bringing back the bronze medal for climate

The heats for the men’s 200m in the Rio Olympics are now famous for the smiling bromance between Andre DeGrasse and Usain Bolt. Bolt crossed the line almost shoulder to shoulder with his protégé. In the finals, he showed his dominance by crossing the line a couple of lengths ahead and still made it...

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