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… scaling up and using lessons learned to pivot into new fields. CBEY: Tell us about your venture. Symbrosia: Symbrosia is a startup located in Kona, Hawaii, scaling the … bit more stable and reliable. Poda: Yessenia: Kenny and I worked on the venture for three years and launched a real farm outside of Portland, Oregon. It was a huge learning … about a solution to a problem or environmental/social issue. The only way you can have an impact is by testing yourself and attempting to create solutions. Poda: Yessenia: Take the …
… Above, Jun Chen (MBA '20) and Ben Christensen (MEM ’20) of Cambium Carbon Over the past nine years, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has provided funding and … cost savings and emits 1% of the emissions. “This funding will be critical in fueling our beta pilot this winter where we are launching dozens of systems across the country with … the end result,” says Sobotka. Cambium Carbon and Floe are eligible to enter Yale’s Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize for a chance to win a further $25,000 this spring as part of …
… to help further innovative ideas to address climate change and its environmental and social impacts. CBEY has awarded these grants for the past three years in an effort to support projects and ideas that can have wide-ranging impacts and … dairy but creates very little GHG emissions and uses a fraction of land and water resources to produce, coupled with a low incidence of allergic reaction compared to nut- and …
… Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong proclaimed that he was taking “one giant leap for mankind” as he … a moonshot has also entered rhetoric around climate change. Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and billionaire-politician Michael Bloomberg … landing may have been a symbolic “giant leap” for human progress, but it had few tangible impacts on US society. Landing on the moon was an inspiring and dramatic moment (as well as …
… would eventually support one another in a continuous loop. Waste from the shrimp would nourish the seaweed, and the seaweed would in turn filter the water going back to the shrimp. Alexia explained that, together, these two organisms can have a huge impact in fighting climate change, particularly the seaweed. When added to cattle feed, a … idea we should continue to explore and build upon,” said Alexia. “From there it was many hours of intense learning.” Feeding seaweed to cattle can dramatically reduce methane …
… New technology can change the course of history. In 1769, Scottish inventor James Watt created an improved version of the … returning to one fundamental question: Now that we as a human species better understand ourimpact on the planet, how can we use technology to actively catalyze environmental … change. Outside-the-box innovation is necessary to move from business as usual to a more sustainable path. I’ve been thinking about these two concepts now, three months after the …
… 15% of all clothing donated or reused, Hand Me Up (HMU) hopes to change perceptions and encourage clothing reuse by creating a positive shopping experience for busy parents. In turn, this will reduce the environmental impact of the notoriously dirty fashion industry. Hand Me Up's cofounders from left to … globally, 80 billion pieces of new clothing are consumed each year, a 400% increase from 20 years ago. Initially focused on a seasonal subscription service box of personally-styled …
… endowment. If it changes its investment practices, it spurs a tangible and immediate impact, which isn’t the case for most individual investors. But individual investments add … research before diving into entrepreneurship. While at Yale, they co-wrote three papers on sustainableinvesting. They wanted their findings to be relevant and actionable outside of … box verification scheme, so they’re making the standards entirely transparent and open-sourced, similar to what B Lab has done for its process of certifying responsible companies …
… Five student teams were recently awarded grants as part of the Climate Change Innovation … Forestry & Environmental Studies, School of Management and Yale College. The projects have impact across the globe, from New Haven to Southeast Asia and around the world and tackle a … including energy, materials, transportation, food, women and girls, and land use. “One of our main goals throughout this process was to support climate change innovators and …
… corporate, academia, non-profit, and public spaces came together to discuss a growing new impact field—plant-based foods and clean meat. As the Good Food Conference website said, these are two technologies that are going to allow the world to … overfishing. Sharing her hope for the future of plant-based and clean seafoods replacing our current status quo around seafood that does not consider what we take out of the system, …