Recent Projects

February 16, 2012

Project title: Acadia Park Buddy Family Pilot Project This project aims to make it easier for new families to integrate into the UBC community, make new connections,  foster greater community spirit and raise awareness about sustainability. New families are given the option to ‘buddy-up’ with an established family in Acadia Park, who will help introduce them to the neighbourhood, with a… Read more

February 16, 2012

Project title: Vermicomposting Human Waste (Composting Human Manure with Worms) This project goal is to determine the efficacy of vermicomposting human excrement.  These results should encourage UBC to consider retrofitting the CK Choi composting toilet to facilitate vermicomposting and establish the building as a research site with the greater objective of including vermicomposting as an approved process under the Organic Matter… Read more

January 26, 2012

Project Title: UBC Electric Car Club Winter Trip UBC Electric Car Club’s goal is to help break the fossil fuel dependency within the transportation sector by showcasing the capabilities of electric vehicles. In order to continue our mandate of increasing environmental sustainability awareness, we have set the ambitious goal of demonstrating the feasibility of electric vehicles in Canada’s harsh winter… Read more

January 26, 2012

Project Title: Chew on This: A Week of Perspectives on Sustainable Food Chew on This: A Week of Perspectives on Sustainable Food is a weeklong series of events to educate and inform the UBC Community about sustainable food and food security issues. The topics will begin at a very local level and grow to a global scale as the week… Read more