Who We Are We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. Native American proverb
Chasing Sustainability is our annual flagship event - a full-day conference packed with interactive workshops, panels, networking sessions and discussions. The history of the conference began in 2007, when a simple evening presenting the topic of sustainability in business drew out a substantial crowd. Since then, the growing interest in this topic has been met by our team with a larger and higher-quality event each year.
CUS Sustainability is a student-run business sustainability group within the Commerce Undergraduate Society (CUS). We serve the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. We strive to educate Sauder students about sustainability and to foster genuine commitment. We live out this mission more fully each year with meaningful events, campaigns and programs. At CUS Sustainability, we believe businesses are constantly reinventing, innovating, and seeking new ways to make their practices more integrated with sustainability initiatives. Why should sustainability and business be separate entities?
This year, the conference will be held at UBC on Friday, October 25. In order to keep the content each year fresh and exciting, we began using themes starting in 2013. Our inaugural theme, Changing the Lens, aims to change fundamental perspectives about the usefulness and feasibility of sustainability in business.
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