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.

What might sea level rise look like at UBC? A new mural in the AMS sustainability corridor offers a glimpse into future possibilities. Join local artists Josianne Assignon and Ana Julia Leon to celebrate the completion of the mural and to learn how...

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.

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Past Events

Fri, October 23, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. IOF Seminar Series: http://bit.ly/IOFseminars PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL NOT BE RECORDED AT SPEAKER'S REQUEST Maine's lobster fishery is the most valuable in the United States, and is the economic and cultural heart of the Maine coast...
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Friday, October 23, 2020 - 11:00
Fri, October 23, 2020 12:00 AM - Thu, October 29, 2020, 12:00 AM UBC Vancouver Campus. n/a. UBC is the first Fair Trade Campus in Canada, designated since 2011. Celebrate Fair Trade Campus Week. October 28 to November 1 Fair Trade information: https://ftcw.fairtrade.ca/2019 Fair Trade Campus...
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Friday, October 23, 2020 - 00:00
Thu, October 22, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM See description. Any forester will tell you that different trees have different value, and that value is generally set by the marketplace. But what if the value of some trees is below ground rather than above it? This is the central question of The Mother...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 12:00
Did you know that UBC is the first Fair Trade Campus in Canada and has been designated since 2011? Join us in celebrating, educating, and promoting the Fairtrade movement and Fairtrade certified products on campuses accross Canada! You can participate onsocial media by tagging @ubcfoodie and using...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020 - 09:00 to Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 17:00
WEBINAR: Industrial Symbiosis: A Key Plank in a Circular Economy In an effort to practice business more sustainably, many regions are working towards circular economies. These economies aim to decouple economic growth from resource consumption by designing out waste and pollution; keeping products...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Fri, October 9, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. This is part of the IOF seminar series Speaker: Dr. Thomas Froelicher, University of Bern Extreme events, i.e., periods of normally rare situations when a system is far outside its norms, are well known to severely impact organisms and...
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Friday, October 9, 2020 - 11:00
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Building Operations and Future Codes Join Lawrence Schoen as he presents on how modes of disease transmission might be affected by engineering interventions, typically related to dilution ventilation, mechanical filtration and de-activation by ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 12:30 to 13:30
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Online event
Increasingly, fisheries researchers and managers seek or are compelled to “bridge” Indigenous knowledge systems with Western scientific approaches to understanding and governing fisheries. Here, we will move beyond the all-too-common narrative about integrating or incorporating (too often used as...
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Friday, October 2, 2020 - 11:00 to 12:00
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Online event
Fri, September 25, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. This event takes place online. Please click link below for RSVP information Speaker: Dr. Jessica Sparks Associate Director, University of Nottingham Rights Lab Investigative journalism and emerging scholarly research have posited links...
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Friday, September 25, 2020 - 11:00
Wed, September 23, 2020 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM See description. Join UBC's Virtual Volunteer Fair to interact with passionate students, and community organizations across BC. This year's virtual event will feature 20+ community organizations looking for students to virtually volunteer right from their...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 13:00

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