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Past 2009 Sabin Prize Events

Entrepreneurship in Climate Change: Fighting Global Warming with Brighter Planet

When:
December 8, 2008 | 5:00 – 7:30PM
Where:
Room A30 (60 Sachem Street at the Yale School of Management)
Cost:
Free and open to the public
Organizer:
Center for Business and the Environment at Yale

Join Dr. Jonathan Isham, Jr. and Jake Whitcomb of Brighter Planet to understand how a professor and student project turned into a new business venture to combat climate change.

Brighter Planet is a company focused on the fight against global warming and building a clean energy future. Their products provide effective ways for individuals and businesses with an opportunity to reduce their impact on the environment by supporting carbon offset projects with their purchases.

Wondering what you can do to fight climate change? Brighter Planet can help. You can sign-up for a credit card that not only helps you make your everyday purchases, but also helps build renewable energy projects with every purchase. If you are interested in applying, sign-up now - click here.

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Recommended Readings

  1. Determine Your Carbon Footprint
  2. Sign-Up for a Product or Service
  3. Demonstrate the Results of Your Action:

Course Recommendations - recommended fall coursework for Yale students interested in this field

Event Documents

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Presentation - Coming Soon

Event Photos - #1, #2, #3, and #4

Event Poster - Coming Soon

Support for Your Environmental Venture

If you need support bringing your business idea to reality, then visit the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute. If you want to enter your business plan into the Y50K Business Plan Competition, then visit the Yale Entrepreneurial Society.

If you are interested in entering your business plan into other intercollegiate competitions, then visit the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.Â

If you want to enter the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship, then visit the Skoll Foundation.

Funding for the Sabin Prize Series was made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation.

This event is organized in collaboration with LaunchCapital and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.

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