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.

Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Are you a UBC faculty or staff member interested in sustainability-related teaching and research? Whether you're new to UBC or looking to build deeper connections, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Open House is an...

Ecological grief, Messy Hope & Healing

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

The right to food? Conservation, access, and food security

Ecological Systems
Production, Consumption & Waste

Insights from Organizing an Indigenous-Led Event: UBC’s Intergenerational March to Commemorate Orange Shirt Day

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 Week Canada

SDG Week 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, March 5, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM See description. WHERE: Students' Union Theatre (UNC 106), University Centre, UBC Okanagan Open to the Public At this final event, 13 graduate student competitors will have just three minutes and one slide to share the depth, significance, and wider-impact of...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, March 4, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, March 3, 2014 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM See description. free. Our pedagogy aims to use indigenous approaches to stories and storytelling as well as recursive reader response to provoke future teachers to practice critical self-examination and self-implication in the ongoing processes of settler...
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Monday, March 3, 2014 - 10:30
Tue, February 25, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free. Please join us for this month’s GIS Users Group meeting, presented by Sean Kearney, PhD student in Land and Food Systems. Sean will present his winning Esri 2014 Scholarship topic: Using Remote Sensing Imagery to Identify...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, February 25, 2014 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IRES seminar series showcase the work of our graduate students as well as our internal and external guests. The seminars will run on Tuesdays from 12:30pm-1:30pm in AERL 120.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, February 25, 2014 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 12:00
Mon, February 24, 2014 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). UBC Sustainability Fair Interested or curious about sustainability and don’t know how or where to start? The UBC Sustainability Fair is a chance to meet and talk to passionate and diverse sustainability groups on campus and get...
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Monday, February 24, 2014 - 11:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. The Leslie L. Schaffer Lecture in Forest Sciences: Fire and ice: responses by stream-riparian ecosystems to shifting disturbance regimes and some consequences for forest management Colden Baxter, Associate Professor and Director,...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 17:30
Tue, February 18, 2014 3:00 PM - 5:00 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 the...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 15:00
Tue, February 18, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . This workshop introduces standard citation metric tools that are commonly used to rank researchers individual journals or articles and even whole universities. Learn how to ensure that your citation metrics scores are as...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 15:00

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