One of my favorite things about going to UBC is the overall campus wide focus on issues of sustainability. The significant focus on mass transit accessibility and sustainability in the curriculum has been very impressive.

UBC still has a long way to go though. As witnessed by the recent battle between the UBC Farm and the UBC Administration to ensure the Farm’s future existence. This was unsettling to me and hinted that the UBC admin is more concerned with meeting government metrics on reducing CO2 emissions than achieving actual sustainability. (Let’s tear down the farm and replace it with a LEED certified building, eh?)

However, any steps necessary to ensure large scale sustainability are better than others. I would like to see more of the focus shift towards local resilience rather than large scale sustainability but at least UBC is taking steps in the right direction.

Regardless, the following video is quite impressive.