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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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New strategies for public engagement needed to address sea level rise

A recent report by University of British Columbia Master of Arts (Planning) candidate, Tina Barisky, finds that addressing the rising sea levels caused by climate change requires a different approach from some of the more usual planning issues. Vancouver was named the world’s 11 th coastal city...

UBC research shows there’s gold in them thar’ teardowns

Stately heritage homes are a dying breed in B.C., fast becoming victims of Vancouver’s changing housing landscape. Now, that trend is gaining some international profile. Earlier this month, a photographer captured a shot that’s becoming one of the defining images of B.C.’s topsy-turvy real estate...

Growing campus furniture, from mushrooms

Staying behind the wheel of ridesharing in Vancouver

“A city with Uber will be a more prosperous city.” So spoke Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on his company’s fifth anniversary last June. At the time, the ride-sharing service had 26,000 drivers in New York, 15,000 in London and 22,000 in San Francisco. In Vancouver, however, there are none. Uber...

Sustainability Challenge Showcase

Mugshare seeks to reduce the ~1.5 million disposable cups used on UBC campus each year

This article by Yael Boyd originally appeared in The Ubyssey on 15 March 2016. According to the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program , at least 1.5 million disposable coffee cups are generated on campus each year. In 2015, UBC’s largest and most active student sustainability organization, Common Energy...

UBC Students Accelerate Vancouver’s Climate Action Potential

In a post-Paris Climate Conference (COP21) world, the global community is increasingly looking to cities for their continued leadership in addressing climate action. The increased focus on cities is not surprising. Major contributors to climate change, cities are responsible for consumption of 78...

UBC Reads Sustainability presents Naomi Klein

UBC-Vancouver cuts greenhouse gas emissions 30 per cent

Republished from UBC Public Affairs - The University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus reduced its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 per cent in 2015 compared with 2007 levels, the university announced today at the GLOBE 2016 conference. “These reductions in absolute emissions are even more...

UBC Reads Sustainability presents Raj Patel

As UBC Reads Sustainability prepares to welcome renowned food justice expert Raj Patel on Thursday February 11th , Dr. Hannah Wittman, Academic Director, Centre for Sustainable Food Systems & Associate Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, discusses what to expect...

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