{"id":6647,"date":"2016-04-25T06:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T06:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2016-04-25T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T06:35:39","slug":"deconstructing-ubc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/04\/25\/deconstructing-ubc\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing UBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written now and then\u00a0(both here and in papers) about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/09\/25\/eesd-a-revisionist-view-of-ubc\/\">University of British Columbia<\/a> model of sustainability, and (less frequently) about its short-comings, particularly in relation to how its teaching and learning provision fails to keep up both with its low-carbon buildings and its world-class PR. \u00a0So it was good to talk with Steve Martin the other day on his return\u00a0from a 3 week visit to UBC to investigate that very issue.<\/p>\n<p>Steve\u00a0used the evaluation methodology that Andrew McCoshan and he employed\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/efsandquality.glos.ac.uk\/toolkit\/Evaluation_of_the_Green_Academy.pdf\">evaluate<\/a> the UK's Green Academy programme. \u00a0As Steve noted in a SHED-SHARE blog, this was no easy task given the size of UBC with 2 campuses, a main campus student population of 44,000, and 12,000 academic and admin staff.<\/p>\n<p>Steve ended by asking if any institution would be interested in his running a seminar on the UBC Model. \u00a0I think we should take the response to this generous offer as an indicator of interest in the issue more generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written now and then\u00a0(both here and in papers) about the University of British Columbia model of sustainability, and (less frequently) about its short-comings, particularly in relation to how its teaching and learning provision fails to keep up both...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}