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.
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.
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.
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.
Amory Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, will be at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies to discuss his book Reinventing Fire on Wednesday, February 15.
Start your weekend with Yale Climate & Energy Institute TGIF
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012
Where: Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall 3rdFloor
Time: 4:30 p.m.
*Pizza and beverages
Topic: Intelligent Buildings: Energy Monitoring/Management, and Related Impact on Utility Market Dynamics
*Group discussion to follow
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