The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise is a proud sponsor of the Ross Asia Business Conference. The Erb Institute sponsored a Sustainability in Asia panel moderated by Erb alum, Nate Springer. Featured panelists were: Linda Greer - NRDC Pete Hardigan - Ford Motor Company Tom Catania - Whirlpool Corporation
The University of Michigan's Erb Institute is continuing its partnership with Sustainable Brands, and we are reconvening the community built at last year's conference in Detroit. As we look forward to the upcoming SB 2018 conference in Vancouver and then SB 2019 coming back to Detroit, we have partnered with Sustainable Brands to hold a […]
The SB Community once again convenes in Detroit, Michigan for their flagship event in June 2019. Join the Erb Institute on February 4th for a networking reception to hear from Michigan based brand leaders in anticipation of the global dialogue about how brands are Delivering the Good Life. Learn more about how you can join […]
Building and sustaining an organization that is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion is critical to making meaningful progress toward the UN SDGs. Over half of the seventeen United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals address key social sustainability challenges and seek to create a world that is more just and sustainable for all. These goals […]
Join us on March 14th at 5:00 PM at the Hill Auditorium for an evening with Christiana Figueres, an internationally recognized leader on global climate change!
Perspectives from the Periphery This is part of a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and North American climate policy. Join us for a conversation with two leading Canadian and Mexican scholars, Debora L. VanNijnatten and Marcela López-Vallejo, about the […]
Politics of Pipelines This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Join leading scholars to discuss the politics associated with oil and gas pipeline […]
Each year the Center for Sustainable Systems based at the School for Environment and Sustainability, invites an internationally recognized expert to deliver the Peter M. Wege Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Michigan. This annual Lecture Series focuses on critical issues of sustainability and honors Peter M. Wege for his many outstanding contributions to […]
Public opinion on North American climate policy This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Speaker Christopher P. Borick, Erick Lachapelle, Itzkuauhtli Zamora Saenz […]
Urban climate governance in North America: Exploring the roles of the largest North American cities This is a series of (virtual) conversations with policymakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, on climate and energy policy, intergovernmental relations, transnational collaboration and conflict, and the future of North American climate policy. RSVP here Speaker […]
Please join Shalanda Baker, Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, as she shares her passion for climate justice and her research on the equity dimension of the global transition away from fossil fuel energy to cleaner energy. Her book, Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press […]
Dr. Rajiv Shah (BS ’95) is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, a global institution with a mission to promote the well-being of humanity around the world. Shah will discuss his new book, “Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens” (Simon & Schuster, 2023), and how universities can embrace a big bets mindset of transformative change, especially […]
