Region: China
Developing World Gaining Access to Environmental Research
A collaborative initiative to help reduce great disparities in scientific resources between developed and developing nations.China and the Environment: The Impact of NGOs, Culture and Growth
10.31.06 Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect St., New Haven Xiaoyi (Sheri) Liao, the Chinese environmental ambassador to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee and one of China’s best-known environmental activists and journalists, founded and is president of the Global Village of Bejing, a...
Bicycles Rule
09.11.06 2006 Student Internship Bicycles still rule the streets in China. Despite the proliferation of luxury cars and fuel-cell buses in the capital city, they still remain the fastest and most efficient method of getting across town. The major arteries of Beijing have wide lanes reserved for bicycles...
Sentinels
09.11.06 2006 Student Internship - The ubiquitous construction in the capital city is representative of the country’s rapid economic progress marked by a 9% annual increase in GDP. Air pollution is also a trademark of Beijing, which ranks second only to Mexico City as the world’s most polluted. During...Yale Program to Give Developing World Access to Global Scientific Research
06.20.06 Paul-Bendiks Walberg has had the “brain-drain migration” on his mind. This phenomenon – when the best and brightest of a nation or region are compelled to travel abroad for education, research and job opportunities, never to return home– is a direct result of what scientists around the...
Developing Industrial Ecosystems
05.16.02 Part I: Tools From Industrial EcologyThe Collaborative Urban Environmental Crisis Management Research Project (UECM) in China
05.09.07 | Yajie Song
Y. Song May 9, 2007 Research Scholar Yajie Song initiated the Collaborative Urban Environmental Crisis Management Research Project (UECM) as PI, his mentor Professor William Burch of Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) as Co-PI along with their Chinese colleagues in China...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
04.25.07 | SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's third magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.edu
Environmentalism and Obesity in Asia
02.23.07 | Saleem Ali
Gluttony, more generally has been considered a sin in most religions. In Christianity, it is one of the “seven deadly sins.” Even in Islam, there are several traditions which discourage excessive consumption. A hadith of the Prophet Muhammad quoted by Imam Tirmidhi states that “No man...SAGE Magazine Volume I, Issue II
02.17.07 | SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's second magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.eduWater & Sanitation Symposium meeting
11.27.06 | Kara DiFrancesco
Please join us for the discussion on the development of a FES Water and Sanitation Symposium for Spring 2007. Janine M.H. Selendy, Chairman and President, Horizon International, Yale University, will lead and present ideas for the proposed symposium which will be discussed and developed...SAGE Magazine Volume I, Issue I
06.12.06 | SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's first magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.edu
