Sustainability Cases Attract Global Audience Students at U-M and other top universities, including Northwestern University, University of Virginia and University of California, Berkeley, are benefiting from a substantial and growing catalog of Erb branded case studies...
Intel: Undermining the Conflict Mineral Industry (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-429-411) - published 02/2015, 20 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: Intel Corporation is a leading manufacturer of components found in nearly all...
Perdue Farms Inc.: Antibiotic Use in Hatcheries (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-429-418) - published 02/2015, 16 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: With increasing attention from consumers surrounding food safety and public...
Professor Tom Lyon, Erb's Associate Director of Research shares research findings on corporate 'brownwashing' in a radio interview with WEMU. Read more about the interview (pdf) or listen to the recording here.
Utilities invite you to compare your energy use with your neighbor's. Does this help drive down consumption? Erb's Faculty Director, Andrew Hoffman, believes it does. Read Utility customers bristle at comparisons of neighbors (pdf) or read it online.
As demand for locally-sourced food continues to grow, the biggest challenge will be increasing supply while staying true to the movement’s original values. This report lays out the current state of local food and highlights innovative initiatives around the country...
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman, is quoted in an International Business Times story on the renewable energy targets within large corporations from environmental groups. Read the news article online
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman unpacts his and John Ehrenfeld's analysis of the fourth wave in the sustainability movement: Systems Thinking. Read more about Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability
Behavioral approaches to energy efficiency have gained increasing acceptance over the past several years. Policymakers and regulators now incorporate behavioral techniques into their toolkits and private enterprises such as Opower and Tendril have achieved success in...
Remarks to the Erb Class of 2017 One of the benefits of being a professor is that we forget that we are aging. Each year, we are met by a fresh crop of new students that are always the same age. So, in effect, we are constantly surrounded by a group of people that...