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SUMMARY:YBG Monthly Speaker Series\, Wednesday\, February 18\, 2026. Speaker\, Jennifer Gaddis
DESCRIPTION:Regenerative School Meals: A Global Strategy for Climate Action and Educational Equity \nRegistration Link: Here \nBio: Jennifer Gaddis (Yale School of the Environment\, PhD\, 2014) is associate professor of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Gaddis is the author of The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools (University of California Press\, 2019) and co-editor with Sarah A. Robert of Transforming School Food Politics around the World (MIT Press\, 2024). She is principal investigator of a $1.5 million national school food workforce study funded by the US Department of Agriculture\, an advisory board member of the National Farm to School Network\, and an active public scholar. \nTopic: What if one of the most powerful tools for fighting climate change and inequality was already in our schools? In this talk\, Dr. Jennifer Gaddis reveals how school meals—often overlooked and undervalued—are being radically reimagined by governments around the world. Drawing on her research sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation on innovative policies in Brazil and South Korea\, Dr. Gaddis shares how regenerative school meals can advance multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals—especially those related to climate action\, sustainable agriculture\, and educational equity—while fostering healthier communities and ecosystems.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-monthly-speaker-series-wednesday-february-18-2026/
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SUMMARY:YBG Monthly Speaker Series\, Wednesday\, March 18\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Forests Dialogue with Gary Dunning: A Yale program designed to reduce conflict in the forest sector \nGary Dunning: https://environment.yale.edu/directory/staff/gary-dunning \nRegistration Link: Here \nGary is the Executive Director of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment.  His primary responsibilities center on strategic planning\, institutional collaborations\, communications\, and programming. Gary also lectures at the School on stakeholder engagement\, leadership in the forest sector and timely issues in forestry.  \nHe is the founding Executive Director of The Forests Dialogue (TFD). TFD was created in 2000 to provide global forest leaders with a neutral\, multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) platform and process focused on developing mutual trust and a shared understanding while working towards collaborative solutions to the challenges in achieving sustainable forest management and forest conservation around the world.  Gary previously served as the Director of the Yale Forest Forum from 1998-2000.  He holds an MF degree from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Geography & Natural Resources from Humboldt State University. \nSome personal information about Gary: \n\nI grew up in “Chicagoland”\, no forests in sight\, true rust belt\, unnatural environment\nI lived in Northern California\, fell in love with forests\, vowed to protect them (read\, keep people out!)\nI moved to Kenya to teach Agroforestry (Peace Corps)\, learned firsthand that you can’t protect forests without PEOPLE\nI realized that The Forests Dialogue was my best opportunity to care for forests via engaging people directly in their care
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-monthly-speaker-series-wednesday-march-18-2026/
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SUMMARY:YBG Monthly Speaker Series\, Wednesday\, April 15\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:State of zero-emission transport \nRegistration Link: Here \nCOREY  CANTOR\,   ZETA   Research Director \nhttps://www.zeta.org/team/corey-cantor \n“Corey Cantor\, a Yale YSE Alumni ’19\, will provide a presentation and market update on the state of electric vehicles here in the U.S. and globally. The presentation will cover long-term market trends\, latest in policy\, EV charging and additional timely topics in transport.” \nCorey joins ZETA with ten years of research and policy experience in the clean energy space. His interest in zero-emission transportation has included understanding the use of national and sub-national policy to build up domestic industry. Prior to joining ZETA\, Corey was a senior associate for electric vehicles at BloombergNEF\, a market leader in research that explains the energy transition to clients across the industry. Corey spent five-and-a-half years covering the North American EV market\, vehicle economics\, and global EV policy. Before pursuing a master’s degree\, Corey worked in DC for four years\, including on the Hill for Senator Cory Booker as a part of his economic policy team. Corey started his career at NDN\, a think tank\, where he worked on economic and energy policy-related research. Corey holds a Master of Environmental Management degree from Yale’s School of the Environment and a Bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-monthly-speaker-series-wednesday-april-15-2026/
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SUMMARY:YBG Monthly Speaker Series\, Wednesday\, May 20\, 2026 - Holding Ground: Conservation\, Community\, and the Long View
DESCRIPTION:Laly Lichtenfeld\, PhD\, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer\, African People and Wildlife \nRegistration : https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/L9J9CUyzRC2_mkg-6DTuhA \n \nHolding Ground: Conservation\, Community\, and the Long View \nFor more than two decades\, Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld has partnered with communities in Tanzania to build conservation solutions that hold — through shifting politics\, funding disruptions\, and the daily pressures of life in landscapes where people and wildlife rely on the same land. Her work centers on a question that rarely gets asked in environmental science: not whether a solution was implemented\, but whether it lasts. In this talk\, she draws on field experience to explore what sustainable solutions require in practice\, including local decision-making\, women’s leadership\, and the collaborative processes that keep conservation grounded when conditions change. The lessons reach well beyond conservation\, offering a framework for anyone working on complex social and environmental challenges in an uncertain world. \nLaly received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005 in the disciplines of social ecology and wildlife ecology. She is a Fulbright Scholar\, a National Geographic Explorer\, an invited member of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority Research Advisory Committee\, a distinguished alumna of the Yale Tropical Resources Institute\, a recipient of the 2016 Lowell Thomas Award for Open Space Conservation\, a 2019 Women of Discovery Awardee\, and a finalist for the prestigious 2025 Indianpolis Prize. An accomplished speaker\, in 2019 Laly was honored to be named a “Woman of Impact” by the National Geographic Society and featured among some of the world’s leading female visionaries in Women of Impact: Changing the World\, a one-hour documentary aired on the National Geographic Channel.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-monthly-speaker-series-wednesday-may-20-2026/
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SUMMARY:YBG June Speaker Series - An Exploration in Healing with the Land
DESCRIPTION:Reverend Rachel Field \nWednesday\, June 17\, 4:00-5:00 PM ET \nRegistration link is here \nPartnering with Creation: An Exploration in Healing with the Land \n\n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to truly partner with the land for healing\, restoration\, and transformation? Together we will explore the combination of regenerative agriculture\, anti-racist organizing principles\, and the agency of the land as an active participant in collective healing. We will explore examples from Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest\, such as: fall Michaelmas rituals\, winter Wassail gatherings\, and natura divina prayer practices.  Using these examples we will discuss the connections between anti-racist organizing principles\, which are foundational to the work of Heartberry Hollow\, and folk ritual practices in the Christian tradition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio:\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Reverend Rachel Field lives on a small regenerative farm in a cold hollow in the Green Mountains of Vermont surrounded by maple\, ash\, and hemlock. She founded Heartberry Hollow Farm & Forest in 2019 and it has become a retreat center for the Episcopal Church as well as a small scale farm. She holds a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School (’16)\, a certificate in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale\, and a certificate in Contemplative Leadership from the Shalem Institute. She is the Program Manager for An Episcopal Path to Creation Justice as well as the Priest Associate at St Mary’s in Northfield Vermont. She has been leading retreats in the Episcopal Church for 20 years\, and has a deep love of working with the more-than-human world to deepen relationships with Christ and heal from internalized racism. When she’s not gardening or wrangling chickens\, she can be found curled up with a good book (probably the Lord of the Rings) and her cat\, Eowyn.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-june-speaker-series/
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SUMMARY:YBG Speaker Series - July - The Fight Against Ocean Plastic
DESCRIPTION:Monty Sims\nRegistration link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/p56Uga08QnGVPW13Oxy_Dg#/registration \n  \n\n\nMegacities\, Microplastics\, and Machines: How AI\, Drones\, and Data Are Powering Asia’s Fight Against Ocean Plastic \nFrom megacities and rivers to the open Pacific\, much of the world’s ocean plastic problem starts — and can be stopped — in Asia. This talk takes you inside The Ocean Cleanup’s work across East and Southeast Asia\, showing how AI\, drones\, and real-time data are being used to track plastic\, stop it in rivers\, and clean it up before it reaches the ocean. Along the way\, we’ll look at why microplastics matter\, how everyday urban life connects to ocean health\, and why technology — paired with local action — is becoming one of the most powerful tools in the fight against ocean plastic. \n\n\n\nBio: \n\nMontgomery (“Monty”) Simus is Senior Advisor\, Blue Finance at The Ocean Cleanup\, the Dutch nonprofit organization developing and scaling technologies to remove plastic pollution from the world’s oceans and rivers. His work focuses on the intersection of environmental infrastructure\, ocean policy\, and innovative finance — including how plastic remediation\, river systems\, and coastal resilience can become investable components of 21st-century infrastructure strategy. \nMonty is also a member of the Treatied Spaces Research Group at the University of Birmingham\, where his interdisciplinary PhD research examines conflicts surrounding resource extraction\, Indigenous jurisdiction\, and environmental governance through the case of Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay\, Alaska. \nIn 2023\, he served as an inaugural Impact Leader-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative\, focused on global water accessibility\, resilient infrastructure\, and sustainable finance. He currently serves as an Associate with the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment at Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and as an Associate Fellow of Branford College at Yale University. \nPreviously\, Monty spent more than two decades working across impact investing\, frontier markets\, catalytic philanthropy\, and sustainable development initiatives spanning Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East. He holds degrees from Yale University and Harvard University.
URL:https://yalebluegreen.org/event/ybg-speaker-series-july-the-fight-against-ocean-plastic/
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