What’s your planetary solution? Yale puts out call for world-changing ideas

In 2020 Yale University unveiled an ambitious new initiative, Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet. In just over three years, YPS has identified dozens of innovative projects from across the Yale community — involving 90 faculty members from 25 different departments — and has delivered funding to help get them off the ground. And now YPS leaders are looking for more innovative ideas. They recently opened a third call for proposals through the initiative’s Seed Grant Program. And over the next few weeks, YPS will host a series of events — called ColLABoratories — where individuals from across the Yale community and beyond are invited to brainstorm ideas, meet others working on similar challenges, and explore potential opportunities for collaboration.

In an interview, Julie Zimmerman, the inaugural vice provost for planetary solutions, discussed the “astonishing” range of expertise tackling environmental threats on the Yale campus, how YPS is creating a new model for bringing these experts together and transforming their ideas into action, and how new contributors can share their own ideas. Read the full interview at: https://news.yale.edu/2024/02/13/whats-your-planetary-solution-yale-puts-out-call-world-changing-ideas?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Staff_2-14-2024