… to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forestproducts, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation … part of ongoing land management and research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses …
… students, conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication , our key findings include: Business students … -Ingrid C. Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Yale School of the Environment -Kerwin K. Charles, Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederic D. Wolfe … at Yale Center for Business and the Environment Faculty, Staff Katie Gilbert Freelance Writer Affiliates Stuart DeCew Executive Director at Yale Center for Business and the …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining halls … they started a pilot project to introduce local, seasonal food into the menu of one of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges. The experiment was a success with both students and dining hall staff, and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast …
… tropical product has taken off in the international market. An invisible component of many products, palm oil can be found in cookies, in chocolates, in soaps, in shampoos, and even … concerned environmentalists. Palm oil plantations had been carved out of precious rainforest and peat land, resulting in the release of carbon into the atmosphere and the loss of habitat for rare rainforest species. Some palm plantations were created through slash and burn agriculture – …
… This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. Adopting this … consider how circular strategies can help them mitigate the improper disposal of their products. Fiber-based packaging is a predominantly single-use product model with a limited … strategies and products being adopted by leading players in the fiber-based packaging sector. We evaluate the four circular strategies and address the challenges and …
… green product quality. The investigators found that consumers tend to infer that green products are worse quality than traditional (non-green) alternatives. In short, this effect … of Business Administration class, among colleagues, and in conjunction with a case on green products. Future Activities Additional data will be collected for the resubmission of the … Solutions Participants George E. Newman Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at Yale School of Management george.newman@yale.edu … George E. Newman … The objective of this …
… is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the products we buy. However, it is not something that consumers can easily spot or screen for. … impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impacts stem from deforestation. In Indonesia and Malaysia alone (the two countries responsible for 85% of palm … literature, news articles, and reports, and to particularly relevant sections of the Yale School of Management’s (SOM) palm oil case. These materials can be read on their own, …
… Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in … The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve independence from the local energy grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas generator, to … Energy Independence Plan … The Producer Partnership Energy Independence Plan Five Yale students designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own … represented a dramatic advance in their decades-long efforts to protect the Indonesian rainforest from further destruction. One year later the situation appeared to have reversed. … across the globe bought palm oil or palm oil fractions to include in a wide variety of products. Between supply and demand, however, six companies: Wilmar, Musim Mas, Golden Agri …
… This global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top business schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development … L.; Wang, J. (2015). Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change. Yale Center for Business and the Environment. https://cbey.yale.edu/research/rising-leaders-on-environmental-sustainability-and-climate-change 2315 …