Happy February!

We hope your semester has been off to a smooth start! Read on for upcoming events, job postings and recruiting tips, and some of the articles we’ve been reading recently. If you have anything you would like highlighted in an upcoming B&E newsletter (we plan to send them monthly), please send us an email!

Upcoming Events

B&E Club Events

• February 25th, 12pm ET: Sustainability Consulting Panel (co-hosting with the Consulting Club). Register here on CampusGroups. Panelists include:

  • Muireann Gibbons-Neff, Associate Director, Climate Strategies at South Pole
  • Satwik Mudgal, Senior Strategist at Quantis
  • Madeline Frieze, Associate Consultant, Sustainability, Energy, and Climate Change at WS
• Early March (date TBD): B&E and Tech Club will be hosting a Sustainability in Tech Panel- details to come!
• Also, stay tuned for a Forestside Chat on Energy and the Environment

Also Happening At Yale

• February 25th, 4-5pm ET: Building Power for Radical Food System Change with Heal Food Alliance-- CBEY is excited to host a conversation with HEAL Food Alliance Director Navina Khanna about HEAL’s national multi-sector, multi-racial coalition of 60 organizations working to radically transform our current food system where profits are valued over people and the planet. Learn more and register here.
• February 23-26: 7th Annual Yale Food Systems Symposium-- Join virtual panels, workshops, and digestion sessions that cover a range of topics, from seaweed farming to next-generation land access to worker wellbeing in the face of COVID-19. This conference is open to all.  Register here.
• Tuesdays through March 2, 12-1pm: YSE Sustainable Municipalities Speaker Series -- Each session will begin with an introduction by Yale faculty followed by municipal leaders presenting innovative case studies across the US. Topics for coming weeks include Safe Mobility for All, Reinventing Greenspaces, and Eco-districts. Register here.
• February 18-26: Green Innovator Chats -- Tsai CITY and CBEY have partnered to host a series of 'Green Innovator' chats this semester. Each conversation will focus on a different approach to tackling environmental challenges through business and innovation. Topics and hosts range from Ryan Li and Joseph Lybik from ReVert, a smart appliances startup deploying AI and IOT to household appliances, to Marisa Repka and Ben Christensen from Cambium Carbon, an early stage circular economy startup reforesting America by enabling local wood economies. Sign up here.

Additional Updates

• Consider registering for the email list for the Berkeley Haas Patagonia Case Competition -- the dates are TBA.
• Know anyone who’s interested in renewable energy? CBEY offers a certificate program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy (FDCE) designed for working professionals who want to help accelerate the transition to clean energy. While the program is not aimed at current Yale degree-seeking students, it may be great for your former colleagues who are interested in energy. Applications for the 2021-2022 cohort are due March 14th, so please pass on information about the program to your network. Contact Caroline James (caroline.james@yale.edu) with questions.

Member Spotlight: Sarah Catallo

Careers & Recruiting

Job Postings

The world of sustainability is broad and changing all the time. These are just some of the postings we’ve found. Check out the Recruiting Tips below for other ways to find postings! We also highly recommend checking out job postings in the Energy Club and Food & Agribusiness Club newsletters.

Internships

• Strategic Energy Management Research Internship, ACEEE - apply by February 19!

• MBA Intern, Closed Loop Partners, Closed Loop Fashion Fund - apply by February 28!

• Summer Associate, Smart Power Puerto Rico, The Rockefeller Foundation  (must speak Spanish)

Full-time

• Sustainability Senior Product Manager, Amazon

• Carbon Removal Specialist, Facebook. 

• Circular Economy Policy Lead, Apple

• Carbon Project Manager, Apple

• Policy Director, Blue Forest

• Associate, Natural Resources and Global Governance, SystemIQ

• Senior Program Associate, Flexport.org

• Senior Manager, Social Responsibility, PetSmart

• Senior Director, ESG, Cognizant

• Sustainability Program Manager, Workday

• Manager, Social and Environmental Responsibility, Allbirds 

Recruiting Tips

• Skills to Build: Review this deck from Berkeley Haas to learn what leading companies consider to be essential skills in sustainability roles 
• Doom-scrolling for good: Take a look through the Twitter feed of Katie Kross, author of Profession & Purpose: A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability. She shares job postings in sustainability almost daily!
• Because you want more emails: sign up for Ed’s Clean Energy and Sustainability Jobs List for a weekly roundup of many different kinds of sustainability postings.

What We're Reading (and listening to)

• Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy - Impact Alpha

• The Battle Lines are Forming in Biden’s Climate Push- NYTimes 

• I’ve Said Goodbye to ‘Normal’. You Should, Too- NYTimes 

• PODCAST: Oléufémio O. Táíwo On Climate Colonialism and Reparations

• PODCAST: Pricing Nature, a new podcast from CBEY and the Yale Carbon Charge 

• 20 C-Suite Sustainability Champions for 2021- Greenbiz