Business and Finance
Podcast: Green to Gold
In Green to Gold, Dan Esty, director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, discusses how smart companies are incorporating environmental concerns into their business strategies. Leading companies worldwide have discovered that thinking green can generate value for their brands and do wonders for the bottom line.
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our weekly Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Food and Beverages Provided. Michael Virga Acting Executive Director, Forestry Sector, American Forest & Paper Association "Global Forest Policy: An Industry Perspective" As Acting...
The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective
Marsh Hall Rotunda 360 Prospect St. Food and Beverages Provided. Speaker: Bill Banzhaf President, Sustainable Forestry Board speaking on \"The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective\" Bill Banzahf is President of the Sustainable Forestry Board, the...
Green Wave Sweeping Business World
Leading companies are discovering that thinking “green” can generate great value for their brands and do wonders for the bottom line, asserts a new Yale book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage. “A...Living with Oil and Gas: The Effects of Petroleum on Louisiana
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...
Program to Train Corporate Directors on Climate Change
Three leading U.S. organizations have announced a unique collaborative effort to educate hundreds of independent corporate board members about the potential liabilities and strategic business opportunities that global climate change can create for companies. The announcement was made at a plenary...Why Climate Change Belongs on the Front Burner in the Business World
Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, discusses the emerging importance of climate change to major corporations, investors, shareholders, etc. Video (48 minutes).Economics & Business
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Bridges to Sustainability: Business and Government
Luis Gomez-Echeverri, Editor Order a print copyCenter for Business and the Environment at Yale
The center guides students who are in the 3-year joint masters program that combines the MBA of the School of Management with a Masters degree from the Environment School. The center also sponsors speakers, workshops, career guidance, placement support, curriculum development, and a case study...Industrial Environmental Management
This focal area is centered on using principles of ecology to transform industry through several research and teaching themes. An overarching theme in this area pertains to accounting for resource and product flows. The focus of materials accounting can be on a single element, a single resource,...Entrepreneurial Business Plan Class Info Session
| Maureen Burke
Entrepreneurship is all about starting and running your own business. This course is for teams who want to write a business plan for their own new startup company. The class starts on Monday, October 29th. The information session will be at SOM in A-51. We will discuss: • What to expect...Entrepreneurial Business Planning Class Info Session
| Maureen Burke
Entrepreneurship is all about starting and running your own business. This course is for teams who want to write a business plan for their own new startup company. The class starts on Monday, October 29th. The information session will be at SOM in A-1. We will discuss: • What to expect...4:30pm: First Lecture of the Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale
| Judith Wu
LOCATION: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue *Free and Open to the Public *Reception to Follow *Please join us this Thursday at 4:30pm for the first presentation of the exciting Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale, hosted by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY). As...Carbon trading won’t work
| Michael Dorsey
Originally in the LA Times earlier this month... Carbon trading won’t work Experiments with the market scheme favored by Schwarzenegger shows trading favors big polluters without curbing global warming gases. By Michael K. Dorsey MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on Dartmouth...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
| SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's third magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.edu
Energy security from a environmental policy & governance perspective - Sascha Müller-Kraenner (TNC)
| Christine Kim
Sascha Müller-Kraenner is Senior Policy Adviser and the European representative to The Nature Conservancy, a leading international conservation organisation with over one million members and supporters as well as programmes in 30 countries. From 2003-2006, Sascha Müller-Kraenner served as the...SAGE Magazine Volume I, Issue II
| SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's second magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.eduYale Endowment Open Meeting
| Anastasia O’Rourke
Open Meeting of the Yale Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility ("ACIR") Feb 9, 4-5.30pm Yale Law School, Room 127 All members of the Yale community are invited to attend the annual open meeting of ACIR. The meeting is open only to members of the Yale Community; an agenda will...
The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective
| Barbara Ruth
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Seminar Lunch January 18, 2007 Marsh Hall Rotunda 360 Prospect St. Food and Beverages Provided. Bill Banzahf President, Sustainable Forestry Board speaking on "The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective" Bill Banzahf is...CSR Workshop Agenda - Jan 12-14, 2007
| Workshop on Research in Corporate Social Responsibility
An Exploratory Workshop on Research in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) JANUARY 12-14, 2007 Presented by: The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance Center for Business and Environment at Yale Sponsored by: General Mills Alcan International Finance...
Diamonds and Development
| Saleem Ali
Diamonds, while being a luxury item for many in the West, are a source of basic prosperity for the people of Botswana. This is a rare tale of wealthy "wants" in developed countries providing for real "needs" in a developing country. The challenge for mineral economies such as Botswana remains one...
Minding our Minerals
| Saleem Ali
Almost a year has passed since the Sago mine tragedy in West Virginia that claimed the lives of twelve miners. Since then, accusations of lax enforcement have been made against mineral companies and the U.S. Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by activists. Equally strident rebuttals...YPCC convenes meeting to discuss Climate Change Science Bridging Institution
| Yale F&ES Project on Climate Change
On Nov 9, 2006 the YPCC convened a meeting in New York City to discuss a potential Climate Change Science Bridging Institution. 40 experts gathered from around the country to discuss how to convey the most important findings of climate change science to the public. Find out more about the...Zoom: the Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
| Christine Kim
Please join The Economist's Global Correspondent, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, for his talk - Zoom: The Race to Fuel the Car of the Future. Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is The Economist's Global Correspondent, covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as they relate to energy...
