Tue, September 27, 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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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
Production, Consumption & Waste
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...
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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Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, September 26, 2016 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. What do beavers, bio fuels, and thermal imaging have in common? These are just a few of the urban sustainability topics tackled by UBC Sustainability Scholars over the summer of 2016. Join us...
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Monday, September 26, 2016 - 13:00
Sun, September 25, 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, September 25, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, September 24, 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, September 24, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, September 24, 2016 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Fipke Centre. Free . UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Games is a university-wide student extracurricular event taking place on September 24, 2016. It is an opportunity for students from diverse fields of study to participate in Problem-Based Learning (PBL)...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016 - 08:45
Sat, September 24, 2016 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Fipke Centre. Free. UBC Okanagan Interdisciplinary Games is a university-wide student extracurricular event taking place on September 24, 2016. It is an opportunity for students from diverse fields of study to participate in Problem-Based Learning (PBL)...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016 - 00:00
Fri, September 23, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Maria Byrne, Professor, University of Sydney Maria Byrne is Professor of Marine and Developmental Biology at the University of Sydney. For 12 years she was the director of One Tree Island Research...
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Friday, September 23, 2016 - 11:00
Fri, September 23, 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, September 23, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, September 22, 2016 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM UBC FARM. $38 ($30 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. If you've ever wanted to take your routine classroom learning out of doors, this workshop will give you practical strategies for integrating cross-curricular learning in your...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 18:00
Thu, September 22, 2016 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. By Donation. Come by for a night at the museum! Every month, the museum will stay open late with admission by donation between 5:00-8:30 pm, offering family-friendly activities, including - Raising Big Blue showing at 5:30 pm -...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 17:00