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Reflecting on Sustainability through Photography

In January 2024 the UBC community was invited to engage with sustainability themes through photography. Learn more about the project and enjoy some of the resulting works.
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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
Policy, Economics & Governance
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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PODCAST: F IS FOR FACULTY

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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Wellbeing, One Tree at a Time

Q. Can you briefly describe your research as it relates to Earth Day and this year’s theme of Trees for the Earth. My research looks at how to balance increasing residential density with a desire for more urban forest cover. Municipalities across our region (and across the world) are facing...

Challenging the Status Quo

Winning the Gold Prize and taking the top spot, Sons of Sustainability won over the judges with Ignite the Rider Inside, a project aimed at increasing engagement in Bike to Work Week by targeting faculty members as agents of change. Q. You recently won the Sustainability Challenge. How did you get...

Fostering a Climate of Change

As a Senior Instructor in the Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Science, with a research background reconstructing past climate change, Tara connects Environmental Science students with the broader community through community service learning projects. Q. What is the current state of the...

New strategies for public engagement needed to address sea level rise

A recent report by University of British Columbia Master of Arts (Planning) candidate, Tina Barisky, finds that addressing the rising sea levels caused by climate change requires a different approach from some of the more usual planning issues. Vancouver was named the world’s 11 th coastal city...

UBC research shows there’s gold in them thar’ teardowns

Stately heritage homes are a dying breed in B.C., fast becoming victims of Vancouver’s changing housing landscape. Now, that trend is gaining some international profile. Earlier this month, a photographer captured a shot that’s becoming one of the defining images of B.C.’s topsy-turvy real estate...

Growing campus furniture, from mushrooms

Staying behind the wheel of ridesharing in Vancouver

“A city with Uber will be a more prosperous city.” So spoke Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on his company’s fifth anniversary last June. At the time, the ride-sharing service had 26,000 drivers in New York, 15,000 in London and 22,000 in San Francisco. In Vancouver, however, there are none. Uber...

Sustainability Challenge Showcase

Mugshare seeks to reduce the ~1.5 million disposable cups used on UBC campus each year

This article by Yael Boyd originally appeared in The Ubyssey on 15 March 2016. According to the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program , at least 1.5 million disposable coffee cups are generated on campus each year. In 2015, UBC’s largest and most active student sustainability organization, Common Energy...

UBC Students Accelerate Vancouver’s Climate Action Potential

In a post-Paris Climate Conference (COP21) world, the global community is increasingly looking to cities for their continued leadership in addressing climate action. The increased focus on cities is not surprising. Major contributors to climate change, cities are responsible for consumption of 78...

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