… as traditional dairy but creates very little GHG emissions and uses a fraction of land and waterresources to produce, coupled with a low incidence of allergic reaction compared to nut- and …
… The idea of a moonshot has also entered rhetoric around climate change. Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and billionaire-politician Michael Bloomberg … The activist Bill McKibben equates climate action with a war effort: a marshalling of resources and restructuring of the economy to achieve a common purpose. That metaphor …
… want to advance their careers as well as the transition to a clean economy. Vero Bourg-Meyer, Program Director, Clean Energy and Conservation Finance, Brad Gentry, the newly appointed Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser Professor in the Practice of Forest Resources Management and Policy and Ron Smith, Damon Wells Professor at Yale University … Gentry, faculty co-director of CBEY, commented on the ability of this new program to help share the University’s intellectual assets with the world. “This is a tremendous …
… energy professionals came together to explore the ways in which emerging technologies can and will impact the utility-customer relationship. I attended the conference to find out … of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in homes, the continued growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), and the rise of the prosumer. Excitement about new opportunities and …
… facility. The shrimp were hard to spot—a few grey specks beneath hundreds of gallons of saltwater. It was hard to believe that, in just three months, those specks would become 52 … would eventually support one another in a continuous loop. Waste from the shrimp would nourish the seaweed, and the seaweed would in turn filter the water going back to the shrimp. … 2621 Environmental Innovation Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Sabin Stories: Symbrosia … Mar 06, 2019 Sabin Stories: Symbrosia Ben Soltoff (MBA '19, Master of …
… Solarize is a unique community-based program that leverages peers and social networks to encourage residential solar adoption through a group pricing strategy. Solarize campaigns … messaging. Results from Rounds Nine and Ten Seven towns participated in Round 9: Bethel, Canton, Fairfield, Hamden, New Haven, North Haven, and Windham. A total of 137 contracts, … Solar: Does Messaging Matter? Retrieved February 19, 2019, from https://cbey.yale.edu/our-stories/accelerating-residential-solar-does-messaging-matter. HUD Rent and Income Limits. …
… New technology can change the course of history. In 1769, Scottish inventor James Watt created an improved … catalyze environmental sustainability, rather than continuing to strain the world’s limited resources? We don’t really have a choice. We need to support a growing population with an …
… unanimously passed its landmark energy bill. Act 236, also known as the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) program, which created a net-metering system permitting residential and … Generating Station followed by a year of charges to energy consumers to recuperate the investment has also created distrust in the utility companies. Main Challenges In …
… to be a continuous intellectual gap regarding awareness that where there is a natural resource issue, there is always a social issue. “The reality is that when you have a deep … into generating replicable and scalable deal types and structures that can accept more private capital. In addition to considering environmental issues, the impact investing … and collaborations that start at SOCAP15. This article is the first in a series of three stories covering the conservation finance curriculum at SOCAP. It is part of an online …
… have been gaining significant traction during the past several years as a way to entice private capital to help address challenging social problems. There have been eight PFP deals … to disrupt. This bond helps align the incentives of USFS and other beneficiaries, such as water and electric utilities, to share in forest restoration costs just as they share in … federal government is also seriously considering more support as the popularity of these investment vehicles continues to increase. On March 4, 2015, the bipartisan H.R. 1336 (the …