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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.
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CBEY is seeking to hire a student research assistant to provide 10 hours per week of support to the Center’s research and educational programming on eco-prizes, awards and competitions. This position will support the research interests of Anastasia O'Rourke, PhD. This position is open to Yale undergraduate and graduate students only.
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For the past week and a half, Yale students and Costa Rican professionals have been working around the clock to develop a road map for Costa Rica to achieve its goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2021. The group of 12 young leaders, composed of Costa Ricans, Yale Grad students, and leading international thinkers – law students, earth scientists, architects, agronomists, entrepreneurs, green energy experts, agronomists, and others – developed a report regarding the feasibility of President Arias’ goal of CO2 neutrality by 2021 (a goal ambitions as it is historic) and came out with a roadmap for achieving that goal.
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CBEY is seeking to hire several student research assistants to provide between 5 to 10 hours per week of support to the Center’s research and educational programming. This position will support the various research and education initiatives undertaken by the Center during the year. These positions are open to Yale undergraduate and graduate students only.
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Students will have an opportunity to apply their knowledge of business and environmental issues to real-life situations faced by outside organizations. The Clinic provides a unique opportunity for students to manage a real-life consulting client engagement and make recommendations based on market research and financial analyses. The clinic is open to both FES and SOM students. The intent is to provide a “capstone” experience, calling for the application of skills and tools learned from previous classes.
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Yale University provides a wide variety of courses in business and the environment. This semester's featured courses include:
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 2009.
(August 13, 2009)
In a recent CNN commentary entitled "Green jobs: hope or hype?" Samuel Sherraden argues that green job creation will be insufficient to bring America out of recession. But Sherraden narrowly defines green as a "sector," and fails to see its potential as a strategy for the revitalization of the entire economy.
Andrew Shapiro from GreenOrder is a Yale Law School alumnus.