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...
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, 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
Fri, December 6, 2013 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Engineering, Management and Education Building. The Faculty of Education is collaborating with Stanford School of Medicine. The Compassion and Technology Conference at Stanford is an innovative conference presented by the Center for Compassion and Altruism...
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Friday, December 6, 2013 - 00:00
Thu, December 5, 2013 1:00 PM - 3:00 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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Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 13:00
Mon, December 2, 2013 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 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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Monday, December 2, 2013 - 09:00