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...
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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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...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 17:00
Tue, September 22, 2015 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Library Building. Free . NSERC Industrial Chair Candidate Research Talk with Dr. Nathan Pelletier, Principal Consultant, Global Ecologic Environmental Consulting and Management Services on "Food System Sustainability: Life Cycle Measurement and Management...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 10:00
Tue, September 22, 2015 10:00 AM - Wed, September 23, 2015, 11:00 AM UBC Point Grey Campus. 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 and...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 10:00
Mon, September 21, 2015 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Earth Sciences Building. Free. Abstract: Mato Grosso, Brazil has emerged over the past decade as one of the most important food production areas in the world, producing more than 10 per cent of the world’s soybeans. However, Mato Grosso also has vast areas...
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Monday, September 21, 2015 - 16:30
Fri, September 18, 2015 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM Allard Hall (Faculty of Law). This event is free, but pre-registration is required.. A panel of experts representing "field to fork" will discuss trends ranging from increasing consumer awareness and demand for organic and sustainable farming, food safety...
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Friday, September 18, 2015 - 14:30