Article written by Valériane Buslot, Fellow for the Samuel Center for Social Connectedness Cross-posted on the Samuel Center website. On May 10th 2018, the Samuel Center for Social Connectedness (SCSC), Data-Driven Yale (DDY) and MTLGreen hosted “Measuring What...
The term ‘sustainability’ has become synonymous with environmentalism in popular culture. It is often used to refer to climate change mitigation and adaptation; the ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ movement; cycling to work; vegetarianism; and so on. Within academic...
Last week, a group of over 45,000 attendees and representatives from 143 countries and 500 cities[1] participated in the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (the Agenda) at the UN-Habitat III conference in Quito. The Agenda includes a vision of sustainable urbanism,...
The Data Driven Environmental Solutions Group will be participating in the upcoming UN-Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17-21. Below are some highlights of our activities there. Please follow along on social media @datadrivenyale with...
In May I was invited to Latvia by the non-profit Homo Ecos to participate in a campaign to raise awareness of Latvia’s environment and its goal to become one of the greenest countries in the world. According to the 2008 Environmental Performance Index, Latvia...
Here’s a picture of me speaking at the 1st Yale University mean.time event, which brought speakers from a variety of disciplines to give ‘pecha kucha’ format talks (20 slides for 20 seconds each slide). I’ll post my presentation when I get a...
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