Okanagan Sustainability Institute

Healthy Cities Partnership seeks input

By Patty Wellborn on April 27, 2015

UBC Okanagan’s Okanagan Sustainability Institute has partnered with the City of Kelowna to study resident attitudes towards growth in Kelowna.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Faculty of Management, Okanagan Sustainability Institute, Sustainability

UBC, Kelowna, and Interior Health sign Healthy City Partnership

By Patty Wellborn on October 28, 2014

Integrative and holistic approach to health and urban sustainability underway.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Health, Okanagan Sustainability Institute

UBC community partnerships aim to benefit local health projects

By Patty Wellborn on September 15, 2014

Do you wonder how to engage with UBC Okanagan to help your community health project be successful?

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, Okanagan Sustainability Institute

Okanagan Sustainability Institute director Keith Culver chats with Mark Holland, vice-president of development for New Monaco. Holland, a UBC alumnus, is excited about UBC’s research partnership with the District of Peachland and New Monaco.

UBC researchers part of Peachland partnership for large development

By Patty Wellborn on April 17, 2014

Developer joins forces with engineering students, Okanagan Sustainability Institute.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Faculty of Management, Okanagan Sustainability Institute, School of Engineering

The hills are alive with the Sounds of Peachland

By Patty Wellborn on April 2, 2014

UBC faculty, students team with artist for project and community workshop.

Posted in Media Advisory | Tagged Arts, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Okanagan Sustainability Institute

UBC Okanagan Prof. Rehan Sadiq and Assoc. Prof Kasun Hewage are working with the City of Penticton to help the municipality make its city-owned buildings more energy efficient.

UBC engineers assist Penticton with energy reduction goals

By Patty Wellborn on July 16, 2013

Researchers will look at everything from recycling to electrical consumption.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Business, Okanagan Sustainability Institute, School of Engineering, Sustainability

The concrete foundation and walls of this house under construction used recycled concrete aggregate devised by UBC’s School of Engineering.

Next-generation 'green' concrete a home construction first

By Patty Wellborn on June 24, 2013

UBC engineering professor mixes recycled waste aggregate into concrete.

Posted in Media Releases | Tagged Okanagan Sustainability Institute, School of Engineering

Keith Culver named new director of Okanagan Sustainability Institute

By Darren Handschuh on June 16, 2011

International expert in sustainable development returns to his BC roots Keith Culver has been named Director of the Okanagan Sustainability Institute (OSI), effective July 1, concurrent with an appointment to the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. Culver comes to UBC from the UniverSud Paris consortium of universities in France, […]

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