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A follow-up to “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

The Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association is presenting the
Vancouver premier of “Revenge of the Electric Car”. Director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.

WHERE
International Village Cinemas
(Tinseltown)
88 West Pender
Vancouver BC

WHEN
Thursday, Jan.12th, 2012 (the day after sustainability club’s showing of “Who killed the electric car”)
6:30pm

The movie begins at 6:30, to be followed by a 30min speaker panel. Some
electric vehicles will also be on display.

Tickets are $12. Purchase in advance here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/216294

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Sustainability Focused International Volunteer Placements

GO GLOBAL
Did you know that UBC offers opportunities for students to gain experience in creating a sustainable future? International Service Learning, offered through Go Global, is a unique program that combines volunteering and hands-on learning in global issues like food security, ecology, and HIV/AIDS prevention. The application deadline for Reading Week and Summer placements is November 20, 2012. Funding is available. For more information visit the Go Global website.

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Art With Energy Exibition

A one-night-only group exhibition exploring energy through art of many different disiplines; paintings, performance sculpture, photography, and digital sound installations.

Date: December 15th, 2011
Time: 7-11PM
Location: Great Northern Way Campus (577  G.N.W., Vancouver)
Cost: Entrance by Donation

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Harnessing Technological Innovation for a Carbon-free Future

Free Public Lecture #3

Dr. David Wilkinson from UBC and Dr. Elicia Maine of SFU will share their thoughts on “Harnessing Technological Innovation for a Carbon-free Future.” Join us for this climate-solutions discussion on the role new innovative technology can play in a sustainable carbon-free future, and some of the challenges to its commercialization. In some cases, innovative technology can go a long way to addressing political, social, economic, policy and interconnected issues. This event will be moderated by Dr. Paul Evans, Director, Institute for Asian Research, UBC and Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, (PICS) program committee member.

When: Thursday, November 24, 2011 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Where: Rm 1300-1500, Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
Register: www.picspubliclecture3.eventbrite.com (free of charge and open to the public)

Live Web Stream: www.pics.uvic.ca/events.php
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New Sustainability Course

The world needs change agents fluent in sustainability dialogue and action. Seven profs from Arts, Applied Science, Medicine and beyond want to help you think and act in new ways.

UBC offers new Sustainability 101 course

UBC is launching a new 3-credit introductory course in sustainability that is accessible, multidisciplinary and applied. This innovative new course integrates experiential, self-directed, and team-based learning and has no prerequisites.

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Homo sapiens: Repeat Offender A presentation by Ronald Wright

Part of the Biodiversity Lecture Series

Monday December 5th 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm at the Woodward Library

FREE. The history of civilization has seen the growth of humankind at the expense of other species, especially in recent centuries. Yet our civilization depends on the health and diversity of eco-systems and of the Earth itself. Ronald Wright will discuss this predicament, our sorry record, and prospects for reform.

Ronald Wright is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and historian. His nine books include the bestseller Stolen Continents, winner of the Gordon Montador Award and chosen as a book of the year by the Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, A Scientific Romance, won the 1997 David Higham Prize for Fiction and was chosen a book of the year by the Globe and Mail, the Sunday Times, and the New York Times.

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Sustainable Cities: a question of culture?

Wednesday November 30th 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm at University Center building Room 106

Free & Open to the public

Sponsored by the Office of Research Services, the Research Tea Break Speaker Series is a showcase of the many types of research occurring on campus. Speakers in this series provide a half-hour presentation of their research, followed by an interactive discussion between the speaker and the audience.

This series continues in November with a talk by Bernard Momer, associate professor of geography, giving his talk Sustainable cities: a question of culture? This talk will begin with a brief journey through the evolution of cities in the Western World followed by a discussion examining the links between planning, sustainability and culture.

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The Clean Bin Project Documentary Screening

The Clean Bin Project is a popular sustainability documentary about two people who took the initiative to successfully live a waste free year!

Want to learn about YOUR environmental impact on Earth (and how to reduce it)? Do you like movies, snacks and prizes? Then come out to the documentary screening of The Clean Bin Project hosted by CUS Sustainability for FREE!
Time: Thursday, November 17 6:00pm- 9:00pm
Location: HA 491 Henry Angus (Sauder Building), UBC

Register now at http://bit.ly/vVqmpB

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Official Opening of the CIRS Building

The CIRS (Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability) building is the most innovative and high performance building in North America. The CIRS building goes beyond LEEDS platinum, is a net producer of energy, processes all waste water on site and will sequester more carbon over it’s lifetime than was produced during construction.

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
Address: 2260 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C.

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Walmart Green Student Challenge

“Some of today’s greatest business minds got their big ideas on campus and Walmart Canada believes the next big green leader with the next big green idea could be a student. We know that business can be stronger while also being more environmentally sustainable, so we’re inviting post-secondary students from across Canada to submit their best sustainable business idea to the Walmart Green Student Challenge.The winner will take home $30,000 for themselves, and $30,000 for their school.” Register Here

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