Thu, February 4, 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...
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.
Events by Date
Past Events
Thu, February 4, 2016 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM AMS Student Nest. Free. UBC Sustainability Ambassadors invite you to the fourth annual UBC Sustainability Fair. The Annual Sustainability Fair is a celebration of student initiatives in sustainability. By highlighting sustainability groups on campus and...
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 10:00
Fri, January 29, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Reza Afshari Senior Scientist, Toxicology Environmental Health Services BC Centre for Disease Control Domoic acid (DA) induces acute gastrointestinal illness including Diarrhea and Short term memory loss (...
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Friday, January 29, 2016 - 12:30
Thu, January 28, 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, January 28, 2016 - 13:00
Wed, January 27, 2016 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING. Free. Abstract: Oil Sands mining for oil extraction in Alberta and hydraulic fracturing for gas production in Northeastern British Columbia have emerged as major industries in Canada over the past decade...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 11:00
Tue, January 26, 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, January 26, 2016 - 16:00
Mon, January 25, 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, January 25, 2016 - 13:00
Fri, January 22, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Arvind Saraswat Air Quality Section Head BC Ministry of the Environment This talk will focus on spatiotemporal land use regression models (fine particulate matter, black carbon, and ultrafine particles) for...
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Friday, January 22, 2016 - 12:30
Thu, January 21, 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, January 21, 2016 - 13:00
Tue, January 19, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM AMS Student Nest. Free. We live in a metropolitan city, but we can still grow food – and lots of it! And even on the smallest balconies, rooftops and windowsills of apartments. This workshop will focus on container gardening: - Types of containers - What and...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 16:00