Category: Sustainability

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.

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.

SHCS sustainable holidays guide

by Paula McCready | Dec 9, 2024 | Climate Action, SHCS, Sustainability | 0

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

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.

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

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.

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!