Presentation sponsored by the Environmental Law and Policy Program Clean tech is tough right now. Vestas pulled out of the U.S. A123 went bankrupt. Solyndra is a bust. Carbon legislation is the new living dead. Low natural gas prices have killed the financials of...
GreenBiz interviews SAC Member Mitch Jackson, FedEx's Vice President for Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, in a piece examining one of the world's biggest air freight company's emission reduction goals. In the last seven years, FedEx has cut its aircraft...
I’m a self-professed “not-a-car-guy” and rather proud of it. I have no feigned romanticism for those loud, obnoxious engines in muscles cars, and as someone who barely knows how to check his oil I’m without the fond memories of taking apart a transmission or...
Four Erb MBA/MS Students Jenna Agins, Catherine Dyson, Raphael Meyer & Leah Zimmerman publish a feasilibility study on reducing waste during football gamedays. With a zero-waste program at Michigan Stadium, UM Athletics could step into a position of leadership in...
By Jenna Agins, Catherine Dyson, Raphael Meyer & Leah Zimmerman With a zero-waste program at Michigan Stadium, UM Athletics could step into a position of leadership in sustainability by diverting up to 90% of the waste generated on gamedays to commercial recycling...
Professor Tom Lyon was among the 12-member Steering Committee of international business and civil society leaders and academic experts that produced the report, Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limitations of Certification. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard...
This is the first in a three-part series on Sustainability in Sports Anyone who has recently been to a large-scale sporting event knows that sustainability hasn’t hit the mainstream sports world just yet. Several developments over the past few years, however, suggest...
This is the second part in a two-part series on the role of systems thinking in business solutions for sustainable development. [button color="accent-color" hover_text_color_override="#fff" size="medium" url="https://erb.umich.edu/2012/06/04/systems-thinking-part-1/"...
Project: An Evaluation of Ecolabels, Standards & Certifications in the Chemical Industry Client: a multi-national chemical company Faculty Advisor: Rick Bunch Student Group Members: Sarah Barjum, Kara Davidson, Deb Heed, Ning Wu Abstract: In recent years,...
By: Andrew Hoffman Description: How do you make money when you tell your customers ‘don’t buy our stuff unless you really need it?’” This was the question that Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia, asked himself as he considered developing a new...