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Green Careers, Women Leaders: Teaching Students to ‘Flex Their Leadership Muscles’

High school students from across the region visited Yale F&ES for the fourth “Green Careers, Women Leaders,” an annual event in which F&ES students share leadership skills with young women and showcase environmental career paths.

Yale GrassX Competition Invites Student Support for Native Pollinators

The Yale Landscape Lab on Yale’s West Campus and the F&ES-based Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative have partnered for GrassX, an Experimental Grassland Competition that invites Yale students to explore ideas to promote grassland management systems, native pollinators, and local ecosystems.

Former Obama Strategist Shifts Focus To a New Movement: Solar Adoption

In 2008 Jon Carson helped build one of the most influential grassroots campaigns in U.S. political history, harnessing technology and volunteer networks to propel Barack Obama into the White House. The apparatus for that strategy later became Organizing for Action (OFA), a nonprofit that under Carson’s leadership raised tens of millions of dollars to support President Obama’s second-term agenda.

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Former EPA Chief Still Hopeful That U.S. Values Will Trump Politics

Former EPA Administrator William Reilly told an audience at the F&ES reunion that it was gut decisions and the occasional failure — rather than a carefully considered plan — that shaped his career.

Gabon ‘Dialogue’ Examines Challenges Of Deforestation-Free Development

The Forests Dialogue, a Yale-based program that promotes multi-stakeholder discussions on forest issues, recently brought together 60 people from 15 countries to discuss how the concept of deforestation-free supply chains could be applied in western and central Africa.

Forests as Capital: ISTF Yale Chapter Hosts Annual Conference at Kroon

The Yale Chapter of the International Society of Tropical Foresters will host its 20th annual conference at F&ES from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1.

F&ES Welcomes the Class of ‘17

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this week welcomed the 164 members of the Class of 2017, one of the most diverse and international groups of first-year students in the School’s 115-year history.

F&ES Presents Its Highest Honor To Philanthropist Teresa Heinz

Teresa Heinz, the philanthropist and longtime advocate for environmental awareness and literacy, has been named the recipient of The Aldo Leopold Award, the highest honor granted by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Building the Future of Fisheries: Designs for Government, Market and Community

On April 3, an international group of scholars will meet at F&ES to discuss the challenges facing fisheries worldwide and strategies to achieve a more sustainable future.

Environmental Justice Conference Brings Emerging Scholars to F&ES

The day-long Global Environmental Justice Conference brought emerging scholars from around the world and from across disciplines to discuss how scholarship, social justice, and environmental management can be effectively integrated.

Eighth Sabin Venture Prize to Honor Business Ideas that Advance Sustainability

Four startup ideas will be finalists for the 2016 Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize, a $25,000 cash prize that supports for-profit business concepts that help achieve a more sustainable way of life.

Solutions for Scarcity: Yale Series Tackles Drought Crisis in U.S. West

On Feb. 24, Jennifer Pitt ’93 M.E.Sc., director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Colorado River Program, will kick off a series of F&ES talks about the chronic drought that continues to grip the western U.S.

Diversity and Environmental Leadership: Beinecke Leads Seminar Series at Yale

At F&ES this semester, former NRDC President Frances Beneicke will co-teach a course that explores how the environmental movement can better reflect all segments of American society.

Dean’s Conversation: Energy Specialist on Tough Choices and Possible Solutions

David Lawrence, a global energy consultant and former Shell executive, will be the guest in the next Dean’s Conversation on Thursday, April 20. The title of his talk is “The World Needs More Energy and Less CO2: Tough Questions, Hard Choices and Possible Solutions.

On Yale Day of Service, Dean Crane Lends a Hand to F&ES Alum in Kentucky

On the annual Yale Day of Service, Dean Peter Crane joined more than two-dozen other Yalies working the soil at the Parklands of Floyds Fork, a network of urban parks created by Daniel Jones ’84 B.A. ’06 M.F.

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