The Erb Institute engaged with several speakers and participants around key questions that relate to business, academia and sustainability, during a partner event with Innovation Forum in Detroit. We asked two sustainability leaders one question: Which metrics matter...
Andy Hoffman is a 2019 recipient of the RRBM award for his work on “Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate.” The book seeks to understand why people are rejecting the science on climate change and what the science says about how to overcome that schism....
The Erb-branded case study program was established by Professor Andy Hoffman as a way to engage students in addressing timely and topical sustainability issues through various lenses. Case studies help improve flexibility in considering alternatives and allow...
Is your business doing something really great on the journey to sustainability? Or maybe you have an idea you’d like to try but are not sure how? Share here, in this open forum, ways you see to accelerate the pace at which we’re having an impact. We can...
We have entered a new geologic epoch, called the Anthropocene, that recognizes people’s effect on the Earth’s ecosystems—harming them in ways that are likely irreversible. So what will Anthropocene society look like in the future? Erb faculty member Andrew Hoffman and...
The five Ws of supply chains: Who, what, where, when and why corporations should care Not a month goes by without a media campaign linking the supply chain of a well-known brand with unsavory labor practices or environmental mismanagement. Such exposés can devalue...
Research by Lauren Lutzke, U-M SEAS Master’s Student; Caitlin Drummond, Erb Institute Postdoc; Joe Arvai, Erb Institute Faculty Director Article by Lauren Lutzke, M.S. Candidate in Behavior, Education, and Communication at the University of Michigan “Fake News” has...
I came to the Erb Institute because I believe that business represents the greatest opportunity to solve our most pressing social and environmental problems. Because most established corporations focus on increasing profits as their sole purpose, I suspect that it...
By Merriam Haffar I had the great opportunity to host a roundtable discussion on setting science-based targets at Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics conference in Philadelphia in October. Science-based targets (SBTs) have received a growing amount of research...
Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate Change Mar 22, 2019 For over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most...
