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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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Sustainability Coordinator Interview: Melissa Ashman

Developed at UBC in 1999, the Sustainability Coordinator (SC) Program engages employees at UBC’s Vancouver, Robson Square and Teaching Hospital sites, providing them with the support, awareness, skills and tools needed to foster sustainability in their own department. Melissa Ashman, SC for the...

UBC shines bright at Pecha Kucha Night

On Wednesday, June 23, over two thousand people filled the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the City of Vancouver and UBC-sponsored Pecha Kucha Night Vancouver: Walk the Talk Green Your City. Thirteen local speakers, including UBC’s Prof. John Robinson, Executive Director of the UBC Sustainability...

Graduate Students Join City’s Environmental Effort

UBC Master’s candidate Tegan Adams is one of 10 UBC graduate students who are spending their summer as interns within the City of Vancouver’s sustainability office. The group, called the Greenest City Action Team scholars, hail from a variety of disciplines including architecture, engineering and...

Applied Sustainability: UBC as a Living Laboratory (APSC 364)

UBC is bridging the gap between sustainability theory and practice through a course aimed at engaging third and fourth-year students in real-life campus operations. Applied Sustainability: UBC as a Living Laboratory (APSC 364) will start in January 2011 and will be open to students from the...

Partnership to reach Greenest City goals

The University of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner together to advance both the City’s and UBC’s aggressive sustainability and climate action goals. Mayor Gregor Robertson and UBC President Stephen Toope signed the agreement at...

CIVL 498C: North America’s largest building environmental impact study

Like the vibrant natural environment that surrounds UBC, each building on campus has a life cycle of its own, and a unique study is underway to understand the creation of University buildings and measure their environmental impact. Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (CIVL 498C) has been running...

Sustainable Purchasing: Buying into the Future Fair

Buying into the Future Fair Hosted by UBC Supply Management and the Campus Sustainability Office April 8, 2010, 12pm – 1:30pm Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room (6476 NW Marine Drive) A lunch time event and mini-trade show to promote the launch of the UBC Sustainable Purchasing...

UBC Sustainable Purchasing Guide Launch: “Buying into the Future Fair”

Buying into the Future Fair Hosted by UBC Supply Management and Campus Sustainability April 8, 2010, 12pm – 1:30pm Liu Institute for Global Issues, Multipurpose Room (6476 NW Marine Drive) A lunch time event and mini-trade show to promote the launch of the UBC Sustainable Purchasing Guide, 2nd...

Reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions

On March 24, 2010, UBC President Stephen Toope announced aggressive new greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets for UBC’s Vancouver campus. Toope made the announcement to delegates at the GLOBE 2010 conference in Vancouver, one of the world’s largest environmental conferences. UBC has already met...

Earth Hour 2010

Earth Hour is set to happen March 27, 2010 from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m local time. Close to a billion people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour to demand action on climate change. Show your support for Earth Hour 2010 by helping UBC power down this weekend. You can participate by:...

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