Results for research on: Conscious Consumption

Telling a Sustainable Story: An Agribusiness Start-Up Stands Apart

Telling a Sustainable Story: An Agribusiness Start-Up Stands Apart

Conscientious consumers are repeatedly encouraged to eat local, buy organic, seek out fair trade labels and ask about the traceability of a product’s supply chain. As sales of organic and ethically labeled products rise, companies both large and small have focused...

Jeff Martin

Jeff Martin

MBA/MS, Class of 2007 Jeff is currently Director of Project Origination at Clean Focus Renewables, a financier and developer of large-scale solar photovoltaic systems. Prior to joining Clean Focus, Jeff was Senior Director of Sales at SunShare where he led customer...

Allison Burtka

Allison Burtka

Allison is the Erb Institute’s Writer. Her career as a writer and editor spans various publications and nonprofit organizations, on topics ranging from the environment to education to the law. As a freelance writer, her work has been published by the Sierra Club, the...

Net Impact Highlights Profitable Businesses’ Positive Change

Net Impact Highlights Profitable Businesses’ Positive Change

I've been part of the leadership team for Net Impact at Ross in the last two years, but it wasn't until this year, in my third and final year as an Erber, that I attended the Net Impact Conference. I was beyond excited because I had heard great things from fellow Net...

Wendy Boyle

Wendy Boyle

Wendy is responsible for executing and coordinating Erb events, conferences, workshops, and meetings for the Institute.  She began her events career with Erb in 2016 and moved to the School for Environment and Sustainability in 2017.  At SEAS she helped with the...

Mindy Gomes Casseres

Mindy Gomes Casseres

Mindy is the senior manager of CSR at Panera Bread where she oversees the company's sustainability and philanthropic initiatives. Prior to joining Panera, Mindy spent 15 years in various consulting roles with Environmental Resources Management, Cone Communications,...

Jim Frey

Jim Frey

Jim has been accelerating the adoption across the US of practical environmental solutions to sustainable materials management for the last four decades. Beginning with helping to launch some of our country's first municipal recycling programs in the 70's and 80's...