photo by Mylene Bressan
The UBC Sustainability Office
http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/
In 1997, UBC became the country’s first university to implement a sustainable development policy. A year later, Canada’s first Campus Sustainability Office was opened at UBC. Today, in areas ranging from academia to waste reduction, thousands of campus community members are working towards a more sustainable future through a variety of creative initiatives in the fields of energy management, green buildings, paper reduction, waste reduction, alternative transport and many others.
Student Electronic Network for Sustainability Education (SENSE)
http://www.sustain.ubc.ca/sense2/index.htm
SENSE is a website that provides an overview of UBC courses and programs and their relationship to sustainability.
The UBC Farm
http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/ubcfarm/
Sustainable Development Research Initiative
http://www.sdri.ubc.ca/
To us, sustainability requires an reconciliation of the ecological imperative to stay within the carrying capacity of the planet, the economic imperative to provide an adequate standard of living for all, and the social imperative to develop forms of governance that promote the values people want to live by. We believe that how that reconciliation should be done in any specific region or case can best be determined by participatory processes of community engagement that involve multiple stakeholders thinking through the choices and trade-offs facing their community. SDRI consists of a core group of faculty, staff and graduate students committed to working together in support of this approach.
The Learning City
http:// www.learningcity.gnwc.ca
The Learning City is an inter-institutional project of SFU, UBC, ECIAD, and BCIT that intends to reorient higher education toward sustainability by creating classrooms that engage with real world problems and events. It aims to implement and reflect on higher education’s growing commitment to social change and community service. The effort is part of the 2005-2014 UNESCO Decade for Education for Sustainable Development.
UBC EE Related Theses
Recreating the university from within: Sustainability and transformation in higher education.
Janet Moore, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Curriculum Studies, UBC
http://www3.telus.net/janetmoore/