Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Mar. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: Aboriginal, Dept. of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, indigenous people, international, Janette Bulkan, land, sustainability
New UBC Prof. Janette Bulkan will focus on the issues facing indigenous and community forestry
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Mar. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: Alan Kingstone, Alessandra DiGiacomo, Centre For Interactive Research on Sustainability, David Wu, Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Student Union Building, sustainability, University Sustainability Initiative
A UBC study finds that the greener the building, the greener its inhabitants
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Mar. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories, University News | Tags: cities, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, Development and Alumni Engagement, Faculty of Forestry, forest, Sara Barron, stephen sheppard, sustainability, trees, urban forestry, urban planning
Future Forests Fellowship winner Sara Barron will study the impact of nature on suburbia
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Feb. 28, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed, University News | Tags: B.C., business, Campus and Community Planning, industry, innovation, jobs, KPMG, Metro Vancouver, rapid transit, regional planning, Stephen Toope, sustainability, Translink, transportation, UBC-Broadway Corridor
The City of Vancouver and UBC today released a KPMG study that shows the employment and population of the UBC/Broadway corridor will grow by 150,000 in the next 30 years and a rail-based rapid transit system is needed to meet the corridor’s population growth and significant economic potential.
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Feb. 17, 2013 | Filed under: Media Release, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, conservation, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, greenhouse gas emission, john richardson, nature geoscience, ponds, predators, research, streams, sustainability, trisha atwood
University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Feb. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories, University News | Tags: Bern Klein, Brian Lin, business, CIDA, environment, ErinRose Handy, Faculty of Applied Science, international engagement, Jeffrey Selder, marcello veiga, mining, Normal B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, research excellence, Silvana Costa, sustainability
How UBC engineers are leading a more sustainable approach to resource extraction
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Feb. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Science, Health and Technology, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: City of Vancouver, climate change, Greenest Scholars Program, Katie O’Callaghan, pollution, School of Community and Regional Planning, studentlife, sustainability, University Sustainability Initiative, Vancouver Police Dept.
Grad student helps the VPD to reduce squad car emissions
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Feb. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Media Release, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: bioenergy, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, David Flanders, facilities, Faculty of Forestry, forest fires, forests, heat, rural, sustainability, wood waste
For B.C. communities considering investing in a bioenergy heating system, it can be expensive and time-consuming to weigh the pros and cons.
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Feb. 5, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Media Release, News Feed | Tags: climate change, Dept. of Geography, Faculty of Arts, global warming, media, politics, Simon Donner, sustainability
A UBC study of American attitudes toward climate change finds that local weather – temperature, in particular – is a major influence on public and media opinions on the reality of global warming.
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Jan. 18, 2013 | Filed under: Media Release, University News | Tags: $1 billion, aid, business, Development and Alumni Engagement, fundraising, Robert Lee, start an evolution, students, sustainability, UBC
The University of British Columbia’s start an evolution campaign crossed the $1 billion mark and is now two-thirds of the way toward its fundraising and alumni engagement targets – to raise $1.5 billion and to involve 50,000 alumni annually in the life of the university by 2015.
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