… The CBEY Skills for Sustainable Innovation Workshop series welcomes Max Elder, Research Director for the Food Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, for a hands-on workshop on futures … The Institute for the Future is celebrating its 50th anniversary as the world’s leading non-profit strategic futures organization. We were founded in 1968 by a group of former RAND …
… In partnership with Patagonia and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, we have published An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Certified B … impact on society, promote corporate social responsibility, and use the power of business for higher purposes of social good. This guide will advise on best practices while helping … Corporation You’re Past Debating: Tell Me How the Process Works The Unchartered Legal Landscape of the Benefit Corporation Additional resources Corporate Sustainability …
… This prize provides seed funding for start-up ventures in the field of business and the environment. The goal of the funding … services, and projects while tackling some key environmental problems. We are looking for solutions in four key areas where science tells us there is an urgent need for action 1 : Protecting and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity Food, agriculture and …
… schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that: Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues … no matter what the salary. Students also overwhelmingly consider environmental action a profitable stance, noting that environmental protection will improve economic growth and …
… The Sustainable Venture Prize supports Yale's most innovative ideas for businesses that advance a more sustainable way of life. Past winners include an online social platform to expand the adoption of solar power, a software package for improving forest … professionals, academics, entrepreneurs and investors. Does my venture have to be a for-profit? Yes, to win the Sustainable Venture Prize your venture must be a for-profit …
… 2015 Summer Internship opportunities for Yale FES and SOM students @ WWF in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam. Join … will include: WWF Australia – To develop a strategy for business engagement and corporate investment in water stewardship in Australia; WWF New Zealand – To develop organizational … Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Vietnam Image credit: flickr/esparta palma Thriving Food Systems and …
… Watch the full recording here! Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the 2015-2016 season of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services. In this … Seychelles Debt-for-Nature Swap deal. The Republic of Seychelles, a nation of 115 islands in the Western Indian Ocean, reached a major debt buyback agreement worth …
… we are navigating similar questions about how to understand the world and change it for the better. We gather to build community—and have the kind of meaningful and generative conversations that transform our work, our lives, and our world. Convened by Patagonia Director of Philosophy and … academic year, we will financially and administratively support additional gatherings for students including dinners, hiking, happy hours, and other social occasions. While not …
… While agroforestry systems may be a promising climate & biodiversity solution, there are major hurdles … agroforestry practices to the scale we need. For a whole slew of reasons, commercial profitability can be a challenge during the early years of agroforestry projects, even when … 12Tree Finance GmbH, a $300 million asset manager & operator focused on agroforestry investments, is a leader in tackling these hurdles for over a dozen crops, with 20,000 ha of …
… and pathways at the intersection of business and the environment. From creating new nonprofit and commercial organizations, business models, or other innovations that address … their shoes and are doing the work. Since its launch in the spring of 2018, the Yale Center for Business and Environment has facilitated hundreds of student engagements with Yale … 2018 Alumni, Visiting Mentors Schedule time with Andrew Donovan Ervin Vice President, Investment Group at Tiedemann Advisors MBA 2020 Master of Environmental Management 2020 …