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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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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...

One day, one-stop shop for sustainability at UBC

Since 2011, AMS Sustainability Projects Fund has approved over $98,000 for student projects that are sustainability-focused. The fund receives $2.25 from every student at UBC each year. On April 4th, AMS Sustainability will be heading to the first annual UBC Sustainability Fair to chat with...

UBC's partner Perkins+Will unrivalled at the Wood WORKS! Awards

Perkins+Will, together with the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Boards of Parks and Recreation, celebrates the win of three Wood WORKS! BC awards at the 9th annual Wood Design Awards Gala. The Awards Gala honours new buildings that push the boundaries of excellence and innovation...

Protecting Land, Protecting People

By Heather Amos From Guyana to Vancouver, Janette Bulkan has built a career on protecting indigenous land rights and access to resources. Her involvement with social issues in forestry began after she noticed more and more chainsaws in indigenous communities in her homeland of Guyana. The men from...

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,...

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