… Factory.” The idea of a moonshot has also entered rhetoric around climate change. Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and … improving agriculture, making buildings more efficient, recycling materials, and slowing population growth. All these solutions involve large-scale shifts from how things … improving agriculture, making buildings more efficient, recycling materials, and slowing population growth. All these solutions involve large-scale shifts from how things …
… Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, Damon Wells Professor at Yale University … intellectual assets with the world. “This is a tremendous addition to CBEY’s work –allowing us to bring Yale’s knowledge on a pressing global issue to a wider audience, as well … intellectual assets with the world. “This is a tremendous addition to CBEY’s work –allowing us to bring Yale’s knowledge on a pressing global issue to a wider audience, as well …
… of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in homes, the continued growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), and the rise of the prosumer. Excitement about new opportunities and … grid management, they also revealed concerns within the industry about the challenges and slow pace of moving from pilot project to full-scale deployment to wider customer adoption. … of the conference, it became clear to me that the different trajectories utilities would follow will depend on whether they seize the transformative opportunities of emerging …
… It was hard to believe that, in just three months, those specks would become 52 pounds of restaurant-quality shellfish. To reach that size, they would need to double in size every … Genius Award . Over the summer, Alexia and Gracie participated in the Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship, where they focused on developing strategies to capture value. They also changed the … Genius Award . Over the summer, Alexia and Gracie participated in the Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship, where they focused on developing strategies to capture value. They also changed the …
… is a unique community-based program that leverages peers and social networks to encourage residential solar adoption through a group pricing strategy. Solarize campaigns spread the … Bank, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and MySunBuddy. The following summary of SEEDS II results is based on Rounds 8 to 10 of Solarize campaigns … focuses on how solar adoption can save money and stabilize electricity bills. The table below provides a summary of towns that received individual- and community-oriented messages …
… to global warming and local air pollution. As a dual degree student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management , I spend a lot of time … we’ll have a growing potential to make better decisions and design smarter systems, allowing us to use energy and other resources more efficiently. Yale students who are … air travel system might help reduce transit times, but it might also increase inequality, allowing the richest and most powerful people to avoid traffic while everyone else faces …
… unanimously passed its landmark energy bill. Act 236, also known as the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, which created a net-metering system permitting residential and … strategies and messages that support the adoption of solar energy, especially among low- and moderate-income (LMI) customers. To do this, the Yale School of Forestry and … had varying degrees of success, but South Carolina stood out as a clear outlier with the lowest adoption rates. Along with SmartPower, the Yale team analyzed the reasons behind …
… entrepreneurs, and social impact leaders who believe in an inclusive and socially responsible economy [that can] address the world’s toughest challenges.” The upcoming annual flagship event in San Francisco … has drawn over 10,000 people since its inception. That’s a lot of influence to catalyze a resilient economy. But why should this event just emphasize the double bottom line? What …
… Photo credit: Blue Forest Conservation Pay for Performance (PFP) Bonds, also known as Pay for Success Bonds or … Markets Conference (SOCAP15). Here’s how PFP deals work. At their core, these instruments allow private investors to fund a certain social intervention and earn a return based on its … government entities, is that these financings shift the social spending paradigm, allowing governments to pay for results instead of services. This ultimately shifts the risk …
… year. Previous posts in this series detail how we got to this point and work underway to address the problem. Here we discuss critical further steps needed to solve the plastics … efforts undertaken by NGOs, private companies, and governments to reduce the massive flow of plastics into our oceans. This work is promising, but it is also insufficient. … essentially untraceable once it enters the informal sector; and without knowing material flows, it becomes all the more difficult to suggest solutions. Fortunately, organizations …