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...

xChange 2024: Engineering A Greener Tomorrow

Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

Covering Climate on the Frontlines

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

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

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
Thu, September 22, 2016 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. Free. Canada celebrates Science Literacy Week from September 19-25, 2016. Join UBC Library for a Science Expo on September 22 from 12 pm - 3 pm. No registration is required. Enjoy an afternoon of science with the Open Science Network...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 12:00
Thu, September 22, 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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Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 10:00
Wed, September 21, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Ocean acidification has been called global warming's evil twin. Like warming, acidification is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions and has the potential to reshuffle the ecological deck in the ocean. Unlike...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - 16:00
Wed, September 21, 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, September 21, 2016 - 10:00
Tue, September 20, 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, September 20, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, September 19, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM See description. $10 (free for 2015 and 2016 grads) - includes reception. UBC Dialogues: Can Developing Nations Lead the Movement Towards Climate Solutions? At the December 2015 Paris climate conference (COP21), 195 countries agreed to reduce their carbon...
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Monday, September 19, 2016 - 18:30
Sun, September 18, 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 18, 2016 - 12:00

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