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Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition: Eight recipients share $500k in funding

The 2025 Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition called for visionary approaches to help British Columbia and Canada respond and adapt to the pressing sustainability challenges. This year's competition drew faculty and staff from more...
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Angelique Pilon appointed Director, Sustainability Hub

Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
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How UBC's Sustainability Hub is helping reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry

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New Sustainable Cities Certificate from UBC SCARP

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Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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May 12, 2025

Engineering Students for Radical Change: Q&A With Sustainability Education Fellows

Dr. Paul Lusina (Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science), Dr. Christoph Sielmann (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science) and Dr. Angèle Beausoleil (Assistant Professor of Teaching, Entrepreneurship & Innovation,...
May 5, 2025

Climate Math: Connecting Numbers to the World Around Us

A recent collaboration between the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS), with support from the Sustainability Hub, has created new opportunities to connect math education with climate change issues. The Climate Math project, led by Dr. Sven Bachmann and supported by UBC’s Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, was developed to help students see how mathematical tools can play a role in understanding and responding to climate challenges.
April 30, 2025

Highlights from SDG Month 2025

Words by Nina Huh. SDG Month Canada is a national initiative that invites Canadian universities, colleges, and community organizations to host events and panels that increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . Led by the UBC Sustainability...
April 28, 2025

Heatwave: Sustainability Scholar works with City of Vancouver to combat extreme heat impacts by identifying priority new water fountain sites

Words by Nina Huh. Access to drinking water is an essential human right. In 2021, British Columbia experienced a devastating heatwave that resulted in over 600 deaths ( BC Gov News , 2021). With similar extreme heat events expected to increase in frequency and intensity as a result of human-induced...
April 17, 2025

Highlighting Projects Awarded by the Workplace Sustainability Fund (WSF)

This year’s round of funding has been awarded to a range of initiatives that continue to push forward CAP2030 goals, employ sustainable practices, and highlight the sheer dedication of units across campus. With some projects building on the momentum of earlier WSF initiatives - expanding successful...
April 15, 2025

Fire isn’t going anywhere – but neither are we

On April 3, bestselling author John Vaillant sat down with Professor Lori Daniels and Professor Suzanne Simard to discuss the new wildfire reality facing urban BC.
April 8, 2025

Accounting for Climate Change: New Experiential Learning Opportunities

As extreme heat events continue to increase in both frequency and intensity, and atmospheric rivers and wildfires cause increasingly costly damages across communities, it is more urgent than ever to tackle the climate crisis with dedicated, collective, and systemic action. One area of opportunity...
March 26, 2025

Workplace Sustainability Showcase: Celebrating Staff-Led Climate Action at UBC

On Feb 12, UBC Campus + Community Planning’s Sustainability & Engineering team hosted the Workplace Sustainability Showcase , a dynamic celebration of inspiring sustainability initiatives led by UBC staff and faculty. The event took place during Climate Emergency Week at UBC and was proudly...
March 17, 2025

Job alert: Work Learn positions Summer 2025

Our equitable, inclusive, and diverse team is committed to transformative change, climate justice, protecting the environment and enriching the UBC campus landscape with a stronger Indigenous presence. From addressing the climate emergency to supporting research and knowledge mobilization, we have...
March 12, 2025

Sustainability Hub and Partners receive TLEF funding to support Indigenous climate justice and climate wellbeing projects

The Sustainability Hub is pleased to announce new projects will move forward with financial support from the 2025/26 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) funding round. In total, $2.44-million in TLEF funding will support 66 new and returning TLEF projects (13 Large TLEF Transformation...

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