New report presents social science findings on communicating climate change to the public. The report is the result of a very successful January 2012 workshop presented by the Erb Institute in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Increasing Public...
Phel Meyer ('13) analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States with author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom. "Given last summer’s heat wave and the food shortages and price increases we can expect as a consequence, I would think that food waste reduction...
The students of today are the business leaders of tomorrow. It’s important for them to understand how to solve the big, vexing problems that impact the quality of life for current and future generations. With that in mind, the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute...
IBM Funded Erb and World Environment Center Partnership to Fund 8 Erb-WEC Fellows The partnership strengthens the University of Michigan’s leadership role in the advancement of sustainability concepts and practices for future graduates. WEC will provide students...
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 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...
Forbes contributor Josh McQuaid blogs about the politicization of the climate science in "How Climate Change Got Caught in the Culture Wars," heavily citing Erb Director Andy Hoffman's article originally published in the Stanford Innovation Review. "How climate change...
Every few months it seems we get another report documenting what large global firms are doing with respect to environmental sustainability. A recent entry is Deloitte’s “Towards Zero Impact Growth – Strategies of leading companies in 10 industries.” On the plus side,...
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...