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

Tue, October 18, 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, October 18, 2016 - 10:00
Sun, October 16, 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, October 16, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, October 15, 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, October 15, 2016 - 12:00
Fri, October 14, 2016 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM See description. FREE. Discover a different perspective on innovation with intellectual omnivore Vaclav Smil. A prolific author, scientist, and professor, in 2010 Foreign Policy magazine named him to its list of FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. Smil is a...
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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 18:00
Fri, October 14, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Free but registration required. Scholar-practitioner of Hawaiian and Indigenous epistemology, Dr. Manulani Aluli-Meyer joins the UBC Future of Food Speaker Series to share with us her Indigenous...
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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 12:00
Fri, October 14, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Arts Building. Free . Biology Seminar Series presents: Dr. James Stegan, Microbiology Scientist Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Title: Coupling Among Microbial Ecology, Hydrology, and Biogeochemistry in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone...
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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 12:00
Fri, October 14, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: André Frainer, Post-doctoral researcher, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø Background: Recent studies indicate that the composition of fish communities is changing in the...
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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 11:00
Fri, October 14, 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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Friday, October 14, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, October 13, 2016 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM UBC FARM. $53 ($46 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. This hands-on workshop is suitable for participants with little or no canning experience. Through a presentation, hands-on jam-making session, and demonstration of pickle-...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 18:00
Thu, October 13, 2016 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Join us for the UBC launch of 100 Days by PhD Candidate and Liu Scholar Juliane Okot Bitek. 100 Days (U of Alberta Press 2016) is a collection of poetry that negotiates ways to remember the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. Venue:...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 17:30

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