This blog is cross posted on EDF Climate Corps. This summer, EDF Climate Corps placed 116 fellows within leading organizations to identify strategic energy management opportunities. These fellows spent their summer working on a variety of projects from energy...
Results for research on: Conscious Consumption
Entrepreneurs Help Motor City Become Mobility City
This blog is cross-posted on Oikos Student Reporter DETROIT, MI – How does a bankrupt city with a declining population and dwindling public finances provide transportation for its residents? Detroit’s answer to that question has increasingly been to leverage private...
David Wang: EDF Climate Corps “Likes” Smart Energy Management
This blog is cross posted on EDF Climate Corps. This summer, EDF Climate Corps placed 116 fellows within leading organizations to identify strategic energy management opportunities. These fellows spent their summer working on a variety of projects from energy...
Sustainability as a Business Edge
Erb post-doctoral research fellow, Laurie Kaye Nijaki contributed to the Sustainability as a Business Edge report with 'environmentally preferable practice' suggestions Read more
Sustainable Bling?
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon offers perspective on one rancher's efforts to find opportunity in the wake of the mountain pine beetle's destruction. New York Times (Business Day) Read more: Invasion of the Beetles, and a Rancher's Revenge (html)
Case Study: Jamba Juice and the Foam Cup
Developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Wesley Allred (Erb ’14), Heather Croteau, Fareed Hussain, Melisa Ongun and Sheena VanLeuven (Erb ’15) Jamba Juice CEO James White must determine how to respond to an online petition started by a...
Case Study: SC Johnson and the Greenlist Backlash
This case was developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Alice Appleton, Cara Bastoni, Kara Davidson (Erb ’13) and Yuan Zhang. SC Johnson developed the ingredient improvement process, called Greenlist™ to reduce the negative environmental...
MAP – Rapid Growth of Antalya, Turkey and Taxis
City of Antalya Multidisciplinary Action Project Authors: Aamer Ali, Santiago Gomez-Bernal, Shaun Herbert and Michael Rockett ('15) Faculty Advisor: Ted O'Leary Abstract: The government in Turkey had asked major cities to complete sustainable transport plans, Antalya...
Environmental assessment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles using naturalistic drive cycles and vehicle travel patterns: A Michigan case study
Environmental assessment of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles using naturalistic drive cycles and vehicle travel patterns: A Michigan case study (html) Authors: Brandon M. Marshall, Jarod C. Kelly, Tae-Kyung Lee, Gregory A. Keoleian, Zoran Filipi Publication: Energy...
Covaron Advanced Materials places 1st in Walmart Business Plan Challenge
Erb student, Cameron Smith ('13) and business partner Vince Alessi win first place in the Walmart Business Plan Challenge earlier this month. Read more about Covaron Advanced Materials