Bright Lights, Green Sights

Bright Lights, Green Sights

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Bright Lights, Green Sights is a speaker series designed to explore environmental leadership within an urban setting. Urban populations have the greatest willingness to pay for environmental services yet are often the ones whose needs are least met.  Over the year, six diverse speakers will come to…

Center for Business and the Environment at Yale


    • May 15, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 27m AVG DURATION
    • 9 EPISODES


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    Bright Lights, Green Sights: Leo Cerda, HAKHU Project

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2018 22:57


    A conversation with Leo Cerda and Cass Walker about how the HAKHU Project uses a business solution to empower indigenous women, protect culture, preserve land and address climate change.

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala, Bakulu Power

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2018 19:47


    As CEO & Founder of Bakulu Power, a renewable energy company based in her native Uganda, Lucia's goal is to power our tomorrow with projects and initiatives that foster social, environmental and economic development in her native country and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: Tsechu Dolma, Mountain Resiliency Project

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2018 25:10


    Tsechu Dolma is the founder of Mountain Resiliency Project, a not-for-profit social enterprise dedicated to building climate change resilient communities through women's empowerment in sustainable agrobusiness. She runs indigenous honeybee farms, apple orchards, and greenhouses remote Nepali mountain villages. Her interest is in refugee rights, biodiversity conservation, climate change policy and inclusive development. Her work has been featured on Reuters, Forbes, NBC News, and Sierra Club. Tsechu was recognized as one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Social Entrepreneurship, Fulbright-Clinton Fellow, Echoing Green Fellow and Brower Youth Award winner. She has a BS in Environmental Science and MPA in Economic Development from Columbia University.

    Bright Lights Green Sights: A conversation with Sharon Rowe, Eco-Bags Products

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2017 48:25


    A conversation with Sharon Rowe, CEO and Founder of Eco-Bags Products, Inc. A woman-owned certified B Corporation that offers thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags.

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: A Conversation with Erik Clemons

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 43:46


    Erik Clemons has devoted his career to empowering marginalized communities across the state of Connecticut and helping others see their own potential and power. Erik founded and is currently the CEO of ConnCAT, a nonprofit that provides job training programs designed to give unemployed and under-employed adults the skills needed to secure meaningful, well-paying jobs in health sciences and culinary professions, and the academic support required for success in those programs.

    Bright Lights Green Sights podcast with Pigeonly

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2016 26:47


    Frederick Hutson, founder of Pigeonly, a technology company that focuses on building products for overlooked and underserved markets, speaks to Priscila Bala, director of the Mentor Network at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: A Conversation with Lisa Price

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2016 14:41


    Lisa Price, founder of natural beauty products company, Carol's Daughter, speaks with Sumit Kadakia, joint MBA / Master of Forestry Student at Yale.

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: A Conversation with Yael Aflalo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2016 27:53


    Yael Aflalo, founder of the sustainable fashion brand Reformation speaks with Paul Anastas, Director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

    Bright Lights, Green Sights: A Conversation with Minh Tsai

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2015 22:07


    Minh Tsai, founder of Hodo Soy Beanery, speaks with Justin Freiberg, Yale West Campus Urban Farm and Sustainability Manager.

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