Thought Leadership
For Investors
- CREO Primer: Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture
By Logan Yonavjak, Damien Girault and Dan Matross
CREO Syndicate. June 2018. Not available online. - Water: An Impact Investment Primer for Families
By Logan Yonavjak and co-authors
The Impact/CREO Syndicate. March 2017. - Cracking the Carbon Code: The Key to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy (Book review)
By Logan Yonavjak
Journal of Environmental Finance. Volume 4, No. 1 (2013). Online.
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- Quantifying Well-Being and Impact Can Drive Investors to Build a Better World
By Paul Herman, Gayle Keck, Avary Kent, Nick Gower, and Logan Yonavjak
HIP Investor, Inc. February 2013. - Q&A with Claude Arpels: Investing with the Principles of Slow Money
By Logan Yonavjak
August 2017. - Why Should Investors Care about Regenerative Ag?
By Logan Yonavjak
Medium. June 2018. - Moving More Money into Regenerative Agriculture
By Logan Yonavjak
Medium. September 2017. - Blockchain Comes to the Diamond Trade
By Logan Yonavjak
TriplePundit and CSR Magazine. May 2018. - Moving Beyond VC: New Investment Structures for Impact
By Logan Yonavjak
TriplePundit. October 2017. - Food Waste: A New Investment Frontier
By Logan Yonavjak
Triple Pundit. October 2017. - It’s Time to Invest in Negative Carbon
By Logan Yonavjak
Triple Pundit. October 2017. - A Turning Point for Climate Means Opportunities for Investors
By Logan Yonavjak
Abacus Wealth Advisors. January 2016. - When It Comes to Food, Don’t Just Buy Local – Invest Local
By Logan Yonavjak
Abacus Wealth Advisors. October 2015. - Educating and Cultivating the Next Global Generation of Impact Investors
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale School of Management. May 2016. - Private Investment in Water Resources Can Help Solve U.S. Supply Crises
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. October 2015. - Bringing Environmental Values Front and Center to the Social Capital Markets Conference
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. September 2015. - Five Years Catalyzing Sustainable Investing at the 2015 US SIF Conference
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. May 2015. - Ecosystem Investment Partners: How Private Capital is Restoring U.S. Wetlands
By Logan Yonavjak
ImpactAlpha. April 2014. - How Private Capital is Restoring U.S. Wetlands
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). April 2014. - Now THIS Is What We Call Green Jobs: The Restoration Industry ‘Restores’ The Environment And The Economy
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). January 2014. (Reposted on Kinship Lens) - Private Investment In Green Roofs, Roadside Plantings, And Parks, Oh My!
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). September 2013. - Divesting From Fossil Fuels Means A Cleaner, Safer and More Resilient Future
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). July 2013. - Industrial Hemp: A Win-Win for the Economy and the Environment
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). May 2013. - Slow and Local: Core Elements of a Balanced Modern Portfolio
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). April 2013. - Investing in Local Food Businesses for Community Health and Wealth
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). April 2013. - Want Healthy People, Planet and Profits? Pay Landowners What They Deserve
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). March 2013. - Conservation Finance is Gearing Up for Wall Street
By Logan Yonavjak
Kinship Lens. March 2014. (Reposted on Conservation Finance Alliance website). - Which Leading Investors are Seeking Profit and 100% for Impact by 2020? A push for the ‘Investing Pledge’ at the IMN Impact Investing Summit
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. March 2013. - Creating a Sense of Place by Investing Locally: Strategies for rebuilding community wealth in the U.S., globally
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. November 2012. - Peering Through a Gender Lens at SoCap12
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. October 2012. - Insights on Impact Investing from the US SIF Conference
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. May 2012. - Catalyzing Retail Investment to Fund the ‘Missing Part’ of the Missing Middle
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. May 2012. - What the 1 Percent (of Capital Markets) Could Do for Impact Investing
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. November 2011. - At the Tipping Point: How Can Global Financiers Create a Sustainable World Economy
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. October 2011.
Impact Entrepreneurship
- Uniting David and Goliath: Why Multinationals Like Starbucks Need SMEs to Build Green Supply Chains
By Kate Hyder and Logan Yonavjak
Net. September 2012. - Shape Up and Scale Up: The Value of Mentors for Guiding Impact Entrepreneurs (Part 2)
By Logan Yonavjak and Aram Kang
Net. August 2012. - NexThought Monday: Shape Up and Scale Up: The Value of Mentors for Guiding Impact Entrepreneurs (Part 1)
By Logan Yonavjak and Aram Kang
Net. July 2012.
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- Financing Business Skills Development for Impact Enterprises: Who Pays?
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. August 2012. - Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 3)
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. April 2012. - Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 2)
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. April 2012. - Tools of the Trade: Building a Robust Deal Pipeline of Impact Companies in Emerging Economies (Part 1)
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. April 2012. - Scaling up Environmental Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies – Framing the Discussion
By Tracy Elsen and Logan Yonavjak
Net. February 2012. - A New Direction in South-South Collaboration at the 6th Annual New Ventures India Investor Forum
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. January 2012. - Chasing Gazelles to Achieve Poverty Reduction, Development Goals
By Logan Yonavjak and Giulia Christianson
Net. December 2011. - Engaging Peer-to-Peer Networks for Enterprise Selection: A New Pilot VC Model for the Impact Sector
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. November 2011. - Continuing the Quest for Exits: the Role of Mission Markets
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. October 2011. - Proteak’s IPO Journey, Part II: Lessons Learned
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. October 2011. - On the Quest for Exits: Proteak’s Successful IPO
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. September 2011.
Miscellaneous
- The transition from timber to multiple use management: a paradigm shift in forestry
By Chadwick Oliver, Fatma Arf Oliver, Logan Yonavjak, Alark Saxena, Lily Zeng, Ugur Zeydanli
India Forest Research Institute book chapter. Elsevier publishing. Forthcoming. - Taking the Bull by the Horns: How one Enviropreneur is harnessing private capital for innovation in environmental ventures
By Logan Yonavjak
PERC Reports. April 2014. - Cracking the Carbon Code: The Key to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy (book review)
By Logan Yonavjak
Journal of Environmental Finance. Volume 4, No. 1 (2013). Online.
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- Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Fifth Edition
By Michael L. McKinney, Robert M. Schoch, and Logan Yonavjak
Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2012. - The Parapsychology Revolution
By Robert M. Schoch and Logan Yonavjak
New York, NY: Tarcher, 2008. Print and online. - Val Plumwood’s Reconceptualization of the Self: Implications for Dealing with the Political Aspects of Global Warming
By Logan Yonavjak
Lansing, MI: 10th Annual Undergraduate Bioethics Conference, 2007. - Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Fourth Edition
By Michael L. McKinney, Robert M. Schoch, and Logan Yonavjak
Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2007. - Embedding Sustainability in Executive Education at Yale
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. February 2015. - Sometimes It’s All About Timing
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. November 2014. - What is a ‘Meaningful Brand’?
By Logan Yonavjak and Marissa Galizia
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. October 2013. - Financing Business Skills Development for Impact Enterprises: Who Pays?
By Logan Yonavjak
Ashoka Changemakers. Power of Small Competition. October 2012. - Providing Mentoring for Impact Entrepreneurs: Key Ingredients for Success
By Logan Yonavjak and Aram Kang
Ashoka Changemakers. Power of Small Competition. October 2012. - Providing Distributed, Renewable Energy Services to Low-Income Rural Communities in Developing Countries
By Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros, Emily Norford, Tom Nagle, Logan Yonavjak, and Susan Alzner
Working Paper (1 of 3). Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. January 2013. Print and online.
Impact Measurement & Data
- Data-Driven Green Bonds: A Market Catalyst
By Patrick Reed, Todd Cort, and Logan Yonavjak
Journal of Investing, forthcoming. - Climate Change Finance Data: Looking Under the Hood
By Patrick Reed, Gabe Rissman, and Logan Yonavjak
Journal of Environmental Investing. February 2016. - Estimating the Size and Impact of the Ecological Restoration Economy
By Todd BenDor, T. William Lester, Avery Livengood, Adam Davis, and Logan Yonavjak
PLOS ONE. 10 (6). June 2015.
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- Defining and evaluating the ecological restoration economy
By Todd BenDor, T. William Lester, Avery Livengood, Adam Davis, and Logan Yonavjak
Restoration Ecology. 23 (3). May 2015. - Estimating the Size and Impact of the Ecosystem Restoration Economy
By Todd BenDor, T. William Lester, Avery Livengood, Adam Davis, and Logan Yonavjak
Poster presentation at A Community of Ecosystem Services conference. December 2014. - Land Conservation Impact Metrics: Rationale and Guidance from the Land Conservation Metrics Working Group
By Logan Yonavjak and co-authors
Manta Consulting on behalf of the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS (Impact Reporting and Investment Standards) Land Conservation Metrics Working Group. May 2013. - The IRIS Registry: Bringing Metrics to Life for the Impact Sector
By Logan Yonavjak
Net. September 2012.
Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure
- Recognizing Farmers as Nutrient Stewards
By Logan Yonavjak
Solutions Journal. September-October 2013. Volume 4, Issue 5. - Green vs. Gray: Nature’s Solutions to Infrastructure Demands
By Talberth, John, Erin Gray, Logan Yonavjak, and Todd Gartner
Solutions Journal. Volume 4, Issue 1. February 2013. Print and online. - Insights from the Field: Forests for Timber and Climate
By Logan Yonavjak and Craig Hanson
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, December 2011. Print and online.
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- Gaining Ground: Increasing Conservation Easements in the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak and Todd Gartner
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, August 2011. Print and online. - Forests for Carbon: Exploring Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak, Paula Sweeden, and John Talberth
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, August 2011. Print and online. - Current Use Valuation Programs: Property Tax Incentives for Preserving Local Benefits of Forests
By John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, May 2011. Print and online. - Funding for Forests: The Potential of Public Ballot Measures
By Craig Hanson and Logan Yonavjak
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, May 2011. Print and online. - Forests at Work: A New Model for Local Land Protection
By John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, March 2011. Print and online. - Forests for Water: Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South
By Craig Hanson, John Talberth, and Logan Yonavjak
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, February 2011. Print and online. - Keeping Forest as Forest: Incentives for the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak, Craig Hanson, John Talberth, and Todd Gartner
Southern Forests for the Future Incentives Series. Issue Brief. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, January 2011. Print and online. - Southern Forests for the Future
By Craig Hanson, Logan Yonavjak, Caitlin Clarke, Susan Minnemeyer, Lauriane Boisrobert, Andrew Leach, and Karen Schleeweis
Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, March 2010. Print and online. - Green Bonds Are a New Source of Financing for Water Security
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Conservation Finance Network. June 2016. - Environmental Bonds Pay for Performance
By Logan Yonavjak
Yale Center for Business and the Environment. October 2015. - ‘USDA-Approved’ Conservation Innovation
By Logan Yonavjak and Todd BenDor
ImpactAlpha. July 2014. - Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows
By Logan Yonavjak
Ashoka Changemakers. Nutrient Economy Competition. April 2012. (cross-posted on net) - A New Business Model for Farmers in the Nutrient Economy
By Logan Yonavjak
Ashoka Changemakers. Nutrient Economy Competition. February 2012. (cross-posted on net) - How a Nutrient Economy Can Save Our Farmers, Our Health, and Our Environment
By Logan Yonavjak
Forbes (through Ashoka). February 2013. - Highlights of Recent Trends in Conservation Finance
By Logan Yonavjak
Kinship Lens. October 2013. - Bringing Ecosystem Markets to Scale in the Southern United States
By Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. March 2012. - Carbon Canopy Initiative Aims to Sustain Appalachian Forests for Climate and Certified Timber
By Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. February 2012. - Conservation Easements: a Good Investment for the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak and Nick Price
WRI Insights. September 2011. - What Woodland Owners Should Know About Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak and John Talberth
WRI Insights. September 2011. - Public Ballot Measures Unlock Billions of Dollars for Conservation Nationwide
By Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. May 2011. - Protecting Forests to Protect Water in the U.S. South
By Logan Yonavjak and Todd Gartner
WRI Insights. February 2011. - Beyond Timber: New Economic Opportunities for Southern U.S. Forests
By Logan Yonavjak and Nick Price
WRI Insights. February 2011. - The Future of South Carolina Forests
By Logan Yonavjak and Janet Ranganathan
WRI Insights. November 2010. - COP-10 Provides Opportunity to Recognize Biodiversity at Home
By Logan Yonavjak and Nick Price
WRI Insights. October 2010. - New Mapping Website Tracks Changes and Threats to Southern U.S. Forests
By Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. March 2010. - Like the Holidays, Ecosystem Services Are All Around
By Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. December 2010. - Development Encroaches on the Southern United States’ Last Wild Areas
By Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. November 2010. - Mountaintop Removal Cuts Through Southern Forests
By Nick Price and Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. July 2010. - Property Tax Incentives for Forest Conservation in the U.S. South
By John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. June 2011. - For U.S. Forests, REDD Begins at Home
By John Talberth and Logan Yonavjak
WRI Insights. April 2010.
Presentations (chronological)
- Good Food Spotlight – competition judge (December 2018)
Served as an investor judge for a competition of local food enterprises in New York City for Slow Money, NYC - “Ecosystem Markets: Business and Finance plans” (December 2018)
In-person presentation to 20+ conservation professionals at the ACES (A Community on Ecosystem Services) conference in Washington, DC - “Conservation Finance: Considerations for Scale” (October 2018)
In-person presentation to 20+ Presidio MBA candidates, as well as prospective students
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- “Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture” (June 2018)
Webinar presentation to 30+ representatives from family offices - “Land of Meraki – a New Way of Living” (June 2018)
In person presentation to 30+ conservation finance professionals through the Kinship Foundation on a new model for eco-development based on a strategy in upstate New York - “Environmental Impact Assessment – Dishjoy” (January 2018)
In person presentation to 30+ Microsoft employees about the environmental benefits of using an offsite dish service as compared to compostable dishware - SOCAP 2017 “Syndicating for Good” (October 2017)
In person panel presentation to 30+ impact investing professionals - CREO Member Meeting “Investing in Sustainable Aquaculture” (October 2017)
In person moderated breakout panel presentation to 30+ family office professionals - CREO Member Meeting “Investing in Regenerative Agriculture” (October 2017)
In person moderated breakout panel presentation to 30+ family office professionals - CREO “Sustainable Fisheries Scoping Panel” (September 2017)
Webinar presentation to 25+ family office professionals - Yale School of Management alumni panel “Impact Investing” (August 2017)
Webinar panel presentation to 50+ prospective MBA students - Financing the Future “Climate Finance and Private Capital” (June 2017)
Presentation to 30+ investors and financial services professionals - Yale Center for Business and the Environment “Impact Measurement” (June 2017)
Presentation to 20+ social impact startups - EMBA women’s leadership panel with Ariana Bain (April 2017)
Webinar presentation to 20+ prospective Yale MBA students - Connecticut Sustainable Business Council “Leading from Within” (March 2017)
Presentation to 40+ local sustainable business leaders - EMBA Alumni Panel “Leading from Within” (February 2017)
Panel presentation to prospective EMBA students - Yale “Green Bonds Roundtable” (May 2016)
Presentation on Green Bonds Draft Methodology
Audience: 30+ Investors, Issuers and Metrics Professionals - Natural Capital Course (April 2016)
Guest speaker for online course in natural capital
(Audience: 10+ students and professionals) - ESG, Impact and Investing Summit (March 2016)
Co-chair of Event
75+ Investors, NGOs, and Government Professionals - The Kinship Lens (January 2016)
Panel: Introduction to Impact Investing
Audience: 10+ conservation professionals - Low Carbon Investing Summit (June 2015)
Panel: Measuring and Tracking Performance of Low Carbon Investments: Scoring, Metrics & Analytics
Audience: 50+ Institutional and Individual Investors - Executive MBA Panel (May 2015)
Panel: Admissions to the Executive MBA program
Audience: unknown (webinar) - The Kinship Lens (2015)
Webinar: Exploring Scalable, Investible Conservation and Restoration Opportunities
Audience: 80+ members of the Kinship network - SRI, ESG & Impact Investing Summit (March 2015)
Panel: Looking at Growth, Competition, and Opportunities in Natural Resources Including Water, Solar, Wind, Food, and Infrastructure
Audience: 100+ Institutional Investors - SRI, ESG & Impact Investing Summit (March 2015)
Panel: Climate Risk & New Opportunities for Your Investment Portfolio: Aligning Your Investments for Better Financial Results and a Powerful Impact on the Environment (moderator)
Audience: 100+ Institutional Investors - Saunder Business School (Vancouver, British Columbia) (March 2015)
Presentation on body heat as a source of renewable energy
Audience: 15+ MBA students as part of a study abroad experience - Commonfund (February 2015)
Summarizing the nation’s first low carbon business plan case competition
Audience: 40+ Commonfund employees - Property and Environmental Research Center (July 2014)
How to drive more capital into land conservation efforts in the United States
Audience: 30+ PERC fellows and academics focused on natural resource conservation - Kinship Fellowship (July 2013)
Impact Investing with a focus on a ranchland conservation project in New Mexico
Audience: 40+ international conservation professionals and Family Foundation members - Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program (REPI) Webinar (March 2013)
Conservation Loans and Investments – Tools to Achieve REPI Success
Audience: 30+ land trust professionals and misc military professionals - NYU Social Innovation Summit (February 2013)
Deconstructing and Measurement of Impact
Audience: 80+ NYU MBA students and faculty, and social enterprise professionals - A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Conference (December 2012)
Unlocking Private Capital for Land Conservation & Rural Economic Development in the U.S.
Audience: 30+ land trusts, conservation finance professionals, corporate landowners - Land Trust Alliance (LTA) Rally Annual Conference (September 2012)
The Use of Investment Capital in Conservation: Leverage in a Time of Scarce Resources
Audience: 100+ land trusts and conservation finance professionals - Property and Environmental Research Center (PERC) (July 2012)
Final fellowship presentation on a new investment tool: the Conservation Investment Note
Audience: 50+ conservation finance and natural resource professionals - Property and Environmental Research Center Radio Interview (July 2012)
- Unlocking private capital for land conservation through the Conservation Investment Note (2012)
- Syndicated radio program out of New York City (2012)
Audience: several million listeners - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources webinar (September 2011)
A Green vs. Gray Infrastructure Approach (case study in Portland, Maine)
Audience: 10+ natural resource professionals from Wisconsin DNR - Southeast Land Trust Alliance Annual Conference (March 2011)
Increasing Conservation Easements in the U.S. South Using PES and Term Easements
Audience: 50+ land trusts and conservation finance professionals - Partnership for Southern Forestland Conservation meeting (January 2011)
Integrating Ecosystem Services into Mainstream Forestry
Audience: 20+ corporate landowners and conservation finance professionals - South Florida National Public Radio (October 2010)
Interview about Protected Areas in South Florida
Audience: general public - 3rd annual National Ecosystem Markets Conference (June 2010)
Using Economic Incentives to Keep Forest as Forest in the U.S. South
Audience: 80+ natural resource and conservation finance professionals - Carbon Canopy meeting (March 2010)
Southern Forests for the Future project
Audience: 10+ conservation professionals, corporate landowners, and Staples, Inc. - Southern Environmental Law Center – Southern Forests for the Future project (March 2009)
Audience: 10+ conservation lawyers and GIS professionals
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