Welcome to the B&E Newsletter!
The sustainability space is booming!
From new jobs to all the goings-on at COP26, there’s a lot happening in the sustainability space right now. Stay in touch with us in our #businessandtheenvironment Slack channel.
Upcoming Events
B&E Club Events
Also Happening At Yale
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Movement for Emotional Resilience in Climate Crisis, 11/4-12/8
The Movement for Emotional Resilience in Climate Crisis (MERCC) facilitates healing spaces and skill-building sessions for individuals and communities experiencing eco-anxiety and/or emotional distress produced by environmental change. MERCC's mission is to craft an emotionally resilient community of climate activists, environmentalists, and earth-minded citizens through social healing, connection, and individualized contemplative practices. Click here to learn more about this semester's MERCC offerings.
Building the Carbon Positive City at the Yale Forest Forum on Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 11:30am
The contemporary mid- and high-rise city is built with mineral-based materials that have been extracted, smelted, sintered, or synthesized through intensive fossil-energy based industrial processes with significant environmental impact. Regional as well as global trends in urban growth suggest that the demands for these materials and processes will rise sharply over the next 30 – 50 years, setting the stage for a significant spike in greenhouse gas emissions associated with the demand for new buildings and infrastructure. Potential ecological and economic synergies between continental forests and rapidly urbanizing landscapes suggest an alternative: the transformation of dense urban centers into massive carbon sinks, made possible through the broad implementation of a host of new and emerging mass timber construction and biomass-based material technologies.
1Y Member Spotlight:
Sherlyn Galarza
Hometown: Houston, TX
Pre-SOM Career: Product Marketing at Enel X (energy), Education (advocacy & higher education)
Aspirations: My short-term goal is to enter management consulting and work on renewable energy projects. In the long-run, I hope to work at the intersection of racial equity and the climate transition.
Photo: I went on a camping trip in Connecticut with Yale SOM students and this waterfall was nearby!
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
Full-time
Recruiting Tips of the Month
- Looking for alumni to chat with in the sustainability space? Broaden your search from SOM alumni and include YSE alumni too. They're just as happy to chat!
- Follow the Twitter feed of Katie Kross, who posts sustainability jobs for MBAs.
- Check out this interesting LinkedIn thread from a B&E Club leader about questions asked in corporate sustainability interviews.
Other Career Development Opportunities
LEED Green Associate (GA) Certification The course is $150 (discounted for students from $200) and you can register for an upcoming webinar here.
Some upcoming training webinar dates:
- November 4 2021 – 5:00PM – 9:30PM EST
- November 20 2021 – 1:00PM – 5:30PM EST
- December 4 2021 – 1:00PM – 5:30PM EST
- December 18 2021 – 1:00PM – 5:30PM EST
- January 15 2022 – 1:00PM – 5:30PM EST - OR -
- On-demand recordings completed at your own pace
Please contact the instructor Lorne directly with any questions at info@leadinggreen.com and for those new to LEED, here is a short introduction to it - https://youtu.be/X9FUJpIW9bI
Opportunity with a Yale startup:
About Mountain Biometrics: We are healthtech startup utilizing the biometric data to assess the body's response to rapid transitions in altitude. Our software tools make a smartwatches+smartphone as powerful for tracking your health at altitude, as a rope+harness is for keeping you on the rock. Our app features will be essential for any hiker, climber or skier making a rapid transition from sea level to high elevation. For more information, check out our website: www.mountainbiometrics.com.
Where We Are: We spent our first year in the pilot stage, testing various market hypotheses, creating a software backend and conducting research studies. We are now assembling a business plan and preparing to raise funds.
What We Need: Our team has the technical talent and fundraising network, but requires business expertise in the following areas:
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Consumer discovery.
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Operations management.
How To Reach Us: CEO Warren Pettine a theoretical neuroscience postdoctoral fellow here at Yale. Please email contact him using warren@mountainbiometrics.com, or warren.pettine@yale.edu.
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