Past Events

On Thursday, April 19th, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment will be holding two special events at the New Haven Lawn Club beginning at 8:00 a.m. and concluding at 4:45 p.m.

An iPad will be raffled out at each of these two events for those in attendance!!!

In the afternoon, join Andy Sabin and the Bulldogs' Den as they judge the three finalists of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize.  One lucky venture will win a $25,000 prize and the coveted Sabin Prize. (Lunch from 11:45 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. and the competition from 12:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.)

On Thursday, April 19th, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment will be holding two special events at the New Haven Lawn Club beginning at 8:00 a.m. and concluding at 4:45 p.m.

An iPad will be raffled out at each of these two events for those in attendance!!!

In the morning, join Yale students and faculty as they present their research in business and the environment.  Through the Sobotka Research Fund and the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Fund, nearly $250,000 was awarded to student and faculty research projects on policy drivers for renewable energy, entrepreneurship and water, environmental markets, and sustainable supply chains.

Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize Application Deadline: March 19th at 5:00 PM.

February 29, 2012 | 6:00 – 7:30PM
Yale Entrepreneurial Institute
55 Whitney Avenue, 2nd floor
New Haven, CT 06510

Free to Yale Students and Faculty. Dinner will be provided.

Please RSVP and send any questions to Ran Tao (ran.tao@yale.edu) or Soojin Kim (soojin.kim@yale.edu).

Join Tim Healy, Chairman and CEO of EnerNOC, in a conversation about innovation and the smart grid’s applications for creating value and simplifying energy decisions for customers.

Join Maureen Burke, Professor of the Entrepreneurial Business Planning course, in this special professional development workshop to assist students and faculty in constructing financial models and understanding basic accounting for the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize.

Lunch will be provided.  Please bring your laptop.

The Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize Speaker Series invites you to a conversation with Mark DeAngelis, the CEO and Founder of Macro Climate Solutions, LLC, a diversified environmental company formed to provide strategic advisory services to, and make principal investments in, global environmental markets.

In addition, at the conclusion of the event, CBEY will announce the winners of the Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grants for 2012.

Please join the FES Career Development Office (CDO) and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) for a panel discussion featuring four top Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) professionals representing a variety of perspectives and industries as they discuss the evolution of EHS departments in the United States.

The panel will feature:

Gretchen Hancock, Program Manager, Corporate Environmental Programs, General Electric

Carol Singer Neuvelt, Executive Director, National Association of EHS Management (NAEM)

Ellen Quinn, Vice President, Environment, Health, and Safety, United Technology Corporation, Fire & Security

Stephen Ramsey, Lecturer and Senior Visiting Fellow, Yale Center for Business and the Environment

Please join Blueprint for Efficiency as we host Jeramy LeMieux, Senior Auditor, GEHS and Climate Savers Lead at Diversey, one of the world's largest providers of cleaning and hygiene products.

Join Engelina Jaspers, Vice President for Environmental Sustainability at HP in a conversation about the innovative ways to drive sustainability in a large corporation.  Engelina will discuss her work developing environmental strategies for HP and how she foresees the future of sustainability in the technology space.

Claire Broido Johnson (General Manager, Serious Capital) will discuss how Serious Capital provides solutions for energy efficiency that reduce energy bills by 5 to 15 percent or more without upfront costs from the owner or tenant.

with Duncan Bury, Duncan Bury Consulting

To RSVP for the webinar, visit: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/344316438

Join Adam Buick, Program Coordinator of Seattle Community Power Works (CPW) for discussion on how the diverse and foward-thinking city of Seattle is helping its residents save energy.  CPW is a neighborhood program in central and southeast Seattle that will make energy efficiency improvements to buildings in six sectors: single-family, multi-family, small commercial, large commercial, hospital and municipal sectors. To drive demand for these retrofits, Seattle is implementing and testing a variety of innovative strategies ranging from creation of a Carbon Reduction Incentive Fund that will reward proptery owners for every ton of carbon reduced to developing a flexible service model that will provide homeowners with a specific level of energy consultation suiting their needs.

Join Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Renault-Nissan Alliance in a conversation on what it takes to lead a global automobile company in the face of increasing competition and the pursuit of sustainability.

Come and test drive a new Nissan LEAF from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. and experience zero-emissions mobility.

This talk will be available by webinar, for more information - click here.

Join Gilbert Metcalf from Tufts in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach withMicro-Data for Households".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

The Yale Office of Sustainability cordially invites you to the 4th Annual State of Sustainability at Yale.

The event will feature remarks by Julie Newman, Director of the Yale Office of Sustainability, a keynote address by Pavan Sukhdev, McCluskey Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and the 2001 Sustainability Awards presented by Melissa Goodall, assistant director of the Yale Office of Sustainability.

Technological Innovation for a Secure Energy Future will convene leaders in science, policy, business, and international affairs to discuss recent scientific innovations in alternative energy, and the barriers that prevent clean energy from achieving full-scale deployment, as well as solutions for overcoming those barriers.

For more information - click here.

Join Bard Harstad from Northwestern University in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join the finalists of the 2011 Sabin Environmental Venture Prize as they make their final presentations before the judges.  At the end of the day, the judges will award the winning proposal with $25,000.

Every audience member can enter a free raffle to win an iPad 2.  Join us for this ceremony celebrating the best in environmental entrepreneurship!

Join Yale Alumnus David Sobotka and Julie Newman, Director of the Yale Office of Sustainability as students and faculty present their research projects in business and the environment.

Through the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Fund and the Sobotka Research Fund, nearly $250,000 was awarded to research projects in entrepreneurship and energy, green marketing and organization behavior, and forestry and land-use.

Every audience member can enter a free raffle to win an iPad 2.  Join us for the special event celebrating the best in student and faculty research in business and the environment!

Join Yaniv Stopnitzky from Yale in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "No Toilet, No Bride: Latrine Adoption, Marriage Markets, and Child Health in India".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Richard Hornbeck from Harvard in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Katharine Sims from Amherst College in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Please join Anne Johnson, Director Sustainable Packaging Coalition.

This presentation will review the current morass of biodegradability claims in packaging and tease out where the environmental benefits may lie. Given the wide range of chemical additives that can now be used to make traditionally non-degradable materials “biodegradable", the landscape of claims is far more complex and often as misleading as it is innovative.

Join David Meyers (SOM '99) for a discussion on Mission Markets' platform for sustainability investing and the opportunities it presents for investment in social and environmental capital.

This talk will be available by webinar, for more information - click here

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Andy Sabin Family Foundation in support of the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize.

Please join us for a conversation with Chris Pyke, Vice President of Research for the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and Lane Burt, Technical Policy Director for USGBC’s Advocacy Team, to hear about the Green Building Information Gateway (GBIG).

Join Jonathan Rose, President and Founder of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, to discuss the company’s pioneering work in real estate development, planning, consulting and investment, and how he sees green buildings, cities and regions as critical elements of the environmental, social and economic issues of the next 30 years.  Jonathan will also discuss the economic advantages of green and socially responsible real estate investment strategies.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Interested in energy? Climate change? Forest and land management?

Next Friday, students from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will host a symposium on the use of woody biomass as a fuel source. Three expert panels will examine the practice from unique perspectives: forest management, renewable energy, and climate change.

For more information - click here.

This talk will be available by webinar, for more information - click here.

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Andy Sabin Family Foundation in support of the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize.

Join Jeff Pitkin, Treasurer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), for a presentation on how New York State is developing innovative methods of providing energy efficiency financing in residential dwellings (1-4 family), small commercial, not-for-profit, and multifamily buildings (5+ units) through the Green Jobs-Green New York program.

Join Zack Parisa (Yale Forestry '09) and Max Uhlenhuth (Yale College '12) in their discussion of their winning bid for the 2010 Sabin Prize and recent developments in their new business, SilviaTerra, a provider of accurate forest inventory solutions.

This talk will be available by webinar, for more information - click here.

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Andy Sabin Family Foundation in support of the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize.

Join Christina Weiss Lurie, Owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, to discuss the accomplishments of the Eagles' GO GREEN program to date, as well as its ambitious new goal of making the stadium self-sufficient for its energy needs.

This talk will be available by webinar, for more information - click here.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club, Yale Office of Sustainability, and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream company in a presentation to discuss the company’s pioneering actions in corporate sustainability and his thoughts on the future of sustainability.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

EVENT TIME CHANGE: Due to a calling from the President to to join him at the White House on the afternoon of November 29th, Leslie will be only able to join us in the morning.  He will be speaking in the Environmental Management and Strategic Advantage course.

Join Leslie Dach, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Walmart, to discuss the opportunities to align sustainability with a low-cost business strategy, as well as the efforts of  the world’s largest corporation to make a difference on key societal issues in the countries in which it operates.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Michael Greenstone from MIT in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications of Climate Change".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Kim Jeffery, President and CEO of Nestlé Waters North America Inc, in a discussion of his challenges and accomplishments in achieving corporate efficiency in waste, water, and energy at the largest bottled water company in North America, as well as the larger issue of container recycling in the United States.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Howard Berke, Chairman and Co-founder of Konarka Technologies for a discussion on clean tech investing principles and his 30 years of experience in the clean tech investing arena.

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Andy Sabin Family Foundation in support of the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize.

Join David Henry and Gil Depaula from Yale FES in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Student presentation".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Danielle Sass Byrnett, Program Manager of the U.S. Department of Energy's BetterBuildings Program, to discuss how this $486M Recovery Act program will support large-scale retrofits and make energy efficiency accessible to hundreds of thousands of homeowners and businesses around the U.S.  Danielle will discuss the goals of the program, the award process, metrics for success and other topics related to the program.  This is the kick-off event for the Blueprint for Efficiency speaker series, which will feature the latest developments in energy efficiency policy, investment, technology, and community engagement, with a special focus on successes from DOE’s BetterBuildings Program.

Join Glenn Prickett, Chief External Affairs Officer of The Nature Conservancy, in a discussion of his leadership experiences in engaging both the public and private sectors in environmental stewardship.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club, Yale SOM Net Impact,  and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Rachel Hinchliffe, Program Manager in EDF’s Corporate Partnership program, and John Queenan, Head of Environment and Sustainability at RBS Citizens, as well as a few Yale SOM students to share their experiences through Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) Climate Corps fellowship program.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club (BATEC) and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join James Sallee from Harris School at University of Chicago in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Car Notches".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Larry Keeley, Doblin Co-founder and President Partner of the Monitor Group, to discuss how organizations are developing innovative sustainability strategies to achieve business and environmental goals.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, and the Consulting Club through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Nils Kok from UC Berkeley/Maastrict University in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "The Economics of Green Building".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join the Connecticut Green Building Council and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment in this special event featuring Nils Kok from UC Berkeley/Maastrict University who will be giving a presentation called "The Economics of Green Building".

Reception will begin before the talk at 5:30 p.m.

Join Russ Shay, Director of Public Policy at the Land Trust Alliance, for a conversation on how federal financing tools can be used to promote conservation.

Coffee and light snacks provided.

Join Neville Isdell, former Coca-Cola global Chairman and CEO, for a live webcast discussion with Future 500 President and CEO, Bill Shireman on "Connected Capitalism," October 8, 2010 at 12pm ET.

Katie Kross, author of Profession and Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability, will lead a series of sessions to help students better understand the career opportunities, paths, and tactical strategies for pursuing sustainability career opportunities that align with their values.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Business and the Environment Club and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment through the generous support of the GE Foundation.

Join Marty Weitzman from Harvard University in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Finance plays a critical role in supporting energy, water, and infrastructure projects, but private markets allocate capital within a framework set by governments. How much are recent government actions shaping investment? How has the current economy affected activity? What sorts of policy or market changes could have the greatest impact on financing sustainable development?

To learn more about the panelists and to register - click here.

Join William Nordhaus from Yale University in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join Kerry O'Neill (President and CEO) and Bryan Garcia (Chief Community Officer) of Earth Markets who will discuss the challenges of starting up a business focused on making it affordable to bring clean energy and energy efficiency technologies into the homes of a community.

This series is made possible by a generous gift from the Andy Sabin Family Foundation in support of the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize.

Join Minister Barker in this special presentation where he will discuss the UK government policies to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy in the midst of challenging economic times.

Join this event by webinar too - click here.

Join John Roemer from Yale University in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Intergenerational and Intragenerational Equity in the Presence of Climate Change".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

Join the CTGBC and CBEY in this special green building event to maintain your LEED AP credentials.  The event is open to certified LEED AP's only including local members of the CTGBC as well as faculty and students at Yale University.

This event will be held at the award-winning LEED Platinum Certified Kroon Hall - click here for more information.

Join Seth Bender from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in a presentation in the Environmental Economics Seminar called "Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Ecosystem Services".

This seminar is made possible by a generous gift from the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fund at Yale University.

This workshop will explore how funding for state and local government energy projects is reducing energy consumption and saving taxpayers money. The workshop will highlight the innovations of the use of ARRA funds and how ARRA will forever change efficiency funding for local government programs.

For more information - click here.

Sustainability has become a pressing concern for businesses, governments, and other organizations. How does increasing attention to the long-term environmental impact of our actions create opportunities for innovative businesses? Does it impose new constraints? The Yale SOM Office of Alumni Relations and Qn magazine will host a discussion with four prominent SOM alumni leaders about lessons they’ve learned in advancing the business of sustainability.

Please join us for an upcoming webinar event on sustainability with a panel of distinguished Yale SOM Alumni.

To register for the webinar - click here.

This workshop will explore how California is fundamentally transforming the way we assess the benefits and verify the results of energy efficiency programs implemented under ARRA and what implications that has for the MV&E of other efficiency programs in the State.

Join Joe Swift, Residential Operations Supervisor for Connecticut Light & Power’s (CL&P) Conservation and Load Management Department at Northeast Utilities and Christopher Ehlert, Manager, Residential Energy Services for The United Illuminating (UI) Company to discuss how Connecticut's electric distribution companies (CL&P and UI) provide portfolios of energy efficiency programs to residential customers.

Join Andre de Fontaine from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change who will talk about how to a recently released report that describes the leading corporate energy efficiency programs, identifies key lessons learned, and details energy efficiency strategy development and implementation through six in-depth case studies of exemplary corporate programs.

If you thought the duel between the Green Bride Guide and Grassland Meats was intense in 2009, wait until you see the environmental ventures in 2010!  Join Andy Sabin and his bulldog colleagues in the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize 2010 finals.  The winner of the prize will receive a $25,000 check from Mr. Sabin and Dean Sharon Oster.

There will be free breakfast, lunch, and raffle prizes, including an iPod Touch!  You have to be here to win!  Start Dreaming...Start Venturing!

Goleman’s latest book is Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. The book argues that new information technologies will create “radical transparency,” allowing us to know the environmental, health, and social consequences of what we buy.

Daniel will make his books available for purchase and signing.

Hosted by the Renewable Energy and International Law Network, ACORE, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development & Climate, the Alliance to Save Energy, and the Yale World Fellows Program, this event will feature discussions of state and local best practices in energy efficiency and renewable energy.

This event will feature the release of a report by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) called U.S. Compendium of Best Practices in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

For a full agenda of the day - click here.

Join Alexis Ringwald, Co-founder and Director of Business Development at Valence Energy, who will talk about emerging trends in the convergence of IT and energy in buildings and about her Silicon Valley entrepreneurial experience.

Join Hannah Choi Granade, a principal in McKinsey & Company’s Stamford, CT office, who will talk about how to bring energy efficiency to 100 million buildings and billions of devices.

Yale SOM South Asian Business Forum (SABF) is delighted to present the India Conference 2010 – ‘Powering India’s Future – Energy, Capital Markets and Investors’.

The conference will focus on the opportunities in the growing energy market in India and the larger role of capital markets.

Join Dorian Dale, Energy Director of Babylon, NY to learn about how someone can transform a municipality into a one-stop shop for retrofits that make it easy for a homeowner to have a more affordable, comfortable and efficient home.

Join Erika Diamond, Vice President of Business Development for ThinkEco who will talk about the Modlet, a plug-in device that eliminates unnecessary electricity usage by your home and/or office appliances.

The SOM Energy Club, the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, and Yale Climate & Energy Institute are very pleased to host Dan Yergin. Dan Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, Chairman and Founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, and a Yale University graduate.

Light refreshments will be served.

The Yale Mexican Student Organization (YMSO) in partnership with Sustenta and New Ventures Mexico invites you to “COP-16: Climate Reform and The Energy Transition Challenge”, a lecture by PhD. Adrian Fernandez - President of Mexico's Ecology Institute and a leader in the COP-16 agenda.

Join by webinar - click here to register.

Join Claire Broido Johnson, the Acting Program Manager of the Office of Weatherization and Intergovernmental Programs at DOE, who will talk about the transition from public to private investment in residential energy efficiency.

F&ES will host a special lunchtime discussion with Kim Jeffrey, President and CEO of Nestlé Waters North America. Mr. Jeffrey would like to meet F&ES students interested in discussing career opportunities with Nestlé Waters in the areas of corporate citizenship and sustainability.

Join Cameron Brooks, Senior Director of Market Development and Policy Strategy for Tendril Inc. to discuss a unique business solution that enables consumers to better understand their energy consumption patterns and empowers them with the ability to make a difference.

Asia Tomorrow will explore sustainable capitalism, business development, and their ties to Asia.

For more information - click here.

After the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks and the great financial collapse of 2008 - can we still create a sustainable and desirable future? 

Please join us for the third lecture in the "Visions of a Sustainable World" Speaker Series at Yale with Dr. Robert Costanza, co-founder of the field of ecological economics.

Join David Lee, Director for the Residential Branch overseeing the ENERGY STAR New and Existing Homes Program at the US EPA, who will talk about the lessons learned from the ENERGY STAR Residential Programs and future directions.

Join Emmaia Gelman, Policy Director of the Center for Working Families who will talk about Green Jobs/Green NY, an unprecedented statewide initiative to retrofit one million homes and small businesses in five years.  Emmaia Gelman guides the Center for Working Families’ portfolio of policy ideas and strategy linking jobs, housing, economic development, equity, and climate change.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment.

This summit is for municipal officials and municipal sustainability/clean energy task force members to learn more about what your town can do to address climate change.

This event is sponsored by the Governor's Steering Committee on Climate Change.

Join Zeke Hausfather, Executive Vice President of Energy, and Andy Frank, Executive Vice President of Business Development of Efficiency 2.0, who will talk about the strategies to radically increase consumer energy engagement in order to place behavior as a preferred efficiency resource and demonstrate one approach to breaking down household savings opportunities.

The Concept Clinic is a forum designed to provide consultative advice to an enterprise in the earliest stages of development. In this case the panel will provide feedback on the concept behind the creation of Earth Markets both in terms of its business plan as well as being an example of an emerging class of social ventures, largely "ahead of their time" initiatives, usually ahead of funding, but wrestling with similar issues that would face any emerging enterprise.

To register - click here.

Join Brian Keane, President of SmartPower, who will talk about the challenges and opportunities of marketing clean energy and energy efficiency to the nation’s households and communities.

Join Michael Vandenbergh, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, in a talk about overcoming barriers to implementing the behavioral wedge to be achieved in 10 years.

Founded in 2007, Arbor Fuel Inc. is a Connecticut company that is developing proprietary microbial strains to produce fuels from cellulosic biomass feedstocks.

Join Steve Henck, President & CEO of Arbor Fuel Inc.  Discover the science and business model behind this promising company.

Join Ian Ayres, the William K. Townsend Professor of Law and Anne Urowsky Professorial Fellow in Law at Yale University, who will talk about a recent study that uses large scale data analysis to assess how peer feedback can reduce residential energy usage.

Join Karen Ehrhardt-Martinez, founder of Human Dimensions Research Associates, who will talk about the scale of potental behavior-related energy savings and the critical contributions of applied social science research for achieving successful energy initiatives.

Join Steve Nadel, Executive Director of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) who will talk about leading examples of state level energy efficiency policies and the current discussions on energy efficiency resource standards at the federal level.

Review basic energy concepts for residential energy efficiency including thermal envelope, air leakage problems and solutions, ventilation and indoor air quality, energy load calculations, and advanced insulation techniques.

For a flyer - click here.

Join Lori Bird, a member of the Market and Policy impact Analysis Group at NREL, who will discuss policies and markets for renewable energy in the U.S. She will provide an overview of current policies driving renewable energy development in the U.S. as well as the costs and impacts of proposed federal policies, She will also discuss the interplay of efficiency and renewable energy in a combined renewable energy portfolio standard.

In partnership with the Yale Journalism Initiative, Yale Transportation Options will host two special guests. The topic is “Traffic, Parking and our Green Future.”

Join Jamie Howland, a Policy Analyst - Data and Energy Policy at Environment Northeast, who will focus on the economic output and job growth potential from increased investments in energy efficiency. 

Join Yerina Mugica, a Research Associate at NRDC, who will focus on the recently released ACEEE 2009 Energy Efficiency Scorecard and specifically how to measure performance in state energy efficiency for the residential sector.

Edited by Jaime Carlson, Bryan Garcia, Claire Jahns, Eric Roberts, and Katie Schindall of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, this book highlights major trends in the forest carbon markets and, in many cases, underscore the importance of policy to providing investment security.

Carbon Finance II: Investing in Forests for Climate Protection includes a Foreword by Dr. R.K. Pachauri, Director of the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.

Join Anthony Leiserowitz, of the Yale Project on Climate Change, who will focus on attitudes, behavior and barriers in energy savings.

The Global Alpha Forum is the hedge fund industry’s annual meeting.  Produced by the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, it is our answer to the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Join Richard Sandor of CCX in a keynote address and a panel that called "From the Gold Coast to the Green Coast: Environmental Finance".

Smart Grid Technology is the talk of the industry these days. Before you know it, utilities and their customers will either be willingly or forcibly embracing it.

Now's the time to get educated and up to speed on Smart Grid - how it works, what it will demand from utilities, and how customers will react.

The formation of the Connecticut Wind Working Group will gather appropriate Stakeholders in a shared forum to move the intelligent development of wind power in Connecticut.

For more information - click here.

Join CBEY Advisory Board member Vince Perez, Founder and CEO of Alternergy Partners, in a talk on clean energy, finance, and Asia.

Join James Cameron, Executive Director and Vice Chairman of Climate Change Capital, and Nancy Kontou, Head of Cabinet to EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas, in a conversation on the impending international climate negotiations in Copenhagen at COP 15.

The conversation will be moderated by Brad Gentry.

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association, in conjunction with the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, invite you to the CAIA Green Investing Symposium hosted by Bloomberg.

For more information click here.

Join Yale alumni leading the way on corporate sustainability in the U.S. in a keynote address by Andrew Winston, author of Green Recovery: Your Company's Green Guide to Surviving the Recession—and Thriving in the Upturn, and a panel discussion on corporate sustainability including alumni executives from GE, Citigroup and Johnson & Johnson.

Yue Zhang, Chairman of Broad Air Conditioning and Vice Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Sustainable Builidngs & Climate Initiative (SBCI) started his business 20 years ago by successfully commercializing a new boiler technology he developed.

New Haven Green Drinks is an informal monthly opportunity for anyone interested in Corporate Social Responsibility, environmental conservation, carbon finance, sustainable development, etc. to meet, chat, and network. We are a self-organizing group and there are no fees, so make sure to spread the word to friends and colleagues.

Join the session on "Green Trading & Carbon Finance". This session brings together leaders in the field of climate investing to examine trends and sustainability breakthroughs in these areas, along with focusing on how traders and investors can profit.