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UBC’s focus on sustainability
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 [...]
how Cuba survived peak oil, a model for the US and Canada?
On Tuesday night I attended a screening of How Cuba Survived Peak Oil at the Simon KY Lee Global Lounge at UBC. I’ve had this video on my computer for a while but haven’t had a chance to actually watch through it so having the opportunity to do so with a group was great. The [...]
what I’ve been working on at UBC: electrochromism
You might wonder what I’ve been working on at UBC recently. In general I’m working on nanofibrous materials, transparent conductors and photovoltaics with a few other little things interspersed. Yes, I’ve learned a lot over the past few months. I recently put together a presentation and a paper on electrochromic materials and I thought this [...]
things are about to get a lot more frustrating around here
As the street closings and bus re-routing begins, fellow Vancouver residents and I are in for a memorable experience.
consumer efforts to save fish populations may be futile
Yeah, fish populations are screwed. UBC professor Daniel Pauly summarizes some of those reasons why in his recent essay, Aquacalypse Now but I was particularly struck by this excerpt because I’ve been carrying around one of these consumer fish population awareness cards. Maybe because it gives me a subconscious feeling of goodness (maybe unfortunately it [...]
my thoughts on the dark side of Vancouver 2010, a talk by Dr. Chris Shaw at UBC
I’ve been sitting in the library this morning studying for my materials chemistry class and thought that the next 20 minutes would be an opportune time to summarize notes from yesterday’s talk at UBC’s Green College by Dr. Chris Shaw. Dr. Chris Shaw is a professor here at UBC in the Department of Opthamology and [...]
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the “Googlization of Everything” at UBC
The best thing about being back in a university environment is the opportunity to explore talks from great thinkers outside my field of materials engineering. Thanks to the magic of a running twitter search for UBC I found out at 11:45 that University of Virginia cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan was giving a [...]
