Youth in Fashion
Online/Virtual EventMeet youth who work in the fashion sector on amazing projects that aim towards a more sustainable future.
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Subject – Learning And Research – Sustainability
Local, Meet Global
Online/Virtual EventMeet non-profits tackling issues in the fashion industry based in Vancouver. Featuring presenters from Working Gear, Threading Change, Frameworq, followed by moderated panel discussion.
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Virtual Foraging for Survival
Online/Virtual EventUBC Farm invites you to *Online* Virtual Foraging for Survival. This event is one of several food skills education workshops featured in the UBC Farm 2022 Community Workshop series. For a detailed event description and to register, please visit: https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/events/event/online-virtual-foraging-for-survival/
$45
Subsidizing extinction: Subsidies, Sustainable Development Goals and the World Trade Organization
Online/Virtual EventThe ocean and biodiversity support our life, yet both are being degraded by direct (e.g. overexploitation, climate change) and indirect (e.g., unsustainable consumption) drivers. A key policy-related driver of ocean and terrestrial biodiversity degradation is harmful subsidies, i.e., government transfers to an economic sector, such as fishing and oil and gas, that lead to artificially […]
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Veggie Gardening 101
Online/Virtual EventUBC Farm invites you to *Online* Veggie Gardening 101. This event is one of several food skills education workshops featured in the UBC Farm 2022 Community Workshop series. For a detailed event description and to register, please visit: https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/events/event/online-veggie-gardening-101-2/
$18
Many hands make light work: crowd-sourcing reveals population status for Weddell seals in Antarctica
Online/Virtual EventThe Weddell seal is a fast-ice-obligate, mesopredator found around the Antarctic coastline. Traditional methods of understanding population abundance, including shipboard or aerial transects, are cost-prohibitive and risky, so we combined high-resolution satellite imagery (VHR) with the web platform, Tomnod, to conduct a citizen science campaign to: 1) determine where seals are present, 2) estimate abundance […]
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Starting Your Own Seedlings
Online/Virtual EventUBC Farm invites you to *Online* Starting Your Own Seedlings. This event is one of several food skills education workshops featured in the UBC Farm 2022 Community Workshop series. For a detailed event description and to register, please visit: https://ubcfarm.ubc.ca/events/event/online-starting-your-own-seedlings-2/
$18
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Extreme Weather 2021: A Snapshot of BC’s Future?
Online/Virtual EventIt started with a deadly heat dome that settled over the Pacific Northwest back in June 2021. That was followed by a devastating wildfire season, and that was followed by one of the worst flood disasters this province has ever seen. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe will take you through these unprecedented events, and what that may […]
Help us shape UBC’s next Zero Waste Action Plan
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) 2260 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAs part of the goals for UBC's Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP 2030), UBC will be updating its Zero Waste Action Plan to more strongly prioritize emissions reductions and circular economy opportunities including sustainable procurement and reuse. In March 2022, we are holding a university-wide engagement process on the Zero Waste Action Plan update. The […]
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Tamamta (All of Us): Indigenizing and Decolonizing Fisheries Education, Research, and Governance in Alaska
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaSPEAKERS: Dr. Jessica Black and Dr. Courtney Carothers, University of Alaska Fairbanks Motivated by deep inequities, Indigenous erasure, and systemic racism against Alaska Native people and Tribal sovereignty, the Tamamta program seeks to transform education, research, governance systems in Alaska and beyond. We envision a future where Indigenous Peoples and our/their knowledge and governance systems […]
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Help us shape UBC’s next Zero Waste Action Plan – Virtual
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) 2260 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAs part of the goals for UBC's Climate Action Plan 2030 (CAP 2030), UBC will be updating its Zero Waste Action Plan to more strongly prioritize emissions reductions and circular economy opportunities including sustainable procurement and reuse. In March 2022, we are holding a university-wide engagement process on the Zero Waste Action Plan update. The […]
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Dean’s Distinguished Lecture: Climate Justice and Educational Responsibility
Online/Virtual EventThe distinguished lecture series highlights ongoing work in the Faculty of Education and beyond to address some of society’s most pressing problems. Join Dr. Jan Hare, Dean pro tem of the Faculty of Education, as she engages Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis in conversation. Following the distinguished lecture, the Association of Canadian Deans of Education […]