Presentation sponsored by the Environmental Law and Policy Program Clean tech is tough right now. Vestas pulled out of the U.S. A123 went bankrupt. Solyndra is a bust. Carbon legislation is the new living dead. Low natural gas prices have killed the financials of...
Erb Alumni Legacy - Master's Project is Catalyst for University-wide Sustainability Agenda Erb Alumni, Matt Roman, Samantha Sturhahn and Elizabeth Terry were featured in Stewards for their 2002 Master's project. The project's initial goal in 2001 focused on creating a...
I’m a self-professed “not-a-car-guy” and rather proud of it. I have no feigned romanticism for those loud, obnoxious engines in muscles cars, and as someone who barely knows how to check his oil I’m without the fond memories of taking apart a transmission or...
By Mary Fritz, Erb '13 and Patrick Huang, Ross School of Business '13 This story is cross-posted on WDI Global Impact. “Social ventures can use logic models to communicate their effectiveness to investors and funders, and to identify how to improve their impact, all...
Four Erb MBA/MS Students Jenna Agins, Catherine Dyson, Raphael Meyer & Leah Zimmerman publish a feasilibility study on reducing waste during football gamedays. With a zero-waste program at Michigan Stadium, UM Athletics could step into a position of leadership in...
By Jenna Agins, Catherine Dyson, Raphael Meyer & Leah Zimmerman With a zero-waste program at Michigan Stadium, UM Athletics could step into a position of leadership in sustainability by diverting up to 90% of the waste generated on gamedays to commercial recycling...
Dedicated to Professor Gautam Kaul, who taught me that finance is about so much more than money, and for whom finance = love. Bravo! The United Nations has created a methodology for building balance sheets for countries and it includes measurements of human, natural,...
This is the first in a three-part series on Sustainability in Sports Anyone who has recently been to a large-scale sporting event knows that sustainability hasn’t hit the mainstream sports world just yet. Several developments over the past few years, however, suggest...
"Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change" Brookings Institute report, co-authored by Allison Shapiro, Erb '12. Experts from the Brookings Institution explore the critical issues and offer policy recommendations for leaders to consider in order to promote...
"Solar Crowdsourcing: A New Way to Build Community" By Adam Byrnes, Erb MBA/MS 2012 Renewable Energy Scholar https://issuu.com/erbinstitute/docs/bynes-solar-crowdsourcing