I’ve always had a deep-seated distrust of big business. Maybe it’s because I grew up with a social worker and teacher as parents, or because my first job out of school was with a nonprofit focused on fighting corporate abuses. Whatever the reason, this wariness...
Climate Science - Oxford Research Encyclopedias Andy Hoffman, Erb Faculty Member on Climate Change communication: Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift, one that is driven by policy but also by pressures from a variety of...
In America, the agricultural sector is responsible for barely one percent of total energy consumption. But it's a different picture in India, where a whopping 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to power agricultural water pumps. Problems in Indian...
Thanks in part to the power of the Erb Network, 10-year-old Intel AMT technology could drive down the cost of wind turbine maintenance and improve wind power sustainability Have you heard of AMT? AMT is Active Management Technology. If you haven’t heard about it yet,...
MBA/MS, Class of 2010 Leonore currently serves as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. Leonore previously worked for Amcor- the world's largest publicly-held plastic packaging company- where she managed corporate partnerships with the World Food...
Dr. Lauren Bigelow has served as the CEO of the Growth Capital Network since 2010. Lauren’s team manages programs for the philanthropic, health care and innovation community providing strategic, project management, research, analytic, and evaluative services. Lauren...
Todd Schifeling is an Erb Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a concurrent appointment as a Dow Sustainability Fellow at the University of Michigan. He studies the sustainability implications of interactions between social movements and companies, focusing...
MBA/MS, Class of 2016 Will is currently a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group. Will is interested in helping businesses adapt to and capitalize on changing environmental conditions through a greater understanding of sustainability challenges. Will has...
MBA/MS, Class of 2010 Zach currently leads product strategy, design, and development for EnerNOC. The company's platform radically simplifies the process by which large organizations collect energy and operational data, identify specific opportunities for improvement,...
MBA/MS, Class of 1998 Kevin Greiner serves as President and CEO of Gas South, the southeast’s largest retail natural gas marketer. Gas South had 2022 revenues of over $2 billion and currently provides natural gas to 450,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and...