… 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 …
… from further destruction. One year later the situation appeared to have reversed. Leading figures in the government of Indonesia were calling upon the companies to withdraw … companies ‘convinced’ local and national officials to support their land claims and look away when it came to environmental regulation. In 2013, environmental campaigners believed … from further destruction. One year later the situation appeared to have reversed. Leading figures in the government of Indonesia were calling upon the companies to withdraw …
… more than 3.7 million hectares of natural forests have been cleared in recent years to make way for plantations. This land use change plays a major role in driving global climate … severely impacting Indonesian and Singaporean air quality, displacing wildlife, and leading experts to assert that Indonesia was now a bigger contributor to climate change than … 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, …
… By 2009, the expansion of GAR and other companies had made Indonesia the world’s leading exporter of crude palm oil. The palm oil boom, however, concerned environmentalists. … in 2005 to save the Indonesian rainforest. The group targeted GAR as Indonesia’s leading palm oil firm and issued reports criticizing the practices of the company. … with Greenpeace as important, but argued that the compact had not significantly altered the way the company did business, since the company "had sustainability in its blood." GAR also …
… software platform named the Wildlife Management Analytics system or WMA, were looking for a way to market the product. The WMA, which made camera trap data on biodiversity easier to … could be run. HPQ had licensed the software to CI and the nonprofit believed that the best way to distribute the WMA was to sell access to the software, offsetting some of its costs. … software platform named the Wildlife Management Analytics system or WMA, were looking for a way to market the product. The WMA, which made camera trap data on biodiversity easier to …