What if we could recycle or compost 90% of the waste created every football Saturday at Michigan Stadium? The four of us spent several months asking ourselves this question, talking with counterparts from Ohio to Colorado to California to Washington. The culmination...
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...
Laurie's co-written chapter with Dan Mazmanian focuses on the many governance questions around local sustainable development. The book, Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy by Oxford University Press, has been published and can be purchased on Amazon.com.
Erb Director, Andy Hoffman, and Erb Executive in Residence, Tom Catania show why a social consensus on climate change may be unnecessary to mitigate it. "It's time to call a truce in this rhetorical war, and instead look to the sidelines, where less-political business...
The public debate around climate change is no longer about science—it’s about values, culture, and ideology. In this extensive article, Erb Director Andy Hoffman analyzes the growing divide among Americans over climate science, and the techniques we can employ to...
This article was originally published by Student Reporter on 14th of August 2012. It is republished in full with permission. Since the end of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the general sentiment on the outcome has not been very positive, to say the least. It has been...
“Rio+20 has shown that business will have to drive the solution because we have seen that the process where governments have to come to an agreement is becoming more and more difficult. In the future, we will look back and see that this was the first time business...
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...
This story is cross-posted in Network for Business Sustainability Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil In an effort to re-orient business schools’ curricula, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), an academically-minded...