… Our just-released study of 2,035 global business students found students increasingly … Social and Environmental Sustainability , conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management, and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, spoke with … 65% desire more case studies highlighting sustainability issues; and 62% call forbetter career services focused on sustainability jobs. FINDING #4: The ‘carbon tax on …
… the years, and I can tell you this: what they lack in personality they more than make up for in intelligence. Maybe IP attorneys score low on the charisma scale because they—like … I’d learn at least as much from other members of the cohort as I would from the formal course materials. At the first of the live sessions in the Clean Energy Policy course (which all students are required to attend), the rat-a-tat comments and questions in the Zoom chat—sometimes difficult to digest in real time—raised issues and made …
… in my career I had spent most of my time in the field in support of EPC projects. I was comfortable with my responsibilities as a Construction Manager and loved all the great people I … that piqued my interest. I knew that I had substantial knowledge gaps in the mechanics of our business, and they were a hurdle that I couldn’t research or network my way over. With … On the FDCE Community Building Professional Networks in the Pandemic Era Answers to the Questions of My Younger Self … Major Hollis … A little over a year ago I was introduced to a …
… I was purely interested in the second half of the program: the 16 weeks of applicable coursework on energy project financing. And I just wanted to know: is the financing half of … of a used bookstore. As we progressed through the workshop, though, it asked of us several bigquestions that I’d never even considered: How would I be proud to spend most of my time? Are …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale … the North Park Village Nature Center. The Nature Center has been my community and sanctuary for over half my life. I started as a junior camp counselor, eventually working my way up to … News I was skeptical about the FDCE certificate program...but then... Answers to the Questions of My Younger Self Leaning into Change - How I Came to the FDCE program Working, …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students (2-3) to participate in an independent study (equivalent to a full-credit course: 3 credits YSE/4 units SOM) on scaling up a circular solution for used and returned …
… Talaty and I work as the Environmental Innovation Fellow at Yale. I’m always on the lookout for new models of innovation within existing organizations or emerging startups that are … the list of events at the Nature+ Pavilion, one immediately caught my eye. The World Resources Institute’s Land & Carbon Lab was developing a first-of-its-kind monitoring system … - “We need to be collaborating to innovate faster.” The model, though, also raises several questions. How was WRI planning on training members of civil society to use the data? Were …
… On Day 2, as I continued my foray into searching for innovation, strains of the previous day’s theme of collaboration … was...me! I’ve worked in the past 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 … words, “What we have done very well is investing in products that have revolutionized our lives. What we haven’t done very well is ensure that those products don’t cause harm. We …
… innovative action driven by ambition. And throughout Day 3 of my time at COP26, I heard stories that made me ponder the role of ambition in innovation. At the Japanese pavilion, I … her perspective on what some emerging trends were, and how her work was progressing. My biggest takeaway from the conversation was that to innovate we must be ambitious about the … inspiration she was to a generation of folks committed to fighting the climate crisis. Of course, news spreads fast, and on my fairly long sprint to the pavilions, several others had …
… It’s all good to talk about finding new ways to innovate and new models for putting ideas into action, but existing organizations also need support. And … to a system. Within regenerative innovation, the focus is on how we think of and understand ourselves as part of a complex system. In a series of slides, Ms. Milan talked about the … value. When innovating, hence, we must ask ourselves where we add value to a system. My biggest takeaway from the presentation was that taking action was imperative. But perhaps …