… If you’ve ever considered installing solar panels on your roof, you’ve probably asked two basic questions: How … They also argue that under certain tiered rate structures — where customers are charged more for electricity at higher levels of consumption — NEM could actually encourage …
… Headquartered in Mumbai, the Mahindra Group is a $17.8 billion federation of companies with a presence in over 100 countries and … became the first Indian company to adopt an internalcarbon price. In conversation with YaleSchool of Management’sSenior Associate Dean For the Executive MBA, David Bach, three … operations; and Anirban Ghosh, chief sustainability officer. A Sustainability Journey At an investor meeting in 2008, the issue of triple bottom line was raised, prompting …
… As you drive around these days, you may notice a growing number of homes installing solar … years ahead of schedule. [2] But why? Why do people decide to install solar? Over the last four years, Yale’sSolar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies (SEEDS)* team has interviewed thousands …
… Alliance Launched by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment to Support Regional Collaboration on Renewable Heating and … is used for heating and cooling purposes. As a result, heating and cooling is both a major source of greenhouse gas emissions and, through the installation of renewable technologies …
… Though a mature technology, renewable thermals occupy a small niche in Connecticut—and in the U.S. at large. A new Yale-led study analyzes the market potential of this technology across the state and … electricity, but holds an enormous reservoir of possibility for utilizing local resources to off-set fossil fuels. Like renewable electricity, renewable heating and cooling …
… Sabin Stories introduce you to former finalists and winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect on their time asstudent entrepreneurs at Yale. “The Sabin Prize gave us a year to test our ideas ” shares Max Webster, YC’ 12, co-founder of Weave and a winner of the Sabin …
… Microsoft is one of the first companies in the world to set a voluntary carbon price on its … and the chief architect behind the carbon fee, and Peter Boyd , Executive Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment. They covered a range of topics while talking … and successful execution of the carbon fee. How It All Began “The carbon fee is essentially our own corporate carbon tax, and it is putting us on a path to a net-zero-emissions world,” …
… On November 2, 2016, the webinar series “InternalCarbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector” featured a conversation on Yale University’scarboncharge . Yale was the first university in the world to voluntarily … project that involved twenty campus buildings and tested the design and implementation of four different carbon-pricing schemes. In the webinar, representatives from Yaleshared the …
… The built environment – essential to a low carbon future Connecticut is one of several New England states that hold lofty ambitions for … heating to the widespread use of biomass in Sweden and district heating in Denmark. Energy sources vary, too: Norway produces 99 percent of its electricity from hydro, Sweden 50 …
… Meat makes for curious math: about 25 calories is required to create just 1 calorie of beef. The … wherein 800 percent of what is grown is thrown away,” he said at a September 29 talk at the YaleSchool of Management. “That is just one of the reasons that animal agriculture is … for meat one of today's most important tech trends. And why? Friedrich identified four central reasons that conventional meat consumption must be reined in. First, food that …