My name is Sophia Watkins and I founded Forest Fund. This is the first year we will be running a course in applied sustainability entrepreneurship. The goal of the summer program is to bring students to the deforestation forefront to understand the economics of destruction firsthand. They will be learning about sustainability problems and analyzing the local and international markets that have generated them (lots on externalities!). By the end of the six weeks they will have formed small teams, picked a sustainability problem, and written and pitched a business plan for a startup to address the problem.

If it would be at all possible to make this opportunity known to undergraduates studying Environmental Studies, we would be very grateful!

Below is the flyer for the summer course and here is a link to a recent interview by The office of Sustainability at Harvard (https://green.harvard.edu/news/understanding-economics-deforestation-amazon).