Tue, December 8, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo's classification capabilities will help you to add demographic data to your nodes and bibliographic data to your sources. Datasets allow you to import and work with tabular material from spreadsheets, database tables,...
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
Sat, December 5, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM UBC FARM. $42 ($34 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. In this hands-on class, you will learn a simplified method to make your own chocolate bar without refined sugar or milk, but full of antioxidants and minerals. A few demos will...
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Saturday, December 5, 2015 - 13:00
Fri, December 4, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM H. R. MACMILLAN BUILDING. The UBC Soil, Water & Sustainability Group, in partnership with the Pacific Regional Society of Soil Science (PRSSS), welcome you to a special event featuring two lectures with Dr. Joann Whalen at UBC's Vancouver campus on...
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Friday, December 4, 2015 - 15:00
Thu, December 3, 2015 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY (MOA). Free, please register at http://artisanalmining.eventbrite.ca . Abstract: Gold is the most valued of metals. Throughout history it has played a key role in global civilizations as a symbol of wealth with unique cultural,...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 19:00
Wed, December 2, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 15:00
Tue, December 1, 2015 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, December 1, 2015 - 16:00
Tue, December 1, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM THE FRED KAISER BUILDING. Free. Abstract: The UN has established a Green Fund for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change through pooling resources from the member countries, since the large emitters of GHGs in the developing world like India would...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 11:00
Tue, December 1, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo is computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. In this introductory workshop, you'll learn about the benefits of working with NVivo, how to set it up, the types of sources you can use and how to import them...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, November 30, 2015 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, November 30, 2015 - 13:00
Fri, November 27, 2015 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. Dr Hugh Possingham, Australian Laureate Fellow and professor of mathematics and professor of ecology at the University of Queensland is one of the UBC Honorary Degree Recipients during this Fall Convocation. Abstract: Conservation...
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Friday, November 27, 2015 - 16:30