Our mission
The Centre is dedicated to improving understandings of the relationships between sport and human and ecological wellbeing, social and economic development, and cultural identity.
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver campus
Event Summary: David Goldblatt on Sport and the Environment
Sport & The Environment: Politics, Practices and Preferred Futures Speaker Series Co-Hosted by the UBC Kinesiology’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability (CSS) and Brock University’s Centre for Sport Capacity (CSC) Notes and Timestamps for talk by David Goldblatt, Thursday Feb 3, 2022 About the speaker: David Goldblatt is a British writer, academic, and journalist. He […] Read More
Sport and the Environment: Speaker Series Co-Hosted by the CSS and Brock’s Centre for Sport Capacity (1st seminar Thursday Feb 3 2022)
Sport & The Environment: Politics, Practices and Preferred Futures The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability and Brock University’s Centre for Sport Capacity have partnered to host a speaker series entitled Sport & The Environment: Politics, Practices and Preferred Futures! The climate emergency has come starkly into focus. Wildfires, flooding, and extreme […] Read More
Welcome to the CSS podcast page, Season 1 hosted by Dr. Andrea Bundon
The CSS podcast is dedicated to exploring a the relationships between and impacts of sport on a variety of social, cultural, and environmental factors. Season 1, “The Legacy Season”, was inspired by the 10-year anniversary of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, a time when issues of the impact and legacies of mega sport […] Read More
Presenting the ‘Play It Green’ podcast, hosted by Sport & Sustainability Ambassadors Vanessa Hsu and Sadhri Kumar!
Play It Green is a podcast which aims to explore unique perspectives on sustainability-related topics from experts in the field of sports. The podcast was developed by Vanessa Hsu and Sadhri Kumar, UBC Sustainability Ambassadors, in association with the UBC’s Center for Sport and Sustainability (CSS). The goal of the podcast is to provide entertaining […] Read More
‘(Re)Imagining Indigenous-Centred UBC Campus Recreation’: Successful ‘Campus as a Living Lab’ Grant application (Led by Dr. Jan Hare and CSS Leadership Team Member Dr. Moss Norman)
‘(Re)Imagining Indigenous-Centred UBC Campus Recreation’: Successful ‘Campus as a Living Lab’ Grant application (Led by Dr. Jan Hare and CSS Leadership Team Member Dr. Moss Norman) Congratulations to Dr. Jan Hare (Indigenous Education) and CSS Leadership Team Member Dr. Moss Norman (Kinesiology) on receiving Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) funding for their project ‘(Re)Imagining […] Read More
New collection out now: ‘Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred Futures’
Click here to learn more about the collection, co- edited by CSS Director Brian Wilson and Brad Millington, Associate Professor in Sport Management at Brock University. Read More