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UBC ranks seventh globally in impact: Times Higher Education

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Search for new Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative

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Federal investment will help UBC further 'smart city' ambitions

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UBC holds inaugural Sustainable Fashion Week

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UBC Sustainability Scholar lays groundwork for an anti-Black racism strategy in Vancouver

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This past December, departments across campus joined together to reduce UBC’s environmental footprint over the winter holiday by participating in Seasonal Shutdown, an annual campus-wide effort to turn down the heat in buildings and engage staff and faculty to complete energy-saving tasks. Behind...

Could Vancouver Become The Greenest and Smartest City?

A Smart City is an urban area that uses data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, and create economic development in order to enhance quality of life factors for people living and working in the city. Smart cities have the potential to improve how we interact with our...

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Reflections on Sustainability and Higher Education: UBC's AASHE Student Attendees on the Conference's Impact

UBC students Laura MacTaggart (B.Sc. Natural Resource Conservation) and Carlina Kim (B.Sc. Environmental Science) share their experience at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference and Expo, which took place in San Antonio, Texas from October 15...

UBC Researcher Develops App to Identify Poisonous Mushrooms

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