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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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A new generation of solar power, Part two or a two part series

UBC researchers have discovered a new method of trapping heat, called the ‘heat trap’ effect, and used nanotechnology to create a novel device for converting sunlight to electricity. Solar cells are now found all around us, from rooftops to portable electronic devices to experimental solar-powered...

A new generation of solar power: Part one of a two part series

Everyone is talking about energy. Cost, sources and the impact of fossil fuels on our planet are in the news daily. With the proliferation of new technologies and the growth currently taking place in countries such as China and India, the demand for energy is not about to ease up. Yet we are...

Water efficient food exports: less beef, more crops

Our planet is facing a serious food and water crisis in the next 30 years. To feed nine billion people by 2050, global food production will have to increase by 50 per cent. Water scarcity is emerging as one of the key limiting factors, which is why Canada, with ample supplies of water and land,...

And the award goes to…

Here’s another reason to pop a cork and raise a celebratory glass of bubbly to the year that’s been and the year ahead: In 2012 UBC’s sustainability efforts and people were recognized with 14 provincial, national and international awards. Overall, these awards celebrate the University’s commitment...

Synergy and energy

No wonder they are smiling. Representatives of The University of British Columbia and FortisBC came together recently to celebrate the good that comes from two forward-thinking organizations working together. The photo of the smiling representatives was taken at the UBC Aquatic Centre on the day...

Students help a B.C. community ditch the car

Jody Jacob How to coax residents from a Vernon, B.C., neighbourhood to park their cars and get active is the problem facing four students in the School of Engineering at UBC’s Okanagan campus. The initiative—supported by UBC’s Okanagan campus, Interior Health, and the City of Vernon—will see...

Food Security: an urgent issue for B.C.

Lorraine Chan With food recalls on the rise for E. coli, salmonella or listeria contamination, the question of food sovereignty is an urgent one, says Asst. Prof. Hannah Wittman, who is appointed to UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Institute of Resource, Environment and Sustainability...

UTown@UBC building a socially sustainable community

A team of Acadia Park residents have used a community grant to build an innovative program to encourage neighbours to support each other during hard times. This past year Katie Coons found herself in a crisis situation. Her husband fell sick suddenly and she needed to get him to the hospital right...

Campus "Foodies" Alert!

Since 2001 UBC has made great strides in food system sustainability. One key driver behind this movement is the UBC Food System Project (UBCFSP). The UBCFSP is a collaborative project initiated between Campus Sustainability's SEEDS Program and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems in 2001. The main...

A future of SP Rock

It’s time to value the greenhouse gas-trapping potential of mine waste and start making money from it. That is the thinking of mining engineer and geologist Michael Hitch of the University of British Columbia (UBC). Hitch studies the value of mine waste rock for its CO2-sequestration potential, or...

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