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Climate Change & Energy
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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...

2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance

Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance

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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Originally published by UBC Public Affairs. Republished with permission. A forward-thinking sustainability strategy, ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets and innovative clean energy projects have helped the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus earn the highest rating among...
Jeffrey Preiss Once the barbeques were put away, tables cleared, chairs folded and 4,000 staff went back to their offices, only one small, desk bin-sized bag of garbage was left. The rest of the waste from UBC’s annual Welcome Back Staff BBQ—200 kg—was sorted into compost and recycling. The BBQ is...
// Posted by UBC Sustainability on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 For some, a mention of a PhD student may evoke thoughts of dusty books, digital reports and long nights of research and writing. For Loch Brown, the PhD process involved motorcycling across the Sahara through an active minefield to...
// Posted by UBC Sustainability on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Tanis King didn’t arrive at UBC with a passion for sustainability: throughout high school and her first years at UBC, Tanis’ academic interests were reserved for the hard sciences. Last year, however, Tanis enrolled in BIOL 448 – a capstone...
// Posted by UBC Sustainability on Wednesday, August 5, 2015 For PhD candidate Ivana Zelenika, sustainability is more than just a word or concept; it’s a fundamental tenet that guides her through both her academic career and day-to-day life. Ivana started her sustainability journey at Carleton...
Jesline Rahardjo’s passion for sustainability preceded the start of her studies at UBC. Her pathway through university has had twists and turns – taking her from studying engineering in her first year to food sciences in her fourth – but she has never diverged from her aspiration to help make the world more sustainable.

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