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Ecological Systems

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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April 20, 2016

Earth Day: Convenience, real-time feedback makes us more environmentally aware

April 19, 2016

Taking Care of Trees

Q. What does an arboriculturalist at UBC do in terms of keeping our campus green and leafy? How did you get started in this field? I've been at UBC since 2004. Arboriculturalists at UBC take care of trees , pruning and performing overall arboricultural work. This includes observing trees,...
April 19, 2016

Advancing Climate Action

Q. What does a Senior Planning and Sustainability Engineer do? My focus is on developing sustainability plans like the Zero Waste Action Plan and the Climate Action Plan in collaboration with different units and stakeholders across UBC, and then working to facilitate implementation along with those...
April 19, 2016

Mushrooms hold potential for sustainable building materials

April 18, 2016

The Roots that Bind Us

Q. What does an Associate Director, Sustainability and Community Programs at the UBC Botanical Gardens do? I am fortunate to have a great job where I get to use UBC Botanical Garden to engage people of all ages in learning about plants from around the world and biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest...
April 18, 2016

Wellbeing, One Tree at a Time

Q. Can you briefly describe your research as it relates to Earth Day and this year’s theme of Trees for the Earth. My research looks at how to balance increasing residential density with a desire for more urban forest cover. Municipalities across our region (and across the world) are facing...
April 18, 2016

Challenging the Status Quo

Winning the Gold Prize and taking the top spot, Sons of Sustainability won over the judges with Ignite the Rider Inside, a project aimed at increasing engagement in Bike to Work Week by targeting faculty members as agents of change. Q. You recently won the Sustainability Challenge. How did you get...
April 18, 2016

Fostering a Climate of Change

As a Senior Instructor in the Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Science, with a research background reconstructing past climate change, Tara connects Environmental Science students with the broader community through community service learning projects. Q. What is the current state of the...
April 14, 2016

New strategies for public engagement needed to address sea level rise

A recent report by University of British Columbia Master of Arts (Planning) candidate, Tina Barisky, finds that addressing the rising sea levels caused by climate change requires a different approach from some of the more usual planning issues. Vancouver was named the world’s 11 th coastal city...
April 14, 2016

UBC research shows there’s gold in them thar’ teardowns

Stately heritage homes are a dying breed in B.C., fast becoming victims of Vancouver’s changing housing landscape. Now, that trend is gaining some international profile. Earlier this month, a photographer captured a shot that’s becoming one of the defining images of B.C.’s topsy-turvy real estate...

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