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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
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Feeling the heat

This April in Vancouver was the warmest since record-keeping began in 1937 – just the latest piece of evidence that temperatures in the region are rising. A heat wave in B.C. broke 64 temperature records across the province last summer. And that followed on the heels of another record-breaking heat...

A possible silver lining in the forest fire smoke

The wildfire that engulfed parts of Fort McMurray this spring is both a harbinger of and contributor to climate change —a blaze unprecedented for both its size and destructive capacity. But new research suggests there may be a silver lining in the cloud of smoke. Two studies—one in Latin America,...

Drought in California set to impact B.C.'s food security

As drought conditions worsen in California due to climate change, B.C. can expect challenges in food security, says a food security expert. In a report , Brent Mansfield warned about the danger of relying on California for the bulk of our fruits and vegetables given the state’s drought conditions...

Engaging Students, Enhancing Communities

After spending a year away from university due to illness, Stephanie Aitken returned to the University of British Columbia feeling the need to restore her wellbeing and work to empower others in the community to do the same. A UBC Master of Landscape Architecture candidate and a UBC Sustainability...

Connecting Communities: Principles for Musqueam and UBC Collaboration

“We all have a role to play in building a strong relationship between UBC and Musqueam, if not by direct collaboration, by education and awareness,” says Aaron Lao, a Master of Arts (School of Community and Regional Planning) candidate. As a UBC Sustainability Scholar , Aaron worked with the...

The buzz about bees

By now, you've heard the story. Honeybees are dying off at alarming rates. In Canada, about 30 per cent of bees are disappearing every winter. And to date, nobody's entirely sure why. The plight of the honeybee is a humbling reminder that despite our technological ingenuity, our agricultural system...

Tracking climate change’s impact on B.C. winemakers

For B.C. winemakers, it’s an exciting, if worrying, prospect: climate change pushing the continent’s best grape-growing regions north. According to some studies, B.C.’s wine-producing regions stand to benefit from earlier harvests brought on by a warming planet. “Grapes no longer viable in...

What Vancouver can learn from Osnabrück’s clean energy transition

Energiewende is the word. Literally, it means “energy turn,” and the term has entered the international lexicon to denote Germany’s shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Germany has made large strides in its energy transition. 27 per cent of the country’s electricity now comes from renewable...

Annual Event Recognizes Campus Sustainability Champions

Since 2004, the annual Sustainability Appreciation Luncheon recognizes staff, faculty, and students who help advance sustainability at UBC through their participation in the SEEDS Sustainability Program and the Sustainability Coordinator (SC) Program in offices and labs. On May 26th, over 130...

Transit Funding and the Future of Urban Design

The connection between public transit and urban sustainability is significant; public transportation has been shown to reduce air pollution and GHG emissions, positively enhance urban densification, and drive economic growth in communities. In light of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier...

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