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This year Academy of Management's annual conference in Chicago, Illinois will feature the theme "Green Management Matters".

Join Marian Chertow, Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program at Yale, and her colleagues Jennifer Howard-Grenville (University of Oregon), Dayna Simpson (Oregon State University), Raymond Paquin (Concordia University), Sara Soderstrom (Northwestern University), Brent McKnight (University of Western Ontario), John Ehrenfeld (International Society for Industrial Ecology), Joseph Sarkis (Clark University), William Hoffman (Chicago Manufacturing Center) in a professional development workshop to define and develop a research agenda around the growing field of industrial symbiosis.  The session is on Sunday, August 9, 2009 from 2:30-5:00 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago - Grand D North.

This year Academy of Management's annual conference in Chicago, Illinois will feature the theme "Green Management Matters".

Join Bryan Garcia, Program Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Anastasia O'Rourke (PhD Yale University), and their colleagues Paul Jerde (University of Colorado), and Paul Kirsch (University of Michigan) in a professional development workshop that will help participants understand the connection between eco-prizes and innovation systems, cleantech venture capital, local economic development and environmental protection efforts on Saturday, August 8, 2009 from 12:50-2:50 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Chicago in the Wright Room.

Statement from David Sandalow (Yale '78), Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs, before the Committee on Environment and Public Works in the U.S. Senate.

Chairman Boxer, Ranking Member Inhofe, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today.

I have traveled to China twice in the past two months. During those trips I have seen the impressive investments that country is making in clean energy. Chinese companies are investing in advanced clean coal technologies. They are deploying huge wind farms. They are building ultra-high-voltage long-distance transmission lines with low line loss. They are launching programs to deploy electric vehicles in 13 major cities.

The Journal of Industrial Ecology invites you to submit articles for a special issue on "Environmental Applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)" by September 1, 2009. Scott Matthews of Carnegie Mellon University and Eric Masanet of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will jointly serve as editors of the special issue.

(June 15, 2009)

Mark Peters, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, reports in the Wall Street Journal's Environment Report that "Connecticut is in the forefront of states developing market incentives to encourage the biggest consumers of electricity-households-to use a little less."

This article entitled "Credits for Cutbacks" features the work of CBEY Program Director, Bryan Garcia.

Artwork by Rob Shepperson.

To access the full article - click here.

In an article entitled Building Green States through Green Buildings, former Connecticut DEP Commissioner (and current Assistant Administrator of Air and Radiation for the U.S. EPA), Gina McCarthy and the Program Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Bryan Garcia, discuss the opportunities for state governments to develop initiatives and policies that bring together the interrelationships of the environment, energy, transportation, and economic development - using climate change as the catalyst.

(May 24, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark)

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Assistant Professor Rob Bailis, oversees student research effort to understand progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lowering carbon intensities.  Bailis and students present the findings from the report "Emissions Reductions and Lower Carbon Intensity: Are We Making Progress?" to the delegates at the Summit in Copenhagen.

We propose that the old adage "think globally, act locally," inspired by Friends of the Earth founder David Brower in 1969, be re-coined to "think globally, invest locally."  In today's state-based regulatory regimes for clean energy, energy efficiency and climate change, there are a number of investment opportunities for everyday investors like you and me, from the risk averse to the risk taker.

Mercy Corps hosted this Government Leadership Program at Nike Headquarters in Portland, Oregon. This program presented a powerful opportunity to engage with the future leaders of China through an open dialogue with Mercy Corps staff and others. Chinese delegates from the All China Youth Federation met with local and national American leaders to discuss real examples of social innovation within government and society.

CBEY Program Director Bryan Garcia, presented a presentation called "Public-Private Partnerships and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund" during the third day's discussions on The Role of Cross Sector Partnerships in Promoting Social Innovation.

(April 20, 2009)

James Cameron, an executive director of Climate Change Capital, an investment company, is proposing creating "environment bonds" similar to bonds created by governments during the 20th century to fund efforts to fight World War II.

(April 29, 2009)

In his first 100 days, President Obama has taken bold steps to change America's direction on energy and the environment. He has committed billions of dollars to new spending on clean energy.

To access this blog by Andrew Shapiro from GreenOrder - click here.

New Haven, Conn. '' Kate L. Harrison, author of The Green Bride Guide and winner of the inaugural $25,000 winner-take-all Sabin Environmental Venture Prize, is hosting the state''s first 'EcoChic Wedding & Home Show' this weekend in Stamford, CT.

For Harrison, a graduating student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, turning 2.5 million weddings that reach over 400 million people a year into a market to advance "green" products and services has the potential to significantly reduce environmental degradation and create the "green" jobs of the future.

For more information on the Green Bride Guide - click here.

Building from the success of the 2007 and 2008 sessions, the Center for Business and the Environment is hosting its third weeklong course on conservation finance from June 22-26, 2009 on Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut. A special focus for this year is on ways to keep financing land conservation in these difficult economic times.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, Land Trust Alliance, Island Press, and the Conservation Finance Forum.

If you are interested in applying - click here.

For more information - click here.

New Haven, Conn.  The six Sabin Prize finalists have been announced and they are heading to the Bulldogs' Den on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the Burke Auditorium of Kroon Hall.  The finalists will be presenting their entrepreneurial ventures to a panel of judges comprised of a businessman, a couple of venture capitalists, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist.

MANILA, Philippines (April 2, 2009) - President Arroyo has appointed former investment banker and Energy Secretary Vincent Perez to head the National Renewable Energy Board, a new body created under the Renewable Energy Act.

For more information - click here.

Yale University welcomes our visiting guests from the REIL Network to New Haven, CT for a Conversation on Climate Change, Carbon Finance, and Clean Energy.

For more information - click here.

A world renown leader and investor in the low carbon economy, James Cameron of Climate Change Capital is in the business of "creating wealth worth having".

Join Dean Gus Speth, Andrew Sabin, and James Cameron on Friday, April 17th in a celebration of environmental entrepreneurship at Yale with the conclusion of the inaugural Sabin Environmental Venture Prize competition.

The Next Generation Fellowship, supported by General Electric, is a new initiative of Yale University, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management. This initiative provides interested students financial support to work with faculty on research and education projects in corporate sustainability in developed and developing countries.

 

The Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale are seeking a summer intern to work full-time to provide research support between the months of May through August of 2009.

President Levin announced that Nobel Laureate Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has been director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 2001. He will retain these positions while taking up his new half-time position at Yale. Pachauri has been an active leader in the global climate policy debate and played a major role in laying the groundwork for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

For those aspiring Yale student and faculty entrepreneurs interested in competing for the $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize, Round 2 applications are due by 5:00 p.m. on April 2, 2009.

Today will be a training session on how to register on Vator TV - the voice of the entrepreneur.

For more information on the Sabin Prize - click here.

A new "green" economy is supposed to emerge from the Obama stimulus package now being crafted in Congress - but what does "green" really mean?

Join Dan Esty, Director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale and Mark Tercek, President of The Nature Conservancy. For access to the broadcast - click here.

For those aspiring Yale student and faculty entrepreneurs interested in competing for the $25,000 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize, please submit your Letter of Interest by 5:00 p.m. on January 23, 2009.

For more information on the Sabin Prize - click here.

Many Americans have already taken action to reduce their energy use and many others would do the same if they could afford to, according to a national survey conducted by Yale and George Mason universities.

For a link to the report - click here.

If you are a current Yale graduate school student interested in engaging in a real world environmental consulting project, then F&ES 80046b "The Business and the Environment Consulting Clinic" is a course for you.

Potential projects for the Spring 2009 semester include: Curtis Packaging, Fiji Water, Green Electronics Council, Nestle Waters North America, OR&L Construction, Pinchbeck Roses, Proton Energy, Unicorr Group, and Yale Club of New York.

For more information - click here.

Join Center for Business and the Environment at Yale Director, Brad Gentry, and Program Director, Bryan Garcia in "The Economy's Low Carbon Conversion".

This video was made possible by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies multimedia department.  For a link to the video - click here.

Early this year, four major investment firms-Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, MorganStanley and Bank of America-announced standards that effectively prevent them from financing new construction of conventional coal-fired power plants, currently the largest source of electric power in the United States. With the credit crisis dominating the headlines,it was a minor story buried deep in the business section. But it turned on an increasingly important factor in investment decisions, with the potential both for enormous profits and for losses that could ultimately make the credit crisis look pale: The bankers were worried about global warming.

This article was published in the Fall 2008 edition of environment:Yale, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

(by Volker H. Hoffmann and Timo Busch)

The dependency on carbon-based materials and energy sources and the emission of greenhouse gases have been recognized as major problems of the 21st century. Companies are central to the effort to grapple with these issues due to the large material flows they process and their capabilities for technological innovation. It is important, on the one hand, to determine the individual stake companies have in these issues and, on the other, to measure companies' performance.

This article was published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Volume 12, Issue 4.

The International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) will holds it 5th International Conference, ISIE 2009, from June 21-24, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.

There are many dimensions on which sustainability depends, including technical, socio-economic, cultural, spatial, environmental preservation, distribution of wealth, etc. Achieving sustainability therefore requires a multitude of changes identified by different disciplines as system innovation, regime transformation, industrial transformation, technological transition, or socio-economic paradigm shift. The term transition covers all of these and its direction and speed are determined by the collective innovation decisions of various actors involved.

Soltage is one company looking to finance the widespread adoption of clean, cheap solar power.

As Route 1 ribbons across Connecticut, it is packed with big-box stores and strip malls. Pilgrim Furniture City in Milford sits across from a Costco and a La-Z-Boy store. The roughly 1,500 solar panels on the roof of the 80,000-square-foot furniture retailer implicitly point to the untapped opportunity in the millions of acres of unused roofs across the country.

(New York Times - Dining & Wine Section on November 5, 2008)

Join Judy Logback, joint MBA/MEM degree student, Moore Scholar and founder of Kallari in this New York Times Dining & Wine section article.

On an island in the Napo River in Ecuador's Amazonian rain forest, in a tin-roofed hut on stilts, live some of the world's most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs.

(November 17, 2008 in the Sage Student Lounge at noon - lunch will be provided)

To learn more about the process for competing in the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize, an information session will be held in Sage Student Lounge (205 Prospect Street).

Enter your idea in the new Sabin Prize. $25,000 will be awarded to the best Yale student and/or faculty idea for a product, service, project or program that advances a more environmentally sustainable way of life.

For more information on the Sabin Prize - click here.

Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

The Journal of Industrial Ecology is a peer-reviewed bimonthly owned by Yale University, headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and published by Wiley-Blackwell.

The special issue is available for free download - click here.

(October 16, 2008 at Dunham Lab on 10 Hillhouse Avenue)

The Sabin Prize Speaker Series, continues with a presentation by Dr. William Acker, Chairman of Optiwind and Taconic Energy. Dr. Acker has a long career of clean energy technology innovation from stationary and portable hydrogen fuel cells to on-site wind power.

The Sabin Prize Speaker Series provides educational learning opportunities on environmental entrepreneurship and is part of an effort to promote the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize. For more information - click here.

Audrey Davenport

To learn more about how you can apply for the Grantham Award in Business and the Environment - click here.

Edited by Bryan Garcia and Eric Roberts of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, this book presents the opinions and trend-setting experiences of leading practitioners in global carbon markets and finance on the business of climate change.

This publication contains both practical information and thoughtful analyses relevant to the asset management, hedge funds, insurance, investment banking, philanthropy, private equity, and venture capital arenas, among others.

Ask anyone in Connecticut what they think about the subject of energy and you're likely to hear a groan. After all, electricity, natural gas, oil and gasoline costs keep rising. And most of us are more concerned than ever about larger issues like effects on the environment. When you consider that the root of many of these problems is beyond your control, it can be hard to keep a positive outlook.

Do One Thing!  For more information - click here.

Thomas Hodgman

To learn more about how you can apply for the Grantham Award in Business and the Environment - click here.

 

(September 30-October 1 at the New Haven Lawn Club)

This event will bring together Connecticut businesses to learn about the opportunities presented by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Connecticut headquartered multinational companies like GE, ING and United Natural Foods to local product and service companies like NLR, EnerLume, and the Grease Guys.

John Paul Jewell is a recipient of the Grantham Award in Business and the Environment. This award is provided to students that seek to bring about a higher level of awareness of urgent environmental issues and to supporting those who work to find innovative solutions to help protect and improve the health of the global environment.

To learn more about how you can apply for the Grantham Award in Business and the Environment - click here.

(October 10, 2008 at the Yale Club in New York City from 2:00-6:00 p.m.)

On October 10, 2008 the Yale Center for Customer Insights (YCCI) and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) will present the findings of our survey at the conference on Green Consumer Values.

(September 10, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. at the Yale Farm.  For Yale students, faculty, and staff only.)

The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale in partnership with the Yale Sustainable Food Project invite joint degree students, club leaders, center directors, and friends to a welcome back event at the Yale Farm.

Come and enjoy the famous Yale Farm Pizza made from locally grown foods and learn more about the Yale Sustainable Food Project.

Yale University provides a wide variety of courses in business and the environment. For those interested in energy, climate change, development, technology, strategy, marketing, law and policy, design, and other courses at the business-environment interface, see what courses we are currently offering for the Fall of 2008.

In its first official year of operation, the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale led the organization of a number of educational activities and programs that some of you may have missed! However, donâ''t be alarmed. We have put together this â'Year in Reviewâ'  section to bring you up to speed.

(Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:30 p.m. on Comedy Central)

CBEY Co-Director, Dan Esty, will be appearing on Comedy Central's Colbert Report this evening at 11:30 p.m. Professor Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, will discuss the future of energy.

Legal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions are coming fast, with a $1 trillion carbon market emerging. At the core: A cadre of young, idealistic Yale forestry grads. But will carbon offsets do anything to slow global warming?

To access the article by Fast Company - click here

The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale would like to welcome our guests to a workshop called "Broadening the Base through Open Space" at the Asilomar Conference Grounds from July 9-11, 2008.

For information to the workshop participants that is confidential - click here.

The Center for Business and the Environment at Yale welcomes our visiting guests to New Haven, CT for the Conservation Finance Camp 2008 at Yale University.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, the Land Trust Alliance, Island Press, and the Conservation Finance Innovation Network.

Please click here for more information.

For information to the camp participants that is confidential - click here.

From an idea in the classroom (Entrepreneurial Business Planning) and into the market, Soltage founders' Jesse Grossman and Vanessa Stewart are featured on the Sundance Channel's Eco Biz. 

Through an innovative financing model, Soltage is making solar photovoltaic technology affordable to the masses. 

Learn more about Soltage through the Sundance Channel's Eco Biz video.

(June 6-12, 2008 at the Yale School of Management)

Offered annually by the Commonfund since 1993, the Endowment Institute is an intensive, week-long seminar for trustees and senior investment and financial officers of nonprofit organizations, taught by leading academics and practitioners at the Yale School of Management.

CBEY Program Director, Bryan Garcia, will give a presentation called "The Business of Climate Change: Think Globally, Invest Locally".  Julie Newman, Director of the Yale Office of Sustainability will also be presenting at the Endowment Institute on sustainability at Yale University.

I propose that the old adage "think globally, act locally," inspired by Friends of the Earth founder David Brower in 1969, be re-coined to "think globally, invest locally."  In today's state-based regulatory regimes for clean energy, energy efficiency and climate change, there are a number of investment opportunities for everyday investors like you and me - from the risk averse to the risk taker.

Yale Environment 360, a new online magazine devoted to covering the global environment — is launched today! You’ll find articles by noted environmental advocate and writer, Bill McKibben; New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert; climate scientist Richard C.J. Somerville; marine biologist and author Carl Safina; British journalist Fred Pearce; and many other writers, scientists, and thinkers.

(May 13, 2008 at the Met at 6:30 p.m. by invitation only)

Climate change represents both an economic challenge and an opportunity.  The British Government, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (through the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale), Climate Change Capital, REEEP, and the REIL Network host this special event that includes Stavros Dimas (European Commissioner for the Environment), Jeff Bingaman (US Senator), and James Cameron (Vice Chairman and Executive Director of Climate Change Capital).

(May 10-11, 2008 at Yale University)

Yale University welcomes our visiting guests to New Haven, CT for the Yale-REIL-REEEP Roundtable on Clean Energy and Climate Change.

“This Conference on the conservation of natural resources is in effect a meeting of the representatives of all the people of the United States called to consider the weightiest problem now before the Nation.”

... so said President Theodore Roosevelt in May of 1908 in his opening address at the White House Conference of Governors which launched the modern conservation movement and planted the seed for the National Parks System.

To download declaration - click here. 

For more information - click here.

New Haven, Conn. - Stephen Ramsey, who developed GE's world-class environmental health and safety management systems and programs and helped make GE a leader in green business, has joined the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as a Senior Visiting Fellow.

Ramsey will begin his post with a case study on Ecomagination in Professor Chertow's course on Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy. 

An informal reception with students and faculty will follow at 4:00 p.m. in the Sage Lounge at 205 Prospect Street.