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Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

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
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
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
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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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Examples. Statistics. Real, not just boast-y stuff

One day a year is not enough for UBC; it takes 365 days a year to celebrate the earth. And so, as the world marks Earth Day on April 22, we want to share some of the real ways UBC works for sustainability – through our commitments, students, researchers and innovations on campus. Taking the bus (...

Against All Odds

By Brian Lin Monica Pearson is on an egg hunt – one that could save the most endangered amphibians in Canada.The Oregon spotted frog – whose Latin name means “precious frogs” – has bright golden eyes and ranges in color from “Kermit green” to dark brown. They are shy, hide in tunnels and spend much...

Growing Rural Medicine

By Daniel Presnell Adrienne Montgomery was working on the Stats Canada Census of Agriculture when she noticed something troubling: the biggest issue affecting rural people was poor access to health care. Montgomery, who holds a UBC agriculture degree, wondered what more she could do to help. “I...

The cerebral approach of the Plant Intelligence Project

Creative writing students at UBC’s Okanagan campus link literature, art and science in a novel, collaborative study. Call it sowing the seeds of a new idea. Budding writers in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus are blending plant metaphors with plant science to discover...

English and the global citizen: A win-win combination

“Although they came from Korea, Belgium, China, Brazil, and Thailand, they researched and debated the expansion so passionately one would have thought the pipeline was in their backyards” says Victoria Brown, English Language Institute (ELI) Instructor. “For a unit on climate change, my class...

One day, one-stop shop for sustainability at UBC

Since 2011, AMS Sustainability Projects Fund has approved over $98,000 for student projects that are sustainability-focused. The fund receives $2.25 from every student at UBC each year. On April 4th, AMS Sustainability will be heading to the first annual UBC Sustainability Fair to chat with...

UBC's partner Perkins+Will unrivalled at the Wood WORKS! Awards

Perkins+Will, together with the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Boards of Parks and Recreation, celebrates the win of three Wood WORKS! BC awards at the 9th annual Wood Design Awards Gala. The Awards Gala honours new buildings that push the boundaries of excellence and innovation...

Protecting Land, Protecting People

By Heather Amos From Guyana to Vancouver, Janette Bulkan has built a career on protecting indigenous land rights and access to resources. Her involvement with social issues in forestry began after she noticed more and more chainsaws in indigenous communities in her homeland of Guyana. The men from...

People Need Trees. Cities Need Forests.

By Heather Amos Sara Barron wins the world’s largest forestry scholarship. From promoting recovery in hospitals to reducing stress, there is growing evidence that nature plays an important role in our wellbeing. But according to Sara Barron, suburban communities are going to need more than a few...

Students Reap Benefits From Volunteering

By Terry Wintonyk A volunteer dentistry mission to India has taught four UBC students to see the whole patient—including his or her social and economic context, cultural beliefs and values—not just the ailing tooth. In December, fourth-year dentistry students Akashdeep Villing, Amandeep Hans,...

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