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Are you a UBC graduate student interested in finding a paid internship doing applied sustainability-related research? Apply to be a UBC Sustainability Scholar! Learn more and apply by January 29 at http://sustain.ubc.ca/scholars

Happy holidays from the CityStudio Vancouver Society! Thank you for all your support, participation and collaboration in 2022. We hope that you have a restful holiday season and we will see you for more innovation in the new year! ❄️

Announcing the winners from ! We are still buzzing after an engaging and lively event at Vancouver City Hall this past Monday. We saw over 140 City staff, faculty, students, and volunteers come out to celebrate the amazing work from the past term, enjoy popcorn and learn more about another exciting round of projects.

Our expert judges deliberated and selected the winners based on the HUBBUB criteria of the project’s replicability, scalability, novelty, their overall potential to benefit the city, and how well each project addressed the City's guiding question. In a surprising twist and first in HUBBUB's history, one school scored high in all three top spots, as well as the people's choice award! Congratulations, for this incredible achievement, and to all the students who participated and presented at !

1ST PLACE – Rental Unit Emissions Report Card
UBC, Policy Analysis
Recommendation to reduce carbon emissions by requiring landlords to share information on utility costs and carbon outputs with prospective renters. 

2ND PLACE – Visualizing Climate Action
UBC, Climate Action Lab
Installation of displays in Vancouver’s most scenic locations, depicting the effects of climate change in these areas by 2070 with and without taking action, contrasting both urgent calls to action and hope.

3RD PLACE – Vancouver’s First Potential Bicycle Playground
UBC, Policy Analysis
Recommendations for implementing a bicycle playground in the City of Vancouver to act as a safe, inclusive, and accessible space for children to learn to cycle while increasing their traffic safety skills and confidence.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE – Whyther
UBC, Geography, Environment & Society
Informative app to connect climate change to weather events in the daily lives of Vancouverites, helping to guide responsible and responsive household water use.

STAFF PICK - You’re About to Go Blue
Langara College, Integrated Marketing Communication
A marketing campaign to promote more ecologically friendly behaviour by visualizing and imagining living in the future by illustrating how we can adapt to a world where sea levels are rising.

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We’re ! CityStudio is looking for a service and sales-oriented Global Business Development Lead as part of our Global Program. Our ideal candidate has demonstrated experience and expertise in B2B sales, relationship-building and partnership development, particularly with stakeholders in academic and/or municipal government environments. Globally, CityStudio licenses its unique model to cities all over the world. Within this role, you would be responsible for leading the team through continuing to build the CityStudio network. Learn more and apply by September 30: https://bit.ly/3RFVG7X

As the pandemic stretched well over a year, many businesses faced significant challenges; the restaurant industry was no exception. Restaurants and café’s continue to endure staffing difficulties, cash flow concerns and increased costs to operate during a global pandemic. University of British Columbia Master of Food and Resource alumni, Rutong Gao and Shinan Shi, conducted their summer 2021 graduating project on providing recommendations for how the City of Vancouver - Local Government could support its local restaurants’ recovery during and after the pandemic. Learn more about their project:

Grad Project: Supporting Local Restaurant Recovery Through COVID-19 Pandemic As the pandemic stretched over a year into summer 2021, many businesses continued to face significant challenges; the restaurant industry was no exception. Restaurants and café’s continued to endure staffing difficulties, cash flow concerns, and increased costs to operate during a global pandemic...

It's our anniversary! In these ten years, we’ve expanded our reach from a dozen to 1,000 students each term, we’ve learned by doing, by following an idea and by experimenting. We’ve seen for ourselves that good projects are the result of good relationships, and that working together is the only way forward. We know from experience that small projects – like CityStudio started – can add up to big changes in our community, our city and in ourselves. Thank you to all our past collaborators! Celebrate with us by leaving a comment about a meaningful experience you shared with us, and by reading our latest post, CityStudio Vancouver Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation, Relationships and Youth at the Centre of City Building:

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Discover Vancouver’s largest open-air mural gallery down by the North Arm of the Fraser River in the lively developing neighbourhood of River District Vancouver! This year, the Vancouver Mural Festival added five new pieces to the gallery with "water" as a central theme.
Read about the new murals in River District in their latest Neighbourhood blog post:

VMF2022 Neighbourhood: River District — Vancouver Mural Festival (VMF) River District is a residential and commercial development, spanning 130 acres of land in South Vancouver.  In 2020 it became home to ten VMF murals and 2021 brought a further eleven murals.  The 2021 mural gallery, named “Garden Path”, has brought our artists together around the i

"We became comfortable being uncomfortable by engaging in dialogue that disrupted our frames of reference and transformed our ways of thinking" – Margarita Pacis. When an experience prompts or inspires a change, there’s no telling what it will lead to! We're truly inspired by the story submissions we received in response to our CityStudio Changemaker Contest. We want to honour the journey our collaborators have taken, the time we shared together, and the relationships that left an impact on our team and programs. Read their stories here:

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