Andy Hoffman is a 2019 recipient of the RRBM award for his work on "Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate." The book seeks to understand why people are rejecting the science on climate change and what the science says about how to overcome that schism. One...
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How is your business making an impact? Share your ideas!
Is your business doing something really great on the journey to sustainability? Or maybe you have an idea you'd like to try but are not sure how? Share here, in this open forum, ways you see to accelerate the pace at which we're having an impact. We can learn from...
Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate Change
Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate ChangeFor over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most casual...
Ross Professor: There’s Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate Change
For over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most casual observers that the gulf between them can be large. In a recent study, Árvai and Douglas Bessette of...
Bianca Dragone
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Bianca is passionate about using business to drive positive social and environmental change. At the University of Michigan she is studying the intersection of food, water, and energy and how these systems will be impacted by climate change. Prior...
Nick Curran
MBA/MS, Class of 2021 Nick is a dual-degree student studying to get his MBA from the Ross School of Business and MS from the School for Environment and Sustainability. He is interested in renewable energy finance as well as the development and commercialization of new...
What Does It Really Mean When We Call Something “Sustainable”? – Andy Hoffman quoted in FASHION
And should we stop? Think of all the terms that have cropped up over the past several decades or so to describe the environmental movement. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Low footprint. Zero footprint. Zero waste. Going green. (NB: not the same as “going clear.”)...
Rising insurance costs may convince Americans that climate change risks are real – Andy Hoffman in The Conversation
One of the great challenges of tackling climate change is making it real for people without a scientific background. That’s because the threat it poses can be so hard to see or feel. In the wake of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, for example, one may be compelled to...
Sustainability, commerce and economics: How to create the right balance – Andy Hoffman quoted in Business Today
We may be losing the war against climate change, as we fail to approach sustainability-related issues in the right manner. Read the article in Business Today In a recent article 'The Invisible Hand Won't Solve the Climate Crisis. Capitalism Must Evolve', US professor...
Allison Miller
MBA/MS, Class of 2020 I am a third year student in the Erb Institute focused on learning how business can be a positive force in expanding renewable energy adoption, both nationally and internationally. My studies are focused around renewable energy systems, and...