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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

UBC Receives Public Sector Leadership Award at the Second Annual BC Embodied Carbon Awards 2024

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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

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...

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...

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