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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, January 27, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Thinking about publishing your research? There are more ways to communicate your scholarly ideas than ever before. Learn about skills and tools for discussing, interacting, presenting, writing, commenting, and finally...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 13:00
Tue, January 27, 2015 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM TOTEM FIELD STUDIOS. Meet at the Totem Park Field, and forage and collect plants to take back to the Global Lounge to make some of your own tea. Walk away with newfound knowledge of how to forage, as well as your own supply of tea! This event is a part of "...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:45
Mon, January 26, 2015 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The annual Splane Lecture features Graham Riches, Emeritus Professor, former Director of the UBC School of Social Work. Title: Confronting First World Hunger: Charity or the Right to Food Presenter: Graham Riches, Emeritus Professor and...
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 17:30
Mon, January 26, 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, January 26, 2015 - 15:00
Mon, January 26, 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, January 26, 2015 - 12:00
Mon, January 26, 2015 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM NEVILLE SCARFE BUILDING. Come on out to Main Mall near the Fountain for a fresh, local and not to mention FREE lunch to kick off "Chew On This", a weeklong series of events to connect students to sustainable food. Bring your own reusable container!
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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 11:00
Mon, January 26, 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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Monday, January 26, 2015 - 09:30
Fri, January 23, 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 23, 2015 - 11:00
Thu, January 22, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). By donation. You are invited to attend the Premiere of One Big Coast - A film by UBC student Luke Wallace and Ali Harris with the support of Common Energy UBC. The premiere will be on January 22nd. Be there at 6:30. The film will...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 19:00
Tue, January 20, 2015 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Research Mentorship Program talk Speaker: Mark Johnson, Associate Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC Mark Johnson is...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 12:30

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