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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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November 18, 2016

Why North Americans Should Look to BC’s Carbon Tax as a Model

November 16, 2016

Q&A: Sustainability as a Hallmark for Innovation and Success

UBC Sustainability Initiative Work Learn student, Alex Migdal (a graduate student with the UBC School of Journalism), sat down with Sauder School of Business lecturer Tamar Milne, to discuss the central role sustainability and responsibility play in ensuring organizational profitability and success...
November 9, 2016

New charter for universities links wellbeing and sustainability

There’s a move among some universities to take a more active role in improving the health and wellbeing of their students and faculty. Last month, six Canadian universities, including the University of British Columbia, became the first to formally adopt the Okanagan Charter, which challenges post-...
November 9, 2016

A U.S. ballot initiative this week brings to task B.C.’s carbon tax

Amid the contentious U.S. presidential election this week, a substantial ballot initiative in Washington state went largely unnoticed, putting B.C.’s carbon tax under the microscope. When Washington voters went to the ballot box on Tuesday, they were also asked to weigh in on Initiative 732, a...
November 9, 2016

UN deal aims to curb soaring emissions from airlines

More than 190 nations have committed to offsetting emissions from the aviation sector—one of the fastest-growing sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. But an expert on aviation emissions in British Columbia is skeptical about whether the new United Nations pact will help curb the sector’s...
November 2, 2016

Six Canadian universities partner on groundbreaking health promotion movement

October 26, 2016

The New Age of Urban Partnerships

Cities are increasingly gaining recognition as sites of innovation and global leadership. Part of this increase in notoriety and importance stems from the fact that more people live in cities than at any other time in the past. Global economic restructuring since the 1970s, the spread of...
October 26, 2016

Foundations look to increase impact with responsible investing

With low interest rates and smaller funds for grants, foundations are looking for another way to increase their impact. Business ethics expert Christie Stephenson has noted in the last five years a significant increase in foundations redirecting their endowments from traditional investments to...
October 26, 2016

Living in Canada's greenest city costs a lot of green: where affordability and sustainability meet

Vancouver wants to be the greenest city in the world. But it's also one of the least affordable cities in the world, with the price of an average detached home sitting at about $1.5 million . And this raises an important question: how sustainable can a city be if large sectors of the population can...
October 26, 2016

Unintended consequences: UN signatories meet to ban gas that saved ozone layer

The Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-damaging gases from aerosols, hair spray and air conditioners was one of the modern environmental movement’s great victories. Ratified by every country in the United Nations, the 1987 protocol outlawed ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and was hailed...

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