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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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Winning the Gold Prize and taking the top spot, Sons of Sustainability won over the judges with Ignite the Rider Inside, a project aimed at increasing engagement in Bike to Work Week by targeting faculty members as agents of change. Q. You recently won the Sustainability Challenge. How did you get...
As a Senior Instructor in the Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Science, with a research background reconstructing past climate change, Tara connects Environmental Science students with the broader community through community service learning projects. Q. What is the current state of the...
A recent report by University of British Columbia Master of Arts (Planning) candidate, Tina Barisky, finds that addressing the rising sea levels caused by climate change requires a different approach from some of the more usual planning issues. Vancouver was named the world’s 11 th coastal city...
Stately heritage homes are a dying breed in B.C., fast becoming victims of Vancouver’s changing housing landscape. Now, that trend is gaining some international profile. Earlier this month, a photographer captured a shot that’s becoming one of the defining images of B.C.’s topsy-turvy real estate...
“A city with Uber will be a more prosperous city.” So spoke Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on his company’s fifth anniversary last June. At the time, the ride-sharing service had 26,000 drivers in New York, 15,000 in London and 22,000 in San Francisco. In Vancouver, however, there are none. Uber...
This article by Yael Boyd originally appeared in The Ubyssey on 15 March 2016. According to the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program , at least 1.5 million disposable coffee cups are generated on campus each year. In 2015, UBC’s largest and most active student sustainability organization, Common Energy...
In a post-Paris Climate Conference (COP21) world, the global community is increasingly looking to cities for their continued leadership in addressing climate action. The increased focus on cities is not surprising. Major contributors to climate change, cities are responsible for consumption of 78...

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