Thu, March 5, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM FOOD, NUTRITION AND HEALTH BUILDING. Liz Carlisle, a protégé of Michael Pollan, is coming to UBC to tell the remarkable story of an unheralded group of Montana farmers who have defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable food movement. Dave...
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.
Events by Date
Past Events
Wed, March 4, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES. About the speaker: Sally Aitken is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a 2014-2015 Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute. Her work is...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 16:00
Wed, March 4, 2015 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). Free. The first annual Sustainability Research Symposium in happening on March 4th, 11:30-2pm at the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). The symposium will showcase the spectrum of...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 11:30
Wed, March 4, 2015 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Speaker: Dr Matilda van den Bosch, MD, PhD Department of Work Science, Business Economics & Environmental Psychology Faculty of Landscape Architecture, Horticulture & Crop Production Science Swedish University of...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 09:00
Tue, March 3, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 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 from the...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 13:00
Tue, March 3, 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 3, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, March 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 you...
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Monday, March 2, 2015 - 14:30
Mon, March 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 basics...
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Monday, March 2, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, March 2, 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, March 2, 2015 - 09:30
Fri, February 27, 2015 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The Pacific Northwest is a unique region in which climate change is expected to exacerbate many of the natural hazard risks irrespective of political and international boundaries. This panel will explore the climate and natural hazard-...
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Friday, February 27, 2015 - 13:30