Centers, Programs, and Initiatives
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A new partnership between the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and the UNEP’s “Faith for Earth” initiative will highlight the moral and practical contributions of the world’s religions to addressing the planet’s mounting environmental challenges.
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Like conservation, the education of a forester is not with pen and paper alone, but with boots on the ground and a Biltmore stick in hand. At F&ES, the Yale Apprentice Forester Program offers such an opportunity.
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The Yale Environmental Dialogue, an F&ES initiative that aims to inject new energy and fresh thinking into the national conversation about sustainability related issues, recently hosted the first in a series of national events.
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This month Yale embarked on a six-month pilot program that will examine the effect of four different carbon-pricing models of several university buildings, including Kroon Hall. At F&ES, school leaders see it as an opportunity to expand research, student learning, and outreach on a critical energy issue.
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Last year Yale embarked on an experimental program examining the potential for carbon pricing on the Yale campus. A recent analysis, conducted by F&ES students, shows that the pilot program contributed to carbon reductions.
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Recognizing the critical role that private capital flows will play in moving society toward a more sustainable future, Yale has launched an academic effort to provide high-quality research on the flow of capital into sustainability-oriented projects and sustainable companies.
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Despite a small carbon footprint, Denmark is an innovator in the environmental realm. Dan Jørgensen, the country’s minister for climate, energy, and utilities, recently visited YSE to explain why the country wants to be a leader in the global fight against climate change.
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Residents prepare to plant a tree on Elm Street as part of the Urban Resources Initiative’s GreenSkills program.
Nobody could have predicted the success of the Urban Resources Initiative, or URI, when it started in 1995, a few hundred volunteers spread over a handful of New Haven neighborhoods. But two decades later, more than 270 community groups have participated in URI’s Greenspace program. Every summer, more than 1,000 volunteers join together, working across the city to convert unused
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This summer, the F&ES-based Tropical Resources Institute is funding the research of nearly 20 students working in the planet’s tropical zones. We caught up with three of them.
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In a new video, the F&ES Environmental Stewardship Committee shows how easy it is to find alternatives to styrofoam containers — and the perils of not doing so.
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As F&ES students and administration work on strategies to reduce their own carbon emissions as part of the Yale Carbon Charge project, they are also looking beyond the School to see how they can help other buildings slash their energy consumption.
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY), we asked several of the center’s most esteemed alums to reflect on how CBEY prepared them to address challenges at the nexus of business and the environment and where those lessons have led them.
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This month a team of technicians has removed an invasive species that ran amok in the human-made pond outside of Kroon Hall, protecting one of the building's key sustainable attributes.
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This spring eight F&ES students traveled to Flint, Mich. for a conference on the water crisis still unfolding in that community. In a conversation three students discuss how the experience deepened their understanding of the crisis — and it revealed about battling future environmental and social challenges.
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