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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
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August 12, 2020

Championing sustainability for twenty years

The Sustainability Coordinator Program has grown over the years to become what is now a network of 120 coordinators working in offices, academic departments, operational units, and laboratories across the UBC Vancouver campus. The program provides these volunteers with opportunities and resources...
June 18, 2020

UBC Sustainability Scholar lays groundwork for an anti-Black racism strategy in Vancouver

Vancouver aspires to be a safe city in which residents feel secure. It’s one of the goals of the Healthy City Strategy approved by city council in 2014. To that end, the city engaged Oludolapo Makinde, a graduate student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, as a Healthy City Sustainability Scholar...
June 9, 2020

Search for new Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative

Applications are invited from tenured faculty for the position of Academic Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI). The deadline for applications is June 22, 2020. This is a part-time (50%) position with a reporting line to the Provost and Vice-President Academic, UBC Vancouver, for an...
April 22, 2020

UBC ranks seventh globally in impact: Times Higher Education

Apr 22, 2020 | For more information, contact Lou Corpuz-Bosshart UBC continues to excel in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings, placing first in Canada and seventh globally out of more than 850 participating institutions from 89 countries across six continents. The rankings, inaugurated in...
March 9, 2020

UBC Climate Emergency Engagement

February 28, 2020

Let's Choose to Reuse week switches 1,200 paper cups to reusables

In January this year, all food outlets across campus began charging an 25¢ for each hot drink sold in a single-use cup. To support the community with this change, UBC Sustainability volunteers gave away 1,200 reusable mugs during a one week campaign.
February 24, 2020

UBC’s first Urban Climate Justice workshop

UBC held its first workshop on “Urban Climate Justice” on January 23, 2020. The interdisciplinary, knowledge exchange event was co-hosted by the SEEDS Sustainability Program and the UBC Climate Hub . Over 100 undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni registered for the event...
January 24, 2020

Interview: Anjali Mishra and Julia Niebles

UBC Sustainability sat down with Anjali Mishra and Julia Niebles, who are spearheading UBC’s newest student-directed seminar, ASTU 400X 001. Mishra and Niebles discuss what students interested in sustainability can expect from the course, and how their work as Sustainability Ambassadors shaped...
January 14, 2020

Saving Energy During UBC’s Seasonal Shutdown

Saving Energy During UBC’s Seasonal Shutdown This past December, departments, building operators and energy managers across UBC joined together to reduce the university’s environmental footprint over the winter holiday by participating in the Seasonal Shutdown . This annual campus-wide campaign...
December 9, 2019

UBC declares a climate emergency

This article by Tiffany Crawford originally appeared in the Vancouver Sun on December 6, 2019. The University of B.C. has joined a growing list of schools, communities and countries around the world in declaring a climate emergency. UBC president Santa Ono said the UBC board of governors endorsed...

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