Welcome to the B&E Newsletter!

We’ve had a great start to the year so far, complete with B&E Club Hikes in East Rock Park, our first “Forestside Chat,” and our first EngageSOM recruiting event last week. We’ve also welcomed six first-year club leaders, who you can meet below in the Member Spotlight section. 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

• December 1st: Forestside Chat - What have the last four years meant for environmental and climate policy, and what is to come? Join us for our second Forestside Chat on Tuesday, December 1 from 8:00-9:00pm for a thoughtful discussion on environmental policy in the Trump era and the upcoming Biden administration! Register here on CampusGroups.

Also Happening At Yale

• November 19th: OATLY! President of North America Keynote Speaker Event: Mike Messersmith -- Please join the General Management Club, Food Agribusiness & Beverage Club, and Business and Environment Club this Thursday from 12:00-12:45pm for a keynote speaker event featuring Mike Messersmith, President of North America at OATLY! Register here on CampusGroups.
• November 19th: Info Session: Climate Solutions Generator -- The Climate Solutions Generator (CSG) is a CBEY / Tsai CITY Intensive that offers Yale students the opportunity to join a passionate and inspired community in which they will engage with key challenges and opportunities for climate change innovation. This program will meet once a week from Early-February through Mid-March 2021 and will provide a mix of guest speakers and lectures along with team project work. Register here.
• November 23rd: Open Climate Collaboration -- The Open Climate Collabathon is an open event mobilizing a global network of universities, civic tech groups, startups and youth to crowd-develop an integrated climate accounting system, designed to help the world track and achieve the goals of the Paris climate agreement by leveraging state-of-the-art digital technologies. Register here.
• December 1st: Financing Livable Spaces: How can impact investing help ensure that communities are healthy, resilient, and enjoyable? -- All communities in the US are not created equal. Some communities disproportionately face challenges such as lack of economic opportunity, racial injustice, health disparities, and the impacts of a warming planet. Can investment be strategically and responsibly deployed to these communities to simultaneously address these distinct yet related issues? Join CBEY, Tsai CITY, and the Yale Center for Environmental Justice for a panel discussion on financing livable spaces. This discussion will bring together investors and researchers to discuss how impact-investing can help strengthen communities in the face of multiple intersecting threats. Register here.

Member Spotlight: Meet Our First-Year Leaders!

We're excited to welcome six first-year leaders to B&E!

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

• Global Sustainability Intern, PepsiCo (note: aimed at undergraduates, but may be worth a shot anyway!)
• Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellowship. First Round deadline December 1.
• Climate & Business Intern, World Wildlife Fund.

Full-time

• Sustainability Associate, Pure Strategies. Deadline November 15.
• Business Development Associate, Myst (renewable energy and artificial intelligence start-up).
• Sustainability and ESG Associate, HXE Partners (ESG advisory firm).
• Circularity and Sustainability Lead, Rivian (electric autonomous vehicle company).
• Manager, Sustainability & Productions, Netflix. Deadline unknown.
• Senior Analyst Sustainability and Climate Solutions, Jeffrey M. Siegrist & Company (see posting in CMS). Focus: forest-based climate solutions. Deadline November 23.
• Director, Water Risk, Ceres (see posting in CMS). Focus: private sector leadership on sustainable water management. Deadline December 31.

Recruiting Tips

• 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

• Biden’s First 100 Days: What Would They Look Like for Clean Energy? (Greentech Media)
• Joe Biden will be president, but there will be no Green New Deal (Vox)
• Investors Bet Biden Will Accelerate Shift to Renewable Energy (Wall Street Journal)
• BP and Ørsted Launch Green Hydrogen Partnership (Greentech Media)
• Japan Promises to be Carbon Neutral by 2050 (The Economist)