On Friday, April 18, U.S. Governors and top environmental officials will meet at Yale University to exchange ideas on how states and the federal government can combat global warming and develop a strategy for future action.“This is the first time such as...
Yale University will hold a Sustainability Fair and a panel discussion on The Role of Universities in Advancing Sustainability on Thursday, April 3. Both events are free and open to the public.The Sustainability Fair will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p...
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...
Growing up, Matthew Eckelman couldn’t stand to see his parents toss a soda can in the garbage. “I was one of those kids who annoyed my parents to no end trying to get them to set up household recycling,” he says. “Now, they’re even more ardent about...
Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter for the New York Times, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 6:00 p.m., in the Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street.Revkin’s lecture, “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming, from the North...
For Ross Mitchell and Taylor Kilian, graduate students in geology and geophysics, the end of the work week sometimes marks the beginning of their work.Weekends often find them far from New Haven, studying paleomagnetism — using “fossilized” magnetic...
Yale’s Office of Sustainability has reported a 7% reduction in the University’s greenhouse gas emissions since 2005 despite a 3.2% increase in the size of the campus during that period.President Richard C. Levin committed Yale three years ago to a 43%...
A conference on the social and ecological sustainability of biofuels and the impact of their production on the forests of Central and South America — sponsored in part by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) — will take place...
Not long after Yale juniors Rich Littlehale and Bob Casey realized that their idea of starting a company selling vitamin water was financially unfeasible, they began thinking of a potential new venture.At a conference in Chicago last spring, Casey learned...
Members of the Yale Forests Program talked about sustainable forestry practices during a program held near Yale Myers Forest on Oct. 19. The day included a tour of Cranberry Hill Farm in Ashford, Connecticut, one of the nearby farms with which Yale has...