… responsible production and consumption of clothing is critical and carries a huge potential for impact. Yael Aflalo founded the fashion brand Reformation with the idea that fashion can be different. Reformation thinks about all the costs in creating fashion and each product is tagged with its …
… Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the 2014-2015 season of "Nature’s Returns: … Bright Spots for Resource Mobilization: Regional Trusts by Willy Kostka of the Micronesia Conservation Trust and Yabanex Batista of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. In this … Kostka and Batista will highlight the enabling factors that support the regional trusts as financial vehicles to attract and provide long-term, sustainable funding for biodiversity …
… The 51st State Initiative was created to provide a collaborative platform across the power sector to discuss the future of the electric industry. Designed as an alternative to the contentious debates surrounding market and rate reform occurring in many jurisdictions, the initiative creates an ongoing, safe platform for experts and industry leaders to present, sound out, and provide feedback on …
… Innovative Financing for Energy Efficiency A key challenge to energy consumers adopting energy efficiency … tracks, even when there is a compelling return on investment. Recognizing this barrier, California is tackling energy efficiency financing on multiple fronts, including innovative utility-sector policies and programs that are being developed and implemented by …
… opportunities together in one place, describe what they are and how to apply. Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education : This $25,000 cash prize is awarded by … Prize : The Miller Prize is a $25,000 entrepreneurship prize from the Tsai Center forInnovative Thinking at Yale for a student venture with a tech or tech-enabled service … @ Yale is a $25,000 cash prize given the best student-led venture focused on developing an innovative hardware solution to a medical challenge. PRIZES: The application for Prizes can …
… Join us for pizza and an informational session, including an online presentation and Q&A with Trin … focus will be on significant resource mobilization for priority, high impact and urgent conservation and transformational, sustainable projects across Asia and across various … The Asia Pacific Growth Strategy (APGS) started in 2008 with the aims of building financially stronger offices in the Asia Pacific and tapping into the economic growth in the …
… energy cost reduction targets, establish credentials as a “green manufacturer,” or prepare for future regulations on carbon emissions—or all of the above—industrial players are seeking internationally recognized plans for improving their energy efficiency. The Department of Energy’s Superior Energy Performance program is a market-based, globally accepted certification program that provides …
… Featured speaker Laurie Wayburn will discuss how her organization, The Pacific Forest Trust, is currently exploring ecosystem services markets and payments as a tool to promote forest conservation in the West. She will review how private forest landowners are currently …
… Please join the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for the 2015-2016 season of "Nature’s Returns: … this webinar, Jeffrey will discuss the new high resolution datasets and web-based analysis tools that the Chesapeake Conservancy is developing. These tools streamline the efforts of conservation and restoration organizations, allowing them to quickly priortize efforts and …
… Project Manager with The Willamette Partnership and Todd Gartner, Senior Associate, Conservation Incentives & Markets World Resources Institute. Increasing pressure on natural … on - like clean air, clean water, and natural places to play. Emerging incentive programs for ecosystem services provide a mechanism to restore resilient ecological systems by … The Willamette Partnership and the World Resources Institute are leaders in getting innovative market-based approaches to conservation on the ground. “Investing in …