… $10,000 from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , disbursed annually by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment to provide funding and mentorship to new … healthy meals and reduce food waste while building on their desire to cook,” said Lloyd. “Our plant-based meals are the perfect solution for that mid-week crunch, so people no longer … Entrepreneurship Consultancy, which allows current graduate students to serve associal impact consultants to start-ups run by their peers. Kitchen Table and Bike City will also …
… project that involved twenty campus buildings and tested the design and implementation of four different carbon-pricing schemes. In the webinar, representatives from Yaleshared the … representative of the diverse uses and budget types to assess how a carbon charge would impact the university as a whole. The remaining 280 buildingsserved as control group. Three … 7th, 2018, 5:00 AM EST — 6:15 AM EST Online Related NewsYale Becomes First University to Join Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition … Anja Nikolova … Thuy Phung … On November 2, 2016, …
… of the Sobotka Seed Stage Venture grants who share their experience and perspective. The Yale Center for Business and the Environment aspires to build a robust entrepreneurial … long-time friends Todd Howard and Nathan Hall teamed up. Initially they had very few resources in terms of capital, land and equipment. However, through their tenacity they found a … at various times. Finally, Nathan’s advice is to make sure that you have an idea with true impact that at least hassome form of partial validation in the marketplace. That need not …
… Electricity production, though, is only one part of the energy system where renewablesources bring value and environmental benefits. Buildings’ demand for heating and cooling—a … investigating market mechanisms that can streamline investments. (FORTT is based at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and is part of a larger coalition that includes the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Eversource Energy, the United Illuminating Company and the Connecticut Green Bank.) RTTs …
… highlighted the role and value of DSM’s internal carbon price. “We want to future-proof our business,” Sijbesma said. DSM aspires to be prepared for the day when a carbon price impacts all of its operations—and that day may be right around the corner for many companies … nearly three times the number from a year earlier. With hundreds of othersslated to join in the next few years, becoming acquainted with the “learning by doing” approach will …
… steer me to seek rational and professional solutions to save the Earth. As I began this journey, it seemed an uphill battle…unlikely that business was willing or able to consider … much beyond profit. Today, as a Master in Environmental Management graduate from the YaleSchool of Forestry and Environmental Studies, I feel truly empowered. My once … and the US Business Council for Sustainable Development. Participating in the Pathways to Impact conference in mid-June was, among other things, a justification of my career choice. …
… In 2007, Peter Boyd found himself with Richard Branson and a group of CEOs at Virgin informally discussing global issues … Australia, Singapore, the Trans-Siberian Railroad. He circumscribed the world over the course of a year. Most recently, in another promising departure, he reduced his advisory role … he said. Fortunately, he finds this conviction heartily reinforced through his work at Yale. “What I love about coming here is the energy, passion, intelligence and lack of …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, … hired associate research scientist. In this position, Gronli will lead the Feasibility of RenewableThermal Technologies in Connecticut project, which studies the potential of … 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 …
… 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 … and expensive despite evidence that maintaining these connections reduces recidivism. “Technology was at a point where this could be solved,” said Hutson. “But no one was building …
… Businessstudents today are developing a new vision of what capital markets and our financial system could, and should, look like. This was apparent at YaleSchool of Management’s Low Carbon Portfolio Case Competition and Responsible Investing … a number of markers already demonstrate the progress toward sustainable, responsible and impact investing (SRI). There are upwards of 1,400 financial institutions that are …