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Kristin Morico is the Global Leader for the GE Water Program.
Her responsibilities include development and implementation of associated programs across all of GE and works closely with GE's business segments to advance environmental policies, directives and objectives to proactively attain and sustain compliance.
In its 3rd year, the Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale, announces the 2009-2010 series called "MegaWatts on Main Street". This series will look at how households can lead the transition to a clean energy economy.
The speaker series will be following the U.S. Department of Energy and California Energy Commission best practices of holding free online webinar presentations for national public access.
In one of New Haven’s most contested races this election cycle, Democrat Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 beat incumbent Green Party candidate Allan Brison for the East Rock aldermanic seat with a vote of 652 to 339.
Throughout their campaigns, Ward 10 candidates Elicker and Brison focused on walking door-to-door to talk to constituents, and on Tuesday they stood by the polling place at Wilbur Cross High School in a last-ditch effort to woo voters.
Though they may have once been considered an oxymoron, green business school programs are multiplying fast at top b-schools. This week, Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a project run by the Aspen Institute, released its biennial ranking of the best green MBA programs.
When David Roberts was growing up near the oilfields of West Texas in the early 1960s, it never got dark. Back then, oilfields were lit 24/7 by the gas flares used to burn off natural gas, a byproduct of oil drilling. The flares released massive amounts of CO2, and over time, oil companies halted that harmful practice in the U.S. But gas flares remain the norm in the developing world—and today Roberts oversees a team at Marathon Oil that's trying to end the practice.
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(Press Release: September 23, 2009)
In a chapter called Protecting Forests and Lands through Environmental Markets and Finance, The Nature Conservancy President and CEO Mark Tercek discusses the important role forests can play in fighting climate change. As part of a soon-to-be-released book by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale called Carbon Finance: Investing in Forests and Land for Climate Protection, Mark Tercek stresses the need to develop a U.S. federal climate change policy that encourages private sector investment in forest conservation.
To download the pre-release chapter - click here.
