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

Thu, January 25, 2018 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM See description. free. Building Networks for Food Solutions and Healthy, Sustainable and Prosperous Futures: Stories from Communities in Northeastern USA with Curtis Ogden Where: Innovation Centre Theatre, 1st floor, 460 Doyle Ave., Kelowna, BC (corner of...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 19:00
Thu, January 25, 2018 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM Arts Building. Free. Building Collaborative Networks for Social Change: Focusing on Power & Equity, Grounding in Love A talk by Curtis Ogden Where: Arts 368 Contact: ICER.OK@UBC.CA Please join Curtis Ogden in the Institute for Community Engaged Research...
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Thursday, January 25, 2018 - 12:30
Wed, January 24, 2018 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. FREE. Have you always wanted to learn how to maintain your bike but are intimidated by bike shops? Check out LGBTQ2I night on the 4th Wednesday of every month. LGBTQ2I Night provides a safe and positive space for anyone in LGBTQ2I...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 18:00
Wed, January 24, 2018 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). No cost. Join Joel Solomon, co-founder of Canada's largest mission venture capital firm, Renewal Funds, for an in-depth examination of his latest book, The Clean Money Revolution. The Clean Money...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - 18:00
Wed, January 24, 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 24, 2018 - 10:00
Tue, January 23, 2018 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. IndigenEYEZ is about transforming communities. Their mission is to inspire an intergenerational legacy of well-being among First Nations people in BC and beyond. IndigenEYEZ blends land-based learning with the arts and best practices...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018 - 10:00
Thu, January 18, 2018 7:30 PM - Sat, February 3, 2018, 9:30 PM CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. Students: $11.50, Adults: $24.50, Seniors: $16.50. http://theatrefilm.ubc.ca/events/buy-tickets/ . She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen Directed by Keltie Forsyth IT’S ABOUT ADVENTURE AND SAVING THE...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 19:30
Thu, January 18, 2018 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program provides UBC graduate students with paid opportunities to tackle real-world sustainability challenges. Students interested in applying to the Program in 2018 are...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 17:15
Thu, January 18, 2018 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Come by for a night at the museum! Every month, the museum will stay open late with admission by donation between 5:00-8:30 pm, offering family-friendly activities, including Raising Big Blue showing at 5:30 pm Guided Museum Tour at...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 17:00
Thu, January 18, 2018 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Arts and Sciences Centre. WHERE: room ASC 130 Filmed on location deep in the heart of BC's Selkirk Mountains, Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux is a 20-minute documentary about the majesty, magic and endurance of one of the world's last truly intact temperate...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 14:00

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