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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
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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
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PODCAST: F IS FOR FACULTY

A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.
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How are universities participating in the race to zero?

Words by Niki Afsharpour, Katherine Eadon-Clarke, and Cait Murphy The UC3 Summit included “The Race to Zero: Universities Working to Catalyze Climate Action” panel which had opening remarks by President Ono and Catherine McKenna, and featured speakers John Robinson, Cynthia María Villarreal Muraira...

UBC’s mass timber innovation informing Irish sustainable construction

On June 29th, 2022, a government delegation from Ireland toured the building with UBC leadership including Linda Nowlan, Senior Director, Sustainability Hub, Angelique Pilon, Director of Urban Innovation Research, and David Kiloh, Director of Facilities and Building Services for UBC Student Housing...

Connecting Research to Action: Sustainability Scholar Maggy Spence

Written by Maggy Spence This summer, I am working on a unique project with the False Creek Friends Society , a relatively new, up-and-coming non-profit organization. The long-term goal of the Society is to establish a marine protected area within False Creek and English Bay co-managed by the...

Podcast: F is for Faculty

Whether you enjoy your podcasts on a lunchtime walk, pushing reps at the gym, lining up for the 99, early morning gardening or late-night listening, we’ve got you covered with new sustainability and climate action learning from UBC’s amazing faculty. We hope you enjoy. Feedback, comments, questions...

2022 Sustainability Education Grants Announced

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the Sustainability Education Grants! Learn more about this year's recipients and the exciting work they have planned. JEDDII in Sustainability Education [2-year grant] Lead applicants: Leonora Angeles (Applied Science) and Kim Snowden (Arts) This project...

Sustainability Scholar to Senior Policy and Planning Analyst: Interview with Claire Ewing

All opinions belong to Claire Ewing and not to Metro Vancouver or any other governmental body or employer. Can you describe what your Scholar's project was about? My project considered the concentrations and distributions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from gas boilers, heaters, and generators...

Getting serious about climate change: How business must step up

An introduction from Dean of the UBC Sauder School of Business, Robert Helsey, and moderation by award-winning reporter and CBC anchor, Lien Yeung, set the stage for a conversation on how businesses could improve to better address climate change. Four guest panelists approached the topic from...

Podcast: F is for Faculty - Dr. Tara Ivanochko

Welcome to F is for Faculty . In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge. This week, we met Dr. Tara Ivanochko,...

UBC hosting 2022 University Climate Change Coalition Conference

Launched in 2018, UC3 member universities combine their expertise, knowledge, and resources to tackle and accelerate climate action. Fostering cross-sector collaboration, the initiative hopes to solve the multifaceted problem of Climate Change. UC3 universities commit to: Taking bold action on...

Podcast: F is for Faculty - Dr. Aaron Boley

Welcome to our first episode of a new podcast series called F is for Faculty . In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new...

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