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.

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

Climate+Water Research Symposium

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources

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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, October 4, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. Is the new BC Climate Leadership Plan plan leading or lagging? To many, the plan is a long awaited update to BC’s 2008 climate strategies, outlining 21 key actions in all major sources of...
When:
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 12:00
Tue, October 4, 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...
When:
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 10:00
Mon, October 3, 2016 12:00 AM - October 31, 2016, 12:00 AM Earth Sciences Building. Join the Mushroom Hunt! Throughout October, capture the most FUN(gi) Facts and share them on Instagram with the tag #beatymushroomhunt. Whoever shares the most Facts by 5:00 pm on October 31st will win a Four...
When:
Monday, October 3, 2016 - 00:00
Sun, October 2, 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...
When:
Sunday, October 2, 2016 - 12:00
Sat, October 1, 2016 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM UBC FARM. $40 ($32 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. This workshop will provide you with the knowledge needed to understand the basic principles behind seed saving. It will also allow you to learn all the necessaries to begin seed...
When:
Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 14:00
Sat, October 1, 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...
When:
Saturday, October 1, 2016 - 12:00
Fri, September 30, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Prof. Evgeny Pakhomov, Professor, IOF & Department of EOAS Location: AERL 120 Abstract : The accepted life cycle of the pelagic tunicate Salpa thompsoni is largely based upon samples collected...
When:
Friday, September 30, 2016 - 11:00
Fri, September 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...
When:
Friday, September 30, 2016 - 10:00
Thu, September 29, 2016 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM University Centre. Free . The BC Institute of Agrology and the BRAES Institute Present: What Does a Career in Agrology Look Like? FREE burger lunch to the first 30 students to register and attend an Information session on careers in Agrology! Please...
When:
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 12:00
Thu, September 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...
When:
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 10:00

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