… the pandemic, I decided to quit my job and move to Ithaca, N.Y. At the time, the city was looking for a director of sustainability to give life to the Ithaca Green New Deal (IGND), which, in terms of ambition, represented the City of Ithaca’s … and energy policy had evolved through the years, combined with Prof. Esty’s lecture on “red lights, greenlights” finally helped me make sense of climate change policy in the US, both …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale lecturer … me to this program, to this place? As a lifelong city kid, I grew up knowing only a few green places - my Mom’s garden and my local nature preserve, the North Park Village Nature … my community and sanctuary for over half my life. I started as a junior camp counselor, eventually working my way up to lead my own beekeeping classes for high schoolers. When my …
… My name is Urvi Talaty and I work as the Environmental Innovation Fellow at Yale. I’m always on the … of my neck stinging after the faux pas, I turned around and noticed two young women wearing green Fridays for Future t-shirts. I went up to them and introduced myself, curious to hear … negotiations at every COP, organizations and countries from around the world host side events and talks at their pavilions. As I perused the list of events at the Nature+ …
… On Day 2, as I continued my foray into searching for innovation, strains of the previous day’s theme of … with Yale professor Paul Anastas, who won the 2021 Volvo Environment Prize for his work on green chemistry, That put him, me and three Yale students on the stage with Martin … 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 …
… Ambition is a word we often hear when it comes to international policy conversations on climate, from … of the world. After this conversation, I wanted to see ambition in action. Several side events were closed to an in-person audience, with only organizers and speakers allowed into the room. This meant that I had to find a good spot to stream the event I was interested in on the COP26 online platform, and I knew the perfect place, quiet …
… It’s all good to talk about finding new ways to innovate and new models for putting ideas into … support. And intrapreneurship can also be an effective vehicle for innovation. In a panel event hosted at the Nature Pavilion on creating systemic change for a more regenerative … being formed and innovative mechanisms that allowed for the acceleration of clean energy. Green hydrogen featured heavily on the agenda, with speakers talking about how innovation in …
… Decarbonization and a net zero future will require transformative leaps in clean energy investment and innovation, according to a recent report by … if net zero by 2050 is to be achieved. This mind-boggling number set the backdrop for an event on Day 5 of COP26 at the Business Pavilion. The Business Pavilion was hosted by the We … just that, I knew I had to find out what was going on behind the bold title. Moderated by Lisa Lambert, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at National Grid, the panel promised …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Sobotka … winners of this year's grants,” said Sobotka. “We look forward to tracking the progress of GreenBowl and WovX as their ideas take shape." 7888 Environmental Innovation Equity and … winners of this year's grants,” said Sobotka. “We look forward to tracking the progress of GreenBowl and WovX as their ideas take shape." Related ProgramsSobotka Seed Prize for …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students to participate in an … key subsector verticals, and summarizes its focus with the mantra of: (1) Winning the (Green) Home, (2) winning the (Green) Office, and (3) winning the (Green) Roads. These verticals represent a collective …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment is delighted to welcome three new members to its Advisory Board . … planetary problems. Alexandra Cooley (MEM/MBA ’12) is the Chief Investment Officer at Greenworks Lending from Nuveen. Since graduating from Yale, Ali has been developing and … Property Assessed Clean Energy) program she helped launch in 2013 while at the Connecticut Green Bank. To expand C-PACE’s reach, Ali co-founded Greenworks Lending in 2015, which was …