Confronting the Fractures: A World Water Day Screening + UBC Researcher Panel Discussion of Fractured Land

Tue, March 22, 2016 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM See description. $10 plus annual $2 Vancity Theatre membership applied at time of booking. To purchase tickets, click on the link below: . Film: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, reception to follow Location: Vancity Theatre,...

Growing Human Cities through Urban Agriculture ft. Maria Pineda, Liu Institute Visiting Fellow in Residence at Green College

Mon, March 21, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Today we live in an urban world, with more city dwellers than rural inhabitants. By 2050, 70 per cent of the world population is expected to live in cities, with the majority of...

One Day @ UBC Centennial Lecture: From Airplanes to Water Striders: Everyday Fluid Dynamics

Sat, March 19, 2016 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. From Airplanes to Water Striders: Everyday Fluid Dynamics Learn how airplanes fly and water striders keep afloat on water. See how fluid dynamics – how gases and liquids flow -...

OEH Seminar: Return-to-work is not a single event: Our evolving understanding of return-to-work trajectories after work injury

Fri, March 18, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Chris McLeod Assistant Professor SPPH Return-to-work after work injury can be a complex and graduated process. This presentation will summarize findings from...

Love Your Leftovers

Wed, March 16, 2016 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM BOOKSTORE. Join our Zero Waste Food Truck Festival at the UBC Bookstore Plaza, share great food with your friends and learn how to properly sort and reduce your waste. Hear from filmmaker Jenny Rustemeyer about...

Ripple Lab: Zero Waste Audit

Wed, March 16, 2016 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Hosted by Common Energy, this lab will sort waste from the AMS building in real time.

Ripple Lab: ReCycle

Tue, March 15, 2016 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Hosted by the AMS Bike Co-op, this lab will show people a different side of sustainability in relation to cycling. A lot of people don't consider what happens to bikes when they can...

Keeping the Beet: Seasonal Eating Throughout the Year

Tue, March 15, 2016 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM BOOKSTORE. Hosted by the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, this Ripple Lab will entice with unusual and delicious samples of chocolate cake made with a special, in season ingredient - beets! Grown at the UBC...

Grounds for Change

Mon, March 14, 2016 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM BOOKSTORE. Join us at the UBC Bookstore Plaza to get your free travel mug and learn how to recycle all components of a disposable coffee cup if you can’t use it.

OEH Seminar: The TRAP of Infection: How Traffic-Related Air Pollution Alters Immunity

Fri, March 11, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Olga Pena, PhD Research Scientist and Manager Air Pollution/Carlsten Lab Chan-Yeung Centre for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease (COERD) Location: SPPH...

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