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The 2025 Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition called for visionary approaches to help British Columbia and Canada respond and adapt to the pressing sustainability challenges. This year's competition drew faculty and staff from more than 28 academic departments and operational units across UBC Vancouver, yielding eight exceptional projects funded by a total of $500k.
The completion of the multi-year Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility expansion marks a major step forward, significantly boosting renewable heating capacity to reduce campus emissions and support UBC’s climate action goals.
A Campus as a Living Lab team of faculty, staff, and students explain how a new composting toilet uses mushrooms – instead of water, electricity and chemicals – to break down human waste into safe, nutrient-rich compost soil.
The UBC Sustainability Hub is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition!
Innovative research tackles student connections and indoor air quality.