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.

Events by Date

Past Events

Tue, March 25, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. free . Curious about managing copyright in academic publishing, locating funder open access policies, and the different options available for open access publishing? Come to this workshop to learn about these topics and more! This...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 11:00
Tue, March 18, 2014 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WOODWARD LIBRARY. free. This session is appropriate for students conducting literature reviews in any discipline. Topics include ... what is a literature review? ... finding the right databases ... search strategies for databases ... finding scholarly articles...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 13:00
Tue, March 18, 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 18, 2014 - 12:30
Thu, March 13, 2014 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Free. This webinar will explore how librarians are supporting researchers in applied and discipline-specific areas. Presenters will include three chemistry professionals, two who have gone into library sciences supporting...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 09:00
Tue, March 11, 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 11, 2014 - 12:30
Wed, March 5, 2014 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. David Archer, a world leader in the science of human-induced climate change, delivers a public talk. UBC Earth Sciences Building, 1013.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 19:00
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

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