UBC Reads Sustainability with Rueben George

Join us in person and online for the opening event of UBC’s Sustainable Development Goals Month - a conversation with Sundance Chief Rueben George about his bestselling book, It Stops Here: Standing Up For Our Lands, Our Waters and Our People, moderated by UBC Associate Professor Dr. Shannon Leddy. The conversation will be followed by a book signing from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

Climate activism cannot be done in a vacuum. Climate justice requires that we change the destructive dominant social system that led us to this tipping point, too. 

Rueben George has been a leading voice for over a decade against the Trans Mountain Pipeline in Tsleil-Waututh Nation territories. His memoir relates his uncompromising stand against Canadian systems of prioritizing control, profit and resources over responsibility to lands, waters and people. Through his book, Rueben showcases how Indigenous law and jurisdiction are essential for sustainability and wellbeing.

As seen in the many ways Rueben’s actions advance Sustainable Development Goals (including SDG 3 and 10-16), Indigenous law and jurisdiction are also deeply important to the interconnected approach we need to fulfil the SDGs and to address socio-ecological crises worldwide. 

Organized by the UBC Sustainability Hub, UBC Sauder School of Business, Sustainable Development Solutions Network University of Calgary, Environment and Climate Change Canada.