Sustainability in sports: Assessing emissions and sustainability in Michigan Athletics After a compelling project assessing the University of Michigan Athletic Department’s sustainability initiative for his ENVIRON 391 class, C.Y. Cheng (Erb Fellow ’22) wanted to...
Embedded activists show promise in creating new climate change solutions Corporations often are expected to have robust sustainability and climate change mitigation plans in place, and activists push for action. But corporations often struggle to make significant...
Defining values and working toward a calling Looking for one’s calling or purpose is a pretty daunting task, especially at only 22 years old and still in an undergraduate program. Although I say that my concentration is supply chain management, I am still trying to...
Erb students build their understanding of project finance for renewable energy Renewable energy developers commonly use project finance to find funding to build their portfolios, including solar farms, wind assets and energy storage. Project finance is a method of...
It’s time for the end of the fossil-fuel industry as we know it With climate change, “we are confronted with an existential crisis that requires radical action if we are to respond with adequate scope and scale,” Andrew J. Hoffman and Douglas M. Ely argue in the...
Erb Workshop: Justice should be an action, not only a core value Instances of injustice lie everywhere—from workers’ rights violations to pollution that disproportionately harms low-income communities of color. The Erb Institute recently convened the workshop...
Student Impact Project: Developing the ‘Next Tier’ of corporate sustainability leaders When the World Environment Center (WEC) partnered with the Erb Institute to build out its innovative new “Next Tier” program to equip companies left behind in the sustainability...
Decarbonization for hire: How the climate consulting industry builds greener local economies Private environmental engineering and consulting firms both provide services necessary to fight climate change and help create greener local economies, which I explore in...
Alarmed but unmoved: How people respond to information about local environmental risk Information about local environmental risk, such as a neighborhood’s air quality data, generally is more accessible than it once was. And businesses have increasingly been required...
Student Impact Project: B Lab Africa After coming to Michigan, I took a class, Environ 208, where I was first introduced to this incredible community of Erbers. I was immediately drawn to the purpose and focus on business and sustainability. In the coming weeks, I...
