Green Labs Knowledge Exchange
Join the UBCO Sustainability Office and Heath, Safety & Environment for an overview of programs and projects that can help to reduce the environmental impact of laboratory work.
2026 Earth Hour Challenge: One Hour, No Power
UBC Okanagan’s Sustainability Office invites you to participate in the campus-wide Earth Hour: One Hour, No Power challenge on March 26. Let’s show how UBCO can conserve energy.
Lights Out Events
Join the UBCO community at these fun, educational events and learn how turning off the lights supports the UBCO CAP 2030 energy reduction targets.
Let’s Choose to Reuse
Learn how to reduce waste on campus while enjoying a free coffee or hot chocolate at these fun, educational events.
Shut the Sash: Challenge
The Shut the Sash Challenge is a six-week competition that aims to encourage lab users to reduce energy through one simple action—closing laboratory fume hood sashes.
Student-Led Collaboration Brings New Waste Display Cases to UBCO
New displays feature real examples of common campus items and show where each belongs in the waste stream, helping students feel more confident about sorting correctly and supporting a cleaner, more sustainable campus.
Seasonal Shutdown
Every action counts! This holiday season help save energy as part of UBC Okanagan’s Seasonal Shutdown, which lowers the temperature in buildings during the winter break to reduce energy use and emissions on campus.
Cozy Campus Events
As the temperatures drop, it’s time to keep our campus cozy and efficient! Join the UBCO community in a week of Cozy Campus events and learn how you can support energy and emissions reductions!
Green Events Guide
Whether you’re organizing a meeting, workshop, celebration, or large gathering, this guide offers simple, impactful ways to reduce your event’s environmental footprint—while supporting UBCO’s Climate Action Plan 2030.
Recycling Personal Protective Equipment
Thousands of single-use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) are used in campus-wide at UBC Okanagan each year. Following the successful 2021 pilot, a PPE Collection Program, offered through Vitacore, has been implemented.
Earth Hour Challenge: One Hour, No Power
UBC Okanagan’s Sustainability Office invites you to participate in the campus-wide challenge of Earth Hour: One Hour, No Power. Let’s show how UBCO can conserve energy.
Cool and Closed
Did you know that building ventilation, which includes windows left open, is the cause for up to 30% of heat loss in commercial buildings? Support UBCO’s long-term goals to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions by keeping yourself cool and your windows closed this summer.
UBCO explores climate and justice topics at teach-in
What: UBCO Teach-in on Climate and Justice Who: Panel presentations […]
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Cozy and Closed
To keep indoor temperatures comfortable for you and those around you, keep windows in offices, study spaces, and residence common rooms closed. Closed windows help support the efficacy of UBC’s heating and cooling systems and reduces energy consumption.
It Only Takes 1 or 2
Paper towels may seem harmless, but they make up 29% of UBC Okanagan’s waste, with over 28,900 pounds sent to landfills annually. Decomposing paper towels release methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than CO₂. By using just 1 or 2 paper towels, you can help reduce waste, conserve resources, and lower emissions.