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

Thu, December 11, 2014 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM MUSIC BUILDING. This performance is presented by the Peter Wall Institute’s International Research Roundtable entitled “Seafood in an uncertain future: From scenarios to policies.” Researchers will develop scenarios about the future of seafood sustainability...
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Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 18:00
Thu, December 11, 2014 1:30 PM - 3:30 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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Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 13:30
Wed, December 10, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Are you struggling with a particular feature(s) of Connect, want a quick recap or just need to discuss the structure of your course materials? Do you have questions about copyright or need help creating your course reserves...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, December 10, 2014 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre. The UBC Department of Surgery: a Vision for the Future Presenter: Gary Redekop BSc MD MSc FRCSC Head pro tem, Department of Surgery, The University of British Columbia
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 07:00
Tue, December 9, 2014 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM See description. Free. This M.Ed. in Home Economics Education with a focus on Human Ecology and Everyday Life is a unique graduate program, offered fully online, for teachers of home economics, human ecology, family studies, and family and consumer science...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 16:00
Mon, December 8, 2014 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...
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Monday, December 8, 2014 - 12:00
Fri, December 5, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Join us in this special guest lecture, "Reshaping Food Systems to Achieve Sustainable Nutrition Security," by Dave Gustafson, Director, Center for Integrated Modeling of Sustainable Agriculture and Nutrition Security (CIMSANS...
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Friday, December 5, 2014 - 12:00
Thu, December 4, 2014 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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Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 09:30
Wed, December 3, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Are you struggling with a particular feature(s) of Connect, want a quick recap or just need to discuss the structure of your course materials? Do you have questions about copyright or need help creating your course reserves...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, December 3, 2014 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Assessment Strategies: Current research and best practices In this session we will discuss assessment strategies, best practices and evidence. What are some alternative strategies in use, are they effective, and how can...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 13:00

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