… In early 2014 Alcoa announced that Ford's F-150 pick-up trucks, the best-selling vehicles in the U.S., would use aluminum1 rather … to the auto industry. First, there wasthe problem of consumer perceptions. Car and truck buyerstended to believe that aluminum was not asstrong assteel. Especially in the truck …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in … laid bare societal strains and inequalities in accessto basic healthcare. Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … immediate action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement. In thissurvey of 2,035 global businessstudents, conducted in partnership with the Global …
… Soil health provides critical ecosystem services related to water quality, drought resilience, erosion prevention, crop yields, and carbon sequestration. These benefits - and the practices used to … groups are calling for the creation of soil health programs in their states. In response to this growing demand, the Soil Health Policy guidebook provides practical advice for anyone …
… This project exploresthe mechanismsthat allow actors in differentsettingsto coordinate … in general and offshore wind in particular isthat, acrosssettings, the issuesthat prevent market emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder groups are … grant provided the researchers leverage to raise an additional $5,000 from a group of Yale donors interested in Social Enterprise and renewable energy. Photo from Tobias von der …
… The objective of this project wasto develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits … given the component failure. These four maintenance strategies include: i) time-based preventative maintenance using visual inspection; ii) scheduled condition-based maintenance …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreementto end deforestation, … their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the Indonesian Palm Oil Pledge (asthe agreement was named) represented a dramatic advance in … many environmentalists believed thatthe agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might … the roasters or customers and no knowledge of how their crops gettranslated into the cup. This disadvantages not only the grower but also the consumer – coffee sourced from good …
… Bryan Garcia, the President and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank, had a big decision to make. Garcia is a … Connecticut had a long history of considering climate change in state policy. As part of thistradition, Connecticut’s governor Dannel Malloy established the GC3 on Earth Day 2015 … energy needs. The nuclear power all came from a massive plantsituated near New London, CT called Millstone. The facility included two reactorsthat produced almost half of …
… The objective of this project wasto use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to … Strategies for Land Conservation, and through the Berkley Scholars program, are building upon this research. In addition, regional policymakers, water authorities, and …
… -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance … —found that of the $8.2 billion committed to conservation, $3.1 billion was undeployed.2 This is a real frustration considering what we know aboutthe enormous need and urgency for those resources. Building upon preliminary research presented by Namrita Kapur of Growald Family Fund during …