Over the spring term, 2008, students, staff and faculty members are collaborating together to create UBC's Climate Action Framework, a strategy that moves UBC beyond climate-neutral. This TLEF project seeks to implement the curriculum development recommendations coming out of this collaborative community planning process. Core components of this project include:
providing opportunities for students to work with faculty, using problem based learning to develop and update a comprehensive greenhouse gas inventory for the university
facilitating climate related curriculum development in partnership with students and faculty members
creating a comprehensive, web-based, open source climate research opportunity data base thereby enhancing students ability to participate in applicable and practical problem based learning
enabling a UBC SEEDS program to further facilitate sustainability-related research opportunities for students at UBC
conducting cluster analysis of climate related research taking place at UBC in collaboration with the VP Research
preparing a discussion paper on research related UBC investment opportunities for carbon offsets
Funding Details
Year 1: Project Year
Year 1
Year 1: Funding Year
2008/2009
Year 1: Project Type
Small TLEF
Year 1: Principal Investigator
Liz Ferris
Year 1: Funded Amount
19,600
Year 1: Team Members
Liz Ferris, Student Engagement Coordinator, UBC Sustainability Office
James Tansey, Professor, Sauder School of Business
Brendon Goodmurphy, VP Academic and University Affairs, Alma Mater Society
Brenda Sawada, Manager, SEEDS Program, UBC Sustainability Office
Charlene Easton, Director, Sustainability Office