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

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Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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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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Green Research Challenge for Researchers and Lab Workers

The Green Research Challenge is a great opportunity for researchers and lab users to learn more about UBC laboratory solid and hazardous waste programs, water and energy reduction and green purchasing options. Beginning May 2, 2011, teams will collect points over a two-month period by participating...

The Human Touch

By Salina Marshall If you build it, they will come. But if you build a green building—one that aims to be environmentally responsible and resource-efficient—but people aren’t comfortable living or working in it, you risk falling short of your green goals. That’s why UBC Master of Arts student Julia...

Battling the Weeds

An innovative new project is discovering environmentally friendly ways to keep the campus weed-free. And saving a lot of landscapers from breathing in toxic pesticides or getting bad backs. “This is the control,” explains fourth-year Life Science undergrad Amrit Singh Sidhu, using a wooden ruler to...

UBC students redefine economic progress

UBC Students Elin Tayyar (International Relations/Economics) and Justin Ritchie (Materials Engineering) put together a short video to redefine economic progress including scenes from campus and an interview with SCARP professor Bill Rees for the OECD's 50th Anniversary Video Challenge . The video...

Sustainability Teaching and Learning Spotlight Program

With a lamp shaped like a large light bulb on his desk, a sawdust toilet in the corner, an eclectic art collection on the walls, and shelves full of books, Dr. Kurt Grimm’s office in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC reflects the thinking space of a scholar and explorer with big...

Imagining better ways to use water and tackle waste

Is it feasible for UBC to become entirely self-sufficient for its water needs? How can it work to reduce its waste and stop sending so much discarded material to the landfill? On February 8 and 10, two groups of campus stakeholders got together to discuss enduring solutions to these wide-ranging...

Pioneering Clean Energy Project Breaks Ground

A first-of-its-kind clean energy project that will generate enough clean electricity to power 1,500 homes and reduce the University of British Columbia’s natural gas consumption by up to 12 per cent, received $11.2 million in new federal and provincial government funding at an official...

An Epic Journey

Facing four months of dismal summer job prospects in 2009, a group of UBC Engineering students put their talents to work, hoping to gain the all-important “hands-on” experience. Their idea—build their own electric vehicle. “We’re starting to realize what impact fossil-fuel vehicles have,” says...

From Problem To Product

Ten years ago, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (now known as Metro Vancouver) http://www.metrovancouver.org/Pages/default.aspx brought UBC Civil Engineering Professor Don Mavinic a costly maintenance problem—wastewater-treatment pipes clogged with a crusty sludge. At the time, he had no...

International Student Energy Summit 2011

"Whether you are an energy producer in the oil sands, an electric vehicle manufacturer contemplating your latest prototype, or someone switching off your lights at night, we all have a critical stake in the future of energy” says Rosie Pidcock, a UBC student and chair of the International Student...

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