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Human Well-being & Social Systems

Mind In Motion: improving community mental health through movement

With over half of Canadian post-secondary students experiencing depressive symptoms, developing accessible mental health resources is more vital than ever. Can exercise, cost-effective and holistic, be the answer?
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Job alert: Work Learn positions Summer 2025

Built Environment & Mobility
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Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
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Sustainability Scholar maps ecosystems to inform adaptation strategies to preserve Maplewood Flats

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January 7, 2011

Composting at UBC Robson Square

To meet one of the goals in UBC’s Strategic Plan , the Robson Square Sustainability Committee wanted to begin composting food waste. They first talked to an outside waste management company, but the costs were prohibitive. “Because UBC Waste Management doesn’t operate downtown, implementing...
January 6, 2011

Small Tweaks, Big Results

Regular maintenance is important for more than just vehicles—buildings need it too, to perform at their best. The Buchanan Tower and Neville Scarfe buildings at UBC are currently being serviced through a Continuous Optimization energy-savings pilot project, a three-phase, behind-the-scenes exercise...
November 26, 2010

Do It in the Dark: Part 1

UBC students staged an extraordinary exercise in resource conservation in November. Do It in the Dark, the university’s first ever energy-saving contest, grew out of a groundbreaking collaboration between staff and students — but it was the students who made it an overwhelming success. For three...
November 26, 2010

Do It in the Dark: Part 2

Residents of Totem Park pulled out all the stops — not to mention a lot of plugs — to compete in UBC’s first ever energy-saving contest in November. Their heroic efforts earned UBC a second-place finish in a competition that pitted it against 39 American universities and colleges. Do It in the Dark...
November 23, 2010

Broad thinking on big issues

When you’re asked to help tackle a formidable challenge – like, say, addressing climate change on a city-wide scale -- it helps to have a varied skills set and the vision to look beyond your academic discipline to find solutions. Just ask Malcolm Shield, a mechanical engineer and PhD candidate at...
November 23, 2010

UBC Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Project

Sometimes big ideas with tremendous impact start with small conversations. Such is the case with UBC’s Bioenergy Research and Demonstration project. “The origin of the project was a conversation I had with Jonathan Rhone, President and CEO of Nexterra, an excellent local company that has developed...
November 22, 2010

Constructing the greenest building in North America

It is a claim that makes Dr. John Robinson, the Executive Director of the UBC Sustainability Initiative, cringe just a little. “’Green’ is too narrow a term.” says Robinson, the man behind the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, presently under construction on the University of...
November 18, 2010

Request for Interest: Smart Energy System Partnership

UBC's campuses are exceptional places to explore, test, and demonstrate sustainability solutions. With many initiatives already in place--and the support to do more coming from all levels at the university--our campuses are becoming “living laboratories,” places where students, faculty, staff and...
October 26, 2010

UBC Prof wins Power Smart Excellence Award

BC Hydro has named the University of British Columbia’s Professor John Robinson as this year’s recipient of the Larry Bell award for his inspirational work in imagining and promoting new sustainability solutions. The Larry Bell award, named after a former chair of BC Hydro, recognizes an...
October 15, 2010

UBC cultivates vision for farm

"No one thing here does just one thing." These are words Mark Bomford says often about UBC Farm. The more the director of UBC’s Centre for Sustainable Food Systems talks about its cultivated fields, teaching gardens, forest stands, hedgerows and orchard plantings, the more you realize: he’s not...

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