… to students thinking about creative solutions to help mitigate the effects of climate change? As part of the Climate Change Innovation Seed Funding program, students can apply to receive up to $3000 in funding … to catalyze ideas that can help slow down, and maybe even reverse, the effects of climate change. Now in its second year, this program has attracted interest from a diverse set of …
… Foundation to develop a publication that explores the effectiveness of specific operational changes in their SBIR program over the last decade. Issue Summary: The federal government is … The National Academies have published thousands of pages on SBIR grant programs, but have largely missed the point: the NSF, which represents only ~10% of the total SBIR funds, has discovered concrete operational changes (which don’t require an act of Congress) that dramatically benefit hard-tech …
… path she first started walking in high school. But then she got a job at Yale’s Office of Sustainability . It was her sophomore year and she and a small team were working to get students involved with sustainability efforts around campus. “I found I really enjoyed that type of work,” Janaskie … a steep learning curve,” Janaskie, says, “but I do think that my work at the Office of Sustainability was a seminal experience in terms of working with small teams, with lot of …
… of developing leaders who are uniquely capable of addressing social and environmental challenges. The Gift The gift will help CBEY expand its rapidly growing focus on innovation … the past decade, CBEY has offered students a forum to pursue and refine novel solutions to sustainabilitychallenges, from new ventures with a triple bottom line Peter Boyd, one of … on more experts in residence and launch a series of new initiatives—including the Climate Change Entrepreneurship Program and a Net Zero action group—all of which are designed to …
… and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Environmental Innovation Process to Improve Sustainability of Beef and Seafood Production Wins Sabin Prize … Process to Improve Sustainability of Beef and Seafood Production Wins Sabin Prize Page Image Thriving Food … Studies Source Link http://environment.yale.edu/news/article/process-to-improve-sustainability-of-beef-and-seafood-production-wins-2018-sabin-prize/ Published On Apr 26, …
… not apparent before. To receive the benefits of energy arbitrage, consumers would need a large, expensive battery, and it would take a very long time for their savings to compensate … as a wider internet of things. She also realized that the idea might be better suited for a large tech company like Google, Amazon, or Tesla, which could much more easily roll out the … not apparent before. To receive the benefits of energy arbitrage, consumers would need a large, expensive battery, and it would take a very long time for their savings to compensate …
… Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of the world’s largest investment firm, recently noted that long-term corporate prosperity requires not … An Investor’s Guide to B Corps” draws on more than 60 interviews with individual and institutional investors, top academics, and entrepreneurs. The full report can be downloaded … Patagonia SoHo store, 72 Greene St., New York, NY 10012 Women at the Forefront of Social Change: Creating Impact through Entrepreneurship and Investment Tue, October 16th, 2018, …
… Venture Prize, the company now employs seven full-time employees and works with many of the largest timber companies in the United States. “I’ve spent several years in rural South America considering how technologies from the US can be appropriately applied to challenges in places like the Amazon rainforest,” says Wilcox. “DroneFlow embodies this … to communicate their interests to funds and companies and encourage them to increase sustainability efforts. An “impact button” on the platform will allow individual investors …
… a question for CBEY: How can we bring students from across Yale together to consider big challenges in sustainability? On October 7 th , that fledgling idea became a reality at the inaugural … from such diverse knowledge bases,” said Harari. Rodrigo Canales, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management, opened the conference with a …
… Yale Center for Business and the Environment, The Yale University Office of Sustainability and Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Entrepreneurial Solutions to Climate Change Seed Grants! Five student teams were recently awarded grants as part of a new program … their help determining the winners. To select among so many high-quality submissions was a challenge – support from our alumni was invaluable,” says Melissa Goodall, Associate …