Wed, September 28, 2016 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM UBC FARM. $40 ($32 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. Come out and discover urban foraging and the art of medicine making through an interactive workshop identifying wild, edible and medicinal plants growing beneath your feet...
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
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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Past Events
When:
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 18:00
Wed, September 28, 2016 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Celebrate food sustainability and ethical business practices. Experience live chef demo using UBC Farm's Heritage Orchard ingredients. Meet the people behind the food, get free samples, recipes and information. Visit UBC Farm...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - 11:30
Wed, September 28, 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 28, 2016 - 10:00
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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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...
When:
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...
When:
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)...
When:
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