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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
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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A greener playing field

By Heather Amos When it comes to thinking about how to make this world a greener, more sustainable place, sports may not be the first thing that jumps to mind. But in the world of athletics, there is an understanding that sport can be a powerful vehicle for change. “Professional and collegiate...

Confronting the past, looking to the future

By Corey Allen A new seminar on the effects of Canada’s residential schools gives students a chance to contribute to something bigger than themselves Talking about Canada’s past with Indian residential schools – and how to move forward – can be a sensitive subject, but one Erica Baker refuses to...

From Uganda to UBC, and back

By Bonnie Vockeroth Sunaina Assanand’s drive to transform how her psychology students learn led her back to Uganda this summer, four decades after her family’s exile. Sunaina Assanand was a young child when her family was forced to flee Uganda in 1972. Four decades later, the UBC instructor...

An action plan for climate change in the Philippines

Nine students from the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) recently traveled to the province of Bulacan, Philippines to help administrators address local climate change issues. Taught by Prof. Leonora Angeles, the interactive Philippine Planning Studio Course provided the students...

Encouraging Good Lab Habits

“We use it for chemicals, anything that lets off hazardous fumes, like formaldehyde or other toxic substances.” Megan Filiatrault, Lab Manager at the Hieter Lab in the Michael Smith Laboratories, is standing in front of a fume hood, a rectangular cupboard shaped like a raised fireplace with a...

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