An article on the website of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies looks back at the creation of Natural Capital: Risks and Opportunities in Global Resource Systems, a Global Network course which launched this year. Yale FES joined with the Yale School of Management to create the small network online course, which was open to MBA students across the Global Network, as well as FES students. 

From the article:

For the Yale students who coordinated the course, it’s the type of technology-driven network that they will encounter when they enter the workforce, said Stuart DeCew, director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, which helped coordinate the course. 

“There is a model here for approaching bigger problems and achieving deeper collaborations,” DeCew said. “This is the same thing that we want students to be able to do when they get out in the world and deal with environmental challenges.”

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Watch a video about the Natural Capital course: