… Two promising start-ups each received $10,000 from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , … 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 … grants, both Kitchen Table and Bike City were selected to be supported by the Social Entrepreneurship Consultancy, which allows current graduate students to serve associal …
… On November 2, 2016, the webinar series “Internal Carbon Pricing: Practical Experiences from the Private Sector” featured a … in the world to voluntarily introduce internal carbon pricing, doing so during the 2015-2016 academic year. The university conducted a pilot 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 …
… Sobotka Stories will introduce you to former recipients of the Sobotka Seed Stage Venture … We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Nathan Hall (F&ES/SOM ‘17) who won the 2015Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant . Since receiving the $10,000 in grant funding, Nathan … long-time friends Todd Howard and Nathan Hall teamed up. Initially they had very few resources in terms of capital, land and 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’ demand for heating and cooling—a … that includes the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Eversource Energy, the United Illuminating Company and the Connecticut Green Bank.) RTTs …
… Royal DSM executives highlighted internal carbon pricing as an important financial tool for driving … highlighted the role and value of DSM’s internal carbon price. “We want to future-proof our business,” Sijbesma said. DSM aspires to be prepared for the day when a carbon price impacts all of its operations—and that day may be right around the …
… Ten years ago I attended a premiere viewing of “ Inconvenient truth ” – a movie that created a … 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 much beyond profit. Today, as a Master in Environmental Management graduate from the Yale School of Forestry and …
… In 2007, Peter Boyd found himself with Richard Branson and a group of CEOs at Virgin informally discussing global issues … 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 … said. Fortunately, he finds this conviction heartily reinforced through his work at Yale. “What I love about coming here is the energy, passion, intelligence and lack of silos,” he …
… The Yale Center for Business 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 issettling in. “We’re starting to build up our identity,” said Gronli, which mostly … account and a Connecticut driver’s license. But there are cultural changes too, of course. What New Haven lacks in cross country skiing, it hopefully makes up for in pizza. We invite …
… Frederick Hutson’s is an unusual career path: in 2005 he was arrested for trafficking marijuana. He was … 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 Sightsseries. Keeping in touch … understand all the nuts and bolts of how the business actually works, but to focus on the ‘what’: what can you actually build? Others can figure out the how.” He had no experience in …