Thu, October 8, 2015 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. The University of British Columbia (UBC) Faculty of Forestry and WWF International Forest and Climate Programme are sponsoring an international roundtable to facilitate discussion by Indigenous Peoples’ representatives of the important...
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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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Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 16:30
Wed, October 7, 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 staff...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 14:00
Fri, October 2, 2015 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Engineering, Management and Education Building. Free . Come have your lunch at this Friday’s Brown Bag Seminar, brought to you by the Biology Graduate Student Society. MSc student Jenna Hutchen will be presenting a seminar: Burning questions about wildfires:...
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Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:00
Thu, October 1, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM See description. FREE. Ursula Heise | How We Learned to Start Worrying and Love Endangered Species Ursula K. Heise is a Professor of English at UCLA and a faculty member of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (IoES). She was a Guggenheim...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, October 1, 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 staff...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 14:00
Thu, October 1, 2015 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Library Building. Free . BRAES in the Classroom Speaker Series presents: Beautiful Destruction: Using Art to Grapple with the Alberta Tar/Oil Sands Speaker: Louis Helbig Author of the Book: Beautiful Destruction Host Professor: Greg Garrard Date: Thursday,...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 11:30
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