Wed, November 30, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Free. Joe Dahmen will present recent architectural installations exploring softness. The move toward soft, regenerative systems has important implications for the way we design architectural materials and...
Interested in learning more about sustainability? Our events listing and featured events provides plenty of opportunities to get involved in sustainability, both on-and-off campus. If you are looking to highlight your sustainability event on campus, please visit UBC Events and tag your submission "sustainability" related.
Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Are you a UBC faculty or staff member interested in sustainability-related teaching and research? Whether you're new to UBC or looking to build deeper connections, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Open House is an...
Ecological grief, Messy Hope & Healing
Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
The right to food? Conservation, access, and food security
Ecological Systems
Production, Consumption & Waste
Insights from Organizing an Indigenous-Led Event: UBC’s Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day
Climate Emergency Week
Climate Emergency week at UBC seeks to convene and energize communities of climate action at UBC. Join our events, workshops and activities, and take collective action for justice, people, and our planet.
UBC Reads Sustainability
Part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. UBC Reads Sustainability is a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
SDG Week Canada
SDG Week Canada is a national collaboration featuring workshops, panels, and other interactive programming to increase awareness of and engagement with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on university and college campuses.
Climate Justice Series
In response to the focus on climate justice as part of UBC’s Declaration of a Climate Emergency and recommendations from its Climate Emergency Task Force (CETF) Report the UBC Sustainability Initiative launched the Climate Justice Series, featuring sessions that examine climate justice from various perspectives, locally and globally.
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Past Events
Wed, November 30, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM See description. FREE!!. We all know that engaging young people is important and that having just one trusted adult in their lives can make a world of difference. Unfortunately many young people have had difficult experiences when they have tried to share...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 13:00
Wed, November 30, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016 - 10:00
Tue, November 29, 2016 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, November 28, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. $10 (free for 2015 and 2016 grads) - includes reception. Around the world, popular app- and web-based services such as Uber and AirBnB have disrupted traditional business models and sparked explosive growth in the sharing economy. Consumers...
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Monday, November 28, 2016 - 18:30
Sun, November 27, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 2016 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am-5pm; Saturday-Sunday, noon-5pm; Closed Mondays and Holidays The Last Waves is a collaborative installation in which the viewer is immersed in a sequence of hallucinatory sets that...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, November 26, 2016 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM UBC FARM. We will be selling our produce on the occasional Saturday once a month through the winter season! In addition to farm-fresh veggies, fruits, herbs, flowers and free-range eggs from the UBC Farm. Since 2001, the on-site Saturday Farm Market has...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 09:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Join us for this exciting forum featuring some of UBC’s leading experts from political science, business, and economics to discuss the new era of Trump. 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Friday, November 25th, 2016 Liu Institute for...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 15:00
Fri, November 25, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Juan Jose Alava, MITAC postdoctoral fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Vancouver Aquarium Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change and chemical pollution are amongst the major stressors...
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Friday, November 25, 2016 - 11:00