“Be Bold” was the theme of the 2016 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Conference last November in New York City. I was able to attend, thanks to Cool Projects funding, and it was my first sustainability conference. As a career changer new to the world of...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is focused on research of the oceans and the atmosphere. It provides decision-makers with information they need—in the form of weather forecasts,...
I've been part of the leadership team for Net Impact at Ross in the last two years, but it wasn't until this year, in my third and final year as an Erber, that I attended the Net Impact Conference. I was beyond excited because I had heard great things from fellow Net...
I’ve always had a deep-seated distrust of big business. Maybe it’s because I grew up with a social worker and teacher as parents, or because my first job out of school was with a nonprofit focused on fighting corporate abuses. Whatever the reason, this wariness...
By Alisa Singer The facts about climate change are compelling. And the charts, graphs and maps that illustrate these facts are especially persuasive - trajectories point dramatically to reflect the inevitable correlation between temperature rise, carbon emissions,...
Erb Students Michelle Gross and Miriam Fuchs Present in GreenBiz 16's Panel: Tomorrow's Thought Leaders: Understanding Millennial Priorities & Aspirations It’s not every day that we are given the opportunity to attend the annual GreenBiz forum to learn and...
Last summer I had the privilege of interning for the National Park Service as a Business Plan Intern (BPI) at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. This 10-week summer internship was an incredible experience. Not only did I have the privilege to live and work inside...
In America, the agricultural sector is responsible for barely one percent of total energy consumption. But it's a different picture in India, where a whopping 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to power agricultural water pumps. Problems in Indian...
Thanks in part to the power of the Erb Network, 10-year-old Intel AMT technology could drive down the cost of wind turbine maintenance and improve wind power sustainability Have you heard of AMT? AMT is Active Management Technology. If you haven’t heard about it yet,...
Remarks by Faculty Director, Joe Arvai at the Erb Institute welcome back dinner on September 30, 2016. This blog was originally published on Joe Arvai's website, Decisions4Good. Read the original blog. You may have heard this week that the University of Michigan was...