A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for A Sustainable Future
A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
Labor
Michael Méndez: Climate Policy and the Environmental Justice Movement
Climate change is fundamentally about people. In California, environmental justice activists have galvanized around human impacts of climate action—such as air pollution, poverty alleviation, and green jobs—to build a policy response that focuses on local communities and public health. Dr.
Labor Department’s New Fiduciary Standard Works Against ESG Reporting: Shift Highlights Importance of new Yale Values at Work book
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a final rule that imposed new limits on proxy voting for private employee benefit plans’ fiduciaries.
Farm Food Facts with Dan Esty
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Center Director Dan Esty spoke with Phil Lempert of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance on their podcast Farm Food Facts. They discuss A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future which brings together the insights of 40 of the biggest and best ideas in sustainability and the environment that are grounded in sound science, specifically focusing on the agricultural sector.
To listen to the podcast, click here or click on the link below:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/282590/2537773-dan-esty-a-better-planet-author-and-yale-professor
A Green New Deal Is Technologically Possible. Its Political Prospects Are Another Question.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The New York Times
Center Director Professor Dan Esty is quoted in this article about the Green New Deal:
A Green New Deal Is Technologically Possible. Its Political Prospects Are Another Question.
#31: Kate Gordon
Kate Gordon leads the Energy & Climate team at Next Generation. In this episode, she talks about the promising signs of change in US climate and energy policy, with a special focus on the innovations emerging from California. There’s increasing public and private investment in transforming California’s economy, which is now the world’s eighth largest, and Gordon explains its significant impact on the scale of clean energy solutions across the state and what this could mean for national policy solutions.
#5: Kevin Poland
Maine farmer Kevin Poland visits with YCELP Associate Director Josh Galperin about the local food sovereignty movement. Proponents of the movement would like to see food safety regulations handled at a local rather than the federal or state level, but the issue has proved divisive. The Poland Family Farm has been operating in Brooklin, Maine since 1978 and grows MOFGA certified organic vegetables, flowers, berries, and hay as well as pasture-raised, heritage breeds pork, beef, and eggs.
From Theory to Practice: Communicating Sustainability in the 21st Century, a Personal Reflection from the Yale Sustainability Leadership Forum
By Steve Arowolo, Founder and CEO, Green Shift Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
A Look at the Complexity of Fracking in North Dakota
By Eugene Rusyn, YLS ’17
