… Carson, the company’s new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on Sustainability Leadership , a …
… announced on Sept. 2 that it is requesting applications to co-fund renewable energy, energy efficiency, and combined heat and power to help increase the climate resilience of … funding is estimated to total around $4-6 million. 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 heat and power, projects should produce at least 10 kW, …
… - Slides Instead of Learning Opportunities, and it’s something you may have experienced before. During lunch time break, several dozen audience members gather in a lecture hall. They … delivers a slide presentation to a distracted audience. When we first arrived at Yale two years ago, we were thrilled by the great speakers that came to visit. But every … more productive and satisfying use of everyone’s time. The convening power of a place like Yale creates tremendous opportunities for students and visitors to learn from one another, …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect on their time as student entrepreneurs at Yale. Building on the synergies of an undergraduate in computer science and graduate … States. SilviaTerra is built around a patent-pending technology Zack developed at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies that uses satellites to determine the size …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter Bakker, … and the SDGs: What’s Driving Business to Act on Climate Change Now? ” presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment on September 23. The panel was moderated by … Beinecke, 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 …
… of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen … Volkswagen is worse than Enron … Sep 28, 2015 Seven reasons Volkswagen is worse than Enron Yale SOM's David Bach writes for the Financial Times David Bach It has only been a week since the stunning revelation …
… At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) joint-degree students shared some of …
… The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick to learn, though never formally schooled. William Warshauer (‘86 BA) met and befriended him while a Peace Corps volunteer in a village in the north of the country, and one day it hit him “full force between the eyes” that if their situations had been reversed—if Warshauer had instead … village and the boy to an upper-middle class family in the United States—so too would their fortunes have been reversed. Insight into this “cosmic roulette set me on the professional …
… The problem, Jenkins says, 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) factors in funds. Read more on the Yale School of Management website . Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions … (ESG) factors or Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) factors in funds. Read more on the Yale School of Management website . Related Events Sustainability Metrics Monthly Seminar: …
… This piece was originally published on Environmental Leader. The most recent California drought is in its fourth year. Although some point to the potential savior of El Niño … enormous pressure on water conservation statewide. The latest controversy — a legacy of California’s agricultural roots and antiquated water law — centers on senior water rights … Programs Corporate Water Risk and Strategy Workshop Series Related News Todd Cort on How Yale SOM is Becoming an Epicenter of Sustainability ExxonMobil has its head in the sand and …