This story is cross-posted in Network for Business Sustainability Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil In an effort to re-orient business schools’ curricula, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), an academically-minded...
Professor Tom Lyon was among the 12-member Steering Committee of international business and civil society leaders and academic experts that produced the report, Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limitations of Certification. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard...
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil “In the past business schools have been too concerned about being the best in the world. Now they need to aspire to be the best for the world” (statement from the Principles of Responsible Management...
This post is in reflection of the first day of the UN PRME Global Forum. “I wonder if academics are afraid of action,” started Claus Pederson, Head of Sustainable Development of Novozyme, to a room filled with 300+ professors, deans and directors of business schools,...
"Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change" Brookings Institute report, co-authored by Allison Shapiro, Erb '12. Experts from the Brookings Institution explore the critical issues and offer policy recommendations for leaders to consider in order to promote...
ClimateWire references UCS-Erb report on climate change communication. View the ClimateWire article | View the report (pdf)
Corporate sustainability strategies are common practice in today’s corporate America, going far beyond a company’s environmental footprint, to becoming a central part of company strategy. Sustainability challenges companies to think about themselves as part of an...
The most sophisticated management system in the world was developed in a laboratory of iron, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon surrounded by a thin layer of ozone. This system, what we call the planet’s ecosystems, costlessly manages biological functions that allow us to...
Read it online: Warm spring weather and global warming: If only scientists could be so persuasive Andy's comments were also referenced in a related Jezebel article: Eerily Gorgeous Weather Finally Convinces People That Global Warming is a Thing (html)
Is the US getting a tough deal out here - Miguel Sossa from the University of Michigan came into the Climate Change Studio to argue that while the USA's negotiating position might not impress many delegates, there is plenty to be optimistic about.