… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls … they started a pilot project to introduce local, seasonal food into the menu of one of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges. The experiment was a success with both students and dining hall staff, and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in … The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve independence from the local energy grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas generator, to … jurisdictions. The off-grid model presented here is replicable worldwide. Industry professionals can replicate these best practices in system modeling, power cost modeling, …
… world, they face numerous obstacles when it comes to maintaining and creating strong environmental commitments. The circular economy represents one of the biggest environmental and economic opportunities through which companies can lower their environmental footprint and represents an estimated $4.5 trillion dollar additional economic …
… alternative to other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those … literature, news articles, and reports, and to particularly relevant sections of the Yale School of Management’s (SOM) palm oil case. These materials can be read on their own, … literature, news articles, and reports, and to particularly relevant sections of the Yale School of Management’s (SOM) palm oil case. These materials can be read on their own, …
… including influential local landowners, as well as forest industry and conservation professionals. The results indicate that residents attribute monetary value to nonmarket forest … part of ongoing land management and research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses Management Plans for …
… the world’s leading exporter of crude palm oil. The palm oil boom, however, concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat … by scientists that linked palm oil plantations to deforestation, Greenpeace, a global environmental NGO, began campaigning in 2005 to save the Indonesian rainforest. The group … the group’s allegations. However, in negotiations brokered by The Forest Trust, another environmental NGO, GAR sat down with Greenpeace and in often tense meetings hammered out an …
… of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (as the agreement was named) represented … local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed they had found leverage to help change the palm oil …
… land in perpetuity. Based on the hypothesis that land trusts, land managers, and parks professionals could be partners in the effort to improve child and adolescent mental health in … child & adolescent mental health through outdoor programming Elizabeth Himschoot (Master of Environmental Management '21) Jessica Lloyd (Master of Forestry '20) Aaron Reuben (Master of … Himschoot Master of Environmental Management 2021 Alumni Jessica Lloyd Forest Manager at Yale Forests Master of Forestry 2020 Alumni Aaron Reuben Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical …
… Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Using Social Networks to Market New Environmental Technologies … Using Social Networks to Market New Environmental Technologies … Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice Participants Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Professor of Economics at Yale School of Management ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu … Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak … Low productivity …
… as nutrient pollution reduction. Soil health is an inherently cooperative goal, in which environmentalists, regulators, and farmers can all find common ground. Across the country, … identified by soil health policy experts. This guidebook was produced as part of The Yale Center for Business and the Environment’s ongoing Regenerative Agriculture Initiative . … identified by soil health policy experts. This guidebook was produced as part of The Yale Center for Business and the Environment’s ongoing Regenerative Agriculture Initiative . …