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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Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
Join us at the xʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden for an open conversation circle about climate justice and the essential role of Indigenous rights and relations with the land in addressing climate change.
Climate Justice is a business responsibility
Climate Change & Energy
Production, Consumption & Waste
Solutions Summit: Working Towards Climate Solutions
Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
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 Month Canada
SDG Month 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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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
Thu, October 13, 2016 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Free. Environmental defenders are murdered every month in Latin America. What can you do to help? Please join us in a roundtable discussion in solidarity with Angélica Choc, Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya activist, whose home in El...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 15:00
Thu, October 13, 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, October 13, 2016 - 10:00
Wed, October 12, 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, October 12, 2016 - 10:00
Wed, October 12, 2016 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PONDEROSA CENTRE. Ticketed more details to come. Save the date! On January 26th 2017, the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems Symposium will celebrate the involvement of UBC students with food sustainability research, education, and community engagement. This...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 09:00