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… good health care and good education, impossible without government support. Deliverables: A PDF (or other document) that catalogs the findings of your review of similar business models, and highlights key learnings that can inform Community Kitchens. A PDF or brief deck outlining the possible business and organizational structures for … Good Food, Good Jobs: Researching an Economically Equitable Restaurant Model … Jan 29, 2021 Good Food, Good Jobs: Researching an Economically Equitable Restaurant Model An ethical …

… and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for 2-3 students to conduct an independent study (1.5 credits) on mapping climate tech. Over the course of the semester, the students will … authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published a landmark 2018 report highlighting the urgency of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report … Ben Soltoff, CBEY Environmental Innovation Manager.   Deliverable: A published framework (PDF and/or online) that defines sensible and easily understandable sub-categories for …

… of conservation finance is far from new. In the United States, it dates back to the 1634 creation of the Boston Common, the first example in the English-speaking world in which … practice of raising and managing capital to support environmental conservation (Clark, 2007). It includes the set of financial structures that can be employed to invest in the … from  https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/cc/docs/responsibility/conservation-finance-en.pdf Clark, S. (2007). A field guide to conservation finance. Washington, DC: Island Press. …

… This framework can help map gaps in data availability and metric quality. In June 2017, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TFCD) [1] published a report … Picotte, Ellen Abramowitz, and Nathan Grady. [1] See https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/FINAL-TCFD-Report-062817.pdf 2485 Clean Energy Circularity Renewable Thermal Metrics: Accelerating Market Growth … …

… This essay is the first of a six-part collaboration between Benjamin Bovarnick (FES ’18) and Sara Harari (FES ’19, SOM ’19). The collection closely examines the barriers facing … Electric Utility Industry Statistics]. Retrieved from http://www.publicpower.org/files/pdfs/uselectricutilityindustrystatistics.pdf Clancy, H. (2016, October 3). How the … (2013). ISO RTO operating regions . Retrieved from http://sustainableferc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ISO-RTO-Operating-Regions-20160415.jpg   2609 2587 Electricity Evolution: …

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… Meat makes for curious math: about 25 calories is required to create just 1 calorie of beef. The ratio for pork is nearer 15-to-1. Even the most efficient meat, chicken, requires 9 calories of input to produce just … environmental problems, at every scale from local to global,” according to a report [pdf] by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Third, the overconsumption of meat is a …

… Connecticut has a climate goal: reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. This goal is as ambitious as it is necessary. Water levels in the Long … For instance, Connecticut’s residential sector alone accounts for about 20 percent [ pdf ] of the state’s carbon dioxide emissions, much of which is generated through heating … work. Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Clean Energy Seeking Heat … Nov 29, 2015 Seeking Heat Uncovering the potential of renewable thermal technologies in Connecticut’s …