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New Sustainable Cities Certificate from UBC SCARP

How can we balance ecological preservation with social equity in our cities? A new proposed undergraduate certificate in urban sustainability aims to tackle that question head-on. Dr. James Connolly, Assistant Professor at UBC School of Community...
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How UBC's Sustainability Hub is helping reduce embodied carbon in the construction industry

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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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October 26, 2016

Foundations look to increase impact with responsible investing

With low interest rates and smaller funds for grants, foundations are looking for another way to increase their impact. Business ethics expert Christie Stephenson has noted in the last five years a significant increase in foundations redirecting their endowments from traditional investments to...
October 26, 2016

Living in Canada's greenest city costs a lot of green: where affordability and sustainability meet

Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world. But it's also one of the least affordable cities in the world, with the price of an average detached home sitting at about $1.5 million . And this raises an important question: how sustainable can a city be if large sectors of the population can...
October 26, 2016

Unintended consequences: UN signatories meet to ban gas that saved ozone layer

The Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-damaging gases from aerosols, hair spray and air conditioners was one of the modern environmental movement’s great victories. Ratified by every country in the United Nations, the 1987 protocol outlawed ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and was hailed...
October 21, 2016

Q&A: Beautify My Bike Cage

Earlier this year, Campus and Community Planning launched Beautify My Bike Cage , a mural contest designed to animate an underutilized space and celebrate cycling culture on campus. There are several potential locations for this contest series, with the first site being the Bike cage off of Aquatic...
October 17, 2016

Celebrate Campus Sustainability Month

October 12, 2016

UBC Reads Sustainability presents Simran Sethi

October 12, 2016

What's all the rage in the fight against climate change?

Last week, Canada's House of Commons voted to ratify the Paris climate change agreement, alongside the European Union and several other countries. The agreement will enter into force on Nov. 4. But amid all the abstract talk about international agreements, carbon pricing and emissions targets,...
October 12, 2016

Carbon taxes: a year in review

A national carbon tax can take a big bite out of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, but it can’t do it alone. That’s one of the messages carbon tax experts are relaying after the Trudeau government announced its sweeping plan to put a price on carbon earlier this month. The Liberals aim to bring in...
October 12, 2016

Paris Climate Agreement to be in force before November COP 22

This month saw the first concrete step toward enshrining the Paris Climate Agreement since the 191 countries approved the accords last December. On October 4, the European Union collectively opted to ratify the climate deal, setting in motion a mechanism for the Agreement to go into force within 30...
October 5, 2016

Q&A: Meaning and Implications of Canada's New Carbon Tax

Canada's federal government just released a new plan to impose a pan-Canadian price on carbon across all provinces by 2018. "Already 80 percent of Canadians live in a province where there is pollution pricing. We want to continue this trend and cover the final 20 per cent," states Catherine McKenna...

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