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

Wed, November 12, 2014 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Keeping current with new research in your field can be a challenge. In this workshop, you’ll learn strategies and tools to help you stay up-to-date with the published literature. We’ll cover: - How to create saved search...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 14:00
Wed, November 12, 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, November 12, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, November 12, 2014 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 11:00
Thu, November 6, 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 retrieve...
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Thursday, November 6, 2014 - 13:30
Wed, November 5, 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, November 5, 2014 - 13:00
Wed, November 5, 2014 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics. This event is part of UBC...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 11:00
Mon, November 3, 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, November 3, 2014 - 12:00
Sat, November 1, 2014 2:15 PM - 5:15 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. FREE. With the fall rains, many BC fungi erupt from the ground to present a spectacular display of mushrooms. If you like mushrooms and want to learn more about them, join us, rain or shine, for an exploration of mushrooms and a...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 14:15
Sat, November 1, 2014 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. $75. Why do we have so much stuff? Why are our garages and storage lockers filled yet we still want more? Why do we have so much debt? Why do our children keep asking us for things and why do we buy it for them? How are the consequences...
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Saturday, November 1, 2014 - 09:30
Fri, October 31, 2014 10:00 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, October 31, 2014 - 10:00

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