… 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 …
… Minh Tsai was working at CharlesSchwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of … buck don’t go into food.) The company works with only organic farmers in the U.S. and encourages them to experiment with soybean types; though more than 200 varieties existed, not … English; he is committed to gender diversity, too, with a nearly even split between men and women. And if employees don’t feel that internal opportunities are keeping up with their …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grants to Yale students and faculty to … Hake Fish, whose population is nearing collapse. Findings will be generalizable to other resource management settings [Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Andres Gonzalez (UC-Berkeley)]; … and Case studies around challenges and best practices of bringing sustainability into day-to-day businessstrategy in emerging markets [Daniel Esty (Yale SOM/YLS/FES), Isabel …
… Perhaps a decade ago, it would have been almost unthinkable that non-profit organizations would … with the non-profit’s basic principles; they could have created reputational risks. But today, the development of corporate partnerships with non-profits is an important trend … an interesting platform: the case of Coles and Tassal moving to sustainable seafood sourcing and production. Thisstory clearly represented how corporate efforts to adopt more …
… “Sustainability professionals have to be polyglots, to shift gears and speak multiple … across functions and throughout an organization. The key, McColloch said, is “focusing on your audience and understanding what their priorities are and understanding how the work that we are trying to move forward …
… How do investment funds build social and environmental priorities into agricultural financing? Several … water quality. This can also cause public health and social justice concerns. Depleted resources can then further reduce smallholder productivity and cause economic vulnerability. … by development and climate change to agricultural yields, which drive their bottom line. “What’s going to become of our palate – the scents and flavors we give to buyers – 50 years …
… The TowardsScience Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry … As a joint-degree MBA/MEM student interested in social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship, this project was intellectually rewarding and exciting for me personally. …
… I walked into Paul’s class, not really sure what to expect, but intrigued by the title of his class, “TowardsScience Communications … Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’s Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change , and Naomi Oreskes’, Merchants of Doubt as … what he calls “values-based humanistic communications” – the idea that compelling emotional stories that speak to peoples' core values have more impact than rational scientific data, …
… Yesenia Gallardo co-founded Poda Foods during her time as a student at F&ES. Headquartered in … cricket-based products. We asked Yesenia some questions about being a Women Entrepreneur. What inspired you to found your business? My mother is from Oaxaca, Mexico and I grew up going to visit my grandparents, …