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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy

How this Vancouver heritage home is setting a benchmark for sustainable construction

The UBC Sustainability Hub’s Megan Badri, Research Manager, explains the difference between “embodied” carbon and “operational” carbon, and describes the Canadian policy landscape around sustainable construction to Business in Vancouver.
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Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Policy, Economics & Governance
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The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
Human Well-being & Social Systems
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Well-to-wake: decarbonizing BC’s maritime industry

Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance
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March 2, 2021

Why 42% of UBCO students are food insecure, and how they’re working to change that

This article by Cloe Logan was originally published by Global News on March 1, 2021. After a pre-COVID poll found 42 per cent of UBC Okanagan students were food insecure, Casey Hamilton and her team went looking for solutions. The internal survey gathered data based on one question: “In the past 12...
March 2, 2021

Linda Nowlan: “Just Is” ≠ Justice, especially when it comes to climate

This article by Linda Nowlan was originally published by the Georgia Strait on March 1, 2021. "... We've learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and notions of what just is isn't always just-ice...." Who didn’t have a shiver running down their spine listening to U.S. Youth Inauguration...
February 10, 2021

CLL Seed Funding for Indigenous, Carbon Capture, Biodiversity and Food Systems Projects

At UBC, we are committed to putting sustainability at the heart of teaching, learning and research. However, as we face multiple global challenges including the climate emergency, ecosystem destruction, and deep social justice issues, we recognize the need to accelerate our actions. In response,...
January 21, 2021

A year of ‘unprecedented’ climate action (don’t groan)

A year of unprecedented climate action – that’s a mission the world can get behind to shake off the dismal remnants of the past 12 months. And to kickstart things yesterday, President Biden took just a few hours and 55 words to return the United States of America to the Paris Climate Agreement...
December 9, 2020

What is Airtightness Testing?

BCBC 2022 FEATURE This article was originally posted as a part of the Energy Step Code Council 's December 2020 Stakeholder Update. Jurisdictions that have referenced the BC Energy Step Code in their building bylaws require whole-building airtightness testing for residential and non-residential new...
December 9, 2020

UBC researchers seek help to map the odours of Vancouver

8 December 2020 This article by Tiffany Crawford was originally published by the Vancouver Sun on December 8, 2020. Amanda Giang and Naomi Zimmerman are two UBC researchers working to map the "smell scape" of Metro Vancouver using a public app called SmellVan that asks Vancouverites to help report...
November 25, 2020

UBC 2030 competition attracts bold new student ideas to tackle climate change and protect nature

Before COVID-19, momentum was building for 2020 to stand tall as a bold year of climate action with cities across the world declaring a climate emergency and pledging to urgently reduce emissions. And despite the challenges of the pandemic, there is reason for continued hope, among them the ideas...
November 10, 2020

Not All Green Space is Created Equal – or Equally Accessible to All

10 November 2020 This article by Jo Fitzgibbons was originally published by TheCityFix on Nov 10, 2020. COVID-19 has brought many lessons for urban planners, illuminating existing inequalities and flaws as well as introducing new challenges. One such lesson, as people seek open space and...
September 21, 2020

Chill Out and Chill Up

At UBC, researchers turn up their freezers to bring their energy use down. By taking part in the Chill Up Challenge, laboratories across the university have improved freezer performance and longevity and saved greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs. In 2017, Michael Smith Laboratories was the...
August 25, 2020

From gloves to lawn furniture: UBC nitrile glove recycling pilot

A pilot program for recycling nitrile gloves at the Centre for Comparative Medicine (CCM) has helped build the case for potentially diverting seven million gloves (28 tonnes) from the landfill each year if scaled up across campus. The pilot of Kimberly-Clark Professional’s RightCycle Program was...

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