… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, … Ecology motivated their move to New Haven, and, along with two children, the family of four issettling in. “We’re starting to build up our identity,” said Gronli, which mostly … account and a Connecticut driver’s license. But there are cultural changes too, of course. What New Haven lacks in cross country skiing, it hopefully makes up for in pizza. We invite …
… Frederick Hutson’s is an unusual career path: in 2005 he was arrested for trafficking marijuana. He was … prison. Once there, “I was exposed to a problem I knew nothing about,” he said as the fourth and final speaker in this year’s Bright Lights, Green Sightsseries. Keeping in touch … understand all the nuts and bolts of how the business actually works, but to focus on the ‘what’: what can you actually build? Others can figure out the how.” He had no experience in …
… Presidential election season has once again taken America by storm, and with it comes the … promised two things: (1) support for the fledgling green sector of the economy; and (2) a source of relatively high-paying jobs that do not require a college education. While the … an astute observer might ask the following questions: Where have we seen this before, and what lessons can we learn from previous experience; and Are these jobs long-lasting or …
… When the financial crisis hit and the floor dropped out of the economy, finally, Yael Aflalo thought, she had a … The time felt right and Aflalo shut the doors. Without the company, she wasn’t sure what to do. Her parents were both entrepreneurs and she’d never bent toward a traditional … alternative to rayon. For Aflalo, all of the effort required on her end—working to source and develop sustainable fabrics and dyes, paying good wages, using renewable energy …
… In May of 1993, Lisa Price founded the hairand skincare brand, Carol’s Daughter, in the kitchen of her … 2014, L'Oréal USA purchased Carol’s Daughter. This was the “endgame,” said Price. “That’swhat I needed. That’swhat I wanted.” But the sale of her business proved complicated. A … things could be worse,” said Price. Internalizing her mother’s optimism gave Price the courage and the persistence to work through failure, through uncertainty. “That’s the most …
… A business plan that aims to turn food waste into new products, and profits, won the 2016 Sabin … Their first goal is to commercialize the conversion of okara, or soy pulp, into a form of flour. In addition to a $25,000 cash prize, the business receives automatic entry into the Yale Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Another prize finalist, Appalachian Roots—Hemp 2.0, which was …
… Two promising new companies received $10,000 each from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , … a value-added industry in a region that has long been dependent on extraction of natural resources, and to bring opportunities to small farmers and unemployed miners,” said Hall. The … Finance and ESG Circularity Equity and Justice Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant: The 2015 Winners … Apr 13, 2016 Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant: The 2015 WinnersSustainably …
… Yale’s Feasibility of Renewable Thermal Technology initiative (FORTT), which is developing … renewable thermal technologies in Connecticut, recently formalized partnerships with Eversource and The United Illuminating Company (UI), the state’s largest electric utilities. … accelerate and broaden the scope.” Both Eversource and UI joined the project in November of 2015. The hope is that FORTT represents the beginning of long-term and lasting change to the …
… The most innovative startup ideas from across campus are coming together April 14-15 at Evans Hall for Entrepreneurship Across Yale , an event featuring Yale’s biggest entrepreneurship prizes … Yale. Stuart DeCew, Program Director at CBEY, says they are continuing to build resources around social ventures in the environmental space, from a speaker series to bringing …