Wed, February 7, 2018 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. The Bike Kitchen is open for volunteering on Wednesdays from 11am - 5pm with a midday mechanical workshop from 1pm - 2pm only for volunteers! Volunteers can drop-in at any point during the day without prior sign-up and are assigned...
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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Past Events
Sun, February 4, 2018 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Included with admission / Free for campus residents. Drop in between 10:30 am – 1:00 pm the first Sunday of the month to enjoy a special ecosystem activity for families plus all of our regular museum programming, Raising Big Blue...
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Sunday, February 4, 2018 - 10:30
Thu, February 1, 2018 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). FREE. Join us for Steve Conrad's talk on "Why people matter: including water user preferences in water policymaking." Thursday, February 1 12:30pm - 1:30pm AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall Water...
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Thursday, February 1, 2018 - 12:30
Wed, January 31, 2018 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Speaker: Gastón Gordillo, UBC Anthropology Topic: The Imperial Metropolis: the Infrastructure of the Soy Supply Chain in South America Location: Liu Multipurpose Room About Gastón Gordillo: In his current ethnographic...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 12:30
Wed, January 31, 2018 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Speaker: Gastón Gordillo, UBC Anthropology Topic: The Imperial Metropolis: the Infrastructure of the Soy Supply Chain in South America Location: Liu Multipurpose Room About Gastón Gordillo: In his current ethnographic...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 12:30
Wed, January 31, 2018 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. The Bike Kitchen is open for volunteering on Wednesdays from 11am - 5pm with a midday mechanical workshop from 1pm - 2pm only for volunteers! Volunteers can drop-in at any point during the day without prior sign-up and are assigned...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 10:00
Wed, January 31, 2018 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. In this session, we will discuss the various ways that community members and health professionals can access Xwi7xwa Library's collections, and other incredible collections for researching a variety of areas. Several resources will be...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2018 - 10:00
Tue, January 30, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY BUILDING. (ANSO 2107) Dr. Olli Pyyhtinen is Associate Professor at the New Social Research programme at the University of Tampere, Finland. His talk explores the connections between value, ethics, and waste by attending to the...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - 11:00
Mon, January 29, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ASIAN CENTRE. Free. Join us at Professor Mark Jaccard’s talk about climate policy options for the reduction of greenhouse gasses. Venue: UBC Asian Centre – Auditorium, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C V6T 1Z2. (Note: This is a new venue to accommodate more...
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Monday, January 29, 2018 - 12:00
Sat, January 27, 2018 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM REGENT COLLEGE. $5 (Online through More Information link.). Missions Fest 2018 is hosting a screening of Making Peace With Creation. About the film: Poet and theologian Loren Wilkinson has spent his life thinking, teaching, and campaigning about the...
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Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 13:00