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Special Initiatives at Yale

Rising to today’s challenges through teaching, research, and outreach.

Special Initiatives

Innovative initiatives at Yale are engaging students, faculty, staff, and community members in novel climate and sustainability-related projects.

  • Energy History Online

    Through curated teaching units and a library of curated teaching materials, Energy History Online seeks to promote energy literacy among students, 

  • Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)

    ELTI trains and supports people from all sectors and backgrounds to restore and conserve tropical forest landscapes.

  • Environmental Protection Clinic

    The Goldman Sonnenfeldt Environmental Protection Clinic is an interdisciplinary clinic that partners with environmental organizations to address press

  • Planetary Health Initiatives

    Nurses and midwives are first responders and crucial to ensuring that healthcare operates with a lighter environmental impact as well as delivering he

  • The Kerry Initiative

    The Kerry Initiative is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on pressing global challenges through teaching, research, practicums, conferences,

  • Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative (UHPSI)

    UHPSI engages in teaching, research, and outreach, primarily through mentoring students on applied research and management projects with western

  • Urban Resources Initiative (URI)

    Urban Resources Initiative is a university not-for-profit partnership actively engaged in community forestry activities throughout New Haven.



  • Yale Forest Forum

    The Yale Forest Forum serves as the special events hub of The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment.

  • Yale Nile Initiative

    We are an NSF-funded collaboration among historians, scientists, hydrologists, and statisticians.