Date and Location: Thu, February 9, 2012 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) Rm 1250
Free. Richard Heinberg: Author, Educator, Speaker, widely regarded as one of the world’s most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, will speak about his new book The End of Growth. Register at http://richardheinberg.eventbrite.com.
The Sustainability Club presents the movie: A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash
Synopsis:
The story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/film.html
Date: Wednesday February 1st
Time: 4:30
Place: CHBE Rm.202
Admission: Free – popcorn and pop for $1
ESSA (environmental Science students) is having a career fair Feb 2nd at 5pm in the Ladha center! Although aimed at current and prospective Environmental Sciences students, all students are welcomed!!
When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Where:ABDUL LADHA SCIENCE STUDENT CENTRE, UBC
Com
mon Energy UBC Presents: eARTh 2012, an art festival taking place in Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS – the most sustainable building in North America) from March 9 to April 6. eARTh 2012 aims to bring together students, faculty, staff, community members, and artists to share in learning about sustainability through creative mediums.
Date: Feb 27- Mar 17
Location: CIRS Atrium
Website
When: Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Where: Forest Sciences Centre 1003
What: TerreWEB Seminar Series – Spring 2012 Theme: Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change
Who: Documentary filmmaker Mark Terry has been producing award-winning films in Canada for more than 20 years. An International Fellow member of The Explorers Club, Mark has travelled the world for his films, achieving the rare feat of setting foot on all seven continents.
His recent work bringing climate research from the polar regions to the United Nations and its environmental policy-makers has been recognized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television when he was given the Gemini Humanitarian Award in 2011. The David Suzuki Foundation also named him a Community Leader.
When: January 26th, 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Where: Forest Sciences Centre 1003
What: TerreWEB Seminar Series – Spring 2012 Theme: Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change Location
Who: As executive director of ACT, the Adaptation to Climate Change Team at SFU, Deborah Harford is responsible for development of the initiative’s vision and its partnerships with the public and private sectors, as well as coordination and management of the program. She also directs and produces ACT’s policy recommendations for adaptation strategies at all levels of government, as well as communication of the program’s outcomes. Deborah’s work with ACT has gained her national recognition as a resource for those seeking information on climate change adaptation and practical coping strategies.
Date and Location: Tue, January 24, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM in McMillan 166
Free. Take a seat and engage with UBC staff members, scholars, residents and students as they discuss the “how,” the “what,” and the “why” of making UBC a positive agent of change for sustainability. The pilot course APSC 364–Applied Sustainability: UBC as a Living Lab welcomes the public to attend as UBC staff members and scholars present and discuss sustainability themes relevant to UBC. The objective of the course is to integrate teaching, learning, and research on sustainability to inform and contribute to long-term strategy development at UBC. Using the campus as a unit of study, this course will explore UBC as a living lab where ideas may be incubated, tested, and realized. Lectures will run on selected Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 – 5:00pm in McMillan 166 beginning January 17th, 2012. All students, staff, faculty, UBC residents and the general public are warmly welcomed! No pre-registration required.
Vancouver Institute Talk
Date: March 10, 2012
Time: 8:15PM
Place: Lecture Hall No. 2 in the Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC
Dr. Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics. His research focuses on the politics of global environmental change, including current projects on sustainable consumption and corporate social responsibility. He has published 9 books and over 50 articles. His books include Timber (with Jane Lister), Paths to a Green World (with Jennifer Clapp), The Shadows of Consumption, winner of the Gerald L. Young Award for the best book authored in 2008 in the field of human ecology, Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific, and Shadows in the Forest, winner of the 1998 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book in global environmental affairs.
