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

Wed, September 30, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 15:00
Fri, September 25, 2015 3:30 PM - 8:00 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. Join UBC Forestry in celebrating National Forest Week and the start of UBC Centennial Year on Friday afternoon, September 25. Feel the heat of a real smokejumper attack on campus grounds and enjoy a reception and official launch...
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Friday, September 25, 2015 - 15:30
Fri, September 25, 2015 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM UBC Botanical Garden. $70 ($35 for students). On Friday Sept 25 the Soil Science group, MLWS and PRSSS are co-hosting a Soil Carbon Symposium as part of the 2015 International Year of Soils. The symposium will be held at the UBC Botanical Garden from 9:00...
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Friday, September 25, 2015 - 09:00
Thu, September 24, 2015 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE. Speaker : John Hodges, Emeritus Professor, Land & Food Systems, UBC Date/Time: 3pm Thursday, September 24th. Location: St. John’s College, Lecture Hall (2111 Lower Mall) Description Myth: The world is short of resources to feed...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 15:00
Thu, September 24, 2015 2:00 PM - 4:00 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...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 14:00
Wed, September 23, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 15:00
Wed, September 23, 2015 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. Free. This session is appropriate for students conducting literature reviews in any discipline. Topics include ... what is a literature review? ... finding the right databases ... search strategies for databases ... finding scholarly...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 10:00
Wed, September 23, 2015 12:00 AM - Thu, September 24, 2015, 12:00 AM FIRST NATIONS LONGHOUSE. People of the Land: Dialogue series with the Mapuche Territorial Alliance will bring together two Indigenous leaders from the Mapuche Nation – Alberto Curamil and Miguel Melin – with Indigenous activists...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 00:00
Tue, September 22, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. This talk is presented alongside GC Leading Scholar Jiaying Zhao’s own talk, " Promoting Behavioural Sustainability ,” as a back-to-back conversation across disciplines. Green College Leading Scholars' Series Feeding the World...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 17:00
Tue, September 22, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. This talk is presented alongside GC Leading Scholar Navin Ramankutty’s own talk, " Feeding the World without Destroying the Planet ,” as a back-to-back conversation across disciplines. Green College Leading Scholars' Series...
When:
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 17:00

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