Centre for Sustainability

Programs

• Sustainability Management Program, for individuals who wish to take the lead in helping to build sustainability into their organizations.
• Summer Institute in Sustainability Leadership, an award-winning one-week professional development program focused on developing organization-wide sustainability policies, procedures and projects.
• Certificate in Decision Making for Climate Change, an online program offered jointly with 3 partner universities with the aim of providing students with the most up-to-date knowledge on climate change issues, including how to develop and implement an effective response plan.
• Green Building and LEED® Credentials, in-depth professional development courses in Passive House construction and courses on green building and the LEED® certification system.

Leadership

• Mike Harcourt, Associate Director
• William Koty, Director
• Katie Jane Morrell, Program Leader
• Diana McKenzie, Program Leader

  Educational aims

• Vision: A world that understands, desires, and pursues sustainability.
• Mission: To serve as a catalyst for empowering people and mobilizing ideas, resources and organizations to help encourage sustainable communities, locally and globally. In pursuit of this mission, we commit to engage and inform adult learners by developing relevant and inspirational educational programs that responds to the emerging opportunities, challenges and needs in the field of sustainability, and that leverage expertise and relationships from UBC and the wider community.