Thanks to support from the Erb Institute, I was able to spend my summer as an intern with Local Foods in Chicago. Local Foods is Chicago’s first wholesale distributor and retailer of strictly local foods from the Midwest’s best farmers. They source and deliver the...
Two and a half years ago on April 24th, 2013 an eight-story building housing five garment manufacturers collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,515 more. The building’s top floors had been constructed without permits and to cut costs it was...
Written by: Brian Rassel, Joanna Herrmann and Loretta So Coordinated by: Kelsea Ballantyne This blog was written in response to Doug Freeman’s visit at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business on December 8, 2015. The university-wide event was sponsored...
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While many companies are already engaging with climate change and an array of other environmental issues, water is quickly emerging as an impactful driver of both business risk and opportunity in the 21st century. Water is a critical input for many supply chains,...
I wish I had counted the number of perplexed looks I received this summer after describing my summer internship. Upon learning that I was an Erber, people would quickly assume “Interesting! So are you working in sustainability?” To which I would respond, “Not exactly....
I had the opportunity to spend three months in Brazil in the summer of 2015 as part of an Erb internship with Imaflora, a Brazilian organization that works with agricultural and forestry certification. Working with students from the University of Michigan (SNRE),...
Erb students, Kristin Steiner and Mike Barg, and SNRE student Brittany Szczepanik are working as business partners to reduce product packaging from food and personal care products. Startup idea, fulFill, is working to reduce or even eliminate packaging waste from...
Erb student, Marianna Kerppola was featured as a top innovative female student for her enterprise, BetterHope which curates products that create safe and sustainable jobs. Read the featured blog "15 Innovative Female Students to Watch in 2015 Read more about Marianna...
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman spoke on Marketplace NPR about the recent water restrictions in California and how markets could react to water saving toilets and faucets. Listen to and read the article online