Fri, November 9, 2018 5:00 PM - Sun, November 11, 2018, 7:30 PM LIFE SCIENCES CENTRE. 10. Join us on November 9-11 for the Emerging Media Creative Challenge event, hosted by UBC President's Office! EM2C is not your average hackathon - it is the next generation of collaborative problem-solving...
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
Policy, Economics & Governance
Production, Consumption & Waste
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program: A conference on urban sustainability research What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC Sustainability Scholars are helping to...
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, November 9, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Speaker: Murdoch McAllister Associate Professor; Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC Location: AERL Theatre (120), 2202 Main Mall, UBC Some marine fish stocks are known for large interannual variation...
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Friday, November 9, 2018 - 11:00
Thu, November 8, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM C. K. CHOI BUILDING FOR THE INSTITUTE OF ASIAN RESEARCH. Don’t miss this seminar with Mr. Serge Segura, Ambassador of France for the Oceans, put on by the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Mr. Segura's talk will be followed by discussant comments...
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Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 12:30
Wed, November 7, 2018 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM See description. FREE. Register and find location info and more for this workshop at: https://events.library.ubc.ca/dashboard/view/7631 For more information or questions, please email: research.commons@ubc.ca
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 10:00
Tue, November 6, 2018 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Free. Floras for the Future: Why Plant Description Still Matters Exploration of plant diversity has been going on since humans first walked the Earth – so surely we must be done by now. Why should we describe the plant life of a...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 20:00
Tue, November 6, 2018 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM SCHOOL OF POPULATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH. Food insecurity: examining a complex problem through a systems thinking lens with Stephanie Godrich Dr. Stephanie Godrich Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12pm-1:30pm Room B151, School of Population and Public Health (SPPH),...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 12:00
Mon, November 5, 2018 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM See description. WHERE: The Innovation Centre, 460 Doyle Ave., Kelowna, BC This critically acclaimed film follows Oscar nominee Josh Fox as he travels the world to explore climate change, one of the greatest threats facing the world today. He seeks to uncover...
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Monday, November 5, 2018 - 19:30
Sun, November 4, 2018 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Free with museum membership (required). Do you know where to look to find the dozens of mushrooms species that call our campus home? Beaty Museum Members are invited to join our Fungi Curator Mary Berbee to learn more about how to...
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Sunday, November 4, 2018 - 10:30
Fri, November 2, 2018 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Science Building. Free. 2018 Biology Seminar Series Guest speaker: Lisa Osborne, Micro & Immun, UBC Vancouver Title: The impact of host-multibiome interactions on immunity and inflammation Date: November 2, 2018 Time: 12:30 p.m. Location: SCI 333
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Friday, November 2, 2018 - 12:30
Fri, November 2, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY (AERL). Neil Davis Director of Resource Management, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Dr Robyn Forrest Section Head of the Quantitative Assessment Methods Section, Pacific Biological station Location: AERL Theatre (120...
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Friday, November 2, 2018 - 11:00