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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

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Human Well-being & Social Systems
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The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
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Well-to-wake: decarbonizing BC’s maritime industry

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March 8, 2017

The economics of a low-carbon economy

The move to a low-carbon economy will be “a major structural shift for the global and Canadian economies,” according to a senior Bank of Canada official, but the Canadian economy is resilient. Timothy Lane made the remarks during a speech in Montreal on March 2. He argued that carbon pricing is a “...
March 8, 2017

Forests are a big part of B.C.’s climate plan. Can they get the job done?

When International Day of Forests rolls around this year, B.C. better get its forests a nice present. Or at least a card. That’s because B.C. forests are being asked to do much of the heavy lifting in British Columbia’s Climate Leadership Plan, the sprawling document released last August aimed at...
March 2, 2017

UBC Reads Sustainability presents Roy Henry Vickers telling Peace Dancer

February 22, 2017

Preparing for climate migration  

For years, Vancouver planners have warned that the city must do more to prepare for the effects of climate change. With sea levels set to rise nearly a metre by 2100, Vancouver will need to develop strategies and infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of floods, and water storage plans to allow the...
February 22, 2017

The slow rise of the electric car

Earlier this month, the B.C. government announced it would extend its Clean Energy Vehicle program, originally launched in 2011. The provincial government has infused another $40 million into the program, which lets consumers save $5,000 on the purchase of electric and hybrid vehicles, and $6,000...
February 22, 2017

Extra $2.1 million for B.C. First Nations clean energy

For some First Nation communities in the province, clean energy projects might be the ideal blend of economic development and environmental stewardship. Earlier this month, the B.C. government added $2.1 million to the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund. Since 2010, the fund has provided over...
February 21, 2017

Explore Your Sustainability Research and Career Options

February 8, 2017

Green bonds: a climate solution with some holes

Green bonds may be a way to finance climate change solutions, but some may not be as ‘green’ as they look. Director of the Sauder School of Business Prediction Markets at UBC, Dr. Werner Antweiler cautioned in a phone interview that green bonds now offered by corporations “may, in some cases,...
February 8, 2017

From Passive Houses to wood structures, green buildings are on the rise in Vancouver

On the corner of East Hastings and Skeena Street in Vancouver, Canada’s largest Passive House is under construction. The Heights, an apartment complex due to be finished later this year, aims to be one of the greenest buildings in Vancouver. Passive houses are built according to an international...
February 8, 2017

B.C. lags during banner year for wind power in Canada

Canada added just over 700 megawatts of new wind energy to grids across the country last year, but B.C. was largely out of the picture. According to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) 2016 market report released late last month, 21 wind projects spread between Ontario, Quebec and Nova...

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