Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 5:14am
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...
The importance of sustainability may be taken for granted on the Yale campus by this point — but administrators have now set their sights on exporting the concept to Yalies studying abroad. The sudden interest at Yale in trying to make study-abroad activities sustainable — both environmentally and culturally — mirrors a similar move within the study-abroad field as...
Yale brought prestige, Nobel Laureate R. K. Pachauri brought expertise and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger brought star power to last week’s much-hyped climate-change conference, which University officials have long hoped would be an impetus for real momentum on the issue. Echoing President Theodore Roosevelt’s conference of governors 100 years ago at the White...
Donning olive green “carbon caps” and pumping posters into the air, members of the Connecticut Climate Coalition assembled on Cross Campus on Friday morning to urge Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell to sign into law House Bill 5600, designed to limit state carbon emissions. Rally organizers scheduled the event to coincide with the Governors Conference on Climate Change...
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...
The man of the hour was almost an hour late. When University President Levin asked the attending governors at today’s climate change conference to join him for a photograph, the murmurs swept a packed Woolsey Hall. “Where is Arnold?” As if on cue, building the suspense as only a Hollywood veteran could, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger emerged from a back...
At least five governors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, are expected to converge on Yale later this week for the University’s conference on climate change, the University announced Tuesday. The University released more details this week about the conference, which is quickly turning into a high-profile event. Dozens of reporters have already requested...
Two energy companies’ bid to construct a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in the Long Island Sound effectively died Thursday as New York Gov. David Paterson announced he would not back the project because it violates a state environmental regulation. At a press conference held on the shore of the Sound, Paterson said the project, which “did not pass the test” for a...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 on Monday threatened New York with legal if the state decides to go ahead with construction of a liquefied-natural-gas pipeline in the Long Island Sound. With a decision from New York Gov. David Paterson on the proposed Broadwater Energy gas terminal due later this week, several Connecticut officials, including...
For a select group of New Haven youth, promoting personal growth, protecting the environment and doing the “Evaporation Dance” go hand in hand. Four local high-school students spoke Monday at Silliman College’s “Not Your Average Master’s Tea,” sponsored by the Dwight Hall Urban Fellows, about their leadership and involvement in combining environmentalism and...
If there was any question as to why Gro Harlem Brundtland had traveled to the United States last week, her chauffeur was quick to clear things up. Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway and current United Nations special envoy on climate change, landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and was met by a driver who brought her to New Haven for...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In testimony before a Senate panel Thursday, University President Richard Levin called on the federal government to enact legislation limiting greenhouse gas emissions. “Our future depends on it,” he said. The hearing came...
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