by Amy Weinfurter | Aug 8, 2017 | Sustainability
General Purpose Data-Driven Yale is seeking student research assistants to contribute a range of projects aimed to bring quantitative rigor and analysis to environmental policymaking. Research projects include measuring urban environmental performance; assessing...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Jun 30, 2017 | Sustainability
The world has three years to prevent catastrophic climate change, according to a group of experts convened by former UNFCCC chairwoman Christiana Figueres. In a comment published yesterday in Nature, Figueres, along with five co-authors and more than 60...
by Ryan Thomas | May 5, 2017 | Presentations, Projects, Sustainability, The City Fix, Urbanization
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...
by Amy Weinfurter | Feb 21, 2017 | Sustainability
General Purpose Data-Driven Yale is seeking summer student research assistants to contribute a range of projects aimed to bring quantitative rigor and analysis to environmental policymaking. Research projects include measuring urban environmental performance;...
by Ryan Thomas | Oct 7, 2016 | Featured, Presentations, Sustainability, Urbanization
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...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Jul 7, 2016 | Energy, Featured, Indices, Sustainability
By Carlin Rosengarten and Danny Macri When you see solar panels on residential rooftops do you ever wonder how these power producing panels got there? How did the homeowner pay for the state-of-the-art system? Did they receive government assistance? In almost all...
