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Climate Teaching Connector adds climate to more undergrad courses

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Why climate change education needs more empathy

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Lhoosk’uz Dené village taps into clean water after a 20-year wait

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Sarah Kamal and George Benson: The fires were just the beginning, welcome to the age of climate displacement

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Student Directed Seminar on UBC's Sustainability Performance

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Edition 1: Sustainability Book Club

Welcome to the first-ever edition of our eclectic and erratic book club reading list. Below are a few intriguing new titles that have recently caught our eyes by assorted UBC faculty.

Climate Teaching Connector adds climate to more undergrad courses

The Climate Teaching Connector – a collaboration between the UBC Sustainability Initiative and the Climate Hub – is an innovative new program to integrate climate-related content into undergraduate classes by connecting UBC course instructors with climate change and climate justice experts from the...

Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires

Mary Stockdale is an adjunct professor in the Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia. This article was originally published by The Guardian on August 24th, 2021. Small fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation...

Apply to attend COP26 in Glasgow

The UBC Sustainability Initiative is pleased to announce details of a competition for COP26 passes open to all current UBC students, faculty, post-docs, and staff. UBC has received four badges for each week of the event (October 31-November 6, and November 7-12). Applications are open now and will...

Sarah Kamal and George Benson: The fires were just the beginning, welcome to the age of climate displacement

This article was originally published by the Vancouver Sun on August 9th, 2021. The Lytton wildfire has revealed serious gaps in Canada’s climate emergency response. Policy-makers must get out of a mindset of seeing catastrophic wildfires as “once in a hundred year events.” Their increased...

Why climate change education needs more empathy

Derek Gladwin is an Assistant Professor in Language & Literacy Education, a UBC Sustainability Initiative Sustainability Fellow (2018-2021), and Senior Editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental & Sustainability Education. This story originally featured on July 28, 2021, in the Oxford...

Student Directed Seminar on UBC's Sustainability Performance

This spring, students from a student-directed seminar on sustainability (POLI 328Y) produced robust assessments on three areas of UBC’s actions in sustainability. These reports were part of the seminar’s Living Lab projects that analyze and evaluate UBC’s performance in order to advance UBC’s...

Lhoosk’uz Dené village taps into clean water after a 20-year wait

A remote Lhoosk’uz Dené community is holding a celebration to mark a joyful milestone. After decades of relying on bottled water, the village of about 50 people, located 200 kilometres west of Quesnel on Kluskus Lake, now has a steady supply of clean drinking water straight out of the tap, thanks...

Hold that flight: medical student’s residency interviews equal 1/3 of a Canadian’s annual carbon budget

Like thousands of other medical students in Canada, Kevin Liang had no idea he would be asked to take more than 10 flights during his last year for in-person residency interviews. “After learning this, I knew I had to quantify the climate impact from thousands of students travelling for CaRMS (the...

A Pathway Together: Imagining unified approaches to challenging climate change

As part of the 2020-21 UBC Sustainability Scholars cohort, PhD student Elizabeth Jackson engaged with kQwa’ste’not (Charlene George), the cultural voice of Sierra Club BC (SCBC) and a member of the t’Souk Nation, to create A Pathway Together , a toolkit consisting of an electronic guide and print...

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