Lillian Childress
Staff Reporter
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Harp pledges to reduce energy consumption

At a crowded press conference last week, Mayor Toni Harp signed a pledge to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent in New Haven by 2018.

Five Yale students arrested at DC protest

This Saturday, five Yale students were arrested on the White House lawn while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline.

Students organize environmental law conference

Students from Yale College, the graduate and professional schools and universities in the surrounding area gathered in Kroon Hall for the 4th annual New Directions in Environmental Law Conference.

Holder-Winfield wins senate seat

Gary Holder-Winfield won the special election for Mayor Toni Harp’s vacant state senate seat on Tuesday.

Yalies face arrest in protest

On Saturday afternoon, a group of Yale students is planning to travel to Washington, D.C. to protest the Keystone XL pipeline alongside college students from across the country.

Petition would regulate wood smoke

Among car exhaust, factory fumes and coal-fired power plants, there is one source of air pollution that Connecticut residents know little about: emissions from residential wood smoke.

Neuroscience of love explored

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a Yale study published on Feb. 12 investigated the brain regions that may help us wish others well.

Keane talks marketing solar power

The biggest wasters of energy in America today are none other than college students, according to Brian Keane.

State moves to legislate fracking

A number of Connecticut Environmental groups and legislators have begun to craft fracking waste legislation that may come before the legislature in the next couple weeks.

Groups fundamental to human psychology

A new computer model created by Yale psychologists suggests that the main factors for group formation include transitivity and reciprocity.

Montessori school founded

This fall, New Haven parents will have the option to send their children to a new type of elementary school —a Montessori School.