By Stephen Hamburg This blog is cross posted by the Environmental Defense Fund Last week, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by a few scientists and engineers who believe man-made climate change will have less impact on the environment than the vast...
This blog is cross posted on the SustainAbility Blog The US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), once the primary spokesman for the corporate sector on climate change in Washington, has gone dormant. Why? The reasons are multiple. Climate legislation is a nonstarter in...
My mind is still racing from a very exciting and ground-breaking conference that the Erb Institute co-hosted this past weekend with the Union of Concerned Scientists. So much so, that I want to share some of it with you. In doing so, my hope is that you will respond...
This blog was originally posted on the Network for Business Sustainability Blog To a large degree, the public is scientifically illiterate. And that illiteracy is driving the social debate over climate change, much to the dismay of physical and social scientists...
Erb students Miguel Sossa, Dan Gerding and Erb alum, Gabriel Thoumi, worked to create and gain approval for an official panel event at the United Nation's global climate change convention in Durban, South Africa on professional standards in carbon markets. The panel...
"How to get the message across on climate change.” As the science of climate change gets clearer, the public gets more confused. Are there ways to fix that? Professor Sterman is at MIT Sloan School of Management. "How to get the message across on climate...
An open letter written by the Student Sustainability Initiative Roundtable and Board addresses President Mary Sue Coleman's green initiatives and sustainability goals announced earlier in the year. "Letter to the Editor: Coleman should continue to push sustainability...
Climate change presents numerous ideological challenges to our culture and our beliefs” -- Read Andy Hoffman's comments in this week's New York Times Sunday Review Whatever Happened to Global Warming? - Read the NY Times article
Erb Managing Director, Rick Bunch, draws on recent research by Professor Andy Hoffman to rethink energy infrastructure: "Oil Spills and Meltdowns Highlight the Need for Energy Resilience" Read the story online
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman is featured in Nature Climate Change Climate change has reached the level of a ‘scientific consensus’, but is not yet a ‘social consensus’. New analysis highlights that a growing divide between liberals and conservatives in the...