A Regenerative Living – Learning Community
THE LIVING VILLAGE
In this time of climate crisis, YDS is building a regenerative student residential complex. Giving back to the environment more than it takes, the Living Village dares to answer one of the most profound theological challenges of our time and sets new standards for sustainability. The Divinity School’s Living Village will be the largest living-building residential complex on a university campus. Designed to meet the Living Building Challenge, the most aggressive standard for sustainable buildings today, it serves as a key component of Yale’s Planetary Solutions initiative.
Eco-theology
Through our degree programs, world-class faculty, and a growing number of courses in religion and ecology, Yale Divinity School is educating the next generation of “apostles of the environment.”
Regenerative Living
From operations to food practices to Divinity Farm, YDS is committed to aligning campus life with the imperative to live in harmony with nature, and to give back to the environment more than we take.
Living Village News
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Yale Divinity School’s New Housing, by Bruner/Cott and Höweler + Yoon, Reflects the Values of Eco-Theology
Buildings are more than concrete, steel, and brick. They reflect our values. And so it is with a new graduate-student residence hall at Yale University’s Divinity School, seeking full certification under the Living Building Challenge (LBC), a green building-rating system widely regarded as the world’s most rigorous. Gregory Sterling, Divinity School dean, decided the project… MORE>
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A Bold Commitment
By investing in the Living Village, we uphold faith and ecology, cultivate leadership, and promote inclusivity and community. Together, we lift up all people and all living things. Whatever your calling, join us in creating a flourishing future for all.
Water, energy, health & happiness, safe materials, equity, beauty, place. Learn more about the seven principles of the Living Building Challenge that inspire Yale Divinity School’s Living Village.
Land Acknowledgment
Yale University acknowledges that Indigenous peoples and nations, including Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, and the Quinnipiac and other Algonquian speaking peoples, have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now the state of Connecticut. We honor and respect the enduring relationship that exists between these peoples and nations and this land.
The Divinity School recognizes the role that Christianity played in colonization movements and repudiates the use of Christianity (or any other religion) for the purposes of oppression. We encourage all to work for justice in the aftermath of colonization and to reject racism and anti-Indigenous attitudes in all forms.
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