Part of the Climate Justice Webinar Series Featuring The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet The Arctic ice is receding each year, but just as irreplaceable is the culture, the wisdom that has allowed the Inuit to thrive in the Far North...
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.
Events by Date
Past Events
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Friday, March 26, 2021 - 12:00 to 14:00
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Online event
Fri, March 26, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Dr. Jesse Morin, practicing archaeologist Two-Indigenous led archaeological fisheries research projects are presented that provide novel insights into salmon harvesting in the Salish Sea over the last two millennia. First, the...
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Friday, March 26, 2021 - 11:00
Join UBC Library for a special event featuring four panelists from diverse disciplinary backgrounds as they engage in a conversation about the climate crisis and work to be done in the here and now. In the December 5, 2019 Declaration on the Climate Emergency, the UBC Board of Governors stated that...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 13:00 to 14:30
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Virtual
Thu, March 25, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM See description. WIPED OUT : Webinar on the Need for Biodegradability Innovations in Wet Wipes Single-use disposable wipes are an increasing environmental, economic and social challenge, and these effects are accelerating dramatically due to the COVID-19...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 13:00
WEBINAR: Does regional climate planning matter? Scaling up climate action in the Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities region. Please join Dr. Tamara Krawchenko and Dr. Katya Rhodes from the School of Public Administration and IESVic to learn about regional planning to accelerate climate action...
When:
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Location:
Online event
The discussion will include reflections on what climate justice means to the panelists, and how they are building it into their work; the process of translating climate justice activism and advocacy into government action; and the role of citizens and social movements in bringing about climate...
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Friday, March 19, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
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Virtual
Thu, March 18, 2021 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life Adaptive Management: Learning to Manage Complex Natural Systems through Experience and Active Experimentation Carl Walters, Oceans and Fisheries, in conversation with...
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Thursday, March 18, 2021 - 17:00
Fri, March 12, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM See description. Mark Your Calendars – Virtual Lunch in the Forest Webinar Series: Black in the Outdoors – March 12, 2021 @ 1 pm – 2pm PST Join us for our 5th #VirtualLunchInTheForest webinar. We are honoured to talk with PhD student Jacqueline Scott about ways...
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Friday, March 12, 2021 - 13:00
Fri, March 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. Speaker: Philippa Cohen is a Research Leader at WorldFish and has the privilege to work with a diverse research delivering research to improve food and nutrition security and wellbeing experiences by small-scale fishers. We frequently hear...
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Friday, March 12, 2021 - 11:00
Part of the Climate Justice Webinar Series Featuring The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them...
When:
Thursday, March 11, 2021 - 12:00 to 14:00
Location:
Online event