Are you curious to see what a SEEDS project looks like in real life? Discover how students, faculty, staff and community partners are using the SEEDS Sustainability Program to address sustainability issues across a broad range of themes.
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SEEDS Project Highlight: Exploring Wildlife-Inclusive Environments & Coexistence with Bats on UBC Campus
Written by: Timothy Wong, An Hoang, Hannah Griebling and Georgia Stanley Pictured: The new free-standing bat box recently installed in front of the UBC Opera House. The dual box design allows for different temperature conditions throughout the different chambers, which bats can move between depending on their preferences. Photo Credit: An Hoang. Hanging with Bats… read more
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Research Spotlight: Tree Inventory
Along Main Mall, within building courtyards, and everywhere in between, trees play an important part in providing essential ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration and mitigating the urban heat island effect. In order to conduct meaningful research and analysis of trees on campus, baseline data neeeds to be collected and available to researchers and planners.… read more
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Assessing the Impact of the New Climate-Friendly Food label on UBC’s Campus
This first UBC Climate-Friendly Food System Label research project was carried out in three main phases from Summer 2021 to May 2022, where the research teams tested different icon iterations’ impact on the UBC community behaviour. read more
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UBC Introduces its First Climate-Friendly Food System Label
This innovative multi-actor project was made possible thanks to the skills, passion, and commitment of the students and faculty members through a strong collaboration with Food Services supported by the Climate-Friendly Food System Action Team, working over the past years to develop, pilot and evaluate UBC’s first Climate-Friendly Food System (CFFS) Label in food outlets… read more
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The Value of Research in Creating Bird-Friendly Campuses
Cross-posted from FLAP Canada, originally written by Dr. Krista De Groot — a Landbird Biologist and the BC Breeding Bird Survey Coordinator with Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada. High collision mortality was documented during winter and migration spurs conservation action at the University of British Columbia. We recorded 152 collision deaths at… read more
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David Suzuki Foundation’s Butterflyway Project: A SEEDS Citizen Science Collaboration
Cross-posted from the UBC Botanical Garden’s Sustainability Blog UBC biology student Alex Wong shares his insights from working with the citizen science project, the Butterflyway Project, and the importance of citizen science in nurturing people’s love for nature and involvement in conservation. In late 2020, a collaborative effort between UBC Botanical Garden, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF),… read more
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Recovered Food Buffet
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 ever buffet meal created entirely from recovered food. This SEEDS project also led to the first ever partnership… read more
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Campus Botanica
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 about that plant. The project combines perspectives from the sciences, history, anthropology, poetry and literature to create this engaging… read more
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Home/Away
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 encourages the UBC community to, “think about their own connections to the natural environment, and to engage with… read more