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

Climate+Water Research Symposium

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources

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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Fri, October 12, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Science Building. Free. 2018 Biology Seminar Series Guest speaker: Wes Zandberg, Chemistry, UBC Okanagan Title: Novel analytical tools to investigate the microbial metabolism of glycoconjugates in grapes, wine, milk and in the animal gut Date: October 12,...
When:
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 12:30
Fri, October 12, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: UBC Well-being Location: AERL Theatre (120), 2202 Main Mall, UBC Throughout the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) most recent strategic planning process, wellbeing was identified as a university-...
When:
Friday, October 12, 2018 - 11:00
Wed, October 10, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. FREE. Register and find location info and more for this workshop at: https://events.library.ubc.ca/dashboard/view/7629 For more information or questions, please email: research.commons@ubc.ca
When:
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 10:00
Fri, October 5, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Science Building. Free . 2018 Biology Seminar Series Guest speaker: Bruno Carturan, Biology, UBC Okanagan Title: Assessing the relationship between functional diversity and resilience of coral reef communities with an agent-based model Date: October 5, 2018...
When:
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 12:30
Fri, October 5, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Dr. Philippe Tortell Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, The University of British Columbia In this presentation, Dr. Tortell will discuss ongoing work of a joint university-...
When:
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 11:00
Tue, October 2, 2018 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM C. K. CHOI BUILDING FOR THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH. Join us for a triple book launch to explore the topics of civil society, public policies and the right to food with Andy Fisher (Big Hunger), Annette Aurélie Desmarais (Public Policies for Food...
When:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 14:00
Tue, October 2, 2018 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM C. K. CHOI BUILDING FOR THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH. Join us for a triple book launch to explore the topics of civil society, public policies and the right to food with Andy Fisher (Big Hunger), Annette Aurélie Desmarais (Public Policies for Food...
When:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 14:00
Tue, October 2, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. FREE. Register for and find more information about this workshop at: https://events.library.ubc.ca/dashboard/view/7625
When:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 10:00
Tue, October 2, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. FREE. Register for and find more information about this workshop at: https://events.library.ubc.ca/dashboard/view/7625
When:
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 10:00
Mon, October 1, 2018 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Green College Resident Members' Series From the Equator to the High Arctic: Remote Climate Change Fieldwork at Opposite Latitudes Elise Gallois and Heather Summers, Geography 8-9 pm, Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green...
When:
Monday, October 1, 2018 - 20:00

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