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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 2, 2012

Public Realm

UBC recognizes that improving the quality of our public realm enhances the educational experience and nurtures outdoor learning. It also recognizes that navigating around the Vancouver campus is a bit of a pain right now. In the lead-up to this academic year, a series of new pedestrian pathways,...
November 1, 2012

Totem and Vanier in the Dark

Students in UBC’s Totem Park and Place Vanier residences are ready to Do It in the Dark from November 5 – 23rd. UBC’s 3rd annual energy and water conservation competition will see each residence house compete for bragging rights and prizes by achieving the greatest energy savings or highest...
October 31, 2012

UBC Okanagan students pick fruit for food bank

A dedicated group of UBC Okanagan students are committing their free time this fall to salvage and deliver fresh, local produce to the Kelowna Community Food Bank that would otherwise be left to drop from trees and go to waste. This is the second year the UBC Okanagan Food Rescue Club will be...
October 26, 2012

No strings attached

Film crews from CTV and CBC television were on campus today (October 26) to see firsthand a UBC invention that has the potential to rid the world of pesky electric charging cables. University of British Columbia researcher Lorne Whitehead and his team have invented a safe, efficient technology to...
October 16, 2012

Bioenergy Power Plant Wins Major International Award

A partnership between UBC, Nexterra Systems and General Electric (GE), the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility is a $27-million project that uses new technology to create heat and electricity from clean, woody biomass such as wood chips and the “leftovers” from wood manufacturing plants...
October 10, 2012

A Showcase for Sustainability

For the week of October 15–19, the SUB will be transformed into a gallery of sustainability. Every day the main floor will house the New SUB Sustainability Art Showcase, an exhibition of four working prototypes designed to engage UBC students in thinking about sustainability. The four prototypes...
October 5, 2012

Lights, Camera...Sustainable Set Design

By Loren Plottel UBC’s newest film professor Garvin Eddy has worked in Hollywood long enough to learn more than a few dirty secrets. One of those, says the Emmy-winning set designer of such classic TV shows as The Cosby Show, Rosanne, and That 70’s Show, is that many of the sets are built of wood...
October 2, 2012

Sustainable Buildings, Beyond the Label

By Thomas Bevan Sustainable here, go green there: these slogans dominate real estate brochures around our cities. But what do these statements actually mean with regards to the net impact of buildings on surrounding ecosystems? What evidence is there that supports these claims? A collaborative...
September 27, 2012

Social venture incubator a recipe for success

Founded a year ago by Chantelle Buffie and Sonam Swarup, Fusion Kitchen is a social venture that empowers and integrates recently arrived immigrant women by employing them to teach cooking classes. “By sharing their cultural background and favourite dishes, our teachers gain work experience and...
September 25, 2012

Green Research Activities and Events

Quarterly Lunch and Learns, green research activities, tours and a chance to win great prizes – find out how you can get involved in UBC’s Green Research Program. The Green Research Program is switching things up a bit for the 2012/13 school year. We’re replacing our annual workshop with three...

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