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Event Series Christmas Tree Recycling

Christmas Tree Recycling

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Recycle your Christmas tree! Proceeds directly support Thunderbird Elementary, a school located in East Vancouver with a high percentage of vulnerable students and families. Garden lessons, provided by SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation), give students the opportunity to observe, learn and connect to their natural world through engaging hands-on activities in their school garden. Our tree chipping fundraiser will […]

Event Series Christmas Tree Recycling

Christmas Tree Recycling

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Recycle your Christmas tree! Proceeds directly support Thunderbird Elementary, a school located in East Vancouver with a high percentage of vulnerable students and families. Garden lessons, provided by SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation), give students the opportunity to observe, learn and connect to their natural world through engaging hands-on activities in their school garden. Our tree chipping fundraiser will […]

Event Series Christmas Tree Recycling

Christmas Tree Recycling

UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Recycle your Christmas tree! Proceeds directly support Thunderbird Elementary, a school located in East Vancouver with a high percentage of vulnerable students and families. Garden lessons, provided by SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation), give students the opportunity to observe, learn and connect to their natural world through engaging hands-on activities in their school garden. Our tree chipping fundraiser will […]

Fashion in the Global South

Online/Virtual Event

Join this webinar to hear what brands in the Global South are doing to promote sustainable fashion futures in their local communities. From Fair Trade principles to real-life women-owned and operated fashion brands, learn about efforts to address sustainability issues related to raw materials, processing, manufacture, and branding.

Free
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UBC Reads Sustainability With Aja Barber

Online/Virtual Event

Featuring Aja Barbers new book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. […]

Free

How Can a Local Brand Be Sustainable?

Online/Virtual Event

Panel event featuring local fashion brands including Knix and more. Featuring presentations from designers, education and outreach staff, and local branch managers.

Free

Where Do My Clothes Come From?

Online/Virtual Event

Learn more about the global fashion supply chain including issues related to worker's rights, colonization, and who gets paid. Hosted by Founder of local non-profit Threading Change, Sophia Yang, introducing her unique take on a feminist fossil-free fashion future, including a new project: The Global Innovation Storymap.

Free

Clothing Repair Workshop

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) 2260 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Drop-in at the Centre for Interactive Research for Sustainability with your old clothing to learn hands-on skills for repair and re-use. No RSVP required.

Free

Youth in Fashion

Online/Virtual Event

Meet youth who work in the fashion sector on amazing projects that aim towards a more sustainable future.

Free

Local, Meet Global

Online/Virtual Event

Meet non-profits tackling issues in the fashion industry based in Vancouver. Featuring presenters from Working Gear, Threading Change, Frameworq, followed by moderated panel discussion.

Free
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Virtual Foraging for Survival

Online/Virtual Event

UBC 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 Event

The 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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