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...
Recognizing what drives the impacts of hotel visits can better inform guests about responsible choices and offer property management areas in which to improve efficiency and cost savings. Whether for business or pleasure, whenever weary travelers seek out a place to...
Kaiser Permanente: Linking Renewable Energy and Healthcare (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-481) – published 03/2016, 20 pages Developed by: David Carruthers, Yun Liang, Jonathan Phillips, Julio Villasenor (Erb '17) and Angela...
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon opines that although Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway's record of astute financial moves is hard to argue with, he may be missing the mark in terms of under-estimating the pace and acceleration of climate change and what that...
Volkswagen's Clean Diesel Dilemma (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-484) – published 03/2016, 24 pages Developed by: Chris Monti (Erb '18), Vitor Lira, Jefferson Sanchez and Namit Jhanwar. This case was written under the...
Shared-X is a for-profit impact investing company working to revamp agricultural practices and models for high-value specialty crops like organic bananas, aromatic cocoa and specialty coffee in developing countries. They strive to close the agricultural yield gap by...
I wish I had counted the number of perplexed looks I received this summer after describing my summer internship. Upon learning that I was an Erber, people would quickly assume “Interesting! So are you working in sustainability?” To which I would respond, “Not exactly....
I had the opportunity to spend three months in Brazil in the summer of 2015 as part of an Erb internship with Imaflora, a Brazilian organization that works with agricultural and forestry certification. Working with students from the University of Michigan (SNRE),...
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...
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...