Online magazine will cover environmental issues
The environment school is launching an online magazine dedicated to
authoritative commentary and reporting on major environmental issues.
YaleEnvironment Online will be edited by Roger Cohn ’73, the award-winning
former editor of Mother Jones and Audubon magazines. The
magazine will publish articles and opinion pieces written by some of the world's
leading environmental writers and journalists, as well as scientists and
researchers. It will feature multimedia content, including video and audio,
interviews, discussions, blogs, and interactive graphics, and will provide
links to other websites, republish key articles from outside publications, and
provide comprehensive background summaries of pressing environmental topics.
In announcing Cohn's appointment, F&ES dean Gus Speth said, "The
time is right for a global publication that will serve as a forum for
provocative writing and thinking on ways to tackle urgent environmental
challenges." YaleEnvironment Online will begin publishing next spring.
Global warming worries increase
A survey conducted last summer by Yale University, Gallup, and the
ClearVision Institute indicates a "growing sense of urgency" among Americans
with regard to global warming. Sixty-two percent of respondents to the survey
believe that life on earth will continue without major disruptions only if
society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming; 85 percent
support requiring automakers to increase fuel efficiency of cars, trucks, and
SUVs to 35 miles per gallon; 40 percent of respondents say that a presidential
candidate's position on global warming will be "extremely important" or "very
important" in their decision on whom to vote for. The survey was conducted July
23-26, using telephone interviews with 1,011 adults. Complete survey
results are available online at
http://environment.yale.edu/news/5305-american-opinions-on-global-warming/.
Conservationist endows deanship of environment school
The dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
will from now on be known as the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean, thanks to an
endowment gift from Carl W. Knobloch Jr. ’51. Dean James Gustave Speth, who has
led F&ES for the past eight years, has been appointed the inaugural
Knobloch Dean. Calling Yale's F&ES "the number-one school of its kind in
the world," Knobloch, a Wyoming-based businessman and philanthropist, added, "There
is an impending crisis in the degradation of the world's environment, which we
must prevent for the sake of our children and their children. F&ES is the
finest training ground for those who will forge the way."
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