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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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June 7, 2013

UBC Reads Sustainability

Justin Ritchie, the AMS Sustainability Coordinator, compares the UBC Reads Sustainability project to a book club—with one important difference. “There’s not that kind of guilt trip there for not reading the book,” he says, laughing. UBC Reads Sustainability is an initiative that’s part book club,...
June 7, 2013

Students Reap Benefits From Volunteering

By Terry Wintonyk A volunteer dentistry mission to India has taught four UBC students to see the whole patient—including his or her social and economic context, cultural beliefs and values—not just the ailing tooth. In December, fourth-year dentistry students Akashdeep Villing, Amandeep Hans,...
June 7, 2013

Building Sustainability Technology course

By Thomas Bevan Sustainable building science has garnered significant attention from students and researchers, who want to improve the way we design, construct, operate, and disassemble our built environment. However, many academic institutions do not have access to the resources, infrastructure...
June 7, 2013

A Fresh Take on a Life-Sustaining Resource

UBC Professor John Richardson, along with his co-instructor Professor Scott Hinch, provides students with the opportunity to engage in what he calls “the most critical resource for sustaining humans” through their course on freshwater ecosystems. Through their Aquatic Ecosystems course, Prof...
June 7, 2013

English and the global citizen: A win-win combination

“Although they came from Korea, Belgium, China, Brazil, and Thailand, they researched and debated the expansion so passionately one would have thought the pipeline was in their backyards” says Victoria Brown, English Language Institute (ELI) Instructor. “For a unit on climate change, my class...
June 7, 2013

More than a Feeling

By Thomas Bevan Although many resources go into the design, construction and operation of a physical building, this may not be a complete package for creating great places to live, work and play. Julia Reckermann, a masters student in UBC’s Sustainable Building Science Program (SBSP), thinks it is...
June 3, 2013

New Life in Old Growth Forests

By Heather Amos A birder, mountaineer and backcountry skier, Spanish-born Carlos Molina is a natural for the West Coast. But it wasn’t the call of the wild that brought him to B.C.—it was Europe’s economic crisis. In 2008, at the height of the financial meltdown, Molina began looking for a change...
June 3, 2013

Honouring Environmental Leadership

By Salina Marshall It may be obvious, but it’s true: fighting for a better world requires hard work. Tzeporah Berman, who is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of British Columbia on May 23, knows just how challenging it can be. “Doing this work is difficult. Social change isn’...
June 1, 2013

Lighting Up the Museum

The first thing you see is a dazzling map of the world made from thousands of crystals. There are no countries or borders, just green land and blue sea, glittering intensely. This is One World — Yek Donia, an artwork by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri, part of “Safar: Voyage,” a new show of...
May 2, 2013

Cultivating Ecosensitivity

By Paul Marck Call her a champion of plant poetics, wielding a scythe to shear down barriers between the humanities and sciences. Sonnet L’Abbé is on a mission, an eco poet in bloom. Graduating with a PhD in English Literature, she fuses poetry with plant science in a bid for literary distinction...

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