Thu, October 22, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM See description. Any forester will tell you that different trees have different value, and that value is generally set by the marketplace. But what if the value of some trees is below ground rather than above it? This is the central question of The Mother...
Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.
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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Did you know that UBC is the first Fair Trade Campus in Canada and has been designated since 2011? Join us in celebrating, educating, and promoting the Fairtrade movement and Fairtrade certified products on campuses accross Canada! You can participate onsocial media by tagging @ubcfoodie and using...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 09:00 to Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 17:00
WEBINAR: Industrial Symbiosis: A Key Plank in a Circular Economy In an effort to practice business more sustainably, many regions are working towards circular economies. These economies aim to decouple economic growth from resource consumption by designing out waste and pollution; keeping products...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Fri, October 9, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. This is part of the IOF seminar series Speaker: Dr. Thomas Froelicher, University of Bern Extreme events, i.e., periods of normally rare situations when a system is far outside its norms, are well known to severely impact organisms and...
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Friday, October 9, 2020 - 11:00
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Building Operations and Future Codes Join Lawrence Schoen as he presents on how modes of disease transmission might be affected by engineering interventions, typically related to dilution ventilation, mechanical filtration and de-activation by ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we will move beyond the all-too-common narrative about integrating or incorporating (too often used as...
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Friday, October 2, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:00
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Online event
Fri, September 25, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. This event takes place online. Please click link below for RSVP information Speaker: Dr. Jessica Sparks Associate Director, University of Nottingham Rights Lab Investigative journalism and emerging scholarly research have posited links...
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Friday, September 25, 2020 - 11:00
Wed, September 23, 2020 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM See description. Join UBC's Virtual Volunteer Fair to interact with passionate students, and community organizations across BC. This year's virtual event will feature 20+ community organizations looking for students to virtually volunteer right from their...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 13:00
WEBINAR: On Buildings, Energy, and Health in a Changing Climate Join us as Dr. Holly Samuelson presents research using building performance simulation among other methods to improve energy and environmental performance and human health in buildings and cities. This includes improving modeling...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Fri, September 18, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). This event takes place online. Please click link below for RSVP information Speaker: Dr. Robert Blasiak, Stockholm Resilience Centre How could you not be interested in marine genetic resources? In recent...
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Friday, September 18, 2020 - 11:00