… We’ve all read the stats. The average consumer now purchases 60 percent more clothing, compared to 2000, but … longer a brand differentiator, but expected of any advanced company. Mapping specific CSR projects to an SDG extends the boundary of impact to the planetary level. VF Corp., owner of … there is a need to develop more discrete metrics that track progress towards the SDGs. Of course there will always be tradeoffs when addressing one goal over another. However, a …
… The future of food isseriously thinking about plant-rich diets. In early September, a group of more than 400 … legal considerations around plant-based foods were another major topic at the conference. YaleSOM alum of Honest Tea and the Executive Chairman for Beyond Meat, Seth Goldman, sat on … restoration of what we have already lost from animal agriculture and how to further bring sustainability into our food system through plant-based foods. 2713 Equity and Justice …
… Attention innovators! Did you know that funding is available to students thinking about creative solutions to … itssecond year, this program has attracted interest from a diverse set of students acrossYale’s campus. “Last year we had 23 interdisciplinary teams of students apply from the … education platform that offers math, English, leadership, computer literacy and programming courses in Afghanistan to empower girls with greater autonomy over family planning and …
… Each year the Yale Center for Business and the Environment gives teams applying to the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize the … file-default","data-delta":"6"}}]] Justin Freiberg Sustainability Manager, Yale West Campus … file-default","data-delta":"16"}}]] Aaron Paul Project Director, Conservation Investments, The Nature Conservancy …
… Solarize is a solar adoption program in which a community pairs with a solar installer to … including an upfront grant currently set at $1.00/W and capped at a maximum of $8,000 per project. There is also a feed-in-tariff option that customers can choose instead of the … Messaging Strategies The Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies (SEEDS) II project at Yale isstudying how different messaging strategies can affect the diffusion of solar. As …
… Katrina Barlow (SOM ’17) came to Yale interested in starting a company. “There’s no better time to start a … on the energy industry and utilities. The team also included a designer from Spotify, a project manager from Vox media, and two web engineers. All the team members were individuals …
… This past February, professionals from the world’s most influential companies gathered in … itssupply chain by one billion metric tons of CO2e by 2030, through an initiative called Project Gigaton . The retailer provides tools and resources to itssuppliers to support them … a powerful incentive to prioritize sustainability, and it is a relatively new trend. Yale has been at the cutting edge of research and innovation on this topic through the newly …
… Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of the world’s largest investment firm, recently noted that long-term corporate prosperity requires not … do you need to know? In partnership with Patagonia and wealth advisory firm Caprock , the Yale Center for Business and the Environment has released a new publication to answer this … business.” This publication comes at a time when both corporate and investor interests in sustainability are maturing. Today, 2,500 companies have certified as B Corps and 5,000 …
… The two winners of 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 … 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 …
… Wherever he is, whomever he’s with, Amarjeet Sohi likes to tell the story of a phone call he once … a job. “But imagine 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 … “We allow them to decide what needs to be built and support that.” But the key to thisproject is in its outcomes, mandated for all grant-funded projects, which must achieve at …