Date: August 11, 2020

Time: 10:30 am PT / 1:30pm ET

Overview

The E2 1Hotels Fellowship supports emerging business leaders develop and implement projects that amplify the business and economic case for smart policies to address pressing environmental issues. This is the second webinar showcasing our 2020 fellows who are working on a diverse set of issues ranging from clean water, energy and agriculture.

Please join us to learn more about the fellowship program and hear three of our fellows discuss the progress they have made on their projects.

Featuring:

Grant Behnke:

Ecolodgical Columbus: A project to facilitate implementation of sustainable hotel operations in Ohio’s Capital City that unlock commingled financial and environmental benefits for the rapidly growing Columbus hotel industry.

Nicole Mendoza:

Launching the Carbon Economy: Businesses, Markets, and Policies: The project focuses on understanding, improving, and implementing the policy, business, and economic tools that will support and enable the growth of the various small businesses in carbon capture and utilization. These small businesses convert waste into value by transforming captured carbon into marketable, profitable products while reducing GHG emissions.

Jock Gilchrist:

Why Regenerative Agriculture is the Climate Solution We Need and Deserve: A research project to produce a report that makes the business case for implementing regenerative agriculture practices and raises its profile with the public, farmers, and policymakers, using the state of Colorado as a case study.

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