… By Tommy Hayes As a Californian, I’ve spent a lot of time in the car. Whether it was those family road trips around … up some serious mileage and developed a love of driving machines by the time I departed for college. There, as an environmental science major, I discovered how beastly my driving carbon footprint is, and learned how transportation-related emissions account for roughly a third of worldwide climate pollution. So how do I balance my love of cars with …
… in my previous blog about driving electric vehicles (EVs) around Norway, a big takeaway for me was the importance of an easily available and predictable system of charging … zipping around in any of today’s growing number of EVs, I discovered. Recent studies in California reveal even more benefits to growing the ecosystem of charging infrastructure and … that are powered purely from the battery (rather than the gasoline engine). “PHEV10” stands for a plug-in hybrid capable of driving 10 miles in all-electric mode before switching to …
… and alumni highlights, starting today. Sent from Philadelphia, where new F&ES Master of Forestry student, Logan Yonavjak is covering the New Metrics in Sustainable Business conference , comes an argument for moving toward CSR standardization. NexThought … over both the practices of accounting and investing. The responsibility of actually developing accounting standards fell to a suite of actors until it finally landed on the …
… Defense Fund's (EDF) Corporate Partnership program. As a part of CBEY's Leadership Development speaker series, Roberts's 9/20 talk on Learning the Language of Business and … Balance Sheets, and the Micro-economics of Sustainability dealt not only with the skills she gained while at FES and SOM, but also with the tools she thinks tomorrow's … lean on Big thank you to Jackie for sharing her experiences and advice! Next up on the CBEY calendar, make sure to check out the newest Natures Returns webinar on 10/1 and the …
… A Conversation with Emma Hrustic Do companies with better brand strategies get more credit for being green than the companies with the best sustainability strategies? Well, maybe, but Interbrand’s Best Global Green Brands report tries to correct for this by weighing perception and performance in ranking the world’s top brands for sustainability. As a follow-up to our …
… Auto Show focused most intensely not on virile sports cars or new electric vehicles, but on Ford’s unexpectedly mainstream F-150 pickup truck. The 2015 model , which has been under developmentfor five years, was able to shave off 700 pounds of weight through extensive … with hundreds of thousands manufactured every year—and is capitalizing on a tremendous business opportunity. The amount of aluminum body sheet content in North American vehicles …
… the challenge of uncovering the right set of investment opportunities in energy efficiency for Office Depot , Edgerton’s every move would also be documented by Director James … Years of Living Dangerously this April , we'll get to to see Edgerton in action. Before that happens, I wanted to see what it was like to be a part of the series, and see the … of Environmental Strategy Yalmaz Siddiqui, was o n campus with Dell's Michael Murphy for the Colloquium on Sustainability Marketing's December 9th " Nudging Big Buyers Toward …
… I had a sentence stuck in my head for weeks: "you're not the hero, your audience is." It was just one of the nuggets of … how the big and little guys worked, she knew she needed the fulfillment of applying her skills to issues she really cared about. Enter Free Range Studios, one of the leading firms … Free Range has a unique position in their field. They don't need to seek out new business. Amy told me that they are fortunate to have more demand than supply. Yet, I was …
… McMillan, the team will be one of 20 to design and build a fully solar-powered home for exhibition in 2015. Being selected as one of the 20 teams is no small feat - the competition is stiff, with many of the best specialized graduate programs fighting for spots. The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment is a proud sponsor of Ponce de Leon and McMillan's work. We …
… Following up on our recent post from the New Metrics in Sustainable Business conference , Logan Yonavjak (MF '15) and Marissa Galizia (MBA/MEM '15) bring to … of what goes into making a brand meaningful. Which brands in your life really hold meaning for you? Which ones have a positive impact on you, your community, and the natural world? According to recent research performed by Havas Media Group , the majority of people surveyed globally wouldn’t care if 73% …