Environmental leaders from Brazil, Pakistan and Singapore, as well as the immediate past director of the U.S. National Parks Service, will join the visiting faculty of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, announced Dean James Gustave...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has appointed six new faculty. “Each has a commitment to scholarly research and teaching, and to successful environmental strategies and practical management,” Dean James Gustave Speth said in...
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-...
A scientific investigation of the relationship between children and nature is the focus of a new book co-edited by professors at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the University of Washington. The book, “Children and Nature:...
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...
Senior executives from Connecticut businesses will discuss how traffic congestion hurts economic growth and the natural environment on Thursday, January 30, at 4:15 p.m. at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The panel titled, “...
The Hemispheric Trade Debate, a two-day conference sponsored by Yale University to discuss the pros and cons of free trade in the Americas, will be held in the York Room of the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale April 3-4. “Nearly a decade has passed since...
Internationally renowned business and industry leaders will discuss the threats and opportunities posed by climate change in a panel discussion on “Trading for Carbon: The Business Response to Climate Change,” on April 17, at 5 p.m. in Sage Hall of...
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...