… It has only been a week since the stunning revelation that the Volkswagen group equipped millions of diesel-powered cars with software designed to fool anybody testing their emissions, and just days since … those suffering from respiratory disease. Read the full story on Financial TImes Related Events GNAM Faculty Webinar on Sustainability Leadership Tue, October 21st, 2014, 4:30 AM …
… At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they gleaned during internships this past summer. … enterprises today—and its challenges. Read the full story on the Yale SOM website. Related Events Joint Degree Summer Internship Presentations! Thu, October 12th, 2017, 7:45 AM EDT — …
… crisis of 2008 — these sudden shocks neatly represent the three hallmarks of a “ Black Swan event .” They: Took place outside of regular expectations; Carried an extreme impact; and Made us concoct explanations for their … them after the fact. The good news is that these sustainability Black Swans might be what save us all. As with the example of Silent Spring, some Black Swan events have positive …
… What is hindering the availability of public capital and financing options for distributed … and access to financing from capital markets could help to sustain the solar industry when the investment tax credit (ITC) drops from 30 percent to 10 percent the end of 2016. An … your customers, and how you offer it.” Rottman said the documents also provide value by preventing unnecessary lawsuits, particularly as solar companies do not have much legal …
… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are no pre-existing … You’re given a blank slate on which to envision a long-term, sustainable energy market. What would it look like? This was the challenge that Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) … to the fact that the costs of electricity usage may be relatively high during the night, when demand is high but solar generation is low. Ultimately, it seems that success in any of …
… drive the campaign. Through workshops, tabling at farmers’ markets, open houses and other events, the solar ambassadors reach out to friends, family, and community organizations who, … is like a rippling wave—word of solar expanding ever outward. Or so I’d been told. As a research assistant for SEEDS , a project that is tracking the Solarize program, I had read a … “There are a lot of trees here in Avon, and sometimes those trees fall and cut the power. What happens when the grid goes down? Can I run the electricity for my home off the panels?” …
… against those in Georgia and California, two states with leading rates of EV adoption, the researchers helped bring clarity to this debate. “It’s not at all clear that states funding … at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and one of the report’s authors. “What is clear is that high usage rates—having more EVs on the road—is necessary to make … executive summary at the Clean Energy Finance Forum and download the full report . Related Events Clean Energy Finance Forum Live! Tue, September 22nd, 2015, 7:45 AM EDT — 8:45 AM EDT …
… in the Solar Energy Education and Diffusion Study (SEEDS) , a Department of Energy funded research program. Since 2010, 58 Connecticut towns have participated in five rounds of this … teams at Duke and Yale then interviewed participants and analyzed data to understand what worked and what didn’t, collecting attributes of the optimal solar campaign. In the … community and social media. SmartPower helped coordinate a series of intimate educational events including solar workshops, live-installations for the public and community tours of …
… The process of sowing the seeds of electric vehicle infrastructure – and thereby creating a backbone of charging stations that can support these vehicles – … participants who can benefit from a more robust EV charging ecosystem. To read the full researchreport, please download the PDF . The article above is the executive summary of a researchreport published by Clean Energy Finance Forum at Yale Center for Business and the …
… I returned to graduate school almost three years ago planning to transition to a career in … company culture ( Patagonia ). Companies that have proven this model successful include Seventh Generation , Whole Foods , and Tesla Motors . Certain service industries also … environmental sustainability is ingrained into every facet of organizations. However, I expect to see a shift in the competitive landscape because of innovative strategies. With …