… 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 … brands are well suited to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal 12 for responsible consumption and production, due to the complexity and expansiveness of their …
… In early September, a group of more than 400 leaders from across the entrepreneurship, investment, corporate, academia, non-profit, and public spaces came together to discuss a growing new impact field—plant-based … gas emissions, habitat loss, pollution and animal welfare abuses. It also comes with a hope for food security and food safety. The New Meat Half of the conference took place around …
… Funding program, students can apply to receive up to $3000 in funding to help move an idea forward. From a community movement to a communications strategy to a for-profit solution, this support is meant to catalyze ideas that can help slow down, and maybe …
… Each year the Yale Center for Business and the Environment gives teams applying to the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize … 4th, will have the chance to pitch their ideas in front of a panel of judges and compete for the prize of $25,000. Visit our event website for more details. … file-default","data-delta":"16"}}]] Aaron Paul Project Director, Conservation Investments, The Nature Conservancy …
… the process, encouraging high rates of adoption. (See the Solarize Your Community guidebook for more information.) Solarize South Kingstown group. Image courtesy of SmartPower. Given … how is Rhode Island faring after half a decade of Solarize? With help from SmartPower, a nonprofit marketing firm that specializes in energy efficiency and clean energy, this post … reduce the overall cost of the system and help homeowners see a quick payoff on their investment. Solarize Messaging Strategies The Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies …
… thing she needed was the right idea, and she found it when she learned about the potential for households to benefit from a sort of “energy arbitrage.” Due to the low marginal cost of … can both save money and help the planet. In this situation, Katrina saw the opportunity for a viable and environmentally sustainable business model. Over the next year and a half, … entrepreneurs, though disappointing: her idea was not going to work. As a viable, for-profit business, it would require either a lower cost for batteries or a greater savings …
… with five swimming pools and a lazy river in the middle of the desert may seem an odd place for path-breaking conversations on sustainability, the three-day conference yielded a wealth … of companies to campus to discuss their work and professional journeys. The conference reinforced many of the themes that have arisen in that series, while also introducing us to new … these companies and also at related organizations, including consulting firms and non-profits. For the right people, such as the students who have been eagerly attending Pathways …
… Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of the world’s largest investment firm, recently noted that long-term corporate prosperity requires not just financial performance, but “a positive contribution to society.” He does not stand alone with this … Corporations and Benefit Corporations. (These designations, created and overseen by the nonprofit B Lab, offer a certification program and legal framework by which companies can fold …
… this year’s $10,000 Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant, disbursed annually by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment to provide funding and mentorship to new eco-ventures, … to help local organizations find information efficiently, across vast and complex landscapes.” Goldman Sachs estimates that drones will reach a market size of $100 billion by … politically activated times, people are asking: ‘How can I do the most good through my investments’?” says Reed. “We set out to answer that question, and to build tools for …
… if she hadn’t had that housing,” he said in a recent conversation at Yale. “What a loss for her, a loss for her children, a loss for society.” Now positioned as Canada’s Minister … and Communities (and a Member of Parliament), Sohi is overseeing a $180 billion (Canadian) investment in Canada’s infrastructure. The money will be dispensed over the next 12 years … federal grant-making can’t—to fund projects too expensive for public investment but not profitable enough or too risky for private investment. Having this alternative-funding …