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In building a more sustainable future, your neighbors matter. For the public and private sectors, important symbiotic relationships are emerging. As a major source of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Activists and industry For many people, the combination of activists and industry brings to mind images of protestors chanting while marching with signs and banners in front of a company’s […]

Is there a McKibben Effect — a radical flank effect on the US climate debate? And is it positive or negative? – Vox (Abridged version of Vox article) New research […]

It’s well known that some of the biggest issues of our time are polarized along religious or political lines, meaning that people with different religious and political affiliations tend to […]

Research from the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute has found that the careful selection of numerical frames in communications regarding prosocial or socially responsible behaviors can make these communications more […]