Recent Projects

April 13, 2012

The Green College “Bikes On Hand” BikeShare is set to promote bicycling as the paradigm for sustainable regional mobility and take collective ownership to UBC students and to the streets! Thanks to the AMS Sustainability Projects Fund, the residents of Green College will soon have access to a set of 4 re-furbished, single-speed bicycles for travelling further afield, moving… Read more

March 26, 2012

by the GeoGarden Team The GeoGarden project is a community food garden to be constructed and maintained by the Geography Students Association (GSA) on the east side of the Geography Building beginning in the spring of 2012. Community gardens are a form of urban agriculture that reclaim small and/or marginal spaces for the production of food. The GeoGarden will… Read more

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