UBC Sustainability

What does sustainability mean to you?


Explore individual and collaborative approaches to sustainability and how to contribute to human and environmental wellbeing during your time at UBC.

The UBC Sustainability Initiative and Campus + Community Planning, along with hundreds of staff, faculty, and students, work together to advance Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

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Introduction to Sustainability at UBC

Learn all UBC Sustainability projects, plans, and policies, and ways to get involved (10 mins).

Sustainability Ambassadors Program

The Sustainability Ambassadors Program is a leadership experience for students interested in personal, collaborative, and community engaged learning.

As an Ambassador, you will work as part of a team to educate UBC students about sustainability, encourage student engagement with sustainability, and connect sustainability groups on campus.

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SEEDS Sustainability Program

SEEDS creates applied research and interdisciplinary partnerships between students, faculty, staff and community partners to advance sustainability ideas, policies, and practices and create societal impacts by using the Campus as a Living Laboratory.

The SEEDS Sustainability Program provides an applied learning experience through collaboration with faculty members, staff, and community partners.

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Sustainability Scholars Program

The Sustainability Scholars Program is an innovative paid internship program. We match UBC graduate students with on- and off-campus sustainability partners to work on applied research projects that advance sustainability across the region.

The program is open to full-time UBC graduate students from any program or discipline. As a Sustainability Scholar, you work under the guidance of a mentor on an applied research project that supports their organization's sustainability goals.

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Take Action Tips

You have the passion and ideas to make your world more sustainable. These "take action tips" will help you get there. Find out more about tips, tricks and tools to support your efforts.

UBC has ambitious energy, waste, water conservation, and climate action goals. Help us reach them by doing your part.

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Join a student group

If you are a UBC student looking to get involved with sustainability, consider joining one of the many volunteer-run student clubs, organizations and initiatives on campus.

Student Groups

Rooftop gardens, bike kitchens, climate nerds, engineers, environmental law, First Nations studies, gender, race, sexuality and social justice, parks and planning, vegans of UBC. There's a group for everyone.

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Sustainability Student Network

The Sustainability Student Network is a community of students who want to get involved in sustainability. Get connected with meaningful sustainability-related opportunities, and gain professional experience.

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Student Sustainability Council

The Student Sustainability Council brings together members of sustainability-related student groups to provide feedback on campus projects, programs, and initiatives by UBC staff and faculty.

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