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

Nov 3, 2011 - by Prof. Simon Donner

Harnessing nature’s energy to heat an entire campus

Geothermal technology expands to academic buildings on the Okanagan Campus

Nov 3, 2011 - by Darren Handschuh

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.

Nov 3, 2011 - by Brian Kladko

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.

Nov 3, 2011 - by Lorraine Chan

Going green abroad

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

Nov 3, 2011 - by Heather Amos

Turning global problems into solutions

Harnessing sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into cleaner fuels

Nov 3, 2011 - by Lorraine Chan and ErinRose Handy

UBC opens North America’s ‘greenest’ building to advance sustainability research and innovation

UBC has opened the most sustainable building in North America, a $37-million “living laboratory” that will help to regenerate the environment and advance research and innovation on global sustainability challenges.

Nov 3, 2011

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.

Nov 3, 2011

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.

Nov 3, 2011 - by Kera McArthur and Basil Waugh

Engineering a greener future

UBC Master of Clean Energy Engineering students learn in UBC neighborhoods

Nov 3, 2011 - by ErinRose Handy

Window to the future

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

Nov 3, 2011 - by Heather Amos

UBC opens North America’s greenest building

Living laboratory will advance sustainability research and innovation

Nov 3, 2011 - by Basil Waugh

$2.5M gift from UBC alumni to create student engineering design centre

The University of British Columbia opens today on its Vancouver campus the Wayne and William White Engineering Design Centre, which will boost collaboration and hands-on innovation among students from 11 engineering disciplines.

Nov 2, 2011