Tue, November 29, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Join us at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden for an open conversation circle about climate justice and the essential role of Indigenous rights and relations with the land in addressing climate change.
Climate Justice is a business responsibility
Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste
Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions
Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
Climate Emergency Week
Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.
UBC Reads Sustainability
Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
SDG Month Canada
SDG Month Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.
Climate Justice Series
In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.
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Past Events
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, November 28, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. $10 (free for 2015 and 2016 grads) - includes reception. Around the world, popular app- and web-based services such as Uber and AirBnB have disrupted traditional business models and sparked explosive growth in the sharing economy. Consumers...
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Monday, November 28, 2016 - 18:30
Sun, November 27, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 2016 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM UBC FARM. We will be selling our produce on the occasional Saturday once a month through the winter season! In addition to farm-fresh veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers and free-range eggs from the UBC Farm. Since 2001, the on-site Saturday Farm Market has...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 09:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Join us for this exciting forum featuring some of UBC’s leading experts from political science, business, and economics to discuss the new era of Trump. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Friday, November 25th, 2016 Liu Institute for...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 15:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Juan Jose Alava, MITAC postdoctoral fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Vancouver Aquarium Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change and chemical pollution are amongst the major stressors...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 11:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, November 24, 2016 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free.. On November 24th, from 5:30 - 7:00, join us and Josephine Schrott, an Earth Charter Young Leader, to learn all about the Earth Charter. Expand your vision of sustainability, embrace a new sense...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 17:30
Thu, November 24, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. Find your zen - join us for free lunch hour yoga at UBC's hub for sustainability and wellbeing, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Starting September, UBC...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016 - 12:00