… oat milk and oat milk-based products. Oat milk has the same nutrients as traditional dairy but creates very little GHG emissions and uses a fraction of land and water resources … removal implementation. They are creating a project finance mechanism where the upfront costs of tree planting are covered through blended capital, and investors are then paid back … This will help to quantify and to build an understanding of the public health implications from heat stress. CBEY is incredibly thankful to the judges who helped select the …
… Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has a whole division referred to as its “Moonshot Factory.” The idea of a moonshot has also entered rhetoric around climate change. … Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, Congresswoman 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. They should think bigger. “Moonshot” is an extreme …
… Business and the Environment (CBEY) opened its new certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy. With a cohort of 75 online learners from 10 countries, the year-long program is designed for working professionals committed to … Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, Damon Wells …
… technologies are leading more and more utilities to rethink the traditional electric grid from the supply side to the demand side, and everywhere in between. With the lines blurring … came together to explore the ways in which emerging technologies can and will impact the utility-customer relationship. I attended the conference to find out how the energy … is will it be utilities delivering these services to our smart homes? Equity and Justice Clean Energy The Role of Home Technologies in a Clean and Smart Grid … Apr 01, 2019 The Role …
… how these two organisms would eventually support one another in a continuous loop. Waste from the shrimp would nourish the seaweed, and the seaweed would in turn filter the water … back to the shrimp. Alexia explained that, together, these two organisms can have a huge impact in fighting climate change, particularly the seaweed. When added to cattle feed, a type of seaweed called Asparagopsis taxiformis can reduce methane emissions from cows by up to 99%, and methane is a greenhouse gas that’s 20 to 30 times more potent …
… 50 percent more total installations than towns with community-based messaging. Results from Rounds Nine and Ten Seven towns participated in Round 9: Bethel, Canton, Fairfield, Hamden, New Haven, North Haven, and Windham. A total of 137 contracts, out of 766 … 2838 2820 Equity and Justice Clean Energy Lessons Learned from Solarize Campaigns in Connecticut … Feb 18, 2019 Lessons …
… connected with one another. These developments were largely beneficial, but they came with costs, one of which was environmental degradation. The steam engine is powered by combustion—usually the burning of fossil fuels—which has led to global warming and local air pollution. As a dual degree student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental … ever-skeptical realism, but at VERGE, it was hard not to get swept up in cautious optimism. From attending sessions and talking with participants, I noticed two major trends that could …
… excess power sent back to the grid. After the introduction of DER, the Palmetto State went from having virtually no solar energy to having an installed capacity of 591 megawatts (MW). … interest, accelerate the return on investment and potentially decrease installation costs. That said, this may be a ripe opportunity with Dominion Energy entering the state to … now is, can the new leadership help the sleeping giant of solar wake up again? 2854 Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Sleeping Giant: The State of Solar in South …
… Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference has traditionally emphasized the social side of impact investing since its inception in 2008. The curriculum has rarely covered the … broader planetary scale, our solutions will have to use larger levers. We have to move away from treating “big” investing as synonymous with “corporate” or “mainstream” investing. The … This first session of a two-part series will take stock of opportunities and trends from the past year while showcasing the different stakeholders and sources of capital that …
… known as Pay for Success Bonds or Social Benefit Bonds, have been gaining significant traction during the past several years as a way to entice private capital to help address … results instead of services. This ultimately shifts the risk of a successful intervention from taxpayers to private investors, who are compensated for this risk. However, these … other beneficiaries, such as water and electric utilities, to share in forest restoration costs just as they share in benefits. These benefits include reduced fire severity and …