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Our New Online Presence

In November, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment launched its new website: cbey.yale.edu. The redesign not only provides an aesthetic update, but gives ...

Toward Credible Sustainability Reporting

At the turn of last century, John Wanamaker, the prolific US department store merchant, was lamenting his ever growing marketing budget. He concluded that “Half ...

Sometimes It's All About Timing

Notes from Yale's Inaugural Low Carbon Case CompetitionOn the heels of the US-China Summit and two pivotal divestment announcements from Sweden’s national pension fund and ...

Making the Case for Low Carbon Investing

SOM hosts inaugural low carbon case competition In September, the public showed it was engaged on environmental issues of the day: 310,000 marchers protested at ...

What’s a truly smart grid?

Water Scarcity. Rapid Urbanization. Renewable Energy Storage Needs. Aging Infrastructure. Climate Change. These are all subjects that we hear a lot about on the news ...

Physics, Petroleum & Pricing

by Martin CobernOn Wednesday November 14, 2012, I attended a presentation on energy sponsored by the Yale Club of New Haven entitled, “Physics, petroleum and ...