… impacts and tackle diverse systemic issues related to the current climate crisis. “Because this is an early-stage grant that’s open to for-profit and non-profits alike, the ideas … nutrients as traditional dairy but creates very little GHG emissions and uses a fraction of land and water resources to produce, coupled with a low incidence of allergic reaction compared to …
… scientific effort, still considered one of humanity’s greatest achievements. The moon landing is so revered as a technological endeavor that the term “moonshot” is now common … Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and billionaire-politician Michael Bloomberg have all used the word to describe what’s needed to prevent the planet from becoming uninhabitable. … tougher on their own than landing on the moon. Broadly, these ideas include switching to renewable forms of energy, reforming land management, improving agriculture, making buildings …
… Today, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) opened its new certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy. With a cohort of 75 online learners … Energy and Conservation Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, … for Teaching and Learning . The curriculum is a hybrid of online and in-person learning focused on finance, technology, and policy. It includes an on-campus week where participants …
… utilities are beginning to reimagine their relationships to the participants – both old and new – of a modern, smart grid. At the Smart Energy Summit in Austin on Feb. 18-19, energy … deployment to wider customer adoption. This tension gave rise to divergent visions of the future for utilities and their customers. By the end of the conference, it became clear to … manage and process Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data to extract decision-useful information. Now add in the overwhelming amount of data that is increasingly …
… It was early February 2019, and they had spent most of winter break setting up a brand new aquaponic-type system in a warehouse in New Haven’s Newhallville neighborhood. The previous afternoon, they had received a … facility. The shrimp were hard to spot—a few grey specks beneath hundreds of gallons of saltwater. It was hard to believe that, in just three months, those specks would become 52 …
… field trials. The SEEDS II team wants to understand two effects: the rates at which households of various income levels adopt solar, and how different types of messaging interact … non-profit SmartPower, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, Connecticut Green Bank, NewYork State Energy Research and Development Authority, and MySunBuddy. The following … installations in LMI communities. These straightforward findings can be incorporated into future Solarize campaigns to improve their effectiveness in spurring solar adoption. …
… Now that we as a human species better understand our impact on the planet, how can we use technology to actively catalyze environmental sustainability, rather than continuing to … won’t sustain those changes. This past fall, I attended Greenbiz VERGE , a conference in Oakland, California that brought together professionals and thought leaders at the interface of … start-ups, governments, civil society, and academia. The tone of the conference was one of future-focused optimism, which is something that’s in high supply in and around Silicon …
… the introduction of net metering in 2014 when the state legislature unanimously passed its landmark energy bill. Act 236, also known as the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, … In 2017 and 2018, SEEDS II conducted Solarize campaigns in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, NewYork, and South Carolina. The campaigns had varying degrees of … immediate signing of contracts. Regardless,130 people signed up to be on the waitlist for future community solar projects and seemed willing to wait for the approval of new projects. …
… has rarely covered the environmental aspects of the triple bottom line – instead, it has focused on financial and social aspects. But this year, attendees will have the opportunity to … Leigh Whelpton at the Conservation Finance Network (a multi-institutional effort based at Island Press). It also included a team of several conservation finance professionals. The goal … and emerging market opportunities – from sustainable timber and agricultural investments to water quality and green infrastructure – and what it will take to make these deals scalable, …
… States so far – with $80 million invested. To date, these financial instruments have focused on social outcomes like improving education and reducing juvenile recidivism. Now, a … these methods entail fire suppression, which leads to a lot of buildup and growth in forests that would normally burn up. USFS spending on fire suppression leads to less money … to disrupt. This bond helps align the incentives of USFS and other beneficiaries, such as water and electric utilities, to share in forest restoration costs just as they share in …