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Reflecting on Sustainability through Photography

In January 2024 the UBC community was invited to engage with sustainability themes through photography. Learn more about the project and enjoy some of the resulting works.
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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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PODCAST: F IS FOR FACULTY

A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.
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People Need Trees. Cities Need Forests.

By Heather Amos Sara Barron wins the world’s largest forestry scholarship. From promoting recovery in hospitals to reducing stress, there is growing evidence that nature plays an important role in our wellbeing. But according to Sara Barron, suburban communities are going to need more than a few...

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,...

Sustainable by Design

By Selina Marshal Most people don’t need to be told to “shush” in a library: the studious ambience promotes quiet behaviour. In the same way, UBC researchers have found a significant connection between occupying a green building and behaving in a more environmentally friendly manner. The...

AFRICAD explores the links between HIV/AIDS and forest resources

It may come as a surprise to know that there are links between HIV/AIDS and forest resources in many developing countries. Across the developing world, impoverished rural households already depend upon forest resources on a daily basis for such things as firewood for a source of energy or timber...

Clean Energy Engineering project studies campus water usage

Adriana Velazquez completed her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering in Mexico City but was always intrigued by sustainability and “green” power. After researching various master’s programs and universities — and running a marathon in Vancouver — she fell in love with the Master of Clean...

The Next Big Thing in Global Citizenship

UBC's Norman B. Keevil Institute is poised to advance best practices in mining in Mongolia and around the world. Mongolia, a country of roughly three million people, stands on the precipice of economic escalation. A landlocked country between China and Russia, its traditional agriculture-based,...

Introducing the UBC Sustainable Campus Food Guide

From fair-trade coffee to composting to the Farm, a new UBC Sustainable Campus Food Guide introduces students, faculty and staff to the campus food system, a pioneer in sustainable practices. “There are opportunities to support a more sustainable food system all across the UBC campus,” says Liska...

Why CFOs need not fear sustainability

On February 14 and 15, 2013, the University of British Columbia brought together some 65 sustainability thought leaders from Sweden, the United States and Canada to explore the aspirations, key principles and practical challenges of regenerative sustainability. Pierre Ouillet, UBC Vice President-...

Regenerative neighbourhoods

To what degree can human activities associated with the built environment lead to improvements in both ecological integrity and human quality of life? This is just one of the big questions some 65 sustainability thought leaders and practitioners from Sweden, Oregon, California, Massachusetts, New...

UBC Dentistry in Haida Gwaii

By Heather Conn Painted war canoes, hand-carved from red cedar. Cedar baskets and hats, intricately woven from long strips of bark. Tall, cedar totem poles: visual tales of family lore, mythic figures and beasts of power. For many centuries, the Haida people on the BC islands of Haida Gwaii have...

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