Profiles / Features


  1. Russian Environmentalists Bring Conservation Skills and Insights to YSE

    Nataliia Lisitcyna and her partner, Dmitry Lisitsyn, have spent decades protecting natural ecosystems and biodiversity on Sakhalin Island off Russia's far eastern shore by pressing for legal restraints on harmful commercial activities including mining and oil, gas extraction. The two are now bringing their formidable experience in conservation work to the Yale School of the Environment.
  2. Investing in Systems Change

    For the past 18 months, Simon Bunyan '22 MEM has crisscrossed the country, talking with community groups about what they need to implement clean energy solutions. These conversations are part of his work with the Department of Energy’s Justice40 Initiative, which directs 40% of overall federal investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, sustainable housing, and clean water infrastructure into disadvantaged

  3. Bridging the Conservative Gap on Climate Change

    The divisive nature of U.S. politics often stymies efforts to address the climate crisis. George Gemelas ’18, '21 MEM, however, is working to make climate change a bipartisan issue and foster consensus around market-based policy solutions.

    “In my experience, there's a lot of interest by the average citizen, who may happen to be conservative, for pragmatic solutions. That's why I

  4. Protecting Waterways While Meeting Urban Needs

    Lav Kanoi grew up in Kolkata, India, where the Hugli River, a tributary of the Ganges, empties into the Bay of Bengal. The Ganges is widely revered in Indian society, but development and the impacts of climate change are putting pressure on the health of the river at a time when supply and demand for water is at a critical

  5. YSE Class of ’24: Aishwarya Iyer Focuses on Underrepresented Voices in Energy Usage

    Class of '24: Aishwarya Iyer's focus on the life cycle assessment of energy use in building stock in India led her to a unique discovery — informal and low-income housing units were not represented in the data. She devised a study to test energy-use scenarios in those units, helping to improve representation of building stocks and energy demand projections in
  6. College Students Gain Hands-on Research Experience in YSE Labs This Summer

    Four college students from New Haven interned this summer in YSE labs through the New Haven Promise program. They contributed research on several projects including a study on accelerating the natural weathering process that sequesters carbon and an examination of the impacts of invasive jumping worms.
  7. A Field of Study and a Moral Force

    After 25 years leading the novel initiative they co-founded, the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will be retiring from teaching this spring, but the field of study they created continues to grow worldwide.