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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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September 22, 2016

UBC Earns Global Sustainability Award for Student Engagement

In time for the start of the new academic year, UBC’s SEEDS Sustainability Program was recognized with a global Green Gown Award for Student Engagement. The award seeks to recognize university and college sustainability leadership across the world. Facilitated by the Global Universities Partnership...
September 15, 2016

Structure of UBC’s Tall Wood Building Now Complete

September 15, 2016

Green Buildings 101

September 15, 2016

Future Fisheries Can Expect $10-Billion Revenue Loss Due to Climate Change

September 15, 2016

Wellbeing in the workplace helps us live, work better

At UBC, we champion wellbeing as integral to our continued excellence as a post-secondary institution and to create happier, healthier, and more sustainable communities, both on our campuses and beyond. For UBC staff, as well as many other Canadians, the workplace is where we spend a substantial...
September 15, 2016

Keeping a foot on the gas pedal: the state of renewables in 2016

Canada continues to make gains when it comes to the share of renewable power resources in energy portfolios across the country, but storm winds are brewing. That’s according to a recent op-ed from researchers at Clean Energy Canada, who say it’s time to step on the gas pedal at a “pivotal” moment...
September 15, 2016

China, U.S. ratify Paris agreement in major climate change milestone

China and the United States have both formally ratified the Paris climate change agreement, marking a major step toward the implementation of the global pact. U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the decision in China on Sept. 3. “Just as I believe the Paris agreement will ultimately prove to be a...
August 26, 2016

UBC Students Explore Ways to Reduce Food Waste

Globally, approximately one third of the food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted each year. At the same time, almost a billion people go hungry. In dollar amount, that equates to some $680 billion in losses in industrialized countries alone. In Canada, a 2014 report suggests that...
August 26, 2016

UBC's Green Building Plan

Mike van der Laan is a Planning Analyst with UBC and alongside Campus + Community Planning collegues is involved in a process to develop UBC's Green Building Plan. Over the next year the campus community will be engaged to build on UBC's pioneering leadership in sustainability and shape the future...
August 25, 2016

A Gold Medal for a Climate Neutral Games?

With the successful completion of the Rio Olympic games it is valuable to reflect on what has been achieved in terms of the contribution of the event to the sustainability agenda: one of the pillars of the Games. In the past, the Games were criticised by environmental groups for wasting resources...

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