… to facilitate dynamic discoveries and host coveted conversations. This past year at Yale’s Center for Business and Environment (CBEY), we flipped conventional wisdom on its … decade ago, the center committed itself to supporting meetings of graduate students across Yale’s campus. These meetings encouraged students to imagine and prepare for the resilient … The fall semester of 2022 represented a new season for us all: this was the first semester Yale and many other schools returned to full-time, in-person instruction after the COVID-19 …
… in garbage in Seattle, and a materials marketplace to encourage reuse . Alongside a host of Yale alumni, a number of YSE and SOM students were in attendance. Tais Idi-Infante (MEM ‘24) was selected for the Emerging Leader program. Lauren Phipps (MEM ‘24) moderated sessions. We attended as student volunteers and noted several key themes at the conference: … sustainability claims while allowing suppliers along the value chain to safeguard sensitive information. The flow of data enables a circular economy. Clearer information on materials …
… For a 3 trillion-dollar industry, there’s not too much regulation… yet. Close to (our Yale) home, the New York Fashion Act “Requires fashion retail sellers and manufacturers to … of public opinion. Like any conference, the most important takeaways come from in-between sessions: the time to network. There are now amazing “do-ers” of sustainable fashion on the … For a 3 trillion-dollar industry, there’s not too much regulation… yet. Close to (our Yale) home, the New York Fashion Act “Requires fashion retail sellers and manufacturers to …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Sustainable Venture Prize. The Sustainable Venture Prize , created in 2008, awards $25,000 to a promising … student business venture that advances environmental sustainability. As part of Startup Yale , the Sustainable Venture Prize was held on Friday, March 31st, 2023 and the four teams …
… with a for-profit idea can continue their journey by participating in the Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures . About the recipients: BlueGreen Materials Marcelo Lejeune (Yale College) and Atsu Kludze (Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) created … Emma Barrett (Yale College), and other team members are creating a tool to crowdsource information on farmers’ climate impacts and practices using WhatsApp while providing access …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students (2-3) … experts across the manufacturing and supply chain landscape and other staff and faculty at Yale to understand what barriers exist to scaling up this idea, its environmental impact and … supply chain Perform life cycle analysis Design a circular supply chain Synthesize information into a presentation and a written output Staff & Advisors: Urvi Talaty, Stuart …
… to eliminate food waste by scaling up this method. Soon, TerraCycle was winning business prizes and scaling operations to where Szaky decided to leave Princeton to pursue TerraCycle … help divert waste from landfills. Marian Chertow, a professor of Industrial Ecology at the Yale School of the Environment, points out that elsewhere, people are “willing to sort their … noting that “In a perfect world, Loop’s sustainable packaging platform would overshadow and eventually render several...current business units, including many of our Sponsored Waste …
… transition to a low-carbon economy. For more background on SPACs, check out this article by Yale lecturer and SPAC investment officer Dan Gross. To dive deeper into the world of SPACs, … if companies are able to positively differentiate their products from others on the market. Eventually, it will help to establish long-term contracts with retailers, as the … more climate-friendly. CarbonCure has worked on projects with corporations such as Amazon, Infosys, LinkedIn, and McDonald's, and it has raised US $29 million in funding from …
… On the day of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize deadline, Monika Dharia (Duke ‘19) and Russell Heller (YC, ‘19) almost decided not to … equivalent to the next solar panel,” said Dharia. Without much confidence, the co-founders eventually decided it would not hurt to “just send it.” Turns out, their recyclable EcoRain … this would have been tricky without the support of environmental innovation grants through Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment. Placing a large order for packaging? They …