Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
With his smooth, friendly Southern drawl and South Carolina childhood, James Gustave Speth ’64 LAW ’69 doesn’t cut the figure of a typical environmentalist. But Speth, the dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, has made a career as an activist, government lawyer and international diplomat on behalf of the environment. And now, with the publication...
Four governors, two Canadian premiers, other dignitaries and as many as 80 reporters descended on Yale on Thursday in anticipation of today’s climate-change conference, headlined by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Before today’s ceremony in Woolsey Hall, when representatives from 18 states will sign a policy statement urging federal and state collaboration on...
In Washington, D.C. yesterday, the esteemed Republican U.S. senator from Idaho, Larry Craig, turned his attention from a Minneapolis bathroom to the Yale classroom. “[Yale’s] carbon footprint is three times as large as Cal-Berkeley’s,” he told University President Richard Levin, who was visiting the Capitol to testify before the Senate’s environment...
The University’s Internet service went dark Friday for more than an hour after a power failure in an Information Technology Services equipment room. Students were jolted into an unwanted Facebook reprieve at 1:38 p.m., and not all of campus was back online until at least 3 p.m., ITS officials said. It was the most significant unplanned outage in recent...
Two weeks in Colombia filled with broken English, fresh coffee and social change — this spring break was a considerable change of pace for School of Management students accustomed to analyzing revenue streams and organizational structures in a Yale classroom. Twenty-four students from the Yale School of Management’s Global Social Enterprise Club spent their break...
Days after announcing that Yale will host a national conference on climate change in April, University President Richard Levin has confirmed that he will testify next week in front of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee as Congress prepares to take up debate on a bill that would cap greenhouse gas emissions. Levin, who has made sustainability one...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to visit Yale next month to deliver an address on climate change, University officials confirmed last week. Schwarzenegger will speak at a conference of state governors at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies on April 17 and 18. The event will not be publicly announced until this week at the earliest, but...
When Michael Davies FES ’08 was unsatisfied with the lack of courses focused on environmentalism in politics that were offered at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he did not just sit back and complain. He did something about it. With a group of like-minded peers, he spearheaded the development of a new course on environmental issues and the political...
Global business leaders, who convened last month in Davos, Switzerland, are beginning to see the green in going green. The free market — for so long the source of environmental damage — has emerged as a promising agent of environmental protection in the 21st century, said Dan Esty, a joint professor of environmental law and policy at the Law School and the School of...
Should individuals continue to pollute oceans and clear forests for the convenience of humanity? Is it morally right to use gasoline if the technology to create no-emission vehicles exists? Does the environment hold intrinsic value or does its value lie in its utility to humans? These are among the questions at the forefront of environmental ethics, a burgeoning branch...
Six months after Yale launched a program to bring environmentally friendly practices to developing countries, a team of faculty and students are working in India to make the University’s global goal a reality. The Yale Center for Industrial Ecology’s “Program on Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries” was launched last April to promote the study of industrial...
If a tree falls in Yale Myers Forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Yale administrators are fighting to protect seven New England forest properties, including Myers Forest in northeastern Connecticut, in order to provide land for research and sustainable agricultural practices. But apart from those conducting research, officials said most Yale...
