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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...