Goals & Actions
UBC has ramped up it's climate action with the following units, plans, and goals:
Of course, climate change can feel a bit like this... (click to see the originals by Tommy Siegel and KC Green)
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There is so much work and change that is needed, BUT ALSO so much we can save and build when we act together.
That's why on each page we've offered some actions we can take as well as information about how those actions fit into UBC's 2030 goals and local resources to help. Most importantly, hope, perspective, and collective action like strengthening community and civic engagement are critical.
Books
SOS: What You Can do to Reduce Climate Change by Publication Date: 2019UBC Climate Change researcher, Seth Wynes, sets out in the simplest terms how you can make a real and positive impact. Make changes at home, at work, to how you shop, eat, live - start by finding one thing your family can change with this book and do it today. What you do matters - and the science proves it.
All We Can Save by Publication Date: 2020We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save.
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Publication Date: 2022This book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life.
