Part of Course APSC 364 / CONS 102
Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:00 pm, January to April 2012
Take a seat and engage with UBC staff members, scholars, residents and students as they discuss the “how,” the “what,” and the “why” of making UBC a positive agent of change for sustainability.The pilot course APSC 364–Applied Sustainability: UBC as a Living Lab welcomes the public to attend as UBC staff members and scholars present and discuss sustainability themes relevant to UBC. The objective of the course is to integrate teaching, learning, and research on sustainability to inform and contribute to long-term strategy development at UBC. Using the campus as a unit of study, this course will explore UBC as a living lab where ideas may be incubated, tested, and realized.
Lectures will run on selected Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 – 5:00pm in MacMillan 166 beginning January 17th, 2012. All students, staff, faculty, UBC residents and the general public are warmly welcomed! No pre-registration required.
JANUARY 17: Sustainability @ UBC
John Robinson, Professor, UBC Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability & Executive Director, UBC Sustainability Initiative
JANUARY 24: Sustainability with the UBC President
Stephen Toope, President of UBC
JANUARY 31: Energy Systems
Nima Atabaki, UBC Engineering
Orion Henderson, Director, Operational Sustainability at the UBC Campus Sustainability Office
FEBRUARY 14: Sustainability Performance Assessment
Charlene Ponto, Reporting and Research, UBC Campus Sustainability Office
Hisham Zeriffi, Assistant Professor, UBC Liu Institute for Global Issues
FEBRUARY 28: Building for Sustainability
Ray Cole, Professor, UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Kyle Reese, Community Energy Manager, UBC Campus Sustainability Office
MARCH 6: Transportation
Adam Cooper, Transportation Planner, UBC TREK
Jinhua Zhao, Assistant Professor, UBC Civil Engineering & Commissioner of China Planning Network (CPN)
MARCH 13: Budgeting for Sustainability
Pierre Ouillet, Vice-President Finance, Resources & Operations, UBC
MARCH 20: Planning for Sustainable Communities
David Cohen, Professor, UBC Faculty of Forestry
Hubert Lai, University Counsel for UBC
MARCH 27: Water Systems
Walid Giratella, Water & Zero Waste Engineer, UBC Campus Sustainability Office
Don Mavnic, Professor & Associate Head, UBC Civil Engineering
MARCH 29, APRIL 3, APRIL 5: Student Project Presentations
Stormwater solutions at UBC Point Grey Campus
Energy in building solutions at UBC Point Grey Campus
Athletics transportation solutions at UBC Point Grey Campus
