UBC Centre for Sport and Sustainability

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🚨📣🚲We are 2 days away from our documentary launch & panel event on #bikeinfrastructure #mobilityjustice #socialinfrastructure only a few tickets left! @m_layton @BicyclesToronto @TheBikingLawyer @CanadianCycling @CycleToronto @BellsonBloor @CBCAlerts @picardonhealth @ubccss

Revolutions, a short documentary on bike waste, screens @UBC this Thursday! Q&A to follow featuring Exec. Producer @courtneyszto & Cavan Hua from Our Community Bikes! Tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/revolutions-… @UBCKin

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On October 3rd, join the CSS and Executive Producer and Queen's Associate Professor @courtneyszto for a screening of Revolutions, a short documentary on bike waste! Q&A to follow. Click here for event details and tickets. eventbrite.com/e/revolutions-…

In a new article on the climate crisis & the afterlife of golf, CSS affiliate Dr. Brad Millington & CSS Director Dr. Brian Wilson “encourage thinking about what might be lost in pursuit of better environmental futures” (p.2). Open access article here. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/…

Today marks a significant milestone for our research group @YorkUHealth @dreaming_lab ! Finally launching trailer & screening info for our @SSHRC_CRSH funded doc film "Changing Gears". Thx to collaborators: @ubccss @BrockKINE. More info here: changinggearsdoc.wordpress.com

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News coverage on gender equality and the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics featuring CSS affiliates Drs. Andrea Bundon and Dunja Antonovic @ultreia1x @DunjaAntunovic (1/2) beyond.ubc.ca/why-the-2024-p…

Thanks to visiting prof Dr. Gavin Weedon from @NottmTrentUni for delivering an excellent talk titled ‘Active Bodies in the Anthropocene’ to @UBCkin grad students and faculty last week! css.ubc.ca/2024/06/17/eve…

A new explainer video on mobility justice featuring @jvsteinmann is up on the Sport and Sustainability Media and Education Resource! @UBCKin @sustainUBC @NASSSport sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vide…

The Heavy Metal Suite concert premieres on April 22. Elders, researchers and musicians are using art to get people talking about the challenges and opportunities of a transition to renewable energy. Read more: bit.ly/3JfyBpS #EarthDay

If you missed the virtual panel discussion on Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Men’s Hockey, it is available now at the link below! Thanks to all those involved for sharing their important perspectives. @ubckin sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/podcasts-recor…

A new explainer video on gender equality and sport media featuring @DunjaAntunovic is up on the Sport and Sustainability Media and Education Resource! @UBCKin @sustainUBC @NASSSport sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vide…

An upcoming virtual panel discussion "Pushed out of the league: Anti-Indigenous structural racism in Canadian hockey" will take place Nov. 30th at 3pm! Register here: tinyurl.com/3ysrcez8 @UBCKin

A new explainer video on gender-based violence, intersectional environmentalism & the @Bicycles4Dev movement featuring @drlyndzhayhurst & collaborators from Nicaragua is up on the Sport & Sustainability Media & Education Resource site @UBCKin @sustainUBC sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vide…

sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca has a Carbon Estimator Tool for assessing (sport) travel, for educational purposes (by UBC Wellbeing’s Matt Dolf) with accompanying panel discussion video/presentation on using tools for assessing travel. @UBCKin @UBCEducation @sustainUBC @NASSSport

sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca has ‘living’ digital museums on Athlete Wellbeing, Bikes for Development, Exercise & Pollution, Homelessness & Cycling, Golf & Environment,Community-Building & Bikes, Women in Paralympic Movement, & SDP. @UBCKin @UBCEducation @sustainUBC @NASSSport

sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca has explainer videos on circular economy & bikes (@courtneyszto) and athlete wellbeing (UBC KIN's Erica Bennett) -- more in development! sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca/explainer-vide… @UBCKin @UBCEducation @sustainUBC @NASSSport

@ubccss pleased to announce release of the Sport & Sustainability Media and Education Resource sportsustainabilityresource.ubc.ca. Contributions from @ubccss affiliated Sport & Sustainability Collective members. New resources in development! @UBCKin @UBCEducation @sustainUBC @NASSSport