… Two promising start-ups each received $10,000 from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , … gases; replacing beef protein with pulses—the edible seeds of various legumes—would reduce carbon emissions by 630 percent. To tackle a distinctly different environmental … 1 percent of people ride to work. Concerns ranging from safety to arriving at work sweaty prevent people who express interest in biking from following through. Bike City hopes to …
… When Jennifer Molnar was 12 years old her family departed New Jersey on a 16,000-mile roadtrip that cut west across the … understanding and building nature into their business practices, they often do not have the tools and research to turn ideas into implementation,” said Molnar. “We are working with …
… Sobotka Stories will introduce you to former recipients of the Sobotka Seed Stage Venture … will be able to accelerate ecological and economic restoration of the area with high-value markets and innovative growing techniques. “People in Appalachia are hungry for new … CBD and biocomposites, while also working with Fibershed (a Patagonia partner) to develop carbon-negative growing techniques. Ultimately the company hopes to develop a local …
… Meat makes for curious math: about 25 calories is required to create just 1 calorie of beef. The … predicts that plant-based meat, currently 0.25 percent of the nearly $200 billion meat market, will grow to one-third of the market by 2054. In the end, Friedrich compared the … as ludicrous as the idea of hopping on a horse and setting of for San Francisco.” Related Events The Future of Protein Thu, September 29th, 2016, 7:45 AM EDT — 8:45 AM EDT Evans Hall …
… Ten years ago I attended a premiere viewing of “ Inconvenient truth ” – a movie that created a … impact, although there isstill a long way to go. Some key insights I took away from the event: --It is certainly an exciting trend that in many companies, the C-suite is on board … sustainability scene. Investors are an indelible part of the effort to move toward a low-carbon intensive economy. Aligning the understanding of risk, return and value creation is a …
… Sustainability is a matter of economic survival for business, especially in the Asia-Pacific … for its corporate social responsibility performance. The urgency of realizing sustainable market transformation in the Asia-Pacific area has risen to a historical point. Rather than … a better sense of the industrial structures, barriers and strategies to realize sustainable market transformation in Singapore in order to reduce the overall impact of deforestation, …
… A business plan that aims to turn food waste into new products, and profits, won the 2016 Sabin … for being much higher-value products,” she said. Other contests during the two-day Yale event included the Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, sponsored by … for being much higher-value products,” she said. Other contests during the two-day Yale event included the Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, sponsored by …
… Two promising new companies received $10,000 each from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , … With the recent (re)-legalization of hemp in Kentucky, Appalachian Roots hopes to develop carbon-negative hemp growing techniques on mining-impacted lands, which currently host … ProgramsSustainable Venture Prize Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures Related Events 2015 Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize Fri, April 17th, 2015, 5:00 AM EDT — 10:00 AM …
… Minh Tsai was working at CharlesSchwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of … its bestness? He left his job and started working in small tofu shops around San Francisco, eventually setting off to start a company of his own, Hodo Soy. “To be honest with you, it … the silky blockssold fresh every day. Tsai began by selling his tofu at local farmers’ markets—“a great place to launch a food business,” he said—eventually expanding to stalls at …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grants to Yale students and faculty to … working on: Methods to increase the adoption of toilet usage in Kenya, critical to the prevention of disease [Judith Chevalier (Yale SOM), A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Johann Caro … and best practices of bringing sustainability into day-to-day businessstrategy in emerging markets [Daniel Esty (Yale SOM/YLS/FES), Isabel Studer (EGADE)]. The Sobotka Collaborative …