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Human Well-being & Social Systems

Mind In Motion: improving community mental health through movement

With over half of Canadian post-secondary students experiencing depressive symptoms, developing accessible mental health resources is more vital than ever. Can exercise, cost-effective and holistic, be the answer?
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Job alert: Work Learn positions Summer 2025

Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
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Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

Climate Change & Energy
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January 21, 2013

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...
January 11, 2013

Making the connection

By Salina Marshall Sarah Dekerf hopes to get UBC students thinking about sustainability beyond the basics like recycling. “Sustainability is also about society and culture and history,” explains the fourth year UBC Faculty of Arts student. “It’s interconnected in all aspects of life.” The political...
January 7, 2013

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...
January 7, 2013

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...
January 3, 2013

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,...
December 20, 2012

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...
December 20, 2012

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...
December 3, 2012

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...
December 3, 2012

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...
December 3, 2012

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...

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