… Two promising start-ups each received $10,000 from this year’s Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , disbursed annually by the Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment to provide funding and mentorship to new eco-ventures. The … healthy meals and reduce food waste while building on their desire to cook,” said Lloyd. “Our plant-based meals are the perfect solution for that mid-week crunch, so people no longer …
… project that involved twenty campus buildings and tested the design and implementation of four different carbon-pricing schemes. In the webinar, representatives from Yale shared the … space. The alignment with Yale’s core educational mission also helped generate support for the carbon charge. “At Yale, even skeptics of the carbon charge want to see our … impact the university as a whole. The remaining 280 buildings served as control group. Three incentive-based models and one “information only” scheme were tested. In the …
… Sobotka Stories will introduce you to former recipients of the Sobotka Seed Stage Venture grants who share their experience and … long-time friends Todd Howard and Nathan Hall teamed up. Initially they had very few resources in terms of capital, landand equipment. However, through their tenacity they found a …
… Solar photovoltaics and wind are often spotlighted when we talk about renewable energy. Electricity production, though, is only one part of the energy system where renewable sources bring value and environmental benefits. Buildings’ demandfor heating and cooling—a largely unrecognized energy hog—offers another important avenue. …
… Royal DSM executives highlighted internal carbon pricing as an important financial tool for driving business growth in the first of a new webinar series organized by the Carbon … highlighted the role and value of DSM’s internal carbon price. “We want to future-proof ourbusiness,” Sijbesma said. DSM aspires to be prepared for the day when a carbon price … are using variations of carbon pricing as part of their business operations, nearly three times the number from a year earlier. With hundreds of others slated to join in the …
… I attended a premiere viewing of “ Inconvenient truth ” – a movie that created a legacy andformed an entire new generation of climate activists. This was my first encounter with climate change and the dire consequences it brings. This emotional experience would steer me to seek rational and professional solutions to save the Earth. As I began this journey, it seemed an uphill battle…unlikely that business was willing or able to consider …
… In 2007, Peter Boyd found himself with Richard Branson and a group of CEOs at Virgin informally discussing global issues that entrepreneurs ought to tackle. Climate change arose … Australia, Singapore, the Trans-Siberian Railroad. He circumscribed the world over the course of a year. Most recently, in another promising departure, he reduced his advisory role … and nonprofit sectors, Boyd has come to believe that “change only happens when these three sectors are all working on the same problem, albeit from different perspectives,” he …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment, along with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, … Ecology motivated their move to New Haven, and, along with two children, the family of four is settling in. “We’re starting to build up our identity,” said Gronli, which mostly …
… Frederick Hutson’s is an unusual career path: in 2005 he was arrested for trafficking marijuana. He was sentenced to nearly 51 months in federal prison. Once there, “I was exposed to a problem I knew nothing about,” he said as the fourth and final speaker in this year’s Bright Lights, Green Sights series. Keeping in touch … will do,” Hutson explained. “You spend so much of your time ruling out people who are not going to move forward so that you can spend time with those who will.” The gap between his …
… Business students today are developing a new vision of what capital markets andour financial system could, and should, look like. This was apparent at Yale School of … who developed an environmental, social, and governance-focused (ESG) investment product for university endowments. Nearly 50 students making up 10 teams from top MBA programs … of our time. However, together, there is a collective realization that issues across the three pillars, ES and G, are too great and too pervasive to ignore. 2234 Equity and Justice …