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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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Road to better species conservation

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) turned 10 last year. It’s a young piece of legislation, but the federal government has already served notice it is considering an overhaul of the act to make it more efficient. But lack of implementation, not the legislation itself, is to...

Walking and Rolling to School!

For a week in May, a new program got kids (and parents) to leave the car at home and walk, bike or rollerblade to school. Walk 'n Roll to School promotes healthy, safe, sustainable transportation—and encourages students to start their day socializing and getting a little exercise, too. It takes...

Quantifying the economic impact of purchasing

By Joanna Buczkowska Do you ever consider how your purchasing decisions impact your local community? For instance when you buy paper and pens for your office do you consider the impact those dollars have locally? The local purchasing movement started in the food and retail industries and aims to...

Electrifying campus drivers

By Salina Marshall Which came first—the widespread use of electric cars or easy access to charging stations? Like the chicken and egg question, that’s yet to be answered. But the University of British Columbia is on its way to finding out with the debut of 18 new charging stations on campus. These...

UBC Reads Sustainability

Justin Ritchie, the AMS Sustainability Coordinator, compares the UBC Reads Sustainability project to a book club—with one important difference. “There’s not that kind of guilt trip there for not reading the book,” he says, laughing. UBC Reads Sustainability is an initiative that’s part book club,...

Students Reap Benefits From Volunteering

By Terry Wintonyk A volunteer dentistry mission to India has taught four UBC students to see the whole patient—including his or her social and economic context, cultural beliefs and values—not just the ailing tooth. In December, fourth-year dentistry students Akashdeep Villing, Amandeep Hans,...

Building Sustainability Technology course

By Thomas Bevan Sustainable building science has garnered significant attention from students and researchers, who want to improve the way we design, construct, operate, and disassemble our built environment. However, many academic institutions do not have access to the resources, infrastructure...

A Fresh Take on a Life-Sustaining Resource

UBC Professor John Richardson, along with his co-instructor Professor Scott Hinch, provides students with the opportunity to engage in what he calls “the most critical resource for sustaining humans” through their course on freshwater ecosystems. Through their Aquatic Ecosystems course, Prof...

English and the global citizen: A win-win combination

“Although they came from Korea, Belgium, China, Brazil, and Thailand, they researched and debated the expansion so passionately one would have thought the pipeline was in their backyards” says Victoria Brown, English Language Institute (ELI) Instructor. “For a unit on climate change, my class...

More than a Feeling

By Thomas Bevan Although many resources go into the design, construction and operation of a physical building, this may not be a complete package for creating great places to live, work and play. Julia Reckermann, a masters student in UBC’s Sustainable Building Science Program (SBSP), thinks it is...

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