Rising CO2

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Global Warming
Poverty
Top Soil Erosion
Sweatshop Labour
Air Pollution
Deforestation
Species Extinction
Water Shortage
Rising CO2
Peak Oil
Climate Change
Hunger
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Our actions have a footprint on the planet
The planet affects us
FoodAirWater
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Per Capita Ecological Footprint
If everyone consumed as much as we do in Canada
we would need 5 earths!
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Global Ecological Overshoot
Wackernagel 2002, Tracking the ecological
overshoot of the human economy
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Sustainability
"Humanity has the ability to make development
sustainable to ensure that it meets the needs
of the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs."
- The World Commission on Environment and
Development, 1987
Reduce our ecological footprint by working
towards a balance between ecological, social, and
economic concerns
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Sustainability at UBC

• Campus Sustainability Office
• created to enable university to integrate

into
Teaching Research Operations

• 21 reduction in water, 4 energy reduction
  since 1998
• funded by electricity savings (up to 3 million
  a year!)
• green building construction, waste reduction,
  and more!

Whats happening at UBC
UBC Farm Sprouts (UBC Food Co-op) Bike Hub (Bike
Co-op Bike Kitchen) Environmental Law
Group WasteFree UBC UBC TREK Transportation
Program Disability Resource Centre AMS Services
Safewalk, Speakeasy
AMS Impacts Committee Equity Ambassadors
Program First Nations House of Learning Internatio
nal House The Learning Exchange The Wellness
Centre Resource Groups Womens Centre,
Sustainability Education Centre, Social
Justice Centre, Colour Connected Against
Racism, Allies, Pride UBC
www.sustain.ubc.ca
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Sustainability Pledge

• I pledge to explore and take into account the
  social and ecological consequences of my
  decisions. Furthermore, I pledge to use the
  knowledge I gain while at UBC to improve the
  sustainability of the communities in which I
  live, learn, and work."

www.sustain.ubc.ca/sustainable_u/
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Sustainability and you!
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Sign the Pledge online (5 minutes)

• Sends a message to UBC fellow
• students that sustainability is
• important
• Connects you to a network

• upcoming events
• things you can do for sustainability
• campus groups you can work with
• courses you can take
• job-hunting resources

Connect
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Get engaged!
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www.sustain.ubc.ca/sustainable_u/
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Sustainability Pledge

• Why Pledge?
• Taking the pledge connects you to a network.
• Taking the pledge sends a message.

• upcoming events
• things you can do for sustainability
• campus groups you can work with related courses
  you can take
• related job-hunting resources

Pledge commitment resources
www.sustain.ubc.ca/sustainable_u/
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Sustainability at UBC

• Campus Sustainability Office
• UBCs Sustainable Development Policy1997
• created to help the University balance
• society, economy, and ecology
• in its
• teaching, research, and operations
• funded by electricity savings (up to 3 million a
  year!)
• Programs
• Building upgrades
• 4 energy reduction in core buildings since 1998
• 21 reduction in water use
• Green Buildings
• C.K. Choi, Liu
• Waste reduction

www.sustain.ubc.ca
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Sustainability at UBC

• Campus Sustainability Office
• created to help the University balance
• funded by electricity savings (up to 3 million
  a year!

Teaching Research Operations

• Programs
• Building upgrades
• 4 energy reduction in core buildings since 1998
• 21 reduction in water use
• Green Buildings
• C.K. Choi, Liu
• Waste reduction
• Sustainability Coordinator Program
• UBC SEEDS
• Sustainability Pledge

www.sustain.ubc.ca
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Sustainability at UBC

• UBC Farm
• Sprouts (UBC Food Co-op)
• Bike Hub (Bike Co-op Bike Kitchen)
• Environmental Law Group
• WasteFree UBC, Waste Management
• UBC TREK Transportation Program
• AMS Services (Safewalk, Speakeasy, Tutoring)
• AMS Impacts Committee
• Disability Resource Centre
• Equity Ambassadors Program
• First Nations House of Learning
• International House
• The Learning Exchange
• The Wellness Centre
• Resource Groups
• Womens Centre, Student Environment Centre,
• Social Justice Centre, Colour Connected
• Against Racism, Allies, Pride UBC

www.sustain.ubc.ca