… The Yale Center forBusiness and Environment (CBEY) today announced the release of two new reports examining … three factors that make financing regenerative agriculture difficult: outdated financial models; difficult financial returns; and cultural differences between farmers and investors. …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Sobotka … ’15) is a Principal at Potencia Ventures, an impact investment firm focused on businessmodels that work to improve the lives of lower income people. Urvashi Bhatnagar (MBA ’18) is …
… The 2023 Climate Innovation Grantssaw 19 teams propose innovative solutions to address climate change. The proposed … After careful revision by external judges, CBEY awarded over $15,000 in grants to five environmentally-focused ventures. The grant provides independent feedback and seed funding for these early-stage innovative solutions. From here, ventures will continue to receive …
… The weekend of April 22nd and 23rd there were two conferences going on, in the words of my Uber driver: the coffee one and the fashion one. With one … worn by leaders and up-and-comers in the sustainable fashion space. The Sustainable Fashion Forum Conference 2023: Nuanced Layers was a fashion and environmental lover’s dream. The Sustainable Fashion Forum (SFF), founded by Brittany …
… The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally damaging industries globally, accounting … average US consumer, this is ~82 pounds of clothing every year, disposed annually . Thismodel is unsustainable, damaging to the both the environment and the workers involved in the … industry to change, we must try and reward transparency where possible, as consumers and asbusinesses. Another challenge is the price of synthetic vs. natural materials. Synthetic …
… Recently, 23 teams presented their application to the Climate Innovation Grant , a program that provides independent feedback and seed funding for early-stage innovative solutions addressing climate change. The proposed solutions … in this process. Some of the judges included: Tory Grieves (MBA/MEM '18): is the VP of Business Development at The Climate Service (TCS), a climate analyticsstartup that …
… When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Southwest Montana, the resulting economic downturn caused thousands of Montanans to … his neighbors to donate spare cattle, which were then processed out-of-state due to the dearth of Montana-based USDA-inspected facilities. Despite the expense and effort of the … 2022 Yale Students Design an Off-Grid Renewable Energy System for a Montana Ranch Studentsmodeled an affordable, 100% off-grid wind-solar-storage system for The Producer Partnership …
… On Day 2, as I continued my foray into searching for innovation, strains of the previous day’s theme of … needssupport to be scaled up. One way to provide that support - harnessing the power of business. For example, in the carbon removal space, companies like Stripe and Shopify are … from it all kinds of products including vodka, perfume and hand sanitiser, with the eventual goal of scaling up enough to produce jet fuel. These transformative innovations …
… TerraCycle is not a typical recycling company—it’s a marketing company that develops recycling solutions and serves as a modelfor circularity, demonstrating a pathway to a new type of consumer economy. … noting that “In a perfect world, Loop’ssustainable packaging platform would overshadow and eventually render several...current business units, including many of our Sponsored Waste …
… Have you ever felt that cool concepts get mired in complex vocabulary? It’s a problem for many students, staff, and faculty at Yale, particularly those who are branching out from … Director of Yale’s Carbon Containment Lab ) Climate Tech ( curated by Ben Soltoff , Environmental Innovation Manager at CBEY and Environmental Innovation Fellow at Tsai CITY) …