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...

Ecological grief, Messy Hope & Healing

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

The right to food? Conservation, access, and food security

Ecological Systems
Production, Consumption & Waste

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

Thu, March 3, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Free admission for all. Tea with Beau Thursdays in January, February and March, 2016, 1-2 pm Join UBC Artist in Residence and Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief Beau Dick, community members, elders and activists on select...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 13:00
Fri, February 26, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Shannon Bard, Ph.D., R.P. Bio.
 Keystone Environmental, Department Head, Risk Assessment & Biological Services Linking human health to marine environmental health: Coastal Scene Investigation (CSI):...
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Friday, February 26, 2016 - 12:30
Thu, February 25, 2016 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY. Free admission for all. Tea with Beau Thursdays in January, February and March, 2016, 1-2 pm Join UBC Artist in Residence and Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief Beau Dick, community members, elders and activists on select...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 13:00
Tue, February 23, 2016 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Better writing starts with more writing, but it can be difficult to make the time – or get the accountability and feedback/support to start and keep a writing habit. This facilitated writing group was designed to address this...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 16:00
Mon, February 22, 2016 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Better writing starts with more writing, but it can be difficult to make the time – or get the accountability and feedback/support to start and keep a writing habit. This facilitated writing group was designed to address this...
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Monday, February 22, 2016 - 13:00
Mon, February 22, 2016 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Free. Abstract: During early plant evolution, land plants developed water-conducting systems to survive drought conditions and thus to colonize land. Several kinds of cells for water-conducting systems are known in land plants,...
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Monday, February 22, 2016 - 12:00
Tue, February 16, 2016 12:00 AM - Sun, March 6, 2016, 12:00 AM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Drop by the Liu Institute for Global Issues Lobby Gallery to view an exhibition of portraits of Northern Uganda residents. Running until March 7, 2016. After two decades of war and mass internal...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 00:00
Fri, February 12, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Hugh Davies Associate Professor SPPH Wind turbines are a fast growing source of electricity around the world. In some areas however, they have been associated with complaints of ill health, and noise from...
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Friday, February 12, 2016 - 12:30
Thu, February 11, 2016 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM AMS Student Nest. $5. UBC Reads Sustainability Presents Raj Patel How will the world eat in the future? February 11th 2015, 12PM-2PM. AMS Student Nest Great Hall. Tickets - $5 With a global population of nine billion by 2050, and climate change already...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 12:00
Tue, February 9, 2016 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Better writing starts with more writing, but it can be difficult to make the time – or get the accountability and feedback/support to start and keep a writing habit. This facilitated writing group was designed to address this...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 16:00

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