… A business plan that aims to turn food waste into new products, and profits, won the 2016 Sabin … Their first goal is to commercialize the conversion of okara, or soy pulp, into a form of flour. In addition to a $25,000 cash prize, the business receives automatic entry into the … of the Sabin Family Foundation and founder of the Sabin Prize, said all four proposalsare credible business plans. “The quality of the business plans has risen steadily,” said …
… Two promising new companies received $10,000 each from this year’sSobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant , … CTO of Maike Water, plan to address this gap with end-of-pipe sensors and big data software designed to read and predict natural fluctuations in ocean salinity, allowing plant … a value-added industry in a region that has long been dependent on extraction of natural resources, and to bring opportunities to small farmers and unemployed miners,” said Hall. The …
… Minh Tsai was working at CharlesSchwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of … buck don’t go into food.) The company works with only organic farmers in the U.S. and encourages them to experiment with soybean types; though more than 200 varieties existed, not more than about 10 are used in industrial production today. Hodo, explained Tsai, is interested in “extending …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grants to Yale students and faculty to … Hake Fish, whose population is nearing collapse. Findings will be generalizable to other resource management settings [Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Andres Gonzalez (UC-Berkeley)]; … FES), Michaela Foster (Yale FES), Chelsea Judy (Yale FES)]. “Students and faculty at Yale are pushing the global conversation on sustainability through cutting-edge applied research …
… Perhaps a decade ago, it would have been almost unthinkable that non-profit organizations would … I explored and came to clearly understand the power of such partnerships—and why they are working so well to help companies realize sustainable practices within their business. … an interesting platform: the case of Coles and Tassal moving to sustainable seafood sourcing and production. Thisstory clearly represented how corporate efforts to adopt more …
… across the organization,” Jenny McColloch ’12, director of restaurant sustainability for McDonald’s Corporation , advised students during the GE Colloquium in Sustainability … across functions and throughout an organization. The key, McColloch said, is “focusing on your audience and understanding what their prioritiesare and understanding how the work that we are trying to move forward aligns with those …
… How do investment funds build social and environmental priorities into agricultural financing? Several … Forum in Paris on Dec. 5-6. While continuing to seek financial returns, investorsaresupporting and measuring a broader set of environmental, social, and commodity-based … water quality. This can also cause public health and social justice concerns. Depleted resources can then further reduce smallholder productivity and cause economic vulnerability. …
… The TowardsScience Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry … the potential impact of the platform during the event and Paul Lussier and the student team are continuing to work with IPCC to develop S2B. We received positive feedback from WBCSD …
… Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’s Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brainsare Wired to Ignore Climate Change , and Naomi Oreskes’, Merchants of Doubt as well as many … what he calls “values-based humanistic communications” – the idea that compelling emotional stories that speak to peoples' core values have more impact than rational scientific data, …
… Yesenia Gallardo co-founded Poda Foods during her time as a student at F&ES. Headquartered in … asked Yesenia some questions about being a Women Entrepreneur. What inspired you to found your business? My mother is from Oaxaca, Mexico and I grew up going to visit my grandparents, aunts and uncles there every summer. We would always eat some chapulines , a type of …