Traffic and parking experts Tom Vanderbilt and Donald Shoup will speak at Yale on “Traffic, Parking and our Green Future” on January 19 at 7 p.m. in Sudler Hall at 100 Wall St. The forum is free and open the public.Their talk is being presented by Yale...
Monitors that will provide students with real-time information about energy consumed have been installed in Yale’s Pierson and Silliman residential colleges, the Yale Office of Sustainability has announced.Accompanied by an educational campaign about...
President Richard C. Levin today announced a comprehensive set of sustainability goals that are both visionary yet achievable over the next three years. The goals were recommended by Yale’s Sustainability Task Force in its report, Sustainability Strategic...
Yale University’s biodiesel shuttle buses and vans are a familiar sight on the streets of New Haven, transporting some 3,500 to 5,000 faculty members, staff, and students around campus daily. Soon, these environmentally friendly vehicles will sport new,...
Yale University students, staff and faculty will take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 in a number of ways, including as panelists on two official side events, as members of country...
An environmental services startup launched by Yale affiliates has won the $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize for a technology that uses satellite imagery to obtain forest data.Developed by SilviaTerra, the technology will determine the composition...
Four Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) students have been named Compton International Fellows for 2010-2011 by the Tropical Resources Institute.The Compton Fellows chosen this year are all first-year candidates for master’s degrees in...
Four environmental leaders and co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council have been selected to receive Yale Law School’s highest honor — the Yale Law School Association Award of Merit — during its Alumni Weekend 2010 in October.James Gustave...
On April 23, 2010, a discussion at Yale University will mark the launch of the Climate Civics Institute (CCI), a collaborative global policy platform co-founded by Yale World Fellows Unmesh Brahme and Tim Jarvis. CCI will deliver policy mechanisms to...
“Environmental (Dis)Locations,” a three-day conference aimed at forging new ways for the climate change and environmental justice communities to cooperate, will take place Thursday-Saturday, April 8-10, on campus.Scientists, theologians, activists and...