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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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Fisher Scientific Fund

If you are looking for financial support to reduce the environmental impact of your research activities or laboratory, then the Fisher Scientific Fund is for you. Your innovative plan could make you and your department the lucky recipient of up to $4,000. Risk Management Services, Campus...

Biology Building Renovation Wins Sustainability Award

The recent renovation to the Biological Sciences Complex at UBC has been honoured with a Canadian Green Building Award presented through Sustainable Architecture & Building magazine . The complex was one of only seven projects nationwide that received awards from a total of fifty-six...

New facility sets high goals for achieving low GHGs

By Lynn Warburton From the outside it looks like an unassuming sleek shed set amongst the woods of UBC’s Vancouver campus. But on the inside is a powerhouse designed to reduce UBC’s greenhouse gas emissions while providing heat and electricity to the campus and learning opportunities to faculty and...

Learn about the Greenest City Scholars Program

Come to the 2012 Program Completion Workshop to hear firsthand from the program participants and city representatives. The Greenest City Scholars summer internship program sponsors 10 UBC graduate students to work on a sustainability project with the City of Vancouver. UBC graduate students are...

UBC’s sustainability transition – lessons for communities

Contributor: Dr. Sarah Burch Sustainability plans and talk of climate change responses have been around for decades – but wrapping our heads around what this means on the ground is an ongoing challenge. Will a sustainable community look largely the same as the communities in which we live and work...

Integrating sustainability

“The Sustainability Education Resource Centre (SERC) has opened my eyes to the diversity of sustainability opportunities on campus, like student groups and the incredible course variety,” says Lauren Wright, an honours student in Romance Studies at UBC. At the SERC, students and faculty can explore...

Adding a touch of green to the blue and gold

By Heather Amos UBC Athletics & Recreation asked some of the university’s top sustainability researchers to measure the overall environmental footprint of its facilities and programs, and devise a tool to track progress. Led by PhD student Matt Dolf of UBC’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability...

Award-winning ideas for affordable housing

Ian Ross McDonald, adjunct faculty at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), received an award of excellence for his affordable housing idea in the recent City of Vancouver re:THINK HOUSING competition. McDonald proposed Bridge Housing which calls for new density policies...

Adaptation ecologies

A native of Melbourne, Australia, Sophie Webber is a doctoral student in UBC’s Department of Geography . Sophie is the recipient of a Killan Doctoral Scholarship and shares her research on climate change adaptation and industry. What is the aim of your research? My research aims to determine how...

Clean Energy Research Centre

Energy remains one of the biggest challenges for the 21st century. It lies at the nexus of water, health, food, and other issues. Some of the key challenges include resource sustainability, particularly for oil and gas, environmental damage and climate change, reduced affluence and urgency. To...

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