Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside Yale  Yale News Berkeley presenters Lizzy Ghedi-Ehrlich, Kyra Davis, Valerie Norton, and Albert Fang at a seminar entitled "Developing the Progressive Policy Landscape" Announcements Africa Policy Conference @ UNC Perfect Presidential Platform crafted @ UGA Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More National Press Chronicle of Higher Education The Nation LA Times New York Times > More "When there is no vision the people perish." — Franklin Roosevelt    Center on the Environment > Roosevelt Home > Yale > Environment The Center on the Environment believes... Our nation has a collective responsibility to ensure that the world we leave for all our children will be healthy, beautiful, and sustainable. We see this goal as inextricably linked to the progressive goals of every other committee. Thus, we will actively search for clean and sustainable energy sources and systems. This means, among other things, innovation that encompasses new technology, increased pedestrian activity, and limitation of sprawl. Investment in sustainable energy is essential not only because it is good economic and diplomatic policy but also because it is necessary for our survival in the long term. We will seek ways to decrease pollution levels not only because current levels threaten all of our futures but also because they threaten our poorest communities in the present. Furthermore, we will take an active role in designing policy and pushing our government to embrace policy that works to preserve the beauty and vitality of our nation, by leaving some land untouched. Future communities should be able to enjoy and benefit from the natural parks and wonders that fill America, just as past generations have. 2005-2006 The Center on Environmental Policy produced a policy recommendation for minimizing urban storm water pollution in New Haven. Policy center representatives are currently collaborating with city representatives to collect funding for and implement this plan. In the spring, the center examined the prospect of farming salmon in the Connecticut River and provided a recommendation for state government officials. 2006-2007 Sustainable Food Current Project for Spring 2007 Yale STEP Program Evaluation For more information on the Center's two projects or to get involved, email the Center on the Environment's co-directors at aaron.sin@yale.edu or at carolyn.lowenstein@yale.edu. Meetings: Sundays at 5:00PM in Pierson Dining Hall Group members: Gregory Geusic Callie Lowenstein Aaron T Sin Gabriele Betancourt-Martinez Benjamin M Bokser Jessica L Bolhack Virginia Calkins Kevin Currey Andrew Feldman David W Gibson Gabriel Goffman John P Good Bryna J Harrington Michelle Ho James Johnson Harrison Korn Rebecca Lieb David Lyons Nisa Marks Myrtle-Rose Padmore Justin Petrillo Dan Rice Rachel Saltzman Edith Sangueza Paul D Schneider Tom Schnitzer Mary Schnoor David Schoenburg David Smalling Lizzy Star Raphael Starr Justin Stilwell Mahima Sukhdev Carolyn Tobkin Danny Townsend Nanaba Wallace Erin E Walsh Simon Warren Dahvi Wilson purnima anand kathryn galambos emily r hallet kristin nothwehr adam trettel katherine.gasner@yale.edu emily.kruger@yale.edu charles.pfeifer@yale.edu miriam.lewis@yale.edu rayna.caldwell@yale.edu amanda.cowan@yale.edu andrew.collins@yale.edu caroline.howe@yale.edu andrew.delman@yale.edu eric.bloom@yale.edu irene.scher@yale.edu ann.shue@yale.edu charlotte.martin@yale.edu makda.asrat@yale.edu lauren.jacobson@yale.edu nicholas.kline@yale.edu Yayone.Rivaud@yale.edu margaret.howard@yale.edu   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 1527 New Hampshire Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 || Fax: (202) 483-2657