… How might one go about preparing students for the immediate and future realities of climate change? At an institution like this, it makes perfect sense to hire world-classscholars to teach cutting-edge courses, invite leading practitioners to headline conferences, and build state-of-the-art … for Business and Environment (CBEY), we flipped conventional wisdom on its head and turned our attention to the dinner table. When CBEY founded the 2050 Fellows a decade ago, the …
… Around a conference table at a San Francisco VC investor’s office this April, we talked about power. The investor focuses … Leader, nodded. It’s not just unreliable energy. It’s lacking the power to choose itssource. Most rural electric coops run on coal, or oil - resources extracted from sacred ecosystems. The use of these resources doesn’t feel aligned …
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… I first had the idea for a plant-based leather start-up over 2 years ago but I didn’t have the … dream. I always thought that entrepreneurship wassomething one did in the latter part of your life (post-40s) after having built an established career. However, when I came to grad … start-up and a degree, and the worst case is you leave with just a degree and a great story to tell”, and this truly caused the pivot. Accessibility to testing ground of early …
… Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy - Internship and Fellowship Program (PSiCE) offerssummer research … all of this is to contribute to a just energy future, something he says we can achieve in our lifetime. But in order to do so, the key is to ensure marginalized communities are … and center and not left behind. “A just energy future is undertaking the decarbonization of oursystem, switching over to renewable energy sources as fast as we should be. But at the …
… Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy - Internship and Fellowship Program (PSiCE) offerssummer research … renewable energy for marginalized communities with nothing but a good internet search and your hands. That's what Vijjasena (Sena) Sugionois achieved at a time when most of us were just preparing for oursenior prom. Sena is currently a second-year student at Yale University and small-scale …
… The Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy - Internship and Fellowship Program (PSiCE) offerssummer research … pursuing Environmental studies at Yale. How does he know this? Because it's hisstory. Marcus came to CBEY with a curiosity to understand how we can better intersect clean … as the primary driver of this interest as disparities in his hometown of Gastonia, North Carolina became even more clear during that time. “I think one thing that just really …
… The Planetary Solutions in Clean Energy - Internship and Fellowship Program (PSiCE) offerssummer research … goals, and experience through the program. You may not always associate American history with clean energy, but one junior from Kansas is working to ensure we all understand the advancement of clean energy depends on our ability to incorporate the past into the future. Yale College student Hilary Griggs was …
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… It’s two weeks before our finance module launches, and I’m working my way through YouTube videos trying … policies like renewable portfolio standards that support them. In recent years, as the four main energy sectors became increasingly intertwined, I began to notice that I lacked a …