… Waters initiative, a conservation collaborative and water fund serving the Greater Portland, Maine region in an effort to secure permanently the forests that naturally filter the drinkingwater for 1/6th of Maine residents. Working with conservation NGOs, land trusts, …
… Are you an energy efficiency program manager seeking new partners to retrofit homes? Are you a utility looking for ways to increase customer … in efficiency and conservation programs? Do you want a better understanding of how water and energy systems are connected? We all know that saving water saves energy. And that … solutions. Motivated by the severe drought in the West and the observation that wateruse accounts for 20% of energy consumption in California, utilities and private companies …
… We all know that saving water saves energy. And that saving energy saves water. But how do we bring these synergies … of “embedded energy” to include the physical, chemical and thermal properties inherent in drinkingwater and wastewater, we uncover the potential for this energy to become an asset … with the process. In addition we will highlight some emerging technologies that can be used harness the energy embedded in water, including case studies of net-zero energy …
… Bay Company is a certified B-corp that invests in commercial real estate, agricultural land, and water assets with a mission to produce economic, social, and environmental returns. Mike … resource comes primarily from population growth and greater consumption by plants that use more water as temperatures rise. Complicating this problem is the fact that western …
… Sustainable Innovation Workshop series welcomes Max Elder, Research Director for the Food Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, for a hands-on workshop on futures thinking and … a valuable skill set for entrepreneurs. It helps anyone trying to start a business, develop new products and services, or understand a market by providing a qualitative approach to … or innovations that might impact their industry. (For an introduction to IFTF’s use of signals as a building block for larger forecasts, watch the first fifteen minutes of …
… Texas's population is set to double, driving a projected 35 percent increase in municipal water demand. While cities and industries are well positioned to capture the water they'lI need to enable this growth, downstream waterusers such as agricultural producers, rural communities and our rivers and bays are less … to protect water for rural communities and nature. His talk will cover Texas’ regulatory landscape, the need to restore groundwater and surface water flows, and how water markets …
… Forestry & Environmental Studies this semester will engage in a critical dialogue about a water crisis that is currently gripping the western U.S. A record-breaking drought … and companies are responding to increased water scarcity and shaping a more resilient future through sustainable wateruse. Five speakers representing a range of expertise in water management and policy will …
… Summer Internship opportunities for Yale FES and SOM students @ WWF in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam. Join us for pizza and an informational session, including an … Singapore; WWF Vietnam – To develop an innovative strategy for corporate and individual Cause-Related Marketing and an implementation plan for market-entry. This session will be an … WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world’s biological …
… industry to save millions of gallons of fuel consumption and millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. Anupam holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Syracuse … Monika’s work has been distinguished with the Grand Prize in the NASA Create the Future Design Contest 2011 (1st out of over 900 projects and 7000 participants), CIMIT award … a Master’s in Physics from Freie University in Berlin, Germany and Wroclaw University in Poland. Monika combines leadership skills with strong technical expertise, creativity and …
… gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinkingwater filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects, and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent … An array of public and private mechanisms exist to use payments to encourage responsible land management that preserves public benefits. So, what do ecosystem services projects look …