SEEDS Showcase

Student stories, research projects and knowledge exchange events

Welcome to the SEEDS (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) Sustainability Program Showcase. 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. You can find out more about these impact stories here.

Student Stories

News and Events

“The most interesting aspect of working with SEEDS is learning how people from different backgrounds and expertise can work together towards the same goal . . . Therefore, I learned to approach problems from different angles and come up with different solutions. This also poses some challenges, such as how to solve problems while meeting the needs of each team member and client.”

Undergraduate student, Dept of Statistics, Faculty of Science, 2022
  • Recovered Food Buffet
    Recovered Food Buffet

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    Students from an LFS 450 class helped Daniel Chiang, Executive Sous-Chef from UBC Food Services select edible food from three residence kitchens, Sage Restaurant, the Point Grill, and four retail outlets. With this, they created UBC’s first… read more.

  • Campus Botanica
    Campus Botanica

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    For this project, Creative Writing student, Saskia Wolsak, created 120 botanical signs for plant species across campus. Each sign features the name of the plant in Latin, English, and the species’ local language, as well as an unusual fact… read more.

  • Home/Away
    Home/Away

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    Student, Chris Evans, explores the concepts of “refuge”, “home”, and “identity” in this art installation that combines species-specific bird houses with narratives from UBC students who came to Canada as political refugees. Chris hopes that his work… read more.

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