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

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
Fri, January 30, 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, January 30, 2015 - 11:00
Fri, January 30, 2015 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM OLD BARN COMMUNITY CENTRE. $5. This year, the UBC Farm Symposium returns to the Old Barn Community Centre to celebrate UBC student engagement in food sustainability on Friday, January 30th 2015. With more than 150 student projects conducted in collaboration...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 - 09:00
Thu, January 29, 2015 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). National WWF Sweater Day will be held on Thursday, February 5th, and Common Energy UBC has plenty of ways to help you get involved and informed! The main purpose of Sweater Day is to urge people to wear a sweater instead of...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 00:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Oecologies: The Histories of Sustainability The Politics of Panarchy Karen Bakker, Geography, UBC 5-6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC Resilience has emerged as one of the key concepts in...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM FOREST SCIENCES CENTRE. Come celebrate our diversity in food culture by coming out to this delightful buffet of international dishes. Plus, enjoy a magnificent talk by the amazing Peter Ladner, author of 'The Urban Food Revolution" and active public speaker...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 17:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 4:00 PM - 6:00 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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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 16:00
Wed, January 28, 2015 1:45 PM - 3:45 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. The Instructional Design (ID) Community of Practice aims to be a self-sustaining community where like-minded members connect with others, online and face to face, about integrating technology, instructional design practices,...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 13:45
Wed, January 28, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM TOTEM FIELD STUDIOS. Bees are one of the most important groups of organisms we depend upon for our food, yet their populations are declining. Can cities be safehavens for bees? Come learn about the types of bees in Vancouver, and what you can do to help them...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 13:00

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