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 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 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 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 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 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 Project Title: CHBE Sustainability Biodiesel The CHBE Sustainability Club will produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil using an existing production plant to prove its viability and enhance its performance. This would be accomplished through the production and sale of 500L of biodiesel.     Project Started: December 2011 Student Applicant: James Butler AMS Sustainability Funding: $1975 Project Title: UBC Solar UBC Solar is a student engineering team at UBC. Our objective is to promote public awareness in sustainability and encourage further technical innovation and application of solar technologies, especially as it relates to automotive technologies. We mean to achieve this goal through the design and construction of a vehicle powered solely by the sun, demonstrating… Read more Project Title: Geography Students Association Sustainability in Action Series The Sustainability Committee of the Geography Students’ Association (GSA) has developed a Sustainable Events Committee whose goal it is to engage students in Geography (either majoring, minoring, or taking courses in the department) in sustainability initiatives.  The committee has started a Sustainability in Action! Series, which is an initiative to create… Read more Project Title: UBC Got Skillz Attempts to create a sustainable community often focus heavily on what people do wrong, or on the perceived problems in the current system. The impetus behind “UBC’s Got Skillz” is to focus on how people can be a part of the solution, rather than an obstacle. This series of workshops will offer students the opportunity… Read more