You Are Invited: Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit, Nov. 1-2

Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit
Nov. 1-2, 2019

If you enjoyed our reunion discussion on environment – “For God, for Country and for the Planet” – you should participate in the third biennial Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS), to be held at Yale on Friday-Saturday, November 1-2, 2019. Register here.

The speakers and participants will represent all parts of the university (alumni, faculty and students from the college and graduate schools), as well as all generations (from alumni older than we are(!) to undergraduates). Two of our classmates, Derry Allen and Tom Emmons, who helped organize earlier YESS conferences and who organized our reunion discussion, will be speaking at this YESS conference.

YESS 2019: Dispatches from the Future will ask how we might compel the collective, sweeping environmental action that we need in the midst of a time of rapid change and uncertainty by looking into the future. The Summit will build on the 2015 and 2017 events by combining a fresh look at familiar topics with the impacts of global trends and emerging technologies on environment and sustainability. In the spirit of alumni collaboration, attendees will also have opportunities for meaningful networking and volunteer engagement with each other and the University.

Highlights on the agenda include:

• Friday:
  • decarbonization,
  • green financing,
  • a panel of Yale Environmental Dialogue authors who have essays in a new book published by the Yale University Press, A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
  • an eco-entrepreneurs pitch competition,
  • a lively reception at Yale’s Peabody Museum and
  • screenings of some films from the Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY).
• Saturday:
  • global recycling,
  • decarbonizing – regenerative agriculture,
  • reflections on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and
  • a plenary panel on “Reimagining the Environmental Enterprise” (the network of public and private organizations that actually put ideas and policies into action) that will feature our own Derry Allen, Tom Emmons and several other environmental experts.

YESS is open to all Yale people who are interested, not just environmental experts. If you haven’t been to an event at Yale like this before, you will find that it is a great way to connect with people from the full university community on a subject of broad interest. It is also a nice time of year to be in New Haven. Spouses/guests are welcome and have enjoyed this event in the past.

Registration is now open. The $175 registration fee covers meals.

Related Articles:

• Reunion Panel on the Environment

• Materials from the Reunion Panel

• Two Classmates Organize The Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (2017)