From: Business and the Environment Club
Date: February 8, 2022
Subject: B&E Club February Newsletter


Welcome to the B&E Newsletter!

Welcome back, and say hello to the Spring semester! We're super excited to be back in-person at Evans Hall this week! In this month's newsletter, we cover 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 the next B&E newsletter, please send us an email!

Upcoming Events


B&E Club Events

  • Forestside Chat: Climate Justice - Tuesday, Feb 15, 8pm-9pm
    Join us for a virtually for a casual conversation (no prior knowledge necessary!) on the critical topic of climate justice. We will be discussing how the effects of climate change and being disproportionately felt by certain groups and parts of the world and how governments and business can help correct that imbalance. As with last time, we will be sharing relevant articles for our discussion to those who register. Stay tuned!

Also Happening At Yale
  • Yale Energy Justice Speaker Series - Monday, Feb 7, 2:30pm
    This spring, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice (YCEJ) and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) are joining forces to raise awareness on energy justice and bring voices of experts in the field to the public. As part of Yale School of the Environment's inaugural Energy Justice course, we are making many of the lectures open to all! This series will draw from multiple disciplines, including law, sociology, anthropology, and economics, and will cover broad topics on policy and regulation, community advocacy, housing, transportation, labor, utilities, and more. The first public lecture is at 2:30 PM ET on February 7th and will feature Justin Farrell, Professor of Sociology at Yale speaking about justice and historical inequities of indigenous land dispossession affecting today. Learn more and register here.
  • Scaling up Agroforestry for Food, Biodiversity, Climate & Communities with 12Tree - Tuesday, Feb 8, 12pm-1pm
    Join CBEY for another Nature's Returns webinar! In this episode, Oliver Hanke (12Tree’s Chief Sustainability & Marketing Officer) and Vail Miller (12Tree’s Sustainability Manager) will give us a deep dive into their business strategy and approach to environmental & social impact in growing commercial agroforestry systems. The conversation will focus particularly on two topics: (1) 12Tree’s thinking about off-take agreements/partnerships with food companies, (2) 12Tree’s approach to partnering with smallholders through their innovative “nucleus-plasma” model and joint ventures with farmer cooperatives.  Learn more and register here.
  • A Conversation with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund - Wednesday, Feb 16, 5:30-6:30pm
    Join Black Farmer Fund Co-Founder and President Olivia Watkins as she shares about this emerging community investment fund striving to create a more equitable food system for black farmers and food business owners. Olivia will join CBEY Resident Fellow Tagan Engel to discuss the Fund’s first year of community-designed investments, and the innovative ways they are working to address historical and current inequities for Black entrepreneurs in the food system. Learn more and register to attend.
  • Author Talk: Net Positive - Wednesday, Feb 23, 12-1pm
    Facing issues like runaway climate change and rampant inequality, the world is calling upon business to step up and make bold changes to help create a better future. A key framework for these necessary changes is becoming “net positive”—in short, courageous companies will thrive by giving more than they take from our communities and ecosystems. Join us for a conversation with the book’s authors, Paul Polman and Andrew Winston, hosted by Vincent Stanley as we discuss what it means to be “net positive” and consider what it would take to get there. Learn more and register here.
  • Yale Clean Energy Conference - Friday, April 1 - Saturday, April 2
    Join the SOM Energy Club, CBEY, and other Yale-affiliated energy folks for the inaugural Yale Clean Energy Conference! The theme this year is Renewables Integration & Grid Modernization for a Clean Energy Future. Numerous Yale stakeholders have combined forces to bring together leading clean energy experts for this global, public, event. Utilize and deepen your knowledge of clean energy justice, finance, technology, policy, and careers. Network with members of the Yale, Financing and Deploying Clean Energy, and global clean energy communities. Learn more and register here.

Careers & Recruiting


Recruiting News

  • The B&E Club is surveying current SOM students to understand students’ interests and background in sustainability. Our hope is that we can compile this information into a database that can be used as a networking tool as people begin their search for sustainability roles. Even if you didn’t have sustainability experience prior to SOM, please fill out the survey so we can start compiling before spring recruiting begins. Thanks!

Recruiting Tips of the Month

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

Full-time

Recruiting Tips
  • Sign up for GreenBiz newsletters in your areas of interest. These newsletters feature news about companies you may not have heard of but that often are looking for sustainability and business professionals. See the list of newsletters and sign up here.
  • Check out a list of certifications common in the sustainability profession.