This collection will explore the path towards a blockchain-enabled mechanism for global consensus on climate change

“If you find yourself indulging in a piece of baklava at The Juice Box, Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea, or several other places around the city, you’ll be enjoying the fruits of a mutually beneficial relationship between refugee chefs, sponsored by Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, and the Yale students of Havenly Treats, one of the many student-run organizations at Dwight Hall, Yale’s student-run social justice and service organization.”

CITY Social Innovation Fellow Emma Funk shares her perspective on how CITY is gathering and responding to student feedback as it grows. Read more.

The team behind Raise Green — Franz Hochstrasser, Matthew Moroney, and Kwasi Ansu (each of whom holds an MEM from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies) — describes their ultimate goal in ambitious terms: they envision “a healthy, just, and sustainable world that we all own and benefit from.” Recently, they accomplished a key early step on the way to this goal: the installation of a crowdfunded solar panel array on a New Haven building.

As students return to campus for the spring semester, CITY is kicking off 2019 with a vibrant lineup of programs.

For all the hype around cryptocurrency like bitcoin, it can be hard to know how to actually use it. That’s where Splash comes in: this team, founded by Yale students and a recent grad, aims to offer users an intuitive banking platform that makes it easier to spend cryptocurrency anywhere on the internet.

This fall, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) partnered with Yale’s La Casa Cultural (the Latino Cultural Center at Yale) and Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center to launch a program meant to empower students to develop new approaches to immigration issues: the Critical Innovation Fund.

This week, delegates from 195 countries are gathered in Poland to discuss the fate of the planet. The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change runs for two weeks, bringing representatives of governments and civil society organizations together to negotiate progress on the major global agreements on climate change, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.