… We’ve all read the stats. The average consumer now purchases 60 percent more clothing, compared to 2000, but keeps garments for half as long. Fabric production and consumer use account for 60% of environmental impacts associated with apparel. Not to mention, the fashion industry is also …
… Five student teams were recently awarded grants as part of the Climate Change Innovation Seed … and diverse proposals.” The winners presented proposals that demonstrated a high potential for impact, high project viability, and overall excellence. The 2018 recipients … Mary Gammond and Javier Choc. AIRPower usessustainable resources to power clean technology and achieves a Net-Zero Carbon Footprint for medium and heavy-duty trucks. …
… Shortly after concluding their most recent campaign, researchers working on the Yale SEEDS … officially launched at Pequot Library Auditorium in Southport on September 25. The event convened the program’s three collaborators alongside suppliers of related … available that might help achieve the campaign’s goals. Ultimately, ConnectSun has the potential to bring financial benefits to customers who participate in the program while …
… Turkey’s Garanti Bank recently joined the webinar series Carbon Pricing: Gaining a Competitive Edge … from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), with hopes to eventually integrate its use for improved climate risk mitigation. Impacts Garanti’s 2015 … and drought-induced water flow reductions would have significantly impacted generation potential. Challenges and Lessons Learned Internal and external capacity building, said …
… Attention innovators! Did you know that funding is available to students thinking about creative solutions to help mitigate the effects of … apply from the graduate schools as well as from Yale College,” saysSophie Janaskie, Environmental Innovation Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is announcing a very generous and transformative donation … support its mission of developing leaders who are uniquely capable of addressing social and environmentalchallenges. The Gift The gift will help CBEY expand its rapidly growing focus on innovation …
… Renewable thermal energy is increasingly seen as critical to a low-carbon future in the northeastern US. Residential … Easily accessible and comparable information on featuressuch as costs, performance, environmental impacts, and co-benefits of these technologies would present valuable metrics … system. Policymakers and regulators need objective and reliable metrics to evaluate the potential and actual effects of policies, mandates, and regulations towards these goals. …
… Industry accounts for 10 percent of total energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions … due to the complexity of thissector, this analysis was not included in a recent market potential report . These results are instead summarized below, along with challenges facing … (ESCOs) have a business model wherein customers agree to share the savings of an energy technology upgrade with the financing and installing entity. However, interviewees also …
… Natural disasters have filled the news in recent months, occurring so frequently that they seem to … earthquakes, hurricanes. But as national and international media coverage of these events recedes, the local effects persist—often for years. Small businesses, which account … $250-300 billion per year—this report offers a new approach to relief that draws on latent potential in the private sector. The authors also provide guidance to help companiesstep …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment, The Yale University Office of Sustainability and Yale Institute … from across the University.” The winners presented proposals that demonstrated a high potential for impact, high project viability, and overall excellence. The 2017 recipients … invest in high-value, non-timber-forest production that preserve “backyard forests” and prevent deforestation. 4. Moo-ve Over Methane (now known asSymbrosia) by Victoria Shirriff, …