What is sustainability at UBC?
Sustainability is a multi-faceted concept. On our website, we say that it is a term that defines us and how we interact with the world. But what does that mean? What is sustainability at UBC? In order to be able to answer that question coherently, we have started a project to define key messages that we can employ to convey UBC’s specific type of focus, achievements and vision for sustainability.
A key premise of our activities at the USI is that there exists a vibrant sustainability community at UBC, and a big part of our job is to reflect, support and foster the wide array of research, teaching and operational activities already going on. So we want to reach out to students, faculty, staff, campus residents, and the sustainability research community more generally, and ask you what you think sustainability means at UBC.
The survey can be found at http://tinyurl.com/4unwhux, or on our website at http://www.sustain.ubc.ca, and will take about 15 minutes to complete. (You might win an iPad.)
The results of this survey, together with a number of other methods of soliciting views with different audiences, will help us to refine our messaging about sustainability at UBC. It will also give us a better sense of your thoughts on this topic, and what we need to do to better fulfill the goals of USI.