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.

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Past Events

Wed, May 24, 2017 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Science Building. Free . Speaker: Dr. Jonas Berking, Freie Universität Berlin Date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room: SCI 396 Dr Jonas Berking, from the Physical Geography Department of Freie Universität Berlin, will be hosted by the BRAES...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017 - 12:00
Tue, May 23, 2017 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. Free. NVivo's classification capabilities will help you to add demographic data to your nodes and bibliographic data to your sources. Datasets allow you to import and work with tabular material from spreadsheets, database tables,...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 10:30
Mon, May 22, 2017 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM LIFE SCIENCES CENTRE. Please refer to UBC BMB Website: http://biochem.ubc.ca/
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Monday, May 22, 2017 - 15:00
Thu, May 18, 2017 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 7...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 17:00
Tue, May 16, 2017 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM WALTER C. KOERNER LIBRARY. NVivo is a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. In this introductory workshop, you will learn about the benefits of working with NVivo, how to set it up, the types of sources you can use and how to import them into...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 10:30
Mon, May 15, 2017 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM LIFE SCIENCES CENTRE. Please refer to UBC BMB Website: http://biochem.ubc.ca/
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Monday, May 15, 2017 - 15:00
Sat, May 13, 2017 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Included with museum admission or membership. Get hands-on and learn about birds with our daily activity. Meet under the whale. Included with museum admission or membership. Join us Tuesday-Friday at 10:30 am for a bonus bird-themed...
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Saturday, May 13, 2017 - 15:30
Sat, May 13, 2017 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM UBC FARM. $48 ($40 student pricing) + GST. Description Join local Japanese food expert Kimiko Suzuki to learn how to make an authentic home cooked Japanese meals in this hands-on class. Learn about traditional “ichiju, sansai” meals, get introduced to all the...
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Saturday, May 13, 2017 - 09:00
Fri, May 12, 2017 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Included with museum admission or membership. Get hands-on and learn about birds with our daily activity. Meet under the whale. Included with museum admission or membership. Join us Tuesday-Friday at 10:30 am for a bonus bird-themed...
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Friday, May 12, 2017 - 15:30
Fri, May 12, 2017 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM See description. The IOF Spring Shoreline Cleanup is happening on Friday, May 12 from 2:00-4:00 at Wreck Beach. There will be a BBQ to follow, with food free for those who help with the Cleanup, so come on down! To join in, please contact Madeline Cashion at m...
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Friday, May 12, 2017 - 14:00

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