… Solar photovoltaic panelsare an increasingly competitive player in the energy market as the technology improves and … Through large-scale experimentation, SEEDS is testing which strategies and messagesare most conducive to solar adoption. This project is funded by the U.S. Department of …
… ThisSpring, CBEY is excited to offer students three new team-based independent study opportunities. These are offered for credit, equivalent to a full-credit course. Have a read and then apply by January 30th! Questions? Please reach out to …
… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the … was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, ourshampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, … (the two countries responsible for 85% of palm oil production), more than 3.7 million hectares of natural forests have been cleared in recent years to make way for plantations. This …
… y Centroamérica decided to buy the power generated by the Electrica del Valle de México’s (EVM) wind farm, EVM’sstruggling project received a significant boost. While the proposed wind farm was located in an area with abundant wind resources, absent a creditworthy off-taker the project would not have been able to line up …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … so. A small team led by Kevin Teng and backed by MBS leadership as well as the resort's parent company, Las VegasSands Corp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more resource-efficient. The resort had garnered a Green Mark Platinum Award and was actively …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades … 2000s, palm oil had become the most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 … the entire palm oil value chain, from growing seedlings and managing over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running extraction and refining mills and marketing its own …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining hallsserve more … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). … children to increase their involvement with growing, cooking, or eating healthy foods. Areas of Focus Equity and Justice Sustainable Finance and ESG Thriving Food Systems and …
… In 2017, Conservation International (CI) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), which had collaborated on building a software platform named the Wildlife Management Analyticssystem or WMA, were looking for a way … NGOs, businesses, and landowners might want to operate "private instances" of the software, i.e., separate customizable databases on which more specific analyses could be run. HPQ …
… Like many countries, Australia has a large existing building stock that is responsible for a substantial … buildings emit and reduce their operating costs. While these energy-efficiency upgradesare often cash-flow-positive with the right loans, they have failed to penetrate the market … both the investment cost for energy-efficiency upgrades and the subsequent cost savings. Source Yale Center for Business and the Environment Areas of FocusSustainable Finance and …