{"id":11018,"date":"2024-09-13T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2024-09-13T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:26:56","slug":"youre-invited-sustainability-scholars-program-conference-october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-11018","title":{"rendered":"You’re Invited! Sustainability Scholars Program Conference, October 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONFERENCE:<\/strong> RESEARCH TO ACTION: ADVANCING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When:<\/strong> Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

Where:<\/strong> Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), 2260 West Mall, UBC Vancouver<\/p>\n

Registration:<\/strong> Free to all. Registration<\/a> closes October 1.<\/p>\n

What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve?<\/strong><\/p>\n

UBC\u2019s Sustainability Scholars<\/a> are helping to make real change in the world! Join us on October 2 to learn more about what our local governments and institutions are doing to future-proof our people, our cities, our urban spaces, and the Fraser Estuary.<\/p>\n

Be part of an afternoon of engaged discussion on a diverse range of applied sustainability projects<\/a> produced by UBC graduate students in collaboration with our partner organizations, including the City of Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, many other local governments, Vancouver Coastal Health, Translink, and NGOs from across BC.<\/p>\n

Scholars will present their projects in concurrent themed panel sessions throughout the afternoon. Panels will be moderated by experts from UBC and Sustainability Scholars Program partners.<\/p>\n

Keynote Speaker: <\/strong>Andrea Reimer, a strong public voice in the metro region with a focus on working with residents to build green, reconciled, engaged communities and making government easy for the public to access is our keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Panel Themes: <\/strong>Climate Resilience | Carbon | Equity, Justice, Inclusion & Engagement | Urban Ecology & Green Infrastructure | Social Sustainability & Just Transition | Building Resilience | Solar Energy & Energy Reporting | Supply Chain & End of Use Practices<\/p>\n

Conference Website<\/strong>:
\nhttps:\/\/sustain.ubc.ca\/events\/research-action-advancing-urban-sustainability-2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Register here<\/strong>:
\nhttps:\/\/events.humanitix.com\/research-to-action-advancing-urban-sustainability-2024<\/a><\/p>\n

About the Sustainability Scholars Program:<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/sustain.ubc.ca\/teaching-applied-learning\/ubc-sustainability-scholars-program<\/a><\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – – –<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen\u00a0Taylor<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0MA\u00a0(she, her<\/a>)
\nSenior Manager, Sustainability Scholars & Strategic Implementation | Sustainability Hub
\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
\n2343 – 2260 West Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada
\nPhone 604 822 9362 | karen.taylor@ubc.ca<\/a> | https:\/\/sustain.ubc.ca\/scholars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CONFERENCE: RESEARCH TO ACTION: ADVANCING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY 2024 When: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Where: Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), 2260 West Mall, UBC Vancouver Registration: Free to all. Registration closes October 1. What happens when you give bright and engaged students real-world sustainability problems to solve? UBC\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11023,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}