A professor’s plan to turn the outside of FES into a haven for plant-lovers and climbers alike.
At Yale
Into the Lion’s Den
What’s the former president of an oil company doing at an environmental school? Getting his point across, and maybe changing a few minds along the way.
Gas Puzzler
What happens when an economist, a hydrologist, an activist, and a CEO sit down to talk about the country’s most controversial form of energy extraction?
Young Environmental Writers Contest 2012
The moment you’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived! Read on to discover incredible environmental stories from the American Southwest, South Asian coast, and chilly Himalayas.
OP-ED: Paths to Sustainability–A Response to Dylan Walsh’s Open Letter to FES
This is a response to a recent op-ed by Dylan Walsh. To read Walsh’s op-ed click here. hat kinds of people does the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies hope to send out into the world? This is the question that, although he didn’t ask it, seemed to underlie Dylan Walsh’s provocative and poignant op-ed. The scene, so familiar […]
A Dandy in the Woods: photos from the Yale archives
He is alone amongst the trees. Obscured by them. A solitary well-buffed young man. A forester. A Yalie.
Volume VI
Open publication – Free publishing – More sage
OP-ED: Positive Environmentalism – An Open Letter to Faculty, Staff, Alumni and Students of FES
Update: SAGE has published a response to this letter here. im Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé Waters North America, sat comfortably on-stage. He had come to Burke Auditorium to discuss extended producer responsibility initiatives underway at his company. During his talk Mr. Jeffery mentioned that Nestlé Waters is pushing for a national recycling rate for PET bottles of 60 percent by […]
Evolutionary War Hero: An Interview with Carl Zimmer
Nearly 40% of Americans don’t believe in evolution, and acknowledgment of anthropogenic climate change is equally spotty. Acclaimed author Carl Zimmer spoke with Sage about how science communicators can begin to reach creationists and climate deniers, why Einstein makes for a great magazine cover, and what to do when your work gets slandered on the Daily Show.
Systems in Progress: A Summary of This Year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Annual Conference
Every year the International Society of Tropical Foresters convenes a conference of members, scientists and tropical foresters at Yale University to discuss trends and issues in the management of the world’s tropical forests. This short summarizes the 2012 conference, which took place earlier this year at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. e are well past the […]
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine
Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of all 193 countries in the United Nations. The UNFF works to bring about the conservation, management and sustainable development of all types of forests. This includes a focus on the entire landscape—on people, soils, water, […]