This article is based on the white paper “A Picture and a Thousand Words?: Combining Both for Success in Public Debate,” by former Erb Institute postdoctoral researcher Lianne Lefsrud. "To be heard in many public debates, you may need more than the proverbial picture...
"Managing Director Terry Nelidov: “[Erb] is situated at the nexus between business, environment, and society. [Students] learn sustainability by actually doing it, out in farms, factories, supply chains, and corporate offices—here in the US and abroad. [We prepare]...
“The volume of publishing over the past year is unprecedented within WDI Publishing,” said Sandy Draheim, manager of marketing and case publishing at WDI. Among the new cases are 10 from graduate students in Professor Andrew Hoffman’s “Strategies for Sustainable...
Send two Erb students to attend the Research Initiative for the Sustainable Development of Cuba (RISDoC) seminar, and they will immerse themselves to experience the Cuban sharing economy to the fullest. Cuba was once a luxury tourist destination for Americans and a...
In April, I attended the 2017 Ceres Conference in San Francisco, which brought together sustainability leaders from corporations, nonprofits and governments to collaborate on strategies to push sustainability agendas through and beyond the current era. An opening...
Connect with the Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability newsroom at 3BL here. Erb Institute, faculty member, Tom Lyon along with A. Wren Montgomery and Kimberly S. Wolske, have recently completed research which considers differences between Millennial’s...
Amanda is looking to develop and drive innovative methods to further incorporate renewable energy and sustainability into business and society. Previously, Amanda spent 5 years as an engineer in the aerospace industry. She worked in a variety of roles such as space...
Rob Whittier manages Visa’s sustainability and corporate responsibility programs and partnerships, employee programs, formal reporting and communications, with a focus on environmental sustainability, renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, green building and data...
How can a company like Patagonia most effectively work to change the global agricultural system, to sequester more soil carbon, to stop topsoil erosion and to have a positive impact on agricultural lands? This is the question our group set out to answer between...