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...

xChange 2024: Engineering A Greener Tomorrow

Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

Covering Climate on the Frontlines

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

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

Fri, February 6, 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...
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Friday, February 6, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, February 5, 2015 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo is one of the leading computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages, and is now available for both PC and Mac operating systems. The Research Commons can help grad students to get started...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 12:30
Thu, February 5, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Are you a graduate student and new to UBC? Would you like to know more about what the library has to offer? This basic workshop will provide you with an overview of some of the key services and resources available to you...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015 - 11:00
Wed, February 4, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Free. Meet Dr. Hart Banack, and get the information you need to #GetOutside with us. Come out and ask questions, find out more about outdoor learning, nature schools, and graduate work in outdoor, environmental education. Discover how...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, February 4, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM SIMON K.Y. LEE HKU-UBC HOUSE (GLOBAL LOUNGE) - BUILDING #1. Free. Interdisciplinarity across the Globe WHAT: UBC researchers have interests and partnerships with people around the world. Meanwhile, more people than ever are migrating and interacting across...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 16:00
Wed, February 4, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. INTERDISCIPLINARITY ACROSS THE GLOBE WHAT: UBC researchers have interests and partnerships with people around the world. Meanwhile, more people than ever are migrating and interacting across the globe. What are the...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 16:00
Wed, February 4, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Join us in this Peter Wall International Visiting Research Scholar talk by Evan Fraser, Visiting Professor; Tier I Canada Research Chair in Global Food Security. Most commentators agree that population growth, energy prices, and...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 12:00
Tue, February 3, 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...
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 - 09:30
Mon, February 2, 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, February 2, 2015 - 14:30
Mon, February 2, 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, February 2, 2015 - 12:00

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