… & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on Sustainability Leadership , a lecture series presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and McCluskey Fellow at Yale, moderated the discussion, which was also part of a series titled “Diverse Voices: Environmental Leaders on Climate Change and the Environment.” Read the full story on …
… Applications are due by Dec. 10. For facility-scale installations, the amount of the source energy that must be displaced is 20 percent – and for renewable energy and/or combined … at DOE’s Office of Indian Energy. For community-scale installations, there is no minimum source-energy percentage, but the renewable energy and combined heat and power system must … for local energy reliability. Native communities “spend a lot of time trying to obtain resources,” said William Smith, an anthropology professor from the University of Nevada, Las …
… designed to fool anybody testing their emissions, and just days since the company’s chief executive, Martin Winterkorn , resigned. And yet there are reasons to believe that the … disease. Read the full story on Financial TImes Related Events GNAM Faculty Webinar on Sustainability Leadership Tue, October 21st, 2014, 4:30 AM EDT — 5:30 AM EDT Online Related News SOM, FES to collaborate on Global Network projects Global Network Courses: Building a Toolkit for Global Teams … David Bach … It has only been a week since the …
… different organizations and were able to observe varying aspects of the growing role that sustainability plays in corporate enterprises today—and its challenges. Read the full story … and Justice Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Clean Energy Summer Lessons in Sustainability … Sep 24, 2015 Summer Lessons in Sustainability At a panel discussion on September 15, Yale School of Management and Yale …
… events, by definition, provide a useful lens for the analysis of environmental and social sustainability impacts. The Black Swans of Sustainability The last 50 years, since the … A quick 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 … below-living wage salaries, human rights infringements, consumption of constrained resources) all represent costs to society that are not factored into the price of an operation …
… to becoming a major game-changer in the path to unleashing distributed solar finance. “Our mission is to bring the solar industry up to a level where capital markets will say … acting in the way a sophisticated industry behaves,” Rottman said. What Are SEFA’s Resources? The standard residential lease contracts and residential and commercial PPA … for Clean Energy Tue, April 7th, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT — 10:00 AM EDT Online Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS) Fri, November 6th, 2015, 6:00 AM EST — Sat, November 7th, 2015, …
… There are no pre-existing programs to satisfy and no political baggage to consider. Your only guideline is to allow the continued growth of solar power and distributed … Association (SEPA) posed to energy stakeholders in its 51st State Initiative . This crowdsourcing competition, launched in 2014, sought to encourage constructive conversations about distributed energy resources by soliciting energy …
… to see how this relationship works (or doesn’t) in person. On March 4th, I drove the hour up Interstate 91 from New Haven to Avon and slipped into the back row of the library to … a voice interrupted her. “You can get batteries to act as a back-up system, but that, of course, adds cost. You’d want to do an analysis of whether it’s better to combine your panels with a battery system, or stick with a generator.” The advice came from Bernie, …
… rather than direct subsidies. “True scale is only possible with wise policies to encourage network development,” according to Jeffrey Schub, executive director of the Coalition for Green Capital , who helped develop the report. “But … rather than direct subsidies. “True scale is only possible with wise policies to encourage network development,” according to Jeffrey Schub, executive director of the Coalition …
… On April 15 th , students, professors from Duke and Yale Universities, and executives from non-profit marketing firm SmartPower and the Connecticut Green Bank gathered … events including solar workshops, live-installations for the public and community tours of homes that already had solar. As more people signed up, the price fell further. A … observations and quickly drawn conclusions. The more scientific analysis is yet to come as our team of research assistants goes out to interview town leaders and solar ambassadors and …