Mon, September 22, 2014 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). Get up close and personal with the red wriggler worms that break down organics in the AMS Worm Composting Bin at this Ripple Lab. AMS Sustainability staff will be on hand to talk about the worms, composting, the new InVessel...
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.
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Past Events
Mon, September 22, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM KOERNER PLAZA. Plot your happy places and spaces on UBC’s Vancouver campus! UBC Psychology and UBC’s SEEDS Program want to know what‘s your happy place on campus and how your local campus environment affects your happiness. #RippleEffectUBC
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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 12:00
Fri, September 19, 2014 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...
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Friday, September 19, 2014 - 13:00
Fri, September 19, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Please join us for a talk by visiting scholar Dr. Michael Grove. Dr. Michael Grove is the inaugural Director of the University of Birmingham’s STEM Education Centre At this event Dr. Grove will discuss the 'mathematics...
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Friday, September 19, 2014 - 12:00
Thu, September 18, 2014 5:00 PM - Fri, September 19, 2014, 12:00 AM University Centre. WHERE: The Well Student Pub Open to the Public Contemporary Issues in Shared Okanagan Water. Interested in water issues? Join Blue Drinks -- an informal networking event organised by UBCO students and the...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 17:00
Thu, September 18, 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, September 18, 2014 - 13:30
Wed, September 17, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM UBC Okanagan campus. FREE. WHAT: Betty Brown, Community Health Facilitator, Interior Health will discuss with Drs. Joan Bottorff and Keith Culver of UBC Okanagan how to engage with UBC to help your community health project be as effective as possible. WHEN...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 12:00
Tue, September 16, 2014 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. Regression analysis is a statistical process for estimating the relationships among variables. We can use regression to make quantitative predictions of one variable from the values of another. Do you wonder how to do linear...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, September 16, 2014 12:30 PM - 2:30 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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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, September 16, 2014 12:00 AM - Wed, September 17, 2014, 12:00 AM See description. WHERE: Rotary Centre for the Arts (421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna) and Laurel Packinghouse (1304 Ellis St., Kelowna) Open to the Public On Sept. 16 and 17, leading-edge experts from UBC, national and international...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - 00:00