… Warady and Rupal J. Patel (F&ES ‘16), CTO of Maike Water, plan to address this gap with end-of-pipe sensors and big data software designed to read and predict natural fluctuations in ocean salinity, … has long been dependent on extraction of natural resources, and to bring opportunities to small farmers and unemployed miners,” said Hall. The company has already forged strong …
… financing? Several investment funds showcased their strategies for investing in smallholder value chains at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on Dec. 5-6. While … the majority of food that is from developing countries. Yet they often struggle with limited income from inefficient, low-yield farming practices. Second, rapid … Measurements of Success The high costs of monitoring and evaluating project outcomes are a big barrier to investment in smallholder projects, which are often fragmented and diverse in …
… scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of news stories, beginning with Silent Spring, that have become household names — the crash of the Exxon Valdez, … Spring had enormous positive impact by raising awareness of the environmental challenges that we face as a society. The Bhopal tragedy carried enormous negative … critical to sustainability. 2195 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Circularity Equity and Justice Black Swans and Sustainability … Aug 03, 2015 Black …
… and thoughts turn to concrete. And lots of it. Certain images come to mind: Big dams. Levees that strait-jacket rivers. Hardened coastlines. Even when these projects … seeing that these new nature-based solutions – whether on their own or in combination with others – can meet community needs, while often being more resilient than built solutions to changes like sea level rise and climate change. Now the conservation community is wisely …
… fact, he said that the "absence of trust is often the way in which we often come to terms with trust." In other words, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. In the next … off, Gail Becker, Edelman's President of Global Strategic Partnerships, presented the results of Edelman's most recent Trust Barometer survey. The research, which takes an … PR firm for years, came to Edelman because she wanted to get the chance to work with the biggest clients on the biggest issues, and that the exciting part was seeing how companies …
… In other words, companies do well by doing good. The Third Wave Imagine a meeting with key company strategists and decision makers in which the only topic of conversation is … or poor marine health. The occurrences of these conversations in some of today’s biggest corporations are signs of the third wave of corporate sustainability. There are two … to this pattern, including environmental remediation, sustainability consulting, clean energy, and green banking. The second way in which companies are evolving into the next …
… hasn’t let up here in New Haven, but before we know it, exams will be wrapping up. With the constant hubbub of the academic calendar, sometimes we forget to take stock of everything that happens here through CBEY. We … Andrew Winston spoke to a packed audience for a lunch talk covering ideas from his book The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World …
… 17 th . But, the March 25 th application deadline is fast approaching! Mark your calendars. Every year, the Sabin Prize awards $25,000 to the most promising Yale venture at … offerings expanded, we built a new CBEY Entrepreneurship Team and doubled down with our prospective finalists to ensure they put their best pitch forward. Through expert … resources, and funding. 2271 Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Circularity Equity and Justice Entrepreneurship Deadlines & Opportunities: Gearing up …
… launched in 2005. Less than a year ago, the program was designed to cater to professionals with full-time careers in Health Care. Last year, faculty at the School of Management and … education can help leaders across industries and sectors to combine their expertise with major sustainability trends and approaches in order to drive broad level economic … sectors. Yale’s full time MBA program also offers a plethora of courses and clubs in clean energy finance and other sustainability issues. However, until now there has been no formal …
… business wants to do can be disrupted by technological change, and it can be disrupted in bigchanges in the supply chain as we look down the road to climate change. I think that this … started, and we've been doing that for 25 or 30 years. And what we did is concentrate on small grassroots organizations because what we found is that some of the big organizations, …