Plug Yourself into UBC Research: a Series for Undergraduate Students
Online/Virtual EventMeet the people that make UBC a top-40 research university and explore how you can get involved.
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Transition Anxiety and the Art/Work of Harm Reduction
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British ColumbiaThis workshop is a space to question our melancholic attachments to fossil fuels and the versions of colonial modernity that they underwrite. When we avoid or deny these attachments, we advertently or inadvertently resist transition and transformation. As the damages of greenhouse gas emissions worsen, these emotional and psychological delays alongside socio-political ones exacerbate harm. […]
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Trivia Night
Koerner Plaza 1958 Main Mall, Vancouver, British ColumbiaBring your friends and your sustainability knowledge to Koerner's Pub to compete for awesome prizes! *Note: There is an entrance fee of $5 to attend, but all proceeds will be given to FreshRoots! https://freshroots.ca/ About Common energy: Common Energy UBC is one of the most active student-run sustainability organization on campus. We are made up of […]
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Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire
Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British ColumbiaWe are pleased to welcome writer and organizer Harsha Walia on April 6th for a talk on climate migration, racial capitalism, and border imperialism. Harsha Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for over two decades, including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and the DTES Women’s Memorial March Committee. She […]
Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Andrew Weaver
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British ColumbiaPart of the PWIAS Catalyst Program Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Dr. Andrew Weaver, Professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria Over the last century, scientific understanding of the causes and consequences of global warming has evolved to the point that it is, for all […]
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