Many Americans have already taken action to reduce their energy use and many others would do the same if they could afford to, according to a national survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities. Roughly half of the 2,164 American adults...
Representatives from Yale outlined their efforts to develop a sustainability plan for the University’s athletics program at the recent National Collegiate Athletic Association convention in Washington, D.C. Sara Smiley Smith, a doctoral candidate at the...
John Mackey, founder and CEO of the supermarket chain Whole Foods, will be making two public addresses at Yale on February 10.At 11:45 a.m., he will discuss “Conscious Capitalism” in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. At 4:30 p.m...
Yale School of Architecture has selected five pioneering projects to receive the inaugural grants from the Hines Research Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architecture.The $5 million endowment fund was set up in 2008 by Gerald D. Hines, founder and...
Yale’s Amistad Street Building has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its environmentally sustainable construction and features, the university has announced.In addition to its green design, the building includes state-of-the-art research facilities...
When it comes to getting to work, it’s arriving on time, not the journey itself, that usually matters most to employees, but Holly Parker, director of Yale’s Transportation Options program, is working to get the University’s carbon-consuming commuters to...
President Richard C. Levin will lead a Yale University contingent to the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change at the University of Copenhagen on March 10-12, 2009.Sustainability Director Julie Newman, faculty members William Nordhaus, Mark...
President Richard C. Levin has appointed the distinguished evolutionary biologist Sir Peter Crane as dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The John and Marion Sullivan University Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences...
Rajendra K. Pachauri will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), University President Richard C. Levin has announced. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has...
Yale University has joined the other nine members of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) in addressing global warming by adopting greenhouse gas reduction targets for their campuses.“Addressing the impacts of climate change is one...