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Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities

Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities

The Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Methods and Outlook, edited by Hilda Blanco and former SNRE Dean, Dan Mazmanian, provides social, economic, political and environmental policy strategies for cities striving to advance in sustainability. Included...

Galileo and the Climate Change Debate

Galileo and the Climate Change Debate

In the United States, we love to root for the underdog, the voice of reason standing firm in the face of intolerance and resistance.  On the climate change debate, the role model of that figure is the 17th century scientist Galileo Galilei and his clash with the...

Erb Leaders Discuss Business Sustainability at AmCham Shanghai

Erb Leaders Discuss Business Sustainability at AmCham Shanghai

Erb's Managing Director Terry Nelidov, Associate Director of Research Tom Lyon, and Erb Post-doc alumnus and Shanghai Jiaotong University Associate Professor Haitao Yin, discussed risks and opportunities in business sustainability at AmCham Shanghai on July 10, 2014....

Two Erb Alumni at the Forefront of University Solar Power Deal

Two Erb Alumni at the Forefront of University Solar Power Deal

George Washington University and American University recently made a deal to buy more than half of their power from solar power farms. Erb alumni Meghan Chapple and Mark Ellis led and were at the forefront of the George Washington University deal. Read news items on...

Energy: Consider the Global Impacts of Oil Pipelines

Energy: Consider the Global Impacts of Oil Pipelines

Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science) Consider the global impacts of oil pipelines. The debate over the development of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, has long been a flashpoint for tensions in and between...

Changing Societal Norms and Business Sustainability

Changing Societal Norms and Business Sustainability

The sustainability and business education landscape is changing rapidly and on a global scale. Students, business leaders and professors are shifting priorities towards business practice focused on positive change. Dean Alison Davis-Blake of the Ross School of...