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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, March 24, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 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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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, March 24, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM University Centre. Need a break? Come check out three really cool TED talks today - just drop in! Three TED talks will be shown every Tuesday from 11 am to 12 noon in the UNC Theatre.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, March 23, 2015 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you know how to edit and organize your data using an effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can help you accomplish this for...
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Monday, March 23, 2015 - 14:30
Mon, March 23, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to help you manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Enroll in our workshop and let us help you learn the...
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Monday, March 23, 2015 - 12:00
Fri, March 20, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 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 retrieve...
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Friday, March 20, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, March 19, 2015 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM See description. free. The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies welcomes Visiting Scholars, Richard Kerridge and Roy Miki. Each Visiting Scholar will spend one week on campus working with students and faculty, and community members. Kerridge and Miki will...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 19:00
Thu, March 19, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM University Centre. WHERE: UNC Theatre The event is a three slide, 180 second, series of presentations where participants share their water-related research. There will be cash prizes for the most informative and most entertaining presenters. The format: 1) open...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 16:00
Thu, March 19, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM BUCHANAN BUILDING BLOCK B. by donation. Get your green on! And join us from 12 pm – 2 pm at our first annual Eating Sustainably Feast! DISCOVER the various types of locally-grown, organic and fair trade product, get free samples and information. EAT locally-...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015 - 12:00
Wed, March 18, 2015 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH BUILDING. Opening Reception - World Food Programme (WFP) Photo Exhibition on The Importance of Nutrition March 18th at 5:00pm Food, Nutrition and Health Atrium Refreshments provided. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, March 18, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. Abstract: Human activities are changing our environment an unprecedented pace. Although we often focus on biodiversity loss as a result of human impacts, environmental change is producing both “winners” and “losers”,...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 16:00

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