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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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Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

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

Built Environment & Mobility
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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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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October 5, 2023

Learning to Coexist with Urban Wildlife

When campus activity came to a halt during the pandemic, UBC’s urban wildlife found greater freedom to move around campus. Now that students, faculty, and staff are back, research is helping establish safe and respectful boundaries with urban wildlife. Photo credits: UBC Animal Welfare Program, UBC...
September 18, 2023

2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

The Sustainability Hub and UBC Wellbeing extend warm congratulations to the awardees of the inaugural Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants. Born from a growing imperative, our program builds capacity on the vital connections between health, wellbeing, and the ever-pressing climate concerns.
September 18, 2023

Transboundary Water Governance in the Columbia River Basin

Through his research, Dr. John Wagner , Professor of anthropology in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies, is challenging conventional wisdom — that the treaty is only concerned with hydropower and flood control — and focusing instead on the irrigation benefits of the treaty for...
September 15, 2023

Micropollutants Transformed Into Bioenergy Products

Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu , Professor and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada/Metro Vancouver Industrial Research Chair in the School of Engineering, is supporting this transition through research that focuses on anaerobic digestion, utilizing microorganisms to turn organic...
September 15, 2023

Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Dr. Sara Ghebremusse , (previously) Assistant Professor, Peter A Allard School of Law, focuses on the impacts of Canadian mining interests on communities in Africa. “My parents are from East Africa. I was born and raised in Canada, but having those strong familial ties to East Africa always made me...
August 29, 2023

Cooling the Heart of the City

Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) was created by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the UBC Learning Exchange, working with four DTES community organizations. Photo credit: Geoff D'Auria, UBC Learning Exchange.
August 16, 2023

Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Photo by Alex Harris. The following press release describes the work of UBC Sustainability Scholar Avery Pasternak, Allard School of Law student and lead author of the report produced in partnership with Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Currently, the legislative framework in Canada grants legal...
August 15, 2023

Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

By Kitty Blandy, Vancouver-based visual artist and SFU liberal studies masters candidate, who focuses on being and the human/animal/body. As I walk from the airport through a semi-industrial neighbourhood to the University campus, a Chattering ‘gulp’ of five tree swallows catch my attention. This...
August 14, 2023

CLL Grand Challenge: $750k in funding coming this fall

UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) is a collaborative framework for researchers, students, staff and external partners to leverage the campus to explore, develop and test new ideas, and to share the knowledge gained from these experiences. This year, the CLL Fund Competition will provide seed...
July 19, 2023

Announcing the Recipients of Sustainability Education Grants

As part of their mission, the Sustainability Hub supports faculty from across disciplines who are working to integrate sustainability and climate change content into their teaching so that students can become agents of change in the world. Selected projects for this year's Sustainability Education...

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