… SolarCity has an ambitious mission: to put solar panels on every rooftop in America, Jon … senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & EnvironmentalStudies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on … and the Environment . FrancesBeinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and McCluskey Fellow at Yale, moderated the discussion, which was …
… In the Navajo Nation, electricity may be a fragile commodity as climate change intensifies. Other tribes in the United States face similar energy … Applications are due by Dec. 10. For facility-scale installations, the amount of the source energy that must be displaced is 20 percent – and for renewable energy and/or combined … risks variesbased on geography. The report details a region-by-region breakdown of climate impacts on tribal lands, providing concrete examples of risks that communities already face. …
… Energy and Environment at the adidas Group, was planning a recent visit to Yale, she shared our desire to avoid SILO. So we asked her what we ask all of our GreenLight clients - What’s … and her team at Adidas we chose the following question: “How could adidasbring itssocial and environmental commitments and achievements to life in the retail store experience?” Forty …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they … built around a patent-pending technology Zack developed at the Yale School of Forestry and EnvironmentalStudies that usessatellites to determine the size and species of trees in forests. Faced with limited resources for a forest management project in Armenia, the young entrepreneur came up with an …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter … of the center, and also included FrancesBeinecke, the former president of the National Resources Defense Council and a scholar at Yale; Pavan Sukhdev, an environmental economist and CEO of GIST Advisory; and Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar of …
… It has only been a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions of diesel-powered … EDT Online Related NewsSOM, FES to collaborate on Global Network projects Global Network Courses: Building a Toolkit for Global Teams … David Bach … It has only been a week since the …
… At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & EnvironmentalStudies (FES) joint-degree studentsshared some of the lessons they gleaned …
… The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick to learn, though never formally schooled. … leads the nonprofit TechnoServe , strives to align the tremendous engine of business with social need in a way that universalizes opportunity alongside talent. TechnoServe’s 1,500 … 24, 2015 More Business, Less Poverty: The shared value revolution Dylan Walsh (Master of Environmental Management '11) The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick …
… a lot of time analyzing potential investment funds. Lately, he’sbeen investigating more socially responsible funds, since socially responsible options are increasingly being … plans as well as the general investing public. But the discovery process hasn’t been easy. The problem, Jenkinssays, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) …
… published on Environmental Leader. The most recent California drought is in its fourth year. Although some point to the potential savior of El Niño in the fall and winter, … of wine grapes, though, has gotten much less press of late — with the exception of stories like “ California Drought Produces Tastier Wine Grapes .” And that’s too bad. A … as California’s agricultural sector struggles to overcome today’s drought. Wine growing and making tend toward large-scale drip irrigation, dry farming, integrated pest management, …