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

Thu, January 18, 2018 5:15 PM - 7:00 PM CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE RESEARCH ON SUSTAINABILITY (CIRS). The UBC Sustainability Scholars Program provides UBC graduate students with paid opportunities to tackle real-world sustainability challenges. Students interested in applying to the Program in 2018 are...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 17:15
Thu, January 18, 2018 5:00 PM - 8:30 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Come by for a night at the museum! Every month, the museum will stay open late with admission by donation between 5:00-8:30 pm, offering family-friendly activities, including Raising Big Blue showing at 5:30 pm Guided Museum Tour at...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 17:00
Thu, January 18, 2018 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Arts and Sciences Centre. WHERE: room ASC 130 Filmed on location deep in the heart of BC's Selkirk Mountains, Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux is a 20-minute documentary about the majesty, magic and endurance of one of the world's last truly intact temperate...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 14:00
Thu, January 18, 2018 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. We welcome Corinne Stone back with us, joined by a new presenter to UBCL, Chief Phil Lane Jr. In this session, we embark on a spiritual journey with Chief Phil Lane Jr. and Corinne Stone. They describe this moment in human history as...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 10:00
Thu, January 18, 2018 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM See description. FREE. We welcome Corinne Stone back with us, joined by a new presenter to UBCL, Chief Phil Lane Jr. In this session, we embark on a spiritual journey with Chief Phil Lane Jr. and Corinne Stone. They describe this moment in human history as...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 10:00
Wed, January 17, 2018 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Hope in the Anthropocene: Sustainability Solutions and Inspirations Participatory Science, Public Discourse, and Hope for Solving Wicked Environmental Problems Thomas D. Sisk, Landscape Conservation Initiative, Northern Arizona...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 17:00
Wed, January 17, 2018 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. The Bike Kitchen is open for volunteering on Wednesdays from 11am - 5pm with a midday mechanical workshop from 1pm - 2pm only for volunteers! Volunteers can drop-in at any point during the day without prior sign-up and are assigned...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 10:00
Tue, January 16, 2018 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Green College Leading Scholars: A Study of Movement - In Three Movements Go with the Flow: Virtual Water and Real Estate Sara Stevens, Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Steven Weijs, Civil Engineering 5-6:30 pm, with...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - 17:00
Wed, January 10, 2018 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. FREE. Learn how to tune up your bike in a positive space for trans women, cis women, queer and genderqueer folks in a relaxed environment led by female and/or LGBTQ2I identified mechanics and volunteers. This is a great way to...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 18:00
Wed, January 10, 2018 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM BROCK HALL - WEST WING. The Bike Kitchen is open for volunteering on Wednesdays from 11am - 5pm with a midday mechanical workshop from 1pm - 2pm only for volunteers! Volunteers can drop-in at any point during the day without prior sign-up and are assigned...
When:
Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - 10:00

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