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Human Well-being & Social Systems

Mind In Motion: improving community mental health through movement

With over half of Canadian post-secondary students experiencing depressive symptoms, developing accessible mental health resources is more vital than ever. Can exercise, cost-effective and holistic, be the answer?
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Job alert: Work Learn positions Summer 2025

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Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

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The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.
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November 25, 2020

UBC 2030 competition attracts bold new student ideas to tackle climate change and protect nature

Before COVID-19, momentum was building for 2020 to stand tall as a bold year of climate action with cities across the world declaring a climate emergency and pledging to urgently reduce emissions. And despite the challenges of the pandemic, there is reason for continued hope, among them the ideas...
November 10, 2020

Not All Green Space is Created Equal – or Equally Accessible to All

10 November 2020 This article by Jo Fitzgibbons was originally published by TheCityFix on Nov 10, 2020. COVID-19 has brought many lessons for urban planners, illuminating existing inequalities and flaws as well as introducing new challenges. One such lesson, as people seek open space and...
September 21, 2020

Chill Out and Chill Up

At UBC, researchers turn up their freezers to bring their energy use down. By taking part in the Chill Up Challenge, laboratories across the university have improved freezer performance and longevity and saved greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs. In 2017, Michael Smith Laboratories was the...
August 25, 2020

From gloves to lawn furniture: UBC nitrile glove recycling pilot

A pilot program for recycling nitrile gloves at the Centre for Comparative Medicine (CCM) has helped build the case for potentially diverting seven million gloves (28 tonnes) from the landfill each year if scaled up across campus. The pilot of Kimberly-Clark Professional’s RightCycle Program was...
August 12, 2020

Championing sustainability for twenty years

The Sustainability Coordinator Program has grown over the years to become what is now a network of 120 coordinators working in offices, academic departments, operational units, and laboratories across the UBC Vancouver campus. The program provides these volunteers with opportunities and resources...
June 18, 2020

UBC Sustainability Scholar lays groundwork for an anti-Black racism strategy in Vancouver

Vancouver aspires to be a safe city in which residents feel secure. It’s one of the goals of the Healthy City Strategy approved by city council in 2014. To that end, the city engaged Oludolapo Makinde, a graduate student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, as a Healthy City Sustainability Scholar...
June 9, 2020

Search for new Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative

Applications are invited from tenured faculty for the position of Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI). The deadline for applications is June 22, 2020. This is a part-time (50%) position with a reporting line to the Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver, for an...
April 22, 2020

UBC ranks seventh globally in impact: Times Higher Education

Apr 22, 2020 | For more information, contact Lou Corpuz-Bosshart UBC continues to excel in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, placing first in Canada and seventh globally out of more than 850 participating institutions from 89 countries across six continents. The rankings, inaugurated in...
March 9, 2020

UBC Climate Emergency Engagement

February 28, 2020

Let's Choose to Reuse week switches 1,200 paper cups to reusables

In January this year, all food outlets across campus began charging an 25¢ for each hot drink sold in a single-use cup. To support the community with this change, UBC Sustainability volunteers gave away 1,200 reusable mugs during a one week campaign.

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