2008 News Archive: Environment

December 
12/23/08Yale Book Among Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008
12/12/08Yale Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even as Campus Grows
12/12/08In Adirondacks, Students Explore Puzzle of Ancient Supercontinents
12/05/08Impacts of Biofuel Production on Tropical Forests Is Focus of Event

 

November 
11/21/08Student Entrepreneurs Find Their Niche in the ‘Green Explosion’
11/07/08Student Working To Forge Better Metal Recycling Practices
11/06/08Revised Theory Suggests Carbon Dioxide Levels Already in Danger Zone
11/06/08Award-Winning New York Times Environment Reporter to Speak at Yale

 

October 
10/28/08Elimelech Honored for Contributions to Chemical and Environmental Engineering
10/24/08Into the Woods
10/03/08Leading Commercial Litigator to Discuss Case Against Texas Utility
10/01/08Are We Trading Energy Conservation for Toxic Air Emissions?

 

September 
09/26/08Melina Shannon-DiPietro Named Director of Yale Sustainable Food Project
09/26/08Many Hands Made Light Work at Yale Farm
09/22/08Yale Prize To Support Eco-Ventures
09/19/08Scientific American Editor John Rennie To Give Poynter Lecture on ‘The Greening of the Media’

 

July 
07/18/08Report Defines Changes Needed To Bring About a Sustainable World

 

June 
06/13/08In Day-Long ‘BioBlitz,’ Scientists Identify 914 Organisms — Some Rare
06/13/08Peabody Museum Scientist Rediscovers Elusive Fairy Shrimp not Been Seen in 50 years
06/03/08Yale Environment 360 Magazine Launches Online

 

May 
05/22/08Yale University Researchers Resolve Global Warming Mystery
05/07/08Paul Anastas Honored by Council of Scientific Society Presidents for Leadership in Founding of "Green Chemistry"

 

April 
04/18/08Yale Launches Sustainability Pledge
04/15/08Book Examines Clash of Capitalism and the Environment
04/15/08Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference
04/02/08Fair and Panel Discussion on Sustainability at Yale

 

March 
03/31/08Stonyfield Farm CE-Yo to Discuss How to Make Money and Save the World
03/27/08Governors to Gather at Yale for Climate Change Conference

 

February 
02/20/08Talk by CT Environmental Commissioner to Explore Connecticut's Leadership on Climate Change and the Need for a National Partnership

 

January 
01/31/08Energy Scientist to Speak at Yale
01/23/08Switzerland Tops 2008 Environmental Scorecard at World Economic Forum
01/21/08Yale Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 17%