In 2023, the Yale College Class of 1994 came together to create hope and momentum out of our collective fear and frustration around the climate crisis. The first Yale Blue Green chapter to bring a single graduating class together to advance climate and environment related efforts, 9Y4 Climate Action is dedicated to raising awareness, deepening understanding, and creating opportunities to take climate action. Each of us is already contributing to solutions individually—within our professional work, by supporting one another, using our influence in prosocial ways—and we see so much opportunity in harnessing our collective intelligence for even greater good.
Email yale94.climate.action@gmail.com to join our distribution list or watch this space to learn more about opportunities to engage, whether through our monthly zoom meetings, reunion activities, quarterly events featuring 9Y4 thought leaders, activists, and change makers in the climate space, or whatever else we dream up next.
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9Y4 Co-Chairs
Lauren Glazer
Peter Chien
Yenyen Chan
9Y4 Climate Action Series
While this series may feature notable 9Y4 alums, all are welcome There will be a 9Y4 meet-up 30 minutes prior to each event.
Upcoming Events
More to come!!!!!
Past Events
Scott Walsh, Director, Climate and Transportation, ICF – Mar. 8
The Business Case for Sustainability
Scott Walsh has over 30 years of experience advising companies, governments, and nonprofits to improve strategy, operations, finance, and sustainability. Scott specializes in helping organizations improve the sustainability of their operations, and finding ways to make those improvements pay for themselves.
Most recently, Scott has led electric vehicle projects for clients including the US Postal Service, the State of California and the City of Honolulu. Scott has also advised clients on wildfire management, sustainable agriculture, and conservation finance. Scott has worked with clients as big as Walmart and as small as an organic coconut oil mill.
Scott earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental geology from Yale University, where he also rowed crew and led hiking trips. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia, where he was a leader with Students for Responsible Business (now Net Impact) and Opportunity Consultants, Inc.
In this talk, Scott will share key insights from his career on how climate change is affecting us all, and what we can do about it. Scott will focus in particular on our food, transportation and energy systems, with an emphasis on climate change’s financial impact on these systems. Scott will lead a discussion on how each of us can find the most important things we can do, individually and collectively, to reduce the damage to our ecosystems, our economies, and our communities.
Dr. Peter Chien, Psychiatrist
Turning Climate Emotion into Action, Tues, Nov 12th, 2024
Awareness of climate change brings emotion spanning anxiety, despair, guilt, and hope. In this post-election period, let’s talk together about how these natural emotions can lead us and others towards action for our planet.
Dr. Peter Chien is a psychiatrist practicing at the Edward Hines VA Medical Center outside Chicago, where he directs a nationally-recognized crisis outpatient program for Veterans who are suicidal. He is also a member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance and speaks regularly about the impact of climate change on mental health.