By Alisa Singer The facts about climate change are compelling. And the charts, graphs and maps that illustrate these facts are especially persuasive - trajectories point dramatically to reflect the inevitable correlation between temperature rise, carbon emissions,...
At the Erb Institute, we teach about the power of business to create sustainable change, so we are excited to announce that Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman, has been recognized for his innovative teaching on Market Transformation as a 2016 Aspen Institute Faculty...
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As a follow-up to Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai's publication in Nature Climate Change, Michigan Radio talks with Joe about his recent research which attempts to understand exactly what it takes to get people to care about climate change. This study was co-authored...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman was quoted and featured for his work on "The Fourth Wave" in the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation's 2015 Annual Report. Read more “Today, with little sustained attention to critical sustainability issues like poverty, climate...
TEDWomen 2015 was dedicated to “explore the bold ideas that create momentum in how we think, live and work.” Not surprisingly, TEDWomen did not disappoint in delivering an experience that inspired new ideas and challenged old belief systems. As I reflect on the event,...
One of problems in communicating about climate change is that it has been ghettoized as a strictly environmental message promoted by liberal messengers. This makes it easy for some to dismiss it. But the pope’s encyclical letter “Laudato Si’,” or “Praise Be To You,”...
Erb Faculty Director Andy Hoffman says the Encyclical on climate change could be a 'game changer'. Read more about this topic in recent The Conversation article by Andy Hoffman and Erb student Jenna White titled "The pope as a messenger: making climate change a moral...
The role of "culture" in the climate change debate isn't all it's cracked up to be. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature Climate Change There's an emerging body of research suggesting that how much people know about climate change is unrelated to how...
Remarks by Former Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman at the 2015 Erb Institute Graduation dinner Mark Twain once said, “the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Here at the Erb Institute, we know we had no...