Yale University is adding 450 acres of forestland to its 1,440-acre Tuomey Forest in a picturesque area of southwestern New Hampshire. The land located in Swanzey, N.H., is being exchanged by Yale University for 50 acres it owns along Route 10 in the...
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...
Garry Brewer, an accomplished leader in the field of policy science with expertise in environmental management, has been appointed the Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Resource Policy and Management, jointly by the Yale School of Forestry &...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) has launched the public phase of a major campaign that will seek a minimum of $60 million, primarily to support faculty endowment, student scholarships and a new “green” facility for the...
Yale-Myers Forest, managed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has been awarded certification by two internationally recognized accrediting agencies after an audit last fall determined that the school’s management of the 7,840-...
With the assistance of famed restaurateur Alice Waters, Yale’s Berkeley College will host a dinner on October 2 to launch its organic food campaign. The event celebrates Berkeley’s commitment to offer organic fare in their dining hall beginning in the...
Yale University plans to reduce emissions from its Sterling Power Plant, which provides energy for the School of Medicine, by using cleaner oil than the type it currently is permitted by the State of Connecticut to use. In place of a plan Yale developed...
A student-run organic garden is the most recent undertaking in Yale’s Sustainable Food Initiative, an ambitious plan to change the ethos of eating on the Yale campus. The Yale initiative, which promotes direct contact between consumers and local growers...
New Haven, CT — “The Greening of Yale and Beyond,” a symposium focused on alternative energy and related topics, will take place Thursday, October 18th from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the University’s Battell Chapel.Speakers at the symposium, which is free...
Yale University has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 17% since committing to a steep reduction in 2005, President Richard C. Levin reported today in a speech at the University of Copenhagen.Additional projects planned by the University will produce...