Yale Center for Environmental Communication

The Yale Center for Environmental Communication includes:

• The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)
• Yale Climate Connections (YCC)
• Yale Environment 360 (e360)
• The Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY)
• SAGE Magazine
• The Yale Environment Review (YER)

Teaching and Training

The YCEC provides courses in environmental communication for Yale graduate and undergraduate students and training programs for working environmental professionals. Current environmental communication courses include (all at YSE except as noted):

• Documentary and the Environment (Musser)
• Documentary Film Workshop (Musser)
• Engaging Landholders and Communities in Conserving and Restoring Tropical Forest Landscapes (Garen, with Calle)
• Environmental Data Visualization for Communication (Fenichel, Marlon, Queenborough)
• Environmental Risk Communication (Schwarz)
• Ethical Consumption: Promoting Workers' Rights, Fair Prices, and Sustainability (Robinson)
• Food and Documentary (Cheney, in American Studies)
• Fundamentals of Working with People (DeCew)
• Intro to Social Entrepreneurship (Chahine)
• Organizing: People, Power, and Change (Robinson)
• Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change (Biniaz)
• Strategic Environmental Communication (Leiserowitz)
• Strategic Communication: Delivering Effective Presentations (Reich)
• Writing for a Changing Environment (Wilson)
• Writing for Publication in the Natural Sciences (Queenborough)
• Writing the World (Klinkenborg)
• Writing Workshop (Cohn)
• Yale Environment Review (student-led; Kotchen is Faculty Advisor)

Beyond YCEC, professional development courses in environmental communication at Yale include Marketing for Sustainability offered by the Yale School of Management's Executive Education program, as well as a certificate program on Communicating Climate Change and Health at the Yale School of Public Health.

Environmental Journalism

The YCEC informs and engages the public in environmental science and solutions through several environmental journalism initiatives.

• Yale Environment 360 is an award-winning online magazine featuring reporting, opinion, and analysis on global environmental issues.
• Yale Climate Connections is a climate change news service featuring articles, videos, and a radio program broadcast daily on more than 700 stations and frequencies nationwide.
• The Environmental Film Festival at Yale is a student-run annual film festival showcasing incisive, cutting edge films that highlight the environmental and social issues of our time.
• Sage Magazine is a student-run literary magazine that expands environmentalism through provocative conversation and the arts.
• The Yale Environment Review is a student-run magazine that provides weekly updates translating cutting edge research for a lay audience.

Additionally, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting have partnered to connect journalists reporting on climate change with leading researchers and students studying climate change communication. YPCCC and the Pulitzer Center bring leading environmental journalists to Yale for faculty and student seminars and public presentations. The Pulitzer Center also supports a competitive fellowship program, giving Yale students an opportunity to work directly with Pulitzer journalists as part of a training program in Washington, D.C. More information about the chosen Yale environmental reporting fellows can be found here. Finally, YPCCC and the Pulitzer Center produce and distribute climate-focused content to a wide national audience.

Supporting A Global Network of Environmental Communicators

The YCEC organizes national and international meetings, conferences and events to convene climate change and environmental leaders and supports a global network of environmental communications scholars and practitioners.

• The Environmental Film Festival at Yale hosts an annual festival each spring with the goal of advancing environmental awareness through film and conversation with environmental filmmakers.
• SAGE Magazine hosts SAGE Stories, a twice annual storytelling series for members of the Yale School of the Environment to showcase and hone their environmental storytelling abilities.
• Yale Climate Connections interviews climate activists, entrepreneurs, scientists from around the world who are working to find and implement climate change solutions in their daily lives. These episodes, aired on radio stations around the world, are organized on an interactive world map.
• Yale Environment 360 also holds an annual Film Contest, highlighting the best environmental films from around the world.
• The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication hosts numerous webinars and speaker events each year in tandem with YCEC. Recordings and summaries can be found on the YPCCC website under Past Events.

The YCEC is supported by the Three Cairns Group.