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Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition: Eight recipients share $500k in funding

The 2025 Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition called for visionary approaches to help British Columbia and Canada respond and adapt to the pressing sustainability challenges. This year's competition drew faculty and staff from more...
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Angelique Pilon appointed Director, Sustainability Hub

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How UBC's Sustainability Hub is helping reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry

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New Sustainable Cities Certificate from UBC SCARP

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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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June 7, 2013

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...
June 7, 2013

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...
June 3, 2013

New Life in Old Growth Forests

By Heather Amos A birder, mountaineer and backcountry skier, Spanish-born Carlos Molina is a natural for the West Coast. But it wasn’t the call of the wild that brought him to B.C.—it was Europe’s economic crisis. In 2008, at the height of the financial meltdown, Molina began looking for a change...
June 3, 2013

Honouring Environmental Leadership

By Salina Marshall It may be obvious, but it’s true: fighting for a better world requires hard work. Tzeporah Berman, who is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of British Columbia on May 23, knows just how challenging it can be. “Doing this work is difficult. Social change isn’...
June 1, 2013

Lighting Up the Museum

The first thing you see is a dazzling map of the world made from thousands of crystals. There are no countries or borders, just green land and blue sea, glittering intensely. This is One World — Yek Donia, an artwork by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri, part of “Safar: Voyage,” a new show of...
May 2, 2013

Cultivating Ecosensitivity

By Paul Marck Call her a champion of plant poetics, wielding a scythe to shear down barriers between the humanities and sciences. Sonnet L’Abbé is on a mission, an eco poet in bloom. Graduating with a PhD in English Literature, she fuses poetry with plant science in a bid for literary distinction...
April 25, 2013

Taking it Outside

With spring blooming, more and more of us are heading outdoors, to read, talk, work or just lounge around. To help, new purpose-built furniture installations are encouraging people to move their activities out into the campus landscape. When he walked through the campus in late March, Dean Gregory...
April 23, 2013

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...
April 17, 2013

Examples. Statistics. Real, not just boast-y stuff

One day a year is not enough for UBC; it takes 365 days a year to celebrate the earth. And so, as the world marks Earth Day on April 22, we want to share some of the real ways UBC works for sustainability – through our commitments, students, researchers and innovations on campus. Taking the bus (...
April 9, 2013

Against All Odds

By Brian Lin Monica Pearson is on an egg hunt – one that could save the most endangered amphibians in Canada.The Oregon spotted frog – whose Latin name means “precious frogs” – has bright golden eyes and ranges in color from “Kermit green” to dark brown. They are shy, hide in tunnels and spend much...

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