… community is recognizing that traditional funding models can’t keep pace with the need for conservation capital. At a time of modest public funding and limited philanthropic … We produce original content and curate the work of other organizations. We create news, research, policy, training and convenings related to conservation finance. We cover … Management 2022 Alumni Wilder Person Portfolio Management Analyst at BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group Master of Environmental Management 2021 Alumni Rachael Ross …
… to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation on private forestland. A survey was …
… Research Rising Leaders on the Sustainable Development Goals Findings from a Global Survey for Business Schools Overview A new global study measuring awareness and engagement of the … Development Goals conducted by Yale University in collaboration with Global Network for Advanced Management and Schlange & Co. finds that: Fewer than half of respondents were … was also a top priority, but showed more regional variability. We hypothesize that concern for climate action may be a “luxury” available only when more immediate concerns, such as …
… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States and potentially rising as, simultaneously, young people are spending less time outdoors than ever before. These trends are especially pronounced for children of color and low-income urban youth, who face multiple barriers to accessing …
… linear consumption model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of naturalresources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental … naturalresource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, … can address issues of inefficient resource use and improper waste disposal. This report looks at how the industry is shifting away from the traditional linear consumption model by …
… to improve dissemination of new technologies. Here, the investigator marketed two different agricultural technologies: 1) Improved Crop Residue Management (CRM), which uses … moisture retention. The project was designed in two phases to test different methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming … characteristics of the households as well as their farming practices and production levels. For the first round of interventions, information was provided to treatment households on …
… heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making the product better performing. Use and Applications Professor Newman has discussed these studies in his core … with a case on green products. Future Activities Additional data will be collected for the resubmission of the publication, and the investigators hope to continue research …
… uniquely positioned to support the local soil health work of farmers and ranchers. In California, Colorado, and New Mexico, state policy has established programs to support … and farmers can all find common ground. Across the country, community groups are calling for the creation of soil health programs in their states. In response to this growing demand, the Soil Health Policy guidebook provides practical advice for anyone who is interested in developing community-driven, state-level soil health policy …
… and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus Whitney Mann (Master of … a land use impact perspective, solar installations are relatively benign compared to other forms of development, and importantly, they can be designed to provide net benefits to …
… benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or … traditionally dominated discussions about solar-agricultural land use. People often feel forced to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural … and economic benefits that these systems can generate. This report, which is written for a broad audience, also examines how communities, solar developers, local leaders, and …