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.

Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...

Sustainability Education Fellows Information Session

Sustainability Photo Pop-Up Exhibition

Climate Change & Energy
Ecological Systems

Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students

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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, January 28, 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, January 28, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, January 27, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING. FREE. Joint seminar from Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME: Title: A Brief Introduction to LNG and its Transportation by Sea This seminar will cover the...
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Monday, January 27, 2014 - 15:00
Thu, January 23, 2014 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Rally at Martha Piper Plaza The panel discussion will be preceded by a Rally to inform students and the general public of some key issues relating to forest policy at Martha Piper Plaza. January 23, 2014 3:15 PM to 4 PM (Intersection of...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 16:30
Wed, January 22, 2014 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM STUDENT UNION BUILDING (SUB). FREE. Join us for a particularly excellent episode of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series! Cosmos Part 7: "The Backbone of Night" Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014, 5-7pm FREE for Everyone AMS Art Gallery, UBC SUB In Part 7 of Cosmos, we...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 17:00
Wed, January 22, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES. Dr. Alison Alkon Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific *Lunch will be provided at noon for those who RSVP: wynn.archibald@ubc.ca This talk will begin by describing the emergent concept of food...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:00
Tue, January 21, 2014 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM See description. See description. Professor Tom Hutton, SCARP. Join The University Women’s Club of Vancouver at Hycroft for the 2014 edition of Dialogues on our City’s Future. Be a part of the conversation, moderated by Professor Penny Gurstein, Director of...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 19:00
Tue, January 21, 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, January 21, 2014 - 12:30
Tue, January 14, 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, January 14, 2014 - 12:30
Mon, January 13, 2014 11:30 AM - 2:15 PM SIMON K.Y. LEE HKU-UBC HOUSE (GLOBAL LOUNGE) - BUILDING #1. For T b'shvat, the Jewish holiday celebrating the first trees that grow in Israel, the Jewish Students Association always commemorates it with Green Week. This year, one of our events is going to be...
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Monday, January 13, 2014 - 11:30
Tue, January 7, 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, January 7, 2014 - 12:30

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