Sustainability @ UBC
UBC Waste Management's E-Waste Days
UBC Waste Management is now holding its monthly e-waste recycling days on the first working Monday of every month. Anyone from the UBC community (staff, faculty and students) can drop off their personal electronic wastes, such as computers, monitors, printers, and cell phones. UBC Waste Management will recycle your e-waste free of charge. The drop off location is now at the back of the University Services Building at the first loading dock, Agronomy Road and Lower Mall, in Room 0150.
Food Services Increases Its Composting Measures
UBC Food Services is continuing its commitment to sustainability by introducing composting at all UBC Food Services outlets on campus. A total of 17 new sorting stations have been added for customers, kitchen staff, and even those who wish to bring in waste from home. For more information and publicity, please refer to
UBC Composting
Student Environment Centre
- Among many other things, the SEC runs a Stuff Swap the last Friday of every month. Bring something you don't need, take something you do. Sign up for their email list by emailing them, or stopping by their office in SUB 245B for details.
SPROUTS
SPROUTS is the student-run organic food co-op, located in the basement of the SUB (by the Wellness Centre, at the end of the hallway with
TravelCuts, and On the Fringe. They sell organic groceries and snacks for cheaper than you'll find at Safeway or Choices, including yummy brownies, delicious wraps, bulk foods, and produce, some of which comes from UBC Farm.
UBC Farm
- The farm is the most beautiful place on campus! They run market gardens during the summer and fall, and its a great place to volunteer if you want to hang out with fun people and get your hands dirty.
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BC Students Freecycle
A Freecycle for BC post-secondary students. You may offer items regardless of student status, but to claim items you must be currently enrolled at a post-secondary institution, either college or university, for the current semester. When retrieving items you may be asked to present student ID.
Information focused charities
Room to Read
In partnership with local communities this charity establishes schools, libraries and other educational infrastructure. Their goal is to break the cycle of poverty, one child at a time.
Please visit their website Room to Read.
Librarians Without Borders
This grassroots Canadian charity's vision is to build sustainable libraries and support their custodians and advocates -- librarians.
Please visit their website Librarians Without Borders.
International Records Management Trust
Please visit their website International Records Management Trust
Library issues
Social Exclusion
Working Together Project
The Working Together Project website is designed as a space to share
what the designers have been learning from the community about social exclusion and
public libraries and librarianship. They also hope to encourage discussion
about the evolving ideas and concepts they have been sharing over the past
two and a half years of the project, as well as encourage and participate
in discussions about these concepts.
Online Book Communities
The Internet is being harnessed by users to catalogue, track, tag and share information about books. Sites are springing up to assist "the public" with their efforts to control the bibliographic universe. Here are a few of them, check them out. Found a cool new site? Please add it to this section.
Library Thing
This website allows users to catalogue their home libraries; it is even being used by several small community libraries. Users can sign up for free. It offers the opportunity to copy catalogue from over 60 libraries in multiple languages. As of February 2007 there were more than 10 million items in the virtual catalogue.
Chain Reading
This website advertises itself as book tracking made easy. What do you think?
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