… Two promising new companies received $10,000 each from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , which is disbursed annually by the Yale … a value-added industry in a region that has long been dependent on extraction of natural resources, and to bring opportunitiesto small farmers and unemployed miners,” said Hall. The …
… How do investment funds build social and environmental priorities into agricultural financing? Several … water quality. This can also cause public health and social justice concerns. Depleted resources can then further reduce smallholder productivity and cause economic vulnerability. … ingredients across 40 countries. “We rely 90 percent on smallholders. If Indian farmersdon’t wantto produce tuberose anymore, it could disappear from the palate. There are …
… A quick scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of newsstories, beginning withSilentSpring, that have become household names — the crash of the … below-living wage salaries, human rights infringements, consumption of constrained resources) all represent coststo society that are not factored into the price of an operation … today. Intuitively, we understand these challenges are outthere, but because they don’t fit into any of ourtoolsthey tend to be ignored — a classic recipe for generating a …
… This blog was originally published on Cool Green Science , the Science Blog of The … interrupt fish runs. Seawalls hold back sedimentthatstarve beaches of sand. This, of course, has not gone unnoticed by the conservation community. But perhapsthese thoughts are … just like they would ask how tall a levee or seawall needsto be to hold it back. They don’t deal in abstractions, because abstractions aren’t going to protect a community from …
… There'sthe kind of trustthat we're aware of. The kind of trustthat makes us ask, "do I trustthis Craigslist ad?" And then there'sthe kind of invisible trustthat we don't even recognize. Ourtrustthatthe lights will turn on when we flip a switch, or that water will flow from a …
… I returned to graduate school almostthree years ago planning to transition to a career in … had, I was excited to contribute to a company’s bottom line by discovering additional resource efficiency opportunities. Preparing for graduation next month, I am just as excited … market demand for environmentally-sensitive products. Generally, these corporations have done well by doing less bad. We are now paddling into the third (and most powerful yet) wave …
… Somehow we’re nearing April, and on campus, students are heading back from spring break adventures while polishing cover letters for the … atthis fall and winter. From launching the new website to supporting student-initiated courses, hosting webinars, diving into the entrepreneurial experience, and bringing leaders … Forum The Clean Energy Finance Forum has grown both in size and in reach, publishing storiesthat are regularly featured atthe helm of GreenBiz and other clean tech blogs. …
… CBEY's own version of "Shark Tank," the 2015 Sabin Prize , returns Friday, April 17 th . But, the March 25 th application deadline is fast approaching! Mark your calendars. Every year, the Sabin Prize awards $25,000 to the most promising Yale venture … which identifies and quantifiestrees in a forest using smartphones and satellite imagery. This year, as Yale entrepreneurship offerings expanded, we built a new CBEY Entrepreneurship …
… The Executive MBA program at Yale launched in 2005. Lessthan a year ago, the program was … Anastas , the Faculty Director of the Sustainability Curriculum. To continue catalyzing thisshift, leading institutions like Yale are realizing that Executive education can help … for Business and the Environment was founded back in 2006 in large partto serve as a resource for students pursuing a joint degree between the full time MBA and FES. The School of …
… VincentStanley isn't new to Patagonia, or to the Yale campus. The nephew of Patagonia's founder, … for, or mine, and the certainty of adverse environmental impacts effects everything that'sdone in business. You know, business often wants a rather stable environment and it can't … top down management is probably not going to be as useful asthe model of getting your people doing the work to be involved in business improvements. Q: Going back to what …