Category: Sustainability

SHCS sustainable holidays guide

Posted by Hoi Ying Yu | Nov 28, 2025 | Climate Action, SHCS, Sustainability | 0

Empowering students: Residence Sustainability Enha...

Posted by Jackie Hunter | Apr 17, 2025 | Climate Action, SHCS, Student Housing, Sustainability | 0

Cooking in two worlds

Posted by Mike McGhee | Apr 16, 2025 | Food Services, Indigeneity, SHCS, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Introducing sʔitwənx: UBC Okanagan Child Care

Posted by Kristen Thompson | Nov 7, 2024 | Buildings, Child Care, Indigeneity, Okanagan, SHCS, Sustainability, Syilx | 0

SHCS Shoreline Cleanup 2024

Posted by Erin Harley | Jun 12, 2024 | Events, Food Services, Marketing & Communications, Occupational Health & Safety, Our People, OWC, Purchasing, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Aligning our climate actions: SHCS CAP 2030 commit...

Posted by Mike McGhee | Apr 15, 2024 | Climate Action, SHCS, Sustainability | 0

SHCS sustainable holidays guide

by Hoi Ying Yu | Nov 28, 2025 | Climate Action, SHCS, Sustainability | 0

Check out this great guide by Hoi Ying Yu, Associate Director, Ancillary Procurement, to help you keep the holiday season a little easier on the earth—and your bank account!

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Empowering students: Residence Sustainability Enhancement Fund

by Jackie Hunter | Apr 17, 2025 | Climate Action, SHCS, Student Housing, Sustainability | 0

Find out how we’re empowering students in residence to take sustainability and climate action—plus additional work we’re doing to significantly reduce our operational emissions and waste.

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Cooking in two worlds

by Mike McGhee | Apr 16, 2025 | Food Services, Indigeneity, SHCS, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Learn about this unique gathering, a partnership between Food Services and Vancouver Community College, along with Jared Qwustenuxun Williams.

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Introducing sʔitwənx: UBC Okanagan Child Care

by Kristen Thompson | Nov 7, 2024 | Buildings, Child Care, Indigeneity, Okanagan, SHCS, Sustainability, Syilx | 0

sʔitwənx, our newest child care centre, opened on the Okanagan campus in early-November. Learn all about it, view photos and find out how to pronounce the new nsyilxcən names.

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SHCS Shoreline Cleanup 2024

by Erin Harley | Jun 12, 2024 | Events, Food Services, Marketing & Communications, Occupational Health & Safety, Our People, OWC, Purchasing, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Check out photos and learn more about this year’s shoreline cleanup at Wreck Beach, organized by Chef Hoang Nguyen and the Outstanding Workplace Committee

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Aligning our climate actions: SHCS CAP 2030 committee

by Mike McGhee | Apr 15, 2024 | Climate Action, SHCS, Sustainability | 0

Learn more about the committee, who’s on it and our new climate action framework.

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Debra Eng: reducing our energy use and emissions

by Mike McGhee | Nov 21, 2023 | Climate Action, Facilities & Building Services, Innovation, Our People, Student Housing, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Meet Debra Eng, our Ancillary Energy Manager, and learn more about how she’s working to reduce energy use in our buildings. Plus, get Debra’s energy saving tips for work—and home!

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Celebrating sustainability and climate action in SHCS

by Mike McGhee | Mar 31, 2023 | 5-Year Plan, Climate Action, Innovation, SHCS, Sustainability, UBC | 0

Learn more and join us in celebrating all the incredible achievements from this past year.

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Land to Table at UBCO Food Services

by Kristen Thompson | Aug 23, 2022 | Climate Action, Food Services, Okanagan, Sustainability | 0

Find out how UBC Okanagan Food Services is helping to support a burgeoning network of local food growers and producers.

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Hydrogen cars and solar parkades

by Mike McGhee | Apr 11, 2022 | Climate Action, Parking, Sustainability, Vancouver | 0

Discover how UBC Parking is collaborating with campus partners to establish a renewable energy hub at Thunderbird Parkade.

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SHCS: supporting UBC’s strategic plans

by Mike McGhee | Nov 30, 2021 | Climate Action, Indigeneity, SHCS, Sustainability, UBC | 0

Find out how we’re taking action toward UBC’s strategic plans and helping to shape UBC’s next century.

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