… program manager seeking new partners to retrofit homes? Are you a utility looking for ways to increase customer participation in efficiency and conservation programs? Do you want a better understanding of how water and energy systems … energy saves water. But how do we bring these synergies into practice? Tune into Blueprint for Efficiency’s water-energy miniseries to learn about cross-sector collaboration and …
… Join us for a discussion with social entrepreneurs Jessamyn W. Rodriguez, founder and CEO of Hot … co-founder of People’s Grocery and People’s Community Market. Event moderated by Mark Bomford, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Program. JESSAMYN W. RODRIGUEZ is the founder and CEO of iconic social enterprise Hot Bread Kitchen. Since 2008, she has transformed the organization from a visionary idea hatched in her home kitchen into a thriving …
… Watch the full recording on YouTube here! Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the first webinar of the 2016-2017 season of Nature’s Returns: Investing in Ecosystem Services. Susannah Harris (MEM/MBA, '16 and Senior Consultant for Deloitte Consulting's Social Impact Practice) and Allison Khoe (MEM '17) will present …
… national multi-sector, multi-racial coalition of 60 organizations working to radically transform our current food system where profits are valued over people and the planet. The HEAL … community organizers, and activists. Together, these groups are building a movement to transform our food and farm systems from the current extractive economic model towards community control, care for the land, local economies, meaningful labor, and healthful communities nationwide, while …
… Join us for a conversation with Jessica Perkins, Director of Sustainability at Apeel Sciences . Jessica will talk about her role at Apeel, her career journey and advice for students as they consider a career in business and the environment. Jessica will be … Apeel Sciences, Jessica leads the Sustainability function, where she is responsible for the development and execution of the company’s Sustainability Strategy as it pertains to …
… Leave your mark! We invite students across Yale to share new ideas for shaping our future research, programs, and events at our: 8th Annual Future Directions … Pitch Competition) This pitch competition gives students the chance to share their ideas for shaping our future research, programs, and events. Previous winning pitches that have … Sights speaker series featuring unconventional entrepreneurs Student writing arm of the Conservation Finance Network Corporate Water Risk and Strategy Workshop Series GreenLight …
… The Sabin Prize supports student and faculty efforts to start a sustainable for-profit business through cash prizes totaling $25,000. The competition provides feedback from professional judges, extensive mentoring from faculty, and opportunities for participants to meet and pitch their ideas to venture capitalists and industry leaders. …
… that they ultimately pursued. This talk will feature: Spenser Shadle (MF/MBA '13) manages conservation-oriented timberland and organic farmland investments at New Island Capital--an … based in San Francisco Patrick Hook (MF/MBA '13) decision support manager at ConservationForestry, a timberland investment management organization based in Exeter, NH While at Yale, … in the National Forest Foundation’s Business Concept Challenge for a proposal focused on financing restoration-based forest products businesses in rural Oregon. 2417 2427 …
… on different types of regenerative agriculture and lead a discussion on the challenges of financing and investing in this area. This session will be particularly enjoyable for people who attended the winery fireside chat between Prof. Todd Cort & Xavier Rolet two weeks ago and were itching for more discussion about the financing of regenerative agriculture projects like that. Reintroducing the new and improved …
… How should a nonprofit timber and forest company use its land in the 21st century? Join Yale GreenLight as we welcome Great Mountain Forest Corporation to campus to think about redesigning their mission and activities. Great Mountain was started to restore New England forest land in the 20th century, and now that the mission has largely been achieved, there …