… The future of food isseriously thinking about plant-rich diets. In early September, a group … a $3.7 billion market, according to the Good Food Institute, the non-profitthat organized this first major conference of the industry. Withthe replacement of animal products comes … overfishing. Sharing her hope for the future of plant-based and clean seafoods replacing our currentstatus quo around seafood that does not consider what we take out of the system, …
… Attention innovators! Did you know that funding is available to studentsthinking about … forward. From a community movementto a communicationsstrategy to a for-profitsolution, thissupport is meantto catalyze ideasthat can help slow down, and maybe even reverse, the … year, and hope that even more teams apply thistime. We are inspired by the creativity of our community and know thatthere are ideas bubbling up that will have real impact, and we …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) will conduct research into how Small … only ~10% of the total SBIR funds, has discovered concrete operational changes (which don’t require an act of Congress) that dramatically benefit hard-tech entrepreneurswith no other source of patient capital. The goal of this independentstudy will be to use both qualitative …
… When Sophie Janaskie entered Yale College she had it figured out: she would find work doing research in a biology … were working to getstudents involved withsustainability efforts around campus. “I found I really enjoyed thattype of work,” Janaskie says—the factthat it wasstudent-driven, that … studies in May 2018, now joins CBEY asthe Environmental/Social Innovation Fellow. In this yearlong postshe will oversee the continued operation and improvement of existing …
… Each year the Yale Center for Business and the Environment givesteams applying to the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize the opportunity to be matched with a mentor from our network of partners and experts. Sabin Mentors commit a minimum of two hoursto advising …
… What exactly is conservation finance? Why is it increasingly relevantto environmental … work? If you are new to conservation finance, these may be some of the questions you find yourself asking. Here, we attemptto answer some of these questions and give a brief … tax incentives, loans and investments, ecosystem-services markets, and catalytic grants and donations. What challenges does conservation finance address? There is a need for enormous …
… Solarize is a solar adoption program in which a community pairswith a solar installer to promote local residential … provides fixed, advantageous contracting ratesto customers and simplifiesthe process, encouraging high rates of adoption. (See the Solarize Your Community guidebook for more … a nonprofit marketing firm thatspecializes in energy efficiency and clean energy, this post outlines both Rhode Island’s recentSolarize campaigns and the currentstate of …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is announcing a very generous and transformative donation from the Emmett Foundation to support its mission of developing leaders who are … its work on innovation and entrepreneurship, CBEY has established itself as a leading resource on clean energy finance. The new gift will expand this work in two ways. First, CBEY, …
… Our national production of food and fiber comes almost exclusively from agricultural giants, … of farm businesses receive over 85 percent of farm subsidies. To remain competitive with one another and global imports, farms compete on the margin through expensive capital … food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture." USDA can aid in this mission by fixing agriculture subsidies. It can do this by refocusing economic forces …
… Asthe residential solar market continuesto grow, how proponents communicate the benefits of … higher solar adoption rates . Figure 1 Bollinger, Gillingham, and Lamp (2017). ”Solarize Your Community: An Evidence-Based Guide for Accelerating the Adoption of Residential Solar,” … In total, about 28 percent of installations carried out during the Solarize campaign were done by the town-designated installer, though there wassome variability. The median ratio …