Events

Ask a Yale Environmental Expert Zoom Call Series: The Value of Trees

"Ask a Yale Environmental Expert” are weekly Zoom calls designed to engage local high school students and interested New Haven residents to learn about environmental topics from Yale F&ES faculty. Thursdays at 10 a.m.

Zoom Call

Tree Ambassador Open Discussion

Interested in learning about how to be an effective Tree Ambassador?

Zoom Call

Saving Trees from Vines

Winter workdays are a great way to stay active and have an impact! Many of our trees are threatened by vines that are stangling them. We need your help to save our trees!

Beaver Ponds on 2/26, Lighthouse on 2/29, East Rock on 3/14

Sanctuary Saturday in Support of URI

Sanctuary Saturday is an event supporting one progressive charity each month generously hosted by The Bar at Firehouse 12. On March 7, 100% of profits will go to Urban Resources Initiative!

The Bar at Firehouse 12

Saving Trees from Vines

Winter workdays are a great way to stay active and have an impact! Many of our trees are threatened by vines that are stangling them. We need your help to save our trees!

Beaver Ponds on 2/26, Lighthouse on 2/29, East Rock on 3/14

Saving Trees from Vines

Winter workdays are a great way to stay active and have an impact! Many of our trees are threatened by vines that are stangling them. We need your help to save our trees!

Beaver Ponds on 2/26, Lighthouse on 2/29, East Rock on 3/14

New Haven's Downtown Bioswales: Design, Function and Measured Performance

This talk is part of a the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology at Yale Spring Speaker Series and is open to the public.

Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Pint Night at Patagonia Supporting URI

Come taste some local brews and learn about what's new at URI.

Patagonia

Community Greenspace Cookie Swap

Community Greenspace volunteers are invited to meet-up with each other to pick up their ordered tees and exchange cookies for the holidays!

Marsh Hall, first floor

Hixon Center Urban Conference-- The 21st Century City: Striving Toward a More Equitable & Sustainable Future

Register by Nov 1 for the conference!

Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Volunteer in the Healing Garden!

Join us to create the Botanical Garden of Healing in Dedication to Victims of Gun Violence!

Botanical Garden of Healing in Dedication to Victims of Gun Violence

Volunteer Tree Planting

Come plant 4 trees with us!

Dwight Gardens

Volunteer Tree Planting for Yale Milestone Honorees

Come plant 3 trees with us in honor of Yale staff who are celebrating a milestone year at Yale.

1201 Chapel Street (rear parking lot)

Frostian Conundrum: Stories of failure and hope for people and forests on the margins of the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Asia

This talk with Dr. Bill Burch is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. No registration.

Marsh Hall, first floor

Breaking Cycles of Incarceration with Opportunities in Urban Forestry

Free lunch panel talk with our partners from EMERGE

Marsh Hall, first floor

Nutrition, Geography, and Cities: Understanding complex food choices in urban environments

This free event is open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

Kroon Hall Room 321

Community Greenspace End of Season Celebration

We invite all Greenspace volunteers and friends to come celebrate with a night at the Carousel in Lighthouse Park!

Lighthouse Point Carousel

An evening with Urban Resources Initiative

Get tickets by donation here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-urban-resources-initiative-tickets-69133497151

Cherry Ann Park

Annual Greenspace Bus Tour

This event is free and open to the public. However, registration is necessary to ensure you get a seat on the buses.

bus tour begins and ends at City Hall

Celebrate 25 years of Greenspace!

Join us as we celebrate 25 years of support from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the City of New Haven for URI's Community Greenspace program.

Farmington Canal Greenspace

Urban Oasis Workshop on Native Plants, Habitat and Wildflowers

Come see New Haven's newest park! Discover what an urban oasis is and the importance of native plants for habitat and pollinators. Learn how to plant wildflower seeds. This event is free and open to the public.

Cherry Ann Park

Movie Debut Night with Shorts by and about URI/EMERGE crew members

Come watch 8 short (3-4 minute) videos created by and about our GreenSkills crew members.

Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall

Healing Memorial Garden Ground Breaking

Join us to kick off the next phase of the garden's development.

Healing Memorial Garden

Yale Day of Service

Come plant 6-8 trees in honor of Yale staff who are completing a milestone year at Yale.

Harkness Tower, 74 High Street

Bench Dedication in Cherry Ann Park

Students at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies have thrown fundraisers and secured grant funding to buy much needed benches for Cherry Ann Park. We will dedicate the benches on Friday at 1pm.

Cherry Ann Park

11th Annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride

Register now for New Haven's largest Earth Day celebration biking from West Rock to East Rock with 1000 friends. Join URI's Arborphile team today and support the work of greening New Haven one tree, park and bioswale at a time!

West Rock to East Rock

Rock to Rock Day of Service

Scantlebury Park and Farmington Canal at Shelton Ave.

Examining Energy Consumption Transitions in Urbanizing Indian households

Demand-side measures, such as urban energy management in households, are central to addressing global climate change. Examining and shaping energy consumption patterns is particularly salient in developing countries, where the bulk of urban growth is projected to occur, and which are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts. India, which is at the cusp of the largest urban transition predicted in history, is key to these discussions.

380 Edwards Street Classroom

Urban Planning in Context: Experiences and Lessons Learned Working with Local Governments in Asia

The Hixon Center for Urban Ecology is excited to invite Asha Ghosh to speak as part our Spring Speaker Series. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

Rotunda in Marsh Hall

Pint Night at Patagonia

It's time to get excited about the 11th Annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride. We are joining forces with Green Drinks to put on a Pint Night to benefit Rock to Rock. We will have beer, wine, and refreshments. Admission: $5 donation to Rock to Rock

Patagonia

Winter Workday in Edgewood Park

Join the Friends of Edgewood crew for a Winter Work Day removing invasive plants and liberating the park! The crew is pictured above holding a bittersweet vine they removed last Saturday! Find parking at Coogan Pavilion and meet at the Mid-Bridge.

Midbridge in Edgewood Park

City Agency Directors Discuss Innovative Management of Urban Infrastructure

Learn from Directors of Engineering, Parks, and Transportation how they are managing water, transit, and public parks towards a more sustainable future in New Haven.

Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium

An Ecology of Segregation

Join us for this free lunch talk with URI's first Greenspace intern, Morgan Grove, Ph.D. This is open to the public!

Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium

Hixon Center Conference on Green Infrastructure

Read more and register: https://hixon.yale.edu/events/conference/conference-urban-green-infrastructure

Kroon Hall

Greenspace End of the Season Celebration

Bulb Giveaway for Volunteers to Plant in Greenspaces this Fall

URI Office Backyard

Connecting Communities and Ecosystems in Restoration Practice

Sign up to present a poster and apply for a student grant to attend by September 15!

Southern CT State University

Volunteer Tree Planting

We'll plant 5 trees in honor of Yale employees completing a milestone year at Yale.

Phelps Gate

Annual Greenspace Bus Tour

Hop on the bus and tour a handful of New Haven’s finest community greenspaces maintained by local volunteers working with URI.

bus tour begins and ends at City Hall

Volunteer with Monroe Street Greenspace Group

Come help make this streetscape more beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Monroe Community Greenspace

Cedar Hill Beautification Project

Come help green Cedar Hill with plants and people power! Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. Gloves, tools, plants, and supplies provided.

Fair Haven Neighbors in Action

Come join the FHNIA to beautify New Haven's streetscape along Exchange Street and its surrounding streets. Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. We will provide the gloves, tools, and supplies needed.

Volunteer with the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park

Come meet your neighbors and help to beautify your local park. Gloves and tools provided.

Quinnipiac River Park

Join the Friends of Farmington Canal

Come help make this triangle park beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Farmington Canal Urban Oasis

East Rock Park needs YOU!

Join FERP (the Friends of East Rock Park) to help beautify our local park every Thursday at 9am. Tools, supplies, plants, and gloves provided.

College Woods. East Rock Park

Volunteer with Friends of Oyster Point

We need help to make Oyster Point beautiful every Wed at 6pm. Come prepared to garden and make friends in the triangle park at Sea Street and Water Street.

Oyster Point

Friends of Dover Beach Park Unite!

You are welcome to garden with the Friends of Dover Beach every Wed at 5pm. Tools, gloves, plants and supplies are provided.

Dover Beach Park

Cedar Hill Beautification Project

Come help green Cedar Hill with plants and people power! Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. Gloves, tools, plants, and supplies provided.

Fair Haven Neighbors in Action

Come join the FHNIA to beautify New Haven's streetscape along Exchange Street and its surrounding streets. Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. We will provide the gloves, tools, and supplies needed.

Join the Friends of Farmington Canal

Come help make this triangle park beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Farmington Canal Urban Oasis

Volunteer with the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park

Come meet your neighbors and help to beautify your local park. Gloves and tools provided.

Quinnipiac River Park

East Rock Park needs YOU!

Join FERP (the Friends of East Rock Park) to help beautify our local park every Thursday at 9am. Tools, supplies, plants, and gloves provided.

College Woods. East Rock Park

Volunteer with Friends of Oyster Point

We need help to make Oyster Point beautiful every Wed at 6pm. Come prepared to garden and make friends in the triangle park at Sea Street and Water Street.

Oyster Point

Friends of Dover Beach Park Unite!

You are welcome to garden with the Friends of Dover Beach every Wed at 5pm. Tools, gloves, plants and supplies are provided.

Dover Beach Park

Tree Planting at Rainbow Park

Together we will plant a red maple tree in Rainbow Park.

Rainbow Park

Chris Engstrom Garden Planting

Come plant perennials and shrubs in the Chris Engstrom Garden at 4:15pm. Turn this public parking lot into a green and flowery oasis.

Westville Public Parking Lot

Volunteer with Monroe Street Greenspace Group

Come help make this streetscape more beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Monroe Community Greenspace

Cedar Hill Beautification Project

Come help green Cedar Hill with plants and people power! Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. Gloves, tools, plants, and supplies provided.

Fair Haven Neighbors in Action

Come join the FHNIA to beautify New Haven's streetscape along Exchange Street and its surrounding streets. Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. We will provide the gloves, tools, and supplies needed.

Volunteer with the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park

Come meet your neighbors and help to beautify your local park. Gloves and tools provided.

Quinnipiac River Park

Join the Friends of Farmington Canal

Come help make this triangle park beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Farmington Canal Urban Oasis

East Rock Park needs YOU!

Join FERP (the Friends of East Rock Park) to help beautify our local park every Thursday at 9am. Tools, supplies, plants, and gloves provided.

College Woods. East Rock Park

Volunteer with Friends of Oyster Point

We need help to make Oyster Point beautiful every Wed at 6pm. Come prepared to garden and make friends in the triangle park at Sea Street and Water Street.

Oyster Point

Friends of Dover Beach Park Unite!

You are welcome to garden with the Friends of Dover Beach every Wed at 5pm. Tools, gloves, plants and supplies are provided.

Dover Beach Park

Volunteer with Monroe Street Greenspace Group

Come help make this streetscape more beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Monroe Community Greenspace

Cedar Hill Beautification Project

Come help green Cedar Hill with plants and people power! Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. Gloves, tools, plants, and supplies provided.

Fair Haven Neighbors in Action

Come join the FHNIA to beautify New Haven's streetscape along Exchange Street and its surrounding streets. Wear clothes that can get dirty and sturdy shoes. We will provide the gloves, tools, and supplies needed.

Join the Friends of Farmington Canal

Come help make this triangle park beautiful. Plants, mulch, tools and gloves provided.

Farmington Canal Urban Oasis

Volunteer with the Friends of Quinnipiac River Park

Come meet your neighbors and help to beautify your local park. Gloves and tools provided.

Quinnipiac River Park

Lenzi Park

Come garden with the Friends of Lenzi Park every Thursday at 5pm.

Lenzi Park

East Rock Park needs YOU!

Join FERP (the Friends of East Rock Park) to help beautify our local park every Thursday at 9am. Tools, supplies, plants, and gloves provided.

College Woods. East Rock Park

Volunteer with Friends of Oyster Point

We need help to make Oyster Point beautiful every Wed at 6pm. Come prepared to garden and make friends in the triangle park at Sea Street and Water Street.

Oyster Point

Friends of Dover Beach Park Unite!

You are welcome to garden with the Friends of Dover Beach every Wed at 5pm. Tools, gloves, plants and supplies are provided.

Dover Beach Park

Chris Engstrom Garden Planning Meeting

Join in the planning and be a part of the realization of a garden space in the Westville public parking lot.

Victims of Gun Violence Memorial Reflection Garden Community Meeting

Come learn about emerging plans for a memorial reflection garden to victims of gun violence. Share your ideas and work with others to advance planning for this important space.

West Rock STREAM Academy

Event postponed until spring: Tree Identification Workshop

Attendees will receive a Tree Identification Field Guide

Farnham Drive Parking Lot in East Rock Park

10th Annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride

Join 1,500 cyclists traveling from West Rock to East Rock in a parade of bikes celebrating Earth Day! the event supports URI and 33 other non-profits doing environmental work in the region. Register today!

5 routes from Common Ground to East Rock Park

Rock to Rock Day of Environmental Service

URI will host one of the service sites for the Rock to Rock Day of Service. Details are forthcoming.

Resistance in a Time of Official Ignorance: Tactics to Empower Conservation Scientists, Professionals, and Institutions

Kroon 321

Remove invasive plants from a sensitive habitat in Edgewood Park

Remove invasive plants from a sensitive habitat with the Friends of Edgewood Park---Winter is a great time for this task!

Parks Department Headquarters

Construction of Nature in New York City

Join the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology for a lunch talk given by Dr. Lindsay K. Campbell. This event is free and open to the public.

Kroon Hall, Room 321

Dreams and Nightmares of Urban Restoration Ecology

This lunch talk is hosted by the Hixon Center for Urban Ecology. It is free and open to the public.

Kroon Hall, Room 319

Trail Work Day with REI

We need volunteers to help improve trails in East Rock Park!

East Rock Park

Forging University-Municipality Partnerships Towards Urban Sustainability

The conference will be organized around three thematic panels. Each will include four cities with paired speakers representing campus and municipalities describing a collaborative project. Through a Leadership Panel mayors and their university counterparts will broadly share their sustainability ambitions.

Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall

Volunteer Tree Planting on Yale Campus

Come honor members of Yale staff by planting trees with us!

Yale Health

Joe McBride

Along with Yale Forest Forum, we are excited to bring Joe McBride to New Haven to kick off our fall lunch talk series and discuss his research and experiences in urban forestry.

Room 319, Kroon Hall

Annual Greenspace Bus Tour

Hop on the bus and tour a handful of New Haven's finest community greenspaces maintained by local volunteers working with Greenspace.

New Haven City Hall

Tree Identification Workshop with Dr. Marlyse Duguid

Attendees will receive a Guide to New Haven's Trees and will walk away with greater knowledge of our local trees and plants. Free and open to the public. Please register.

meet at the Pavilion in College Woods, East Rock Park

Kids' Fair at Cherry Ann Park

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Scott's Miracle Gro is supporting Cherry Ann Park with a Gro1000 grant and we're celebrating! Come for a community planting at 10, an awards ceremony with Mayor Harp at 11, lunch at 11:30, and kids' activities and live music from 12-2. Free and open to the public.

Cherry Ann Park

Canceled: Field Trip to Hartford's Elizabeth Park

(for Greenspace participants only)

Parks Meeting

(for Friends of Parks groups only)

Parks Office

Perennial Swap and Transplant Training

Pardee Rose Garden

Tree Planting on Prospect Street

Come plant trees with URI, Yale HR and alumni in honor of members of the Yale community who have chosen to celebrate a milestone at Yale with a campus tree through the Yale Trees Staff Milestone program.

Prospect Street, between Sachem and Hillside

Tree and Shrub Pruning Training

Learn how to prune shrubs and trees in this hands-on training near the Animal Shelter in Beaver Ponds Park.

Beaver Ponds Park

Jimmy Chin: Art and Adventure

Join us together with Trailblazer and The North Face on May 2nd for an evening with Jimmy Chin. He’ll talk about his background, where he came from, his motivations, how he got started and some of the seminal expeditions in his career as an athlete, filmmaker, and photographer.

SSS ("Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall")

The Great Give

online giving event

Urban Greening for Urban Birds

Dr. Warren’s will speak about her research, done in New England and around the country, to understand the processes in generating and maintaining biological diversity in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by humans.

Kroon, G01

Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride

Join URI's Rock to Rock team to help raise $20,000 for Greenspace and GreenSkills.

ride from Common Ground to East Rock Park

Deadline extended! Summer Community Forester Internship Applications

Applications are due March 10, 2017 for summer Community Greenspace internships. Yale graduate and undergraduate students who wish to apply, please email resumes to Associate Director, Chris Ozyck (christopher.ozyck@yale.edu).

A Garden is a Solution that Leads to Other Solutions: Advocates as Catalysts

Paula Z. Segal, Esq., the founding director of 596 Acres; will present strategies for transformation of space and transformation of though that lead to normalizing stewardship

Kroon, G01

URI Rock to Rock Team Warm-Up Ride and Breakfast

Ride to Sage Hall for a team breakfast with teammates in your neighborhood. Bring a friend, register for Rock to Rock, discover who on your team is riding which routes. Eat delicious food from G Cafe and win prizes from REI.

Sage Lounge

Enhancing Communities through Multifunctional Green Infrastructure

Franco Montalto, Drexel University- Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering; presents recent efforts his lab has taken to quantify how water moves through different kinds of urban GI, emphasizing specifically where field observations deviate significantly from normative theories.

Kroon, G01

Rock to Rock Day of Service in Scantlebury Park

Help clean up the Rock to Rock bike route along the Farmington Canal and in Scantlebury Park. 800+ cyclists will have a rest stop here on April 22 as part of the 9th Annual Rock to Rock Earth Day Ride. Rgister to ride on URI's team today here: www.rocktorock.donordrive.com/team/urirocks

Scantlebury Park

Apply now to be part of Community Greenspace in summer 2017

New Haven Urban Resources Initiative (URI) invites you to apply to be part of the Community Greenspace program to support you and your neighbors’ efforts to revitalize your community.

Post-Industrial Ecology: No Historic Reference Required

This presentation is part of the annual Hixon Center for Urban Ecology lecture series. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.

Kroon G01

Designed to Thrive- Social and Ecological Urbanism with Purpose

Evans Hall, Classroom 2400

Applications Due for Spring Semester Internships

Yale graduate and undergraduate students interested in applying for spring GreenSkills internships should have a broad knowledge of ecosystem services and urban ecosystems, as well as an interest in working with youth and/or ex-offenders. If interested, please call our GreenSkills Manager, Katie Beechem at (203) 432-6189 or email katherine.beechem@yale.edu.

Tree Plantings on Artizan Street

Artizan Street was a tree lined street a couple of months ago... all ash trees. It lost its tree canopy due to an infestation of the Emerald Ash Borer. Come help URI's GreenSkills crew and Artizan street neighbors reforest the street with lovely tree lilacs and cherry trees.

Artizan Street

Long Wharf Drive Tree Planting

Come plant trees with URI's GreenSkills crew near the taco trucks on Long Wharf Drive.

Long Wharf Drive (near the taco trucks)

Hixon Center Conference: Urban Resilence and Sustainability

This annual day-long conference brings scholars and practitioners together to understand and enhance the urban environment. This event is free and open to the public.

Kroon Hall

Volunteer Opportunity: Come plant Yale Staff Service Recognition trees with us!

Come plant 6 trees with URI and Yale HR in honor of Yale staff who chose to celebrate a milestone at Yale with a tree on campus. Wear clothes that can get dirty and closed toe shoes. Rain or shine.

West Campus

National Park Service: Urban Land Issues panel

This panel is the first in a series of public events sponsored by the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies this fall commemorating the National Park Service Centennial.

Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall