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Book Review: New Water Book Puts People First
This review was originally posted in EcosystemMarketplace. The history of civilization is, in many ways, a history of water and its availability. It’s fitting, therefore, that Social Participation in Water Governance and Management examines market-based solutions to...
Renewable Energy in the California Desert: Mechanisms for Evaluating Solar Development on Public Lands
By Takahiro Isshiki, Sean Killian, and Laura Palombi, Erb '11. Faculty Advisor: Steve Yaffee Abstract: Solar energy development is experiencing significant growth today due to a variety of reasons, including national interest in increasing energy efficiency, reducing...
Dynamic Pricing Tariffs for DTE’s Residential Electricity Customers
By Arie Jongejan, Brian Katzman, Thomas Leahy, and Mark Michelin, Erb '10. Faculty Advisor: Greg Keoleian. Abstract: Despite temporal changes in wholesale electricity prices, retail prices are typically constant throughout the day. To address this economic...
Global Lithium Supplies for Electric Vehicles
Project: Global Lithium Availability: A Constraint for Electric Vehicles? Client: Ford Motor Company Faculty Advisor: Professors Gregory Keoleian and Stephen Kesler Student Group Members: Paul Gruber & Pablo Medina There is disagreement on whether the supply of...
Good Cop/Bad Cop: Environmental NGOs and Their Strategies toward Business
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they...
Area Based Development and Climate Change in West Africa and Latin America
By Nemanja Babic, Amanda Bednarz, Sidney Brown, Clair Leighton, Ashwina Mahanti, Mike Sintetos Abstract: The role of institutions is critical to both climate change adaptation and development. Institutions bring in external resources, utilize location specific...
Erb sponsored “Badlands” course aims to help future leaders become force for positive change.
"Ford Motor Company Expert Makes Business Case for Human Rights Through Erb Institute Course: Says Former Ford Motor Company Manager of Social Sustainability, Dave Berdish: "With every new link in the supply chain comes a complex set of environmental and social...
Ross Exec Ed and Erb Institute Partner to tap Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Climate Change Business Strategy Class.
"'Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?,' presented by Andrew J. Hoffman, Thomas P. Lyon, Knute Nadelhoffer and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, Henry Pollack, will draw upon real-world examples from Fortune 500 companies to provide tomorrow's...
Julian Dautremont-Smith (Erb ’12) offers 4 ways to improve Newsweeks’ “Green Rankings.”
How Newsweek's Green Rankings Could Be More Effective