Elizabeth Kolbert was the Erb Institute Purpose-to-Impact speaker on April 11th of this year. She spoke both to small student groups as well as a large auditorium on many themes related to her Pulitzer-prize winning book, The Sixth Extinction. We are also grateful to...
It's well known that some of the biggest issues of our time are polarized along religious or political lines, meaning that people with different religious and political affiliations tend to have different beliefs on these issues. A new paper by Erb Institute...
SB’17 Detroit’s Youth Impact Project: Thinking, Making, Doing Excitement has been building in and around Detroit for the Sustainable Brands (SB) conference convening later this month. This excitement was evident two nights ago at the Charles H. Wright Museum of...
Report: How Do We Get There? EDF Manages a New Diversity Plan (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI Publishing (Case study #1-430-503) – published 04/2017, 20 pages Developed by: Chris Affeldt, Hannah Sherman, Richa Yadav, and Brandon List. This case was...
Ever since my experience building an ecommerce venture as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia, I have been fascinated by how technology can help solve the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. When I stumbled upon the Accelerate Good Global Summit,...
By Alisa Singer The facts about climate change are compelling. And the charts, graphs and maps that illustrate these facts are especially persuasive - trajectories point dramatically to reflect the inevitable correlation between temperature rise, carbon emissions,...
Thanks in part to the power of the Erb Network, 10-year-old Intel AMT technology could drive down the cost of wind turbine maintenance and improve wind power sustainability Have you heard of AMT? AMT is Active Management Technology. If you haven’t heard about it yet,...
I never dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur. I always imagined an entrepreneur’s life to be filled with long, stressful days constantly in promoting mode, while being fully aware that 90% of startups fail [1]. It wasn’t until one day--when throwing away an empty...
I feel a tiny pin prick to my heart when I see a fellow student casually toss a soda can into the trash. Plastic bottle: pin prick. Half-eaten pizza: pin prick. Wadded-up napkins: pin prick. When I arrived on campus, I was in awe of the Ross Business School’s waste...
SustainAbility Report: Model Behavior: 20 Business Model Innovations for Sustainability, co-authored by Erb alum Ryan Whisnant and a SustainAbility colleague. The report identifies 20 distinct business models falling into five categories, offering a closer look at...