Earlier this year, Erb Institute student, Chris Owen, MBA/MS 2020, worked with Casa María Amor in Cuenca, Ecuador for an Erb Institute Impact Project. Casa María Amor is a women’s shelter hidden on the outskirts of Cuenca in a crevice of the Andes Mountains. It...
In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in the fall of 2017, more than 3 million Americans were left without power across Puerto Rico. It took nearly 11 months for the local utility to restore power in some cases. During the hurricanes’ immediate aftermath, numerous...
In our blog last month, we wrote about UNLEASH, the weeklong global innovation lab we attended in Singapore. We spent a week with 1,000 fellow young professionals and students from 106 countries developing innovative ideas for tackling the United Nations Sustainable...
The Erb Institute partnered with Innovation Forum during their recent visit to Detroit, Oct. 2-3rd, for their conference on “How business can measure the impact—and ROI—of corporate sustainability.” The conference delved into the best ways to assess...
What kind of leader can move companies toward better social and environmental performance? Research has shown that evaluating certain individual traits can help identify the leaders of tomorrow who will have the tools to address the serious sustainability challenges...
Curious about the role of business in advancing climate action? Watch this video. This September, a delegation from the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute traveled to San Francisco to attend the Global Climate Action Summit. The Erb Institute also hosted an...
Emerging industries depend on government support to grow, but they may be seen as threats to an incumbent industry, and they need to prove their technical feasibility and market promise. So how do emerging industries garner government support? A group of researchers...
And should we stop? Think of all the terms that have cropped up over the past several decades or so to describe the environmental movement. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Low footprint. Zero footprint. Zero waste. Going green. (NB: not the same as “going clear.”)...
UNLEASH is a global innovation lab that brings together 1,000 young people to create solutions for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, UNLEASH took place in Singapore. On Day 1, we found ourselves surrounded by 998 other participants, eagerly...
One of the great challenges of tackling climate change is making it real for people without a scientific background. That’s because the threat it poses can be so hard to see or feel. In the wake of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, for example, one may be compelled to...
