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

Climate+Water Research Symposium

Climate Change & Energy
Natural Resources

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

Tue, April 21, 2015 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM MICHAEL SMITH LABORATORIES. No Charge. Description Who else is involved in your problem? Who are the policy makers and regulators that have influence over that challenge? How do they make these decisions? Is anyone else experiencing similar challenges? How are...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 09:00
Mon, April 20, 2015 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM Arts Building. WHERE: room ART210 Continuing Studies has organized an on-campus LEED green associate exam preparation workshop for April 20. The LEED Green Associate (GA) designation is one of the most recognized credentials in the Green Building industry. Lead...
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Monday, April 20, 2015 - 09:00
Fri, April 17, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 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, April 17, 2015 - 11:00
Wed, April 15, 2015 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM See description. FREE. The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) announced the selection of Dr. Evan Adams as Chief Medical Officer this past December. As CMO, Dr. Adams, Tla’amin (Sliammon) First Nation will lead a team of FNHA physicians, health and wellness...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 13:00
Mon, April 13, 2015 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Survival analysis is for everyone in the field of Medicine, Engineering, Economics, and even Sociology. Survival analysis deals with the analysis of time duration to until one or more events happen, such as the death of...
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Monday, April 13, 2015 - 15:00
Mon, April 13, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Have you been to our linear regression workshop? If you have, it is time to learn about logistic regression. Logistic regression measures the relationship between a categorical dependent variable and one or more independent...
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Monday, April 13, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, April 13, 2015 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 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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Monday, April 13, 2015 - 09:30
Fri, April 10, 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, April 10, 2015 - 11:00
Tue, April 7, 2015 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. FREE. Location: UBC EDC Building - Design Studio 102-2345 East Mall, Vancouver BC Speaker: Dr. Adam D. Hawkes, Sustainable Gas Institute, Imperial College London, Deputy Director http://www.sustainablegasinstitute.org Abstract: Natural gas...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 15:30
Tue, April 7, 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, April 7, 2015 - 12:00

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