80% of the buildings which will be occupied in 2050 already exist. Decarbonizing the  existing building stock will be critical to achieving a sustainable future. In this session we will address strategies for mitigating the impact of our existing building stock. Panelists are:  Tess McNamara (https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/425-tess-mcnamara) Bruce Becker (https://www.cfa.gov/about-cfa/who-we-are/bruce-redman-becker) Our Moderator is David Bergman Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SkDOfEtLQPmt7VwA-jwJvg  

Our guest speaker this month is Sharon Friedman Dr. Sharon Friedman, (Yale Forestry 1977) , a leader in forest research and policy. https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/barrier-breaking-forest-geneticist-honored-yse-alumni-award From 1979 to 2012, she worked at the US Forest Service including in leading research and policy roles. Friedman is a Fellow of the Society for American Foresters and a former Chair of...

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health) Dr. Daniel Carrión is an environmental health scientist focused on the intersection of climate, energy, and health (in)equity. Broadly speaking, his goal is to understand the relationship between structural forms of inequality with exposure and health disparities to identify and support interventions. More specifically, he is interested in the role of...

Registration link to follow with bio information Meeting is at 4:00-5:00 PM ET

Sustainable Transport or Retrofitting (London) Registration link here All times are ET Bio information to follow

Health and Harmony Registration link is here Dr. Kinari Webb (Yale Medicine ’02) will discuss the approach, mission, work, and impact of Health In Harmony (HIH). In 2007,  Kinari founded HIH in response to the devastation she saw in Indonesia’s rainforests. HIH’s mission is to recognize the inextricable link between human and environmental health, with...

Mark  Bumford  - Director  YSFP Registration here https://www.sustainablefood.yale.edu/our-staff Cultivating Radical Humility: Food Literacy for a Changing World What does it mean to be food literate at a university without a college of agriculture? At the Yale Sustainable Food Program, we’ve come to define food literacy not just as knowing what to eat or how food...

  Registration link is here All times are ET Kelly is Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change for the Bezos Earth Fund. In this role, she brings data, analysis and evidence to inform the Fund’s strategic direction. Kelly is also Co-Director of the Systems Change Lab, which monitors, learns from and accelerates the transformational...

Alex Miskho Addressing climate change through an interdisciplinary lens, from the local to the international Meeting registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zOquWt7dR-eq0W-Zj3T4ig Alex will speak to the need for integrating locally-led efforts into broader...