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Cooling the Heart of the City

Climate Equity Action and Resilience (CLEAR) was created by the UBC Sustainability Hub and the UBC Learning Exchange, working with four DTES community organizations. The project will help the university to understand how to share its research while...
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2023 Climate and Wellbeing Education Grants Unveiled!

Climate Change & Energy
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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

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

Ecological Systems
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
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Encouraging Good Lab Habits

“We use it for chemicals, anything that lets off hazardous fumes, like formaldehyde or other toxic substances.” Megan Filiatrault, Lab Manager at the Hieter Lab in the Michael Smith Laboratories, is standing in front of a fume hood, a rectangular cupboard shaped like a raised fireplace with a...

Turning Rainfall into a Resource

Every year, UBC’s Vancouver campus consumes more than 4.3 billion litres of water, almost all of which is piped in from off campus; at the same time, about 5 billion litres fall on the campus as rainwater. Until recently, most of this precipitation poured into stormwater drains and was discharged...

Glowing blue and gold in the evening sky

Reaching 121 feet above UBC’s central plaza, the Ladner Clock Tower has been a welcome way-finding and time-keeping tool for generations of students. Now, thanks to a discreet award-winning restoration, today’s students are likely to see this iconic tower in a different light—a blue and gold light...

It’s a bird…It’s a plane…It’s a bike!

By Salina Marshall Among cyclists at the University of British Columbia, Brannen Bell attracts attention for his Superman-like ability to zip from building to building. While the bicycle he rides looks like a regular bike, it’s actually an electric version with a battery built into the frame. The...

CSI: Cedar Science Investigators

By Heather Amos To unlock the secrets of B.C.’s past, Lori Daniels and her lab look deep inside some of the province’s longest living inhabitants – old growth trees. “We call ourselves CSI detectives … the Cedar Science Investigators,” said Daniels, a professor in the Faculty of Forestry who...

Road to better species conservation

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) turned 10 last year. It’s a young piece of legislation, but the federal government has already served notice it is considering an overhaul of the act to make it more efficient. But lack of implementation, not the legislation itself, is to...

Walking and Rolling to School!

For a week in May, a new program got kids (and parents) to leave the car at home and walk, bike or rollerblade to school. Walk 'n Roll to School promotes healthy, safe, sustainable transportation—and encourages students to start their day socializing and getting a little exercise, too. It takes...

Quantifying the economic impact of purchasing

By Joanna Buczkowska Do you ever consider how your purchasing decisions impact your local community? For instance when you buy paper and pens for your office do you consider the impact those dollars have locally? The local purchasing movement started in the food and retail industries and aims to...

Electrifying campus drivers

By Salina Marshall Which came first—the widespread use of electric cars or easy access to charging stations? Like the chicken and egg question, that’s yet to be answered. But the University of British Columbia is on its way to finding out with the debut of 18 new charging stations on campus. These...

UBC Reads Sustainability

Justin Ritchie, the AMS Sustainability Coordinator, compares the UBC Reads Sustainability project to a book club—with one important difference. “There’s not that kind of guilt trip there for not reading the book,” he says, laughing. UBC Reads Sustainability is an initiative that’s part book club,...

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