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Celebrating a New Haven ‘Blessing’: Two Decades of Urban Resources Initiative

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

F&ES Names School’s First Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion

Thomas Easley, an educator who has tackled diversity challenges in the academic classroom and on the stage, was recently appointed the Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at F&ES.

‘This is Not a Normal Year’: Finding A Job in Difficult Economic Times

With nearly every sector worldwide affected by the COVID-19 crisis, Kevin Doyle offers advice for students looking to enter the job market at a difficult time and shares advice from alumni who launched their careers a decade ago during another time of economic crisis.

The Academic Value of Yale’s Carbon Charge Experiment

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.

Burning Biomass: A Sustainable Energy Option for the 21st Century?

Billions of people worldwide still burn woody biomass for household, commercial, and industrial purposes. During the F&ES-based Forest Dialogue's recent TFD Week, a group of experts explored how this ancient energy resource can become a more sustainable and climate-friendly energy option for the 21st century.

Removal of Invasive Species Protects One of Kroon Hall's Key 'Green' Features

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.

Sustainable Procurement Key to Lowering Carbon Footprint

As more companies focus on reducing their carbon footprint, there’s one element that is key but often overlooked — reducing emissions from their supply chains.

Selling the Farm

Joe Orefice ’09 M.F. gave up his farm, an endowed position at Cornell, and the verdant Adirondack Mountains to oversee Yale’s forests. Why? There are a few reasons.

Sabin Prize Seeds Business Plans That Do Good for the Environment

On April 17, the Sabin Prize will award $25,000 to a for-profit business idea that helps achieve a more sustainable way of life. The competition is part of the first ever Entrepreneurship Across Yale event.

Ride On: Rock to Rock Goes Virtual

The annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride — which has raised more than $1 million for environmental groups such as the F&ES-based Urban Resources Initiative (URI) over the past decade — will go virtual this year due to social distancing requirements. URI’s Anna Pickett, a longtime organizer of the event, explains what that means.

Rethinking the Private Sector’s Role in Disaster Relief

Latent potential within the private sector could provide a powerful new solution to disaster relief, according to a report out of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.

Conservation Through Cocktails

Are you ready for a jujube and hawthorn martini? A new company created by a group of ethnobotanists, including Ashley DuVal ’10 M.E.Sc., thinks so.

Parting Thoughts from an F&ES Favorite

For more than a decade, Joanne DeBernardo has been the first face students see when they walk into Kroon Hall. On the cusp of retirement, the outgoing assistant dean of student services discusses her impactful career and shared some advice for the F&ES community.

Newly Rebuilt Yale Myers Camp Showcased at Annual Harvest Festival

The Yale Myers Forest, the flagship of the Yale School Forest system, unveils its newly rebuilt camp this week at their annual Harvest Festival. The buildings honor the traditional look and feel of the old camp, which was destroyed in a catostrphic fire Memorial Day weekend 2016.

New Yale Partnership Creates National Environmental Poll

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has released initial findings from its first environmental poll conducted as part of a new partnership with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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