UBC opens North America’s greenest building

Living laboratory will advance sustainability research and innovation

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Window to the future

A theatre in the new CIRS allows users to experience future scenarios

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Engineering a greener future

UBC Master of Clean Energy Engineering students learn in UBC neighborhoods

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Build it and they will stay

The signs of a growing residential community on UBC's Vancouver campus are everywhere, but numbers speak even louder to the sustainability aspirations of UTown@UBC.

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UBC's roadmap to zero emissions

UBC—essentially, a city of 70,000 people—is taking steps to completely eliminate institutional greenhouse gases in Vancouver by 2050.

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Turning global problems into solutions

Harnessing sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into cleaner fuels

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Going green abroad

Students learn through partnership with China’s top green building developer

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Growing social sustainability at UBC Farm

The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm hosts a number of indigenous food security initiatives that are seeding social sustainability through the elements of water, earth and community.

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Public health professor pursues tuition-free online university

As UBC and other universities strive to reduce their greenhouse emissions over the coming decades, one faculty member is determined to hit a far more ambitious goal – creating a completely carbon-free university, now.

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Harnessing nature’s energy to heat an entire campus

Geothermal technology expands to academic buildings on the Okanagan Campus

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outtakes

Reflections on academic life. A UBC expert participates in Al Gore’s 24-hour climate reality project

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In the news

Highlights of UBC 's work on sustainability—environmental, social, financial—in the media

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