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Oct 01 2012

Vlock Building Project: Yale School of Architecture provides hands-on learning

“What was the best part?”

Jonathon Meier answers the question without hesitating. “The first wall going up.”

“Oh yeah,” Sheena Zhang chimes in. “It’s like a symbolic moment when everyone comes together and pushes the wall...”

Zhang and Meier are second-year students at Yale’s School of Architecture, whose Vlock Building Project requires all first-year students to build a house. For the class of 2014, students constructed a house for Neighborhood Housing Services, a New Haven nonprofit dedicated to affordable housing development.

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Oct 01 2012

Whole Foods Annual Meeting to discuss Sustainable Food Systems

Every year, sustainable supermarket chain Whole Foods hosts its Green Mission Team Build, where representatives from Whole Foods stores gather to compare practices and discuss ways to improve their commitment to sustainability. This year, the conference will be hosted by Yale University with sponsorship from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY), the Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP), and the Yale Office of Sustainability.

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Jul 11 2012

Sustainability Leaders Get Up Close and Personal with the Recycling Plant

Yale’s Sustainability Leaders recently paid a visit to the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority (CRRA) Trash Museum in Hartford. The group was taken on a tour of the CRRA single stream recycling plant and trash museum.

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May 31 2012

2012 Yale College Reunions Go Green

The 2012 Yale College Reunions have gone green. For the first time, all of the 2012 Yale College Reunions have been Green Event Certified.

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Apr 19 2012

City Bench turns Waste Wood into Campus Furniture

City Bench looks for sustainable ways to maintain the beauty of a tree after it is cut down. Ezra Stiles and Morse Colleges feature locally made furniture and woodwork from trees taken down on campus.

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Mar 21 2012

Yale Sustainability Progress Report now available!

Yale has released its 2011 Progress Report for the Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan 2010-2013. This update highlights many of the major milestones achieved and outlines the direction that sustainability initiatives must take to successfully meet the remaining goals outlined for 2013.

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Mar 16 2012

Big Food Exhibit at Yale Peabody Museum

Big Food: Health, Culture and the Evolution of Eating

11 February 2012-2 December 2012

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Mar 09 2012

Golf Course Becomes Even Greener with Environmentally-Conscious Renovations

Yale's Golf Course has just completed a series of renovations to its irrigation and lighting systems that have produced a considerably more environmentally-conscious playing area.

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Mar 05 2012

Yale partners with Fundação Getulio Vargas and UMass Boston for Rio 2012 Event

Universities from around the globe are invited to participate in a groundbreaking collaborative workshop during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. The event will take place on 19 June 2012 - the day before the 2012 Earth Summit - on the Rio campus of Fundação Getulio Vargas. Co-hosted by Yale University, Fundação Getulio Vargas, and the University of Massachusetts Boston, this event will offer teams of university students from around the world the opportunity to idea-share and collaborate on how to tackle sustainability issues on their campuses.

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Feb 13 2012

Upcoming Citizen Science Opportunities

This Valentine’s Day, take a break from your chocolates and heart-shaped boxes to join us for our second bird walk of the winter!

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