Sustainability Hubs
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A Powerful Musqueum Welcome
On November 3rd, Kwes Kwestin (Jim Kew), Cultural Representative for the Musqueam Indian Band, spoke at the opening of CIRS. Read his remarks.
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A Powerful Musqueum Welcome
On November 3rd, UBC opened the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Kwes Kwestin (Jim Kew), Cultural Representative for the Musqueam Indian Band, spoke to attendees at the opening celebration on behalf of Musqueam. Read his full remarks.
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Eating Green at CIRS
UBC's newest cafe has UBC Food Services breaking new ground
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"No one thing here does just one thing." These are words Mark Bomford says often about UBC Farm. The more the director of UBC’s Centre for Sustainable Food Systems talks about its cultivated fields, teaching gardens, forest stands, hedgerows and orchard plantings, the more you realize: he’s not kidding.By Basil Waugh | Photo by Javier Landaeta
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UBC Reports | Vol. 56 | No. 10 | Oct. 7, 2010UBC cultivates vision for farm
“No one thing here does just one thing.”
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“Smell that!” says Victoria Wakefield, Purchasing Manager for Student Housing and Hospitality Services (which includes UBC Food Services). “Isn’t that delectable? So much flavour. It’s their chai.”" border="0" />On Sustainability Hubs at UBC
Sustainability is by its nature cross-cutting and interdisciplinary. Learn more about UBC’s commitment to explore and exemplify sustainability by integrating teaching and learning, research, and operations--in both physical and conceptual "hubs".
Hubs
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Green + Green: Podcasts highlight Environmental Entrepreneurship
The fight for sustainability has long been painted as a pitched battle of environmentalists versus...
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Sustainability Leadership: Playing a Bigger Game
Sustainability leaders tackle tough questions: What is the bigger game you are playing? What are...
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The next generation of sustainability
What if there was a new way of approaching sustainability? What if the old environmental agenda of...
Intro to Cheese Making
Wed, May 16, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:45 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $40 (+ $1.99 registration fee). Join...
Purple and Yellow Volunteer Night
Tue, May 22, 2012 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Volunteer with the Bike Co-op to...
Transforming Sustainability Education
Sat, May 26, 2012 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)....
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UBC researcher wins 2012 Trudeau Foundation scholarship
Daniel Werb, senior research assistant at the Addiction and Urban Health Research Initiative (UHRI...
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Vancouver, Montreal, Portland and Minneapolis among most “bikeable” cities in North America: UBC research
University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to...
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H1N1 discovery paves way for universal flu vaccine: UBC research
University of British Columbia researchers have found a potential way to develop universal flu...
