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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
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Measuring the environmental impact of large sporting events, a tricky task

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro opened with a rallying cry for the environmental movement—a welcome ceremony that featured powerful messages about deforestation, climate change and rising sea levels. But what of the environmental impact of the games themselves? Turns out, measuring...

Driverless cars moving full speed ahead

They are the stuff of sci-fi blockbusters, and soon, they could be coming to a highway near you. In recent years, auto and tech companies have been racing to put the first driverless cars on the road. And last week, Uber announced that its first fleet of autonomous vehicles will be deployed in...

Perspectives from a Green Building tour guide

Gaving Pattman, a Work Learn student in Arts, and the Green Building Tour Coordinator, shares his perspective on Green Buildings, and how he thinks we can all contribute to a more sustainable future. Q. What is a Green Building? A green building is a building that is designed to have minimal...

Green Buildings 101

Jennifer Sanguinetti, Director of Project Services with the Infrastructure Development team, explains Green Buildings, and details how universities have an important role to play in Green Building design. Q. What’s your role or area of expertise? I work in the Infrastructure Development team as the...

Sustainable Innovation in Heat Recovery Ventilation

Brady Faught is a Greenest City (GC) Scholar working with the City of Vancouver Green Buildings Team. He shares with us how Heat Recovery Ventilators (a specific type of ventilation system that is a focus of his internship project) play a key role in green buildings sustainability. Buildings...

UBC Wins Award for Campus Energy Innovation

In light of UBC receiving the International District Energy Association Award for Innovation for the Bio-energy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF), David Woodson , Managing Director of Energy and Water Services , explains what made the BRDF stand out and how it helps UBC advance its...

Advancing UBC's Sustainability Goals

As UBC releases its Carbon Neutral Action Report , an update on its climate action initiatives, we sat down with John Madden, Director of Sustainability and Engineering, Campus and Community Planning, to understand what goes into making our campus carbon neutral. Q. UBC recently released its Carbon...

Sustainable supply chains: the future of ethical purchasing

Would you buy low carbon yoghurt? A new study in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics suggests that marketing how a product gets to market could have big implications for how we fight climate change. The study, conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and the...

The ecological implications of pets

You’ve probably heard about the problem with cats. Your precious kitty might actually be a lethal predator, slaughtering wild birds and mice every chance she gets. This is no joke. In 2013, a study found that cats are one of the major threats to U.S. wildlife, killing up to 3.7 billion birds and 20...

UBC researchers become climate matchmakers to save Canada’s forests

Animals are not the only life forms that are migrating due to climate change. New research in the area of plant genomics is helping trees get a “leg up” to counteract global warming. Just last month, NASA scientists predicted that North American trees like red hickory, black cherry and oak are...

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