Former Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman was interviewed by Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn on Hays Advantage about "why people reject climate change" while speaking at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Conference on April 13, 2015. Listen to the interview on "Why...
This summer, Pope Francis plans to release an encyclical letter in which he will address environmental issues, and very likely climate change. His statement will have a profound impact on the public debate. For one, it will elevate the spiritual, moral and religious...
Last week, California Governor Jerry Brown described Senator Ted Cruz as unfit to run for office because of his “direct falsification of the existing scientific data” on climate change. Cruz fired back that “global warming alarmists” like Brown “ridicule and insult...
This blog originally appeared on Geographical and U-M blog, The Conversation. Climate change appears to have joined sex, religion, and politics as an issue that people try not to discuss in polite conversation. Indeed, according to a survey by the Yale Project on...
Remarks to the Erb Class of 2017 One of the benefits of being a professor is that we forget that we are aging. Each year, we are met by a fresh crop of new students that are always the same age. So, in effect, we are constantly surrounded by a group of people that...
The National Academies Press recently released Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders. Ross Associate Dean Valerie Suslow is quoted on climate change in the curriculum in Chapter 3 and Erb Institute Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman is...
Innovations in Biodiversity Management Global biodiversity loss and ecosystem services The science of biodiversity and ecosystem services Biodiversity management strategies Open considerations about how companies can make the business case for biodiversity management,...
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 Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Society & Natural Resources (An International Journal) The United Nations (UN) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program offers incentives for developing countries to reduce CO2...
"Developing an Effective Climate Change Strategy" by Erb Director, Andy Hoffman, is published by the Conference Board Initiative on Sustainability as part of the Director Notes series. The Conference Board is a global, independent business membership and research...