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Sustainability

What Does It Take to Build a Zero-Emission Hotel?

When real-estate developer Bruce Becker ’85 set out to convert New Haven’s historic, Marcel Breuer-designed Pirelli Building into the boutique Hotel Marcel, he realized that exclusively using renewable sources of energy would make the project more financially sustainable.

The Hotel Marcel in New Haven, Connecticut
  • What’s the Energy Equation?

    What will the world’s use of energy look like in the coming decades, as technological advances revolutionize transportation and push down the price of renewable energy?

  • Can a Positive Impact Be Profitable?

    PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi ’80 talks about the company’s Performance with Purpose initiative and the evolving role of sustainability.

    Indra Nooyi
  • Can We Create Affordable Housing in the World’s Fastest-Growing Cities?

    Ira Peppercorn ’85 says that creating affordable housing in the world’s fastest-growing cities requires accurate data and an incremental approach.

    Housing built along the riverbanks in Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Can Improving Farming Productivity Save the Rainforest?

    Research by Mushfiq Mobarak suggests that improved crop productivity through electrification pushes Brazilian farmers away from land-intensive cattle grazing.

  • Should We Put a Price on Water?

    Jim Matheson, CEO of Oasys Water, discusses the role for policy and innovation in avoiding a global freshwater crisis.

    Illustration of dried up lake with Toronto cityscape in the distance
  • Is Climate Change Too Big for Business?

    Frances Beinecke argues that climate change is too fundamental for business to solve without a framework set by public policy.

    Illustration
  • How Did Volkswagen Go Wrong?

    Three Yale faculty on the causes and consequences of the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

    Volkswagen
  • Can We Change the Climate Conversation?

    Yale's Brad Gentry on the state of the climate change talks and what a recent Global Network survey of MBA students tells us about the change in the discourse.

  • Can Business Change the Game on Climate Change?

    When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meets in Paris in December, business leaders will be part of the discussion for the first time.

  • Seven Reasons Volkswagen Is Worse than Enron

    In the Financial Times, Yale SOM’s David Bach writes that the Volkswagen emissions scandal could destroy an iconic German company and set back efforts to use technology to achieve environmental sustainability.