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Bugs with Benefits 2014 UNIBUG Forum – Mar 29, 2014
Saturday March 29, 2014 Douglas College New West Campus Lecture Hall rm. 2201 Light refreshments at 9am Presentations at 10am-12pm Join UNIBUG–the User Network for Insect Biology in the Urban Garden–for a free forum on the ecology of urban gardens, … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, douglas college, ecology, insects
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Job Posting: CRUW Volunteers – due Feb 28
Position Description: The CRUW Program brings Aboriginal youth in foster care together with non--Aboriginal inner city youth to engage in culturally relevant land-- based practices promoting holistic and sustainable urban wellness. Program objectives include: Honouring Our Diversity, and applying ancestral … Continue reading
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Job Posting: CRUW Youth Worker – due Feb 28
Job Description: The CRUW Program brings Aboriginal youth in foster care together with non--Aboriginal inner city youth to engage in culturally relevant land-- based practices promoting holistic and sustainable urban wellness. Program objectives include: Honouring Our Diversity, and applying … Continue reading
Job Posting: CRUW Group Leader – due Feb 28
Job Description: The CRUW Program brings Aboriginal youth in foster care together with non--Aboriginal inner city youth to engage in culturally relevant land-- based practices promoting holistic and sustainable urban wellness. Program objectives include: Honouring Our Diversity, and applying ancestral … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, cruw, indigenous, jobs, ubcfarm
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LFS Dean Search – Student Session
To: Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, Research Associates, Undergraduate Students We have scheduled a session for the undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research associates to meet with each of the two short-listed candidates for the Dean of the Faculty … Continue reading
Study Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba!
LFS 302A (3 cr): International Field Studies in Sustainable Agriculture – Cuba When the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba went from high input monoculture to world leadership in sustainable agriculture virtually overnight. By combining the interactive learning capabilities of an online … Continue reading
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Tagged cuba, international learning, sustainable agriculture
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Tandem UBC Language Exchange Program – registration deadline Jan 16
Want to improve your Spanish? Your English? Your Arabic? Your Mandarin? The Tandem UBC Language Exchange Program pairs you with someone at UBC who speaks this language and who wants to improve in a language that you speak. The registration deadline … Continue reading
Real Food Media Contest – closes Feb 3, 2014
The Real Food Media Contest is seeking short and powerful films–from 30 seconds to four minutes–on food, farming, and sustainability.Contest judges include Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Robert Kenner (Food Inc.), Michael Pollan, Alice Waters, Eric Schlosser, The Food Network’s Padma Lakshmi, Keri … Continue reading
LFS Undergrad Society Seeking Two 1st-Year Reps
Hi First Years! The Land and Food Systems Undergraduate Society (LFS|US) is looking for two (2) First Year Representatives. The duties of a First Year Representative include: – Chairing the LFS First Year committee (Consisting of first year LFS undergraduates) … Continue reading
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Student Internship Opportunities with Food Tank: The Food Think Tank
The Food Tank is an initiative that makes connections and highlights innovations that relate to our food systems. They are offering three opportunities for UBC students. 1. We are developing a resource database to give farmers, nutritionists, professors, chefs, urban gardeners, … Continue reading
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Tagged food think tank, internship
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