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

Fri, October 25, 2019 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Gideon Mordecai Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Location: AERL Theatre The emergence of infectious agents poses a continual economic and environmental challenge to aquaculture production,...
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Friday, October 25, 2019 - 11:00
Wed, October 23, 2019 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM See description. Interested in taking part in an exciting program abroad next summer and getting UBC credits at the same time? Come check out our info session and learn more about the Impact Evaluation Analytics Field Study Global Seminar! Learn more in the...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 11:30
Tue, October 22, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM See description. Find out what you need to know about studying abroad in Spain! Come chat with a representative from UniSC to learn about a unique opportunity and what it’s like to live and study in Spain. Location: Atrium of UBC Life Building near Go Global...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 09:00
Mon, October 21, 2019 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM See description. Interested in taking part in an exciting program abroad next summer and getting UBC credits at the same time? Come check out our info session and learn more about the Heritage of Chinese Migration Global Seminar! Learn more in the program...
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Monday, October 21, 2019 - 17:00
Fri, October 18, 2019 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Scott Hinch Professor, UBC Forestry Location: AERL Theatre Humans ‘touch’ in excess of 90 MT of fish each year through fisheries harvest involving a variety of different gears. In...
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Friday, October 18, 2019 - 11:00
Wed, October 16, 2019 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM See description. Interested in taking part in an exciting program abroad next summer and getting UBC credits at the same time? Come check out our info session and learn more about the Heritage of Chinese Migration Global Seminar! Learn more in the program...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 16:30
Fri, October 11, 2019 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Laura Parfrey Assistant Professor, UBC Departments for Botany and Zoology Location: AERL Theatre Multicellular marine organisms host diverse collections of microbes on their surface...
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Friday, October 11, 2019 - 11:00
Tue, October 8, 2019 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Vancouver Campus. Free. 25 Years of Green College (1993-), and Counting: Up-to-the-Minute Briefings from Former Resident Members of the College Good Food For All: Running School Farm and Meal Programs in Vancouver Marc Schutzbank, Director, Fresh Roots 5-6...
When:
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 17:00
Tue, October 8, 2019 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM See description. Find out what you need to know about studying abroad in Scandinavia! Programs are in English and have locations across Denmark and Sweden. Come chat with a representative from DIS to learn about a unique opportunity and what it’s like to live...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 11:00
Fri, October 4, 2019 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). IOF Seminar Series Speaker: Alejandro Buren, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Location: AERL Theatre Oceans cover almost three quarters of our planet’s surface, and therefore represent its...
When:
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 11:00

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