Arthur Blank, co-chair of the Home Depot board of directors, will discuss “The Journey Toward Sustainability” on Thursday, April 19, at 4:00 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street. The free lecture is part of the Industrial...
The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has received a $1.2 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to establish a program of collaborative industrial ecology in Asia. “We are grateful for this vote of confidence in the School of...
Stephen Kellert, professor of social ecology and a member of the Yale faculty for 24 years, has been named the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “Professor Kellert is a prolific writer,...
Robert Kates, professor emeritus at Brown University, will discuss the “The Nexus and the Neem Tree” on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the...
Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric scientist in the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will discuss “Investigating the Causes of Climate Change” at Yale on Friday, February 23. His...
A community of researchers, policy makers, industrial strategists, and environmental advocates has launched an International Society of Industrial Ecology, which will be based at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The new field of...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
Yale Environmental Law Professor Dan Esty – considered the foremost expert on the issue of trade and the environment – was in Seattle this week for the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. He is back in Connecticut and available for interviews...
On Tuesday, Oct. 12, the Earth’s population is expected to reach six billion and Yale population expert Fred Meyerson says that unless action is taken, projected future population growth will lead to increased pressure on scarce resources such as land...
Yale University scientists reported Sunday that they may have resolved a controversial glitch in models of global warming: A key part of the atmosphere didn’t seem to be warming as expected. The findings were reported online Sunday in the journal Nature...