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Built Environment & Mobility
Climate Change & Energy
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.

Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Sustainability Ambassadors take climate action outreach to Science World

Climate Change & Energy
Human Well-being & Social Systems
Policy, Economics & Governance

The Downtown Eastside Talks Climate with UBC’s CLEAR Project

Built Environment & Mobility
Human Well-being & Social Systems

Well-to-wake: decarbonizing BC’s maritime industry

Climate Change & Energy
Policy, Economics & Governance

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A podcast series on sustainability and climate action brought to you by the Sustainability Hub. In each episode, we’ll introduce you to what a UBC faculty member is doing to advance sustainability and climate action through research and teaching, and they’ll tell you what they want you to DO with all this new knowledge.

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Wish you could grow some bok choy in your garden, but don’t have a clue how? There’s a social venture that can help with that. According to a UBC report , the number of social ventures has grown by over a third since 2015. However, issues such as not tracking social impact and a disproportionate...
The heats for the men’s 200m in the Rio Olympics are now famous for the smiling bromance between Andre DeGrasse and Usain Bolt. Bolt crossed the line almost shoulder to shoulder with his protégé. In the finals, he showed his dominance by crossing the line a couple of lengths ahead and still made it...
The 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro opened with a rallying cry for the environmental movement—a welcome ceremony that featured powerful messages about deforestation, climate change and rising sea levels. But what of the environmental impact of the games themselves? Turns out, measuring...
They are the stuff of sci-fi blockbusters, and soon, they could be coming to a highway near you. In recent years, auto and tech companies have been racing to put the first driverless cars on the road. And last week, Uber announced that its first fleet of autonomous vehicles will be deployed in...
Gaving Pattman, a Work Learn student in Arts, and the Green Building Tour Coordinator, shares his perspective on Green Buildings, and how he thinks we can all contribute to a more sustainable future. Q. What is a Green Building? A green building is a building that is designed to have minimal...
Jennifer Sanguinetti, Director of Project Services with the Infrastructure Development team, explains Green Buildings, and details how universities have an important role to play in Green Building design. Q. What’s your role or area of expertise? I work in the Infrastructure Development team as the...
Brady Faught is a Greenest City (GC) Scholar working with the City of Vancouver Green Buildings Team. He shares with us how Heat Recovery Ventilators (a specific type of ventilation system that is a focus of his internship project) play a key role in green buildings sustainability. Buildings...
In light of UBC receiving the International District Energy Association Award for Innovation for the Bio-energy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF), David Woodson , Managing Director of Energy and Water Services , explains what made the BRDF stand out and how it helps UBC advance its...
As UBC releases its Carbon Neutral Action Report , an update on its climate action initiatives, we sat down with John Madden, Director of Sustainability and Engineering, Campus and Community Planning, to understand what goes into making our campus carbon neutral. Q. UBC recently released its Carbon...
Would you buy low carbon yoghurt? A new study in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics suggests that marketing how a product gets to market could have big implications for how we fight climate change. The study, conducted by researchers from Arizona State University and the...

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